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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education”38
Review of “Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement”28
Review of “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession”26
Review of “An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi”24
Review of “Rules of the Road: The Automobile and the Transformation of American Criminal Justice”24
Review of “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”23
Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey23
Occupying Shops to Defend Spaces of Livelihoods: From Tenant Shopkeepers’ Fragmentation to Collective Consciousness in Urban Korea22
Review of “The Making of Public Space: News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century”20
Review of: “Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy”19
Review of “Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers”18
Review of “The Policing Machine: Enforcement Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input”17
Review of “Challenging Inequality: Variation Across Postindustrial Societies”16
The Social Forces that Shape Families: Reflections on 100 Years of Publications in Social Forces16
The Effects of Undergraduate Financing on Advanced Degree Attainment16
Review of “The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge”16
Confronting linked immobility: how Chinese migrants managed family crisis during a global catastrophe16
Confronting the past in a polarized present: holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism16
Partisan identity, scientific and religious authority, and lawmaker support for science policy15
Identification in Interaction: Racial Mirroring between Interviewers and Respondents14
The political landscape of death: state policy polarization and mortality among Black and White Americans14
Policy Regulation of Precarious Work Schedules and Bottom-Up Enforcement: An Evaluation of State Reporting Pay Policies14
Review of “Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi”14
Policy Effects on Mixed-Citizenship, Same-Sex Unions: A Triple-Difference Analysis14
Double standards in status ascriptions? The role of gender, behaviors, and social networks in status orders among adolescents13
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates13
Review of “Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan”13
Review of “Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class”13
Correction to review: Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code12
The Challenge of Seeing Beyond our Differences: A Review of “Inventing the Ties that Bind: Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life”12
Review of “The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream”12
Review of “Injustice, Inc. How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor”12
Review of “Connecting After Chaos: Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster”11
Review of “The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics”11
Review of “Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge”10
The religion of White identity politics: Christian nationalism and White racial solidarity10
Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants10
Review of “Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk”9
Are women with disabilities more at risk of intimate partner violence?9
Review of “Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics”9
Review of “Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg”9
Correction to: Review of “No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism”9
Review of “Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses”9
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms: Same as in Traditional Labour Markets?9
Review of “We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement”9
A Gendered and Racialized Educational Hierarchy: Disparities in Elementary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Behavior9
The South, Southerners, and Social Forces9
Review of “Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery”8
Review of “The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity”8
Review of “The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media”8
Embedded Distress: Social Integration, Gender, and Adolescent Depression8
Review of “I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life”8
Review of “Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution”8
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality8
Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities7
100 Years of Social Forces as seen through Bibliometric Publication Patterns7
Review of “Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform”7
Review of “Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality.”7
Review of “Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy”7
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
Demagogues in action: the reputational rise and demise of “Cotton” Tom Heflin6
The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence6
Review of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party”6
Review of “Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison”5
Theorizing Potential Downstream Cultural Consequences of LGBT+ Activism5
Correction to: How liberalism accommodates far-right social movements: on “mainstreaming” and the need for critical theory in far-right studies5
Review of “The impact of college diversity: struggles and successes at age 30”5
Bringing Family Demography Back In: A Life Course Approach to the Gender Gap in Caregiving in the United States5
Review of “Guiding God’s Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling”5
Correction to: Generational Dissonance or Cultural Persistence? European Immigration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Beliefs5
Review of “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State”5
Rethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: an experimental approach4
Partisan animosity and protest participation in the United States4
Becoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers4
Review of “Revolution and witchcraft: the code of ideology in unsettled times”4
Correction to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway4
Internal displacement and post-conflict gender attitudes: evidence from northwestern Pakistan4
Contexts of Contestation: How Competing Logics of the State Enable and Constrain Immigrant Civic and Political Participation4
Pathways of Peer Influence on Major Choice4
Review of “Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness”4
Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States4
