Social Problems

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Problems is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences107
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution20
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology17
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program16
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison16
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis16
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring15
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football15
Incels and gender inequality: changing tides in defining the far right14
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector14
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health13
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults12
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide12
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec12
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers12
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities12
Structural fire as a social problem: firehouse distribution disparities in New York City11
Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States11
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized10
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work10
Homelessness and race: the impact of structural conditions on Black, White, and Latine homelessness10
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South9
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks9
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis9
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention9
Banning of cockfighting in Puerto Rico: assessing public support and opposition9
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War8
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?8
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers8
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records8
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology8
More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills8
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood7
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic7
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students7
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico7
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry7
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda7
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row7
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action7
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?7
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States7
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families7
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail7
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work6
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project6
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy6
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State6
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force6
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China6
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women6
In the face of adversity: healthcare navigation and strategies of resilience among transgender and nonbinary care-seekers6
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–20106
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies6
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime5
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway5
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions5
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence5
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment5
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods5
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism5
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth5
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations5
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets5
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets5
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States5
The enabling-helping dilemma: redefining behaviors and roles in the context of family, opioid addiction4
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging4
The politics of protection: regulatory responses to COVID-19 in the meatpacking sector4
Brokers and Boundary Managers: School Expulsions amid the Non-Punitive Turn4
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates4
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents4
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy4
“We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement4
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings4
Healthcare beyond the humanitarian niche: Syrian refugee-led organizations in Turkey4
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact4
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications4
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship4
Racial/ethnic neighborhood change and the distribution of health-related urban amenities over time4
Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images4
Paved with Good Intentions: Moral Evaluation of Volunteer Tourism as Social Action3
The Way of Migrant Brokers: Power, Competition, and the Misconversion Capital3
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University3
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–19723
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–20163
Does Racial Bias Explain the Black-White Sentencing Gap across U.S. Courts?3
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid3
Navigating Spatial Enclosures: Race, Place, and School Policing3
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom3
The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States3
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?3
The High Cost of Doing Good: Earnings in Social Assistance Jobs in the United States3
Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity3
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis3
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century3
Weaponized waiting: how an administrative burden harms families visiting loved ones in immigration detention3
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage3
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust3
Correction to: Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance3
Incarceration Exposure during Pregnancy and Father’s Acknowledgment of Paternity3
Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures3
Whose Neighborhood Now? Gentrification and Community Life in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods3
Inter-minority Relations: Factors Shaping Cognitive and Affective Intergroup Attitudes between Asian and Black Americans3
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories: The Case of Sex Addiction3
Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar2
The White View of Black America: Three Forms of Prejudice2
“It’s Complicated”: How Black and White Women Innovate with Situationships at Midlife2
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes2
Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement2
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future2
Advising through Adversity: Urban High Schools’ Diverging Approaches to Postsecondary Planning2
I Know How It Feels: Empathy and Reluctance to Mobilize Legal Authorities2
Displacing refugees: resettlement and the reconstitution of families2
“Bureaucrats with Badges”: Bylaw Enforcement and the Invisibilization of Homelessness2
Buen Crédito y Buen Seguro: Legal Status and Restricted Access to Shelter among Low-Income Latina/o Renters in an Immigrant Gateway City2
How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement2
Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Neighborhoods2
Adolescent Cybervictimization in 31 Countries: The Gender Gap, Gendered Opportunity, and the Contextual Influence of Gender Stratification2
Understanding Discrimination: Outcome-Relevant Information Does Not Mitigate Discrimination2
Live and (Let) Die – Shifting Legitimacies and Organizational Mortality in American Higher Education, 1944–20182
Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support2
Antiracism without Races: How Activists Produce Knowledge about Race and Policing in France2
Skin color stratification in police contact among Asian-descent people2
Shuffling Within the System: The Pervasive Uncertainty of Prison Transfers2
“Following Indigenous Leadership”: Addressing Power Inequalities between White and Indigenous Activists in the Movement to Stop Line 32
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups2
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline2
Ethnicity, Imprisonment, and Confidence in Police and Courts: Evidence from an International Survey2
Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents2
Gateway to Dignity: Legal Name Changes for Transgender People in the United States2
Why LGBTQ Adults Keep Ambivalent Ties with Parents: Theorizing “Solidarity Rationales”2
Invisible Money and Gendered Dispossession: Relational Work in Matrimonial Disputes in India2
Navigating the Situation: Family Experiences of Jail Incarceration in Rural America2
Racialized Emotion Management among Asian Americans in the Professional Workplace2
“If not us, then who?”: black faculty and staff experiencing racial equity trauma while doing diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of the summer 2020 racial reckoning2
Politics at the Gun Counter: Examining Partisanship and Masculinity among Conservative Gun Sellers during the 2020 Gun Purchasing Surge2
Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal2
Young Black Women’s Perceptions of Otherfather Involvement2
Earning the Role: Father Role Institutionalization and the Achievement of Contemporary Fatherhood1
High-Hanging Fruit: How Gender Bias Remains Entrenched in Performance Evaluations1
A Culture of White Violence: The Enduring Impact of Slavery on Contemporary Interracial Killings1
Serv/eillance: Cops, Queers, and Clinics in Segregