Social Forces

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Forces 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education”43
Review of “Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement”42
Review of “An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi”36
Review of “Rules of the Road: The Automobile and the Transformation of American Criminal Justice”29
Review of “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”28
Review of: “Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy”27
Occupying Shops to Defend Spaces of Livelihoods: From Tenant Shopkeepers’ Fragmentation to Collective Consciousness in Urban Korea27
Review of “Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers”23
Partisan identity, scientific and religious authority, and lawmaker support for science policy22
Identification in Interaction: Racial Mirroring between Interviewers and Respondents20
Review of “Challenging Inequality: Variation Across Postindustrial Societies”20
Review of “The Policing Machine: Enforcement Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input”20
The Social Forces that Shape Families: Reflections on 100 Years of Publications in Social Forces19
Review of “Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi”18
Review of “The Making of Public Space: News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century”18
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates17
Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey16
Policy Effects on Mixed-Citizenship, Same-Sex Unions: A Triple-Difference Analysis16
Are aging parents and adult children living farther apart? Decomposing trends in intergenerational proximity and coresidence among Finnish parents aged 60–69 (2003–2023)16
Confronting linked immobility: how Chinese migrants managed family crisis during a global catastrophe16
Policy configurations and the elasticity of gendered patterns of paid and unpaid work—evidence from comparative conjoint analyses16
Double standards in status ascriptions? The role of gender, behaviors, and social networks in status orders among adolescents16
Review of “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession”15
Confronting the past in a polarized present: holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism15
Dualization of corporate control: lifetimers, external appointees, and CEO succession in Japan14
Review of "Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support"14
Review of “Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class”14
The political landscape of death: state policy polarization and mortality among Black and White Americans14
Review of “Injustice, Inc. How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor”13
Review of “The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics”13
Review of “Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan”13
Correction to review: Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code13
Review of “The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream”13
Review of “Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk”12
Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants12
Review of “Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge”12
Review of “We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement”11
Are women with disabilities more at risk of intimate partner violence?11
The role of graduate education in the rising wage premium for professional and managerial occupations, 1980–201911
Review of “Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg”10
Review of “Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses”10
Review of “Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics”10
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms: Same as in Traditional Labour Markets?9
Correction to: Review of “No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism”9
A Gendered and Racialized Educational Hierarchy: Disparities in Elementary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Behavior9
Review of “Connecting After Chaos: Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster”9
Seeking meaning in US asylum adjudications: aspirations, affect, and morality on the frontlines of the state9
Review of “The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media”8
Review of “Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution”8
Review of “I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life”8
The religion of White identity politics: Christian nationalism and White racial solidarity8
Review of “Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery”8
Review of “The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity”8
The bases of propriety: instrumental, relational, moral, and collective7
The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence7
Review of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party”7
Review of “Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform”7
Review of “Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy”7
Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities7
Job insecurity as a predictor of gray divorce: a gendered dyadic analysis7
Book Review of “School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization”7
Rental housing discrimination against Chinese minorities in Spain: a new instant messaging correspondence test6
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality6
Volunteering trajectories across crises: resilience, persistence and spill-over between ordinary and crisis volunteering6
Review of “Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality.”6
Review of “Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison”6
Demagogues in action: the reputational rise and demise of “Cotton” Tom Heflin6
Review of “The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories About Violence”6
Review of “The impact of college diversity: struggles and successes at age 30”6
Correction to: How liberalism accommodates far-right social movements: on “mainstreaming” and the need for critical theory in far-right studies5
Networks rewired: quota enforcement and the unintended mobilization of native place ties5
Rethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: an experimental approach5
Correction to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway5
Partisan animosity and protest participation in the United States5
Internal displacement and post-conflict gender attitudes: evidence from northwestern Pakistan5
Review of “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State”5
Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States5
Review of “Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds”5
Becoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers5
Theorizing Potential Downstream Cultural Consequences of LGBT+ Activism5
Correction to: Generational Dissonance or Cultural Persistence? European Immigration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Beliefs5