The gender gap in political efficacy: the accelerating effect of classroom discussions4
Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans4
Review of “Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus”4
Review of Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities4
Networks rewired: quota enforcement and the unintended mobilization of native place ties4
Review of “Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and Lessons We Can Learn”3
Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities3
Review of “Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur”3
Review of “The Making of White American Identity”3
Review of “Regression Inside Out”3
When are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children3
Review of “Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity”3
Review of “Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times”3
Social Capital and Cultural Producers’ Copyright Ownership of Their Creations: Evidence from the Television Industry 1956–19963
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia3
Review of “A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals”3
The promise and limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics and immigrant access to health care in the U.S.3
Review of “The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture”3
Review of “The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market”3
The Past and Present of Crime Research inSocial Forces: How the Sociology of Crime Lost its Roots—And Found Them Again3
Review of “Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power”3
Review of “Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.”3
Review of “Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster”3
100 Years of Book Reviews in Social Forces3
Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants’ Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life3
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality3
Competing social influence in contested diffusion: contention and the spread of the early reformation3
Review of “Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City”3
Review of “Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire”3
Review of “The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work”3
Review of “The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice”3
Review of “Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons”3
Review of “Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation”2
The View from Above and Below: Subjective Mobility and Explanations of Class, Race, and Gender Inequality2
How politics constrain the public’s understanding of terrorism2
Review of “Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations”2
Review of “What Is Sexual Capital?”2
Black–White inequality in earnings losses after job displacement, 1981–20202
Echoes of silence: how student migrants navigate political taboos across borders2
How public benefits make citizens in Latino mixed-status families: self-efficacy, institutional engagement, and concerted citizenship cultivation2
State Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital2
Review of “Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese”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 “Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace”2
Review of “Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption”2
Review of “My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood”2
Review of “Who Pays for Diversity?: Why Programs Fail at Racial Equity and What to Do about It”2
Review of “Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City”2
The Precarity of Self-Employment among Low- and Moderate-Income Households2
A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018)2
Review of “Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration”2
Review of “Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests”2
Correction to: Review of “When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age”2
Pay talk in contemporary workplaces2
Transmorphic organizations: racial segregation and discrimination against LGBTQ students at Christian colleges and universities2
Ideology, Legitimation and Collective Action: Evidence from Chile on the Mechanism of Ideological Inversion2
Review of “Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia”2
Parental Schooling, Educational Attainment, Skills, and Earnings: A Trend Analysis across Fifteen Countries2
Gentrification in small cities: growth coalitions, civic engagement, and political participation2
Equality takes work: a process to understand why women still do most of the household labor2
Review of “Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums”2
Mother–Father Parity in Work–Family Conflict? The Importance of Selection Effects and Nonresponse Bias2
Ritualizing Nonreligion: Cultivating Rational Rituals in Secular Spaces2
Occupational gender segregation: what can we learn from computer use trends?2
I have seen this before: imprinting experiences and bank CEO risk-taking in times of crisis2
Managing motherhood: how “queen bee” managers in the US service sector reduce motherhood advantages in work scheduling2
Review of “Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate”2
Review of “God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants”2
Review of “Automation is a Myth”2
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers: organized crime violence and risks for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border1
Review of “Come out, Come out, Whoever You Are”1
Review of “Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy”1
Differentiated Egalitarianism: The Impact of Paid Family Leave Policy on Women’s and Men’s Paid and Unpaid Work1
Cross-National Social and Environmental Influences on Life Satisfaction1
Concealed exchanges: relational work in racially segregated housing markets1
Breathing unequal air: environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany1
When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants1
Life course illegality: how the life course and aging shape the experience of illegality1
Review of Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders and Why It Matters1
Populism as Dog-Whistle Politics: Anti-Elite Discourse and Sentiments Toward Minority Groups1
“Not one of us”: anti-immigrant sentiment spread to multiple immigrant groups in the wake of Islamic terrorism1
Review of “Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists”1
Review of “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo”1
School Shootings, Protests, and the Gun Culture in the United States1
Review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World”1
Review of “The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today”1
