American Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary. By Gábor Scheiring. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xxvii+367. $119.99 (cloth); $79.99 74
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles. By Rocío Rosales. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. ix+197. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).45
Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. By Mark Solovey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. x+398. $50.00 (paper).30
:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City24
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century23
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making21
Book Reviewers for Volume 13020
We Need More Data19
Ethnography’s Laborious Crossing17
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics17
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory17
“We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform17
Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value17
Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition. By Katie L. Acosta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. x+258. $30.00 (paper).17
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries16
Editor's Page15
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black15
The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America. By Andrew Deener. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 328. $97.5014
Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State. By Jessie S. G. Wozniak. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. ix+241. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).14
:Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences14
:How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles14
Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat. By Ruth Milkman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. Pp. viii+196. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).14
:Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor12
:Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India12
Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden12
Editor’s Page12
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content12
:The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance12
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations11
:The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security11
:On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins11
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification11
Contents of Volume 12810
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend. By Cassi Pittman Claytor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 217. $85.00 (cloth); $26.00 (pap10
Contributors9
:The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals9
Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations9
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. By Orlando Patterson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. x+409. $35.00.9
The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest, and the New Regulations on Homosexuality, 1970–20158
:Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation8
:The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes8
Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality8
The Diverging Paths of Black-White Segregation in Urban America, 1970–19908
:Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden7
:The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America7
Contributors List7
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. By Rustamjon Urinboyev. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xi+169. $34.95 (paper).7
:Social Democratic Capitalism7
Contents of Volume 1297
Postcolonial Reckonings and Arrival7
:The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today7
Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America7
The Great Interstate Divergence: Partisan Bureaucracies in the Contemporary United States6
:The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture6
:Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid6
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium6
Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology. By Krishan Kumar. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. xiii+204. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).6
:Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease6
Contributors6
Grassroots Environmentalism. By Suzanne Staggenborg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+244. $99.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).5
:The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality5
:Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality5
(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion5
Acknowledgment to Referees5
:Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption5
:Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine5
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy5
Front Matter5
Editor's Page5
The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches4
:Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise4
:How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens4
No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 20164
Front Matter4
:A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities4
:Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality4
:Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness4
:The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism4
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries4
:Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units4
:Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism4
Contributors4
:The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities4
Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient3
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals. By Katja M. Guenther. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+295. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).3
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy: From Postwar Urbanism to a Civic Green New Deal. By Carmen Sirianni. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xxii+464. $80.00 (cloth); $29.95 (3
:Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life3
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims3
Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances. By Cynthia J. Cranford. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+220. $26.95 (paper).3
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong. By Douglas B. Downey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $95.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).3
It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins. By Timothy Black and Sky Keyes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+342. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).3
Race by Law for Asian Americans3
Front Matter3
Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico3
Lesbian, Feminist, and Other Queer Roles: Fifty Years of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sociology3
:Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn2
:Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster2
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets2
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns2
:The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy2
Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement2
:Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought2
Green American City: Civic Capacity and the Distributed Adoption of Urban Innovations1
Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era. By Matthew H. Rafalow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+210. $85.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).1
The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring1
Front Matter1
Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets1
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. By Ashley Mears. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 328. $17.95 (paper).1
Time Is Money? Wage Premiums and Penalties for Time-Related Occupational Demands1
Balancing Categorical Conventionality in Music1
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. By Angèle Christin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+251. $29.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).1
Symposium Introductory Images1
:Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail1
:Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East1
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers. By Richard Lachmann. London: Verso, 2020. Pp. xix+477. $34.95.1
:Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery1
The Leniency of Low Expectations: Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing1
:You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy1
:Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society1
:Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath: Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery1
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. By Fiona Greenland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 257. $105.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).1
:Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America1
Race after Technology. By Ruha Benjamin. Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2019. Pp. x+285. $74.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).0
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:Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap0
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life0
:Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private0
:Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions0
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Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage0
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:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education. By Julie R. Posselt. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+223. $90.00 (cloth)0
The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?0
Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism0
Ascent to Glory: How “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Was Written and Became a Global Classic. By Álvaro Santana-Acuña. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. $115.00 (cloth); $28.00
Competition and Gender Inequality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Effects and Mechanisms0
:The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
The Changing Role of Managers0
Front Matter0
:Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power and Law in Russia0
Changing China in Sociological Eyes0
:The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College0
:Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities0
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals. By Jill A. Fisher. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+317. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment. By Sandya Hewamanne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. xx+204. $55.00.0
What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure0
:The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge0
Contents of Volume 1300
Reproducing Inequality in a Formally Antiracist Organization: The Case of Racialized Career Pathways in the United Methodist Church0
The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden0
Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest. By Marc Dixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+167. $39.95.0
Contributors0
Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People0
Love across Borders: Asian Americans, Race, and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making. By Kelly H. Chong. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. x+236. $160.00 (cloth); $32.95 (pap0
Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged. By Hannah Wohl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 223. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone0
:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival0
:States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
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:Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels0
Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. By Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii+316. $105.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).0
Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures. By Emmanuel Lazega. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020. Pp. xi+341. $145.00.0
Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches0
:Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy0
:Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility0
:Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1270
:The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input0
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply0
:Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management0
:From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States0
Title IX, Campus Sexual Misconduct, and the Criminalization of a US Civil Rights Law0
Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes0
Contributors List0
Front Matter0
You Are Worthy, Queen: Black Women and Women of Color’s Struggles in the Labor Market Continue0
Health Care off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America. By Danielle T. Raudenbush. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xi+197. $85.00 (cloth); 0
:Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat0
:The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire0
:Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston0
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification0
US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality0
:Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential0
:Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank0
:Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public0
Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth0
:The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
:Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities0
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology. By Earl Wright II. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. Pp. ix+250. $50.00.0
:Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India0
Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling0
Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal. By Siri Suh. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+204. $120.00 (cloth); $34.95 (pap0
:Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City0
:Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia0
:Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy0
:Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment0
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe0
Noncitizen Justice: The Criminal Case Processing of Non-US Citizens in Texas and California0
:The Logic of Social Science0
:Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline0
Who’s Afraid of Sociology?0
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:The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City0
Migration Studies and Colonialism. By Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. vi+246. $29.95.0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1290
:Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival0
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study0
:Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities0
:Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India0
:A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics0
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Representation and Recognition: State Sovereignty as Performative0
:Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation0
Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–20180
:Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. By Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+233. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (pape0
:Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism0
The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses. By Blake R. Silver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 232. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).0
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:The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt0
:Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards0
Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–19840
:The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
:Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust0
:Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers0
Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. By Annie Isabel Fukushima. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+261. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).0
:Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America0
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:The Death of Affirmative Action? Racialized Framing and the Fight against Racial Preference in College Admissions0
:Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality0
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:The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships0
A Contest without Winners: How Students Experience Competitive School Choice. By Kate Phillippo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. xii+217. $100.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).0
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Advancing Ethnography and Mechanisms of Misinheritance During the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration0
Acknowledgments to Referees0
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse0
Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. By Isaac Ariail Reed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2020. Pp. 312. $97.50 (cloth); 32.50 (paper).0
To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past?0
Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration0
:Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley0
:Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment0
The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis0
Deconstructed and Constructive Logics: Explaining Inclusive Language Change in Queer Nonprofits, 1998–20160
Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008–20160
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:All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists0
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