Review of “Guiding God’s Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling”5
Review of “Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus”5
Review of “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail”5
Pathways of Peer Influence on Major Choice5
Class origin closure: economic advantages of occupational elitism4
The promise and limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics and immigrant access to health care in the U.S.4
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality4
Review of “Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness”4
Respectable racists: fragmented reputations and divided political audiences4
Review of “Original Sin?: The Reproduction of Racism in a Multiracial Church”4
Do occupations confer equal prestige on female and male incumbents?4
Review of “The Making of White American Identity”4
Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants’ Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life4
Breaking the mold: the changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention4
Does stringent climate policy decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions?4
Review of “Regression Inside Out”4
Review of “Revolution and witchcraft: the code of ideology in unsettled times”4
Contexts of Contestation: How Competing Logics of the State Enable and Constrain Immigrant Civic and Political Participation4
Review of “On the Frontlines of Crisis: Intensive Care and the Challenge of COVID-19.”4
Competing social influence in contested diffusion: contention and the spread of the early reformation4
Review of “Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City”4
Review of “Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora”4
Review of “Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur”4
Review of “A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals”4
Review of “The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market”4
The gender gap in political efficacy: the accelerating effect of classroom discussions4
Review of “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India”4
When are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children4
Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans4
Review of “The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture”3
Review of “Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate”3
Review of “God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants”3
Review of “Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City”3
I have seen this before: imprinting experiences and bank CEO risk-taking in times of crisis3
State Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital3
Echoes of silence: how student migrants navigate political taboos across borders3
Review of “Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums”3
Review of “The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice”3
Review of “Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times”3
Review of “Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and Lessons We Can Learn”3
Review of “Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire”3
Review of “Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.”3
Correction to: Review of “The Diversity of Morals”3
Correction to: Review of “When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age”3
Review of “Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese”3
Review of “Who Pays for Diversity?: Why Programs Fail at Racial Equity and What to Do about It”3
Review of “Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power”3
Occupational gender segregation: what can we learn from computer use trends?3
How public benefits make citizens in Latino mixed-status families: self-efficacy, institutional engagement, and concerted citizenship cultivation3
Review of “Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests”3
Review of “The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City”3
Review of “Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster”3
The Past and Present of Crime Research inSocial Forces: How the Sociology of Crime Lost its Roots—And Found Them Again3
Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities3
Review of “The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work”3
A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018)3
Pay talk in contemporary workplaces3
Review of “Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration”3
Review of “What Is Sexual Capital?”3
Review of “Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity”3
Black–White inequality in earnings losses after job displacement, 1981–20203
Correction to: Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–20193
Managing motherhood: how “queen bee” managers in the US service sector reduce motherhood advantages in work scheduling3
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia3
Social Capital and Cultural Producers’ Copyright Ownership of Their Creations: Evidence from the Television Industry 1956–19963
Review of “Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons”3
How politics constrain the public’s understanding of terrorism3
Review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World”2
Transmorphic organizations: racial segregation and discrimination against LGBTQ students at Christian colleges and universities2
Review of “Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles”2
Review of “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo”2
It’s Not the Message, It’s The Messenger: Organizational Identity and White Men’s Opposition to Women’s and African Americans’ Civic Participation2
Review of “On Wars”2
Deporting children: case outcomes for unaccompanied minors facing removal proceedings in US immigration court2
Best for Whom? Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Breastfeeding on Child Development2
The View from Above and Below: Subjective Mobility and Explanations of Class, Race, and Gender Inequality2
What Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry2
Review of “Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation”2
First- and Second-Generation Women’s Economic Assimilation: An Analysis of Longitudinal Earnings Records2
Review of “Automation is a Myth”2
Review of “Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University”2
Review of “Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia”2
Review of “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope”2
Review of "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory"2
World Society Corridors: Partnership Patterns in the Spread of Human Rights2
Review of “The Faithful Scientist: Experiences of Anti-Religious Bias in Scientific Training”2
Life course illegality: how the life course and aging shape the experience of illegality2
Review of “My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood”2
Equality takes work: a process to understand why women still do most of the household labor2