Review of Racism on Campus: A Visual History of Prominent Virginia Colleges and Howard University1
Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults1
Communists and Black liberation movements: divergent trajectories in the United States and South Africa, 1939–19691
Review of “Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential”1
Review of “The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary”1
Origins, belonging, and expectations: assessing resource compensation and reinforcement in academic educational trajectories1
Review of “Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University”1
Review of “Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production”1
The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone1
When the watchdogs look away: the role of engineers’ ideological commitments in their grappling with tech bias1
Review of “You’re Paid What You’re Worth And Other Myths of the Modern Economy”1
Review of “The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire”1
Best for Whom? Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Breastfeeding on Child Development1
Does outsourcing of domestic work reduce gender inequality in labor force participation within households?—a couple-level panel analysis1
Review of “The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024”1
Review of “Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility”1
Not paying unto Caesar: Christian nationalism, politics, race, and opposition to taxation1
First- and Second-Generation Women’s Economic Assimilation: An Analysis of Longitudinal Earnings Records1
Review of “The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City”1
Gender and Parenthood Differences in Job Mobility and Pay Progression in the UK1
Review of “The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy”1
Continuity and Change in Methodology in Social Forces1
“The Ties that Bind are those that Punish: Network Polarization and Federal Crime Policy Gridlock, 1979–2005”1
Review of “Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons”1
World Society Corridors: Partnership Patterns in the Spread of Human Rights1
Review of “Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle”1
Review of “Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms”1
Review of “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair”1
100 Years ofSocial Forces1
Fighting over the kids: gender roles, patrilineage, and child custody in Chinese courts1
Review of “Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles”1
Review of “The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath”1
Beyond Gentrification: Housing Loss, Poverty, and the Geography of Displacement1
Review of “On Wars”1
Review of “Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times.”1
Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime1
Ethno-Racial and Credit Worthiness Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit1
Review of Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge1
Nativity Penalty and Legal Status Paradox: The Effects of Nativity and Legal Status Signals in the US Labor Market1
What Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry1
Correction to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany1
Why do partners often prefer the same political parties? Evidence from couples in Germany1
Review of “The Faithful Scientist: Experiences of Anti-Religious Bias in Scientific Training”1
Review of “Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities”1
Review of “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope”1
Review of “The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America”1
Examining the Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer on Fertility1
Review of “Sons, Daughters & Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles”1
Review of “Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border”1
Legislative processes, nonstate actors, and political repression: the case of human rights NGOs in Israel1
Review of “The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth”1
Review of “Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline”1
Perpetual encounters: reconceptualizing police contact and measuring its relationship to black women’s mental health0
Review of Unnerved: Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health0
Review of “The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress”0
Stratified Entry into Illegality: How Immigration Policy Shapes Being Undocumented0
Mental Health across the Early Life Course at the Intersection of Race, Skin Tone, and School Racial Context0
Review of “Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools”0
Hiring the ideal remote worker: the gendered implications of the rise of remote work0
Review of “Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China”0
Motherhood and Employment in China: Gender Asymmetries in Multi-Generational Families0
Review of “The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia’s Eastern State Pentientiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913”0
Review of “Post Society”0
Review of “Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring About the Environment”0
Review of “Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science”0
Masculinity on the Margins: Boundary Work Among Immobile Fathers in Indonesia’s Transnational Families0
Defining women’s incomes: household disruptions and gendered resolutions0
Unshared spaces: a field experiment on the politico-cultural contexts of housing discrimination against transgender and nonbinary persons in Germany0
The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners0
Class experiences and the long-term evolution of economic values0
Review of “Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the American Dream”0
Review of “From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy”0
Review of “Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border”0
Correction to: Devaluation for whom? Feminization and wages in an economically polarized labor market, 2003–20190
The Asymmetry of Embeddedness: Illegal Trade Networks and Drug Purchasing Diversity on an Online Illegal Drug Market0
Adoption of LGBT-Inclusive Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, or Competition?0
Less than citizens: varieties of workplace marginalization of immigrants to the United States0
On the up and up: the job mobility of skilled return migrants0
Parental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.0
Review of “The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society”0
Review of “Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African schools”0
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