Review of “The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024”2
Cross-National Social and Environmental Influences on Life Satisfaction2
Review of “Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace”2
Continuity and Change in Methodology in Social Forces2
Review of “Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption”2
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers: organized crime violence and risks for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border2
Parental Schooling, Educational Attainment, Skills, and Earnings: A Trend Analysis across Fifteen Countries2
Review of “The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today”2
Filling the collective-practice gap: pedagogies of participation in participatory-democratic organizations2
Review of “You’re Paid What You’re Worth And Other Myths of the Modern Economy”2
Populism as Dog-Whistle Politics: Anti-Elite Discourse and Sentiments Toward Minority Groups2
Breathing unequal air: environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany2
Whose merit, which redistribution? Elites, taxes, and transfers in Brazil and South Africa2
Review of “The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy”2
Gentrification in small cities: growth coalitions, civic engagement, and political participation2
Concealed exchanges: relational work in racially segregated housing markets2
Review of “The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire”2
Competing devotions in the postpandemic economy: the effect of remote working on perceptions of employees as “good workers” and “good parents” in Germany, South Korea, and the United States2
Review of “Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia”2
Differentiated Egalitarianism: The Impact of Paid Family Leave Policy on Women’s and Men’s Paid and Unpaid Work2
Environment and the racialization of space in US cities2
Beyond Gentrification: Housing Loss, Poverty, and the Geography of Displacement1
The stalled gender housework revolution in the United States1
Ethno-Racial and Credit Worthiness Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit1
A Social Movement Model for Judicial Behavior: Evidence from Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Movements1
When the watchdogs look away: the role of engineers’ ideological commitments in their grappling with tech bias1
It is not what you weigh, it is how you present it: body size, attractiveness, physical functioning, and access to partnership and sexuality for older men and women1
Does outsourcing of domestic work reduce gender inequality in labor force participation within households?—a couple-level panel analysis1
Why do partners often prefer the same political parties? Evidence from couples in Germany1
Review of “Emerging global cities: origin, structure and significance”1
Review of “The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City”1
Review of “Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless”1
Origins, belonging, and expectations: assessing resource compensation and reinforcement in academic educational trajectories1
Review of “Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice”1
Review of “Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility”1
Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults1
Review of “Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards”1
Review of “Come out, Come out, Whoever You Are”1
Review of “Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality”1
Reflections on Editing Social Forces, 2010-20261
Review of “Managing Corporate Virtue: The Politics of Workplace Diversity in New York and Paris”1
The racialized penalties of immigrant origin: meta-analytic evidence on hiring discrimination in twelve countries1
Conservative politics is more strongly associated with skepticism about science than is conservative religion - and both restrain enthusiasm more than they encourage negativity1
Review of “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair”1
The strange career of Millian methods in comparative social science1
Gender and Parenthood Differences in Job Mobility and Pay Progression in the UK1
Review of “Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production”1
When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants1
Correction to: Environment and the racialization of space in US cities1
Review of “Science and Inequality: A Political Sociology”1
Review of “Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities”1
Review of “The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth”1
The code of cohesion: adolescent network centrality, offending, and the downside of school cohesion1
Review of “Who We Are is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt”1
Review of “Critical Humanism: A Manifesto for the 21st Century”1
Review of “Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools”1
The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone1
Review of “Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers”1
Review of “The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth”1
“Stuck” or still?: place attachment and residential mobility in an urban resource desert1
Review of “Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi”1
The changing spatial pattern of metropolitan racial segregation, 1900–2020: the rise of macro-segregation1
School Shootings, Protests, and the Gun Culture in the United States1
Childbearing attitudes amid successive novel infectious disease epidemics: a mixed-method experimental approach1
Legislative processes, nonstate actors, and political repression: the case of human rights NGOs in Israel1
Approaching or avoiding? Gender asymmetry in reactions to prior job search outcomes by gig workers in female- versus male-typed job domains1
Is it good to work with? Workability and the meaning of non-native species in urban policy1
Review of “Kindergarten Panic: Parental Anxiety and School Choice Inequality”1
Correction to: Review of “Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions”1
“The Ties that Bind are those that Punish: Network Polarization and Federal Crime Policy Gridlock, 1979–2005”1
Review of “Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics”1
Review of “Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline”1
Review of “The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy under Capitalism”1
Review of “Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times.”1
“Not one of us”: anti-immigrant sentiment spread to multiple immigrant groups in the wake of Islamic terrorism1
Review of “The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy”1
Correction to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany1
Left Partisanship, Corporatism, and the Reorientation of the Knowledge Economy in Advanced Capitalist Societies1
Review of “Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle”1
Review of “Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks”1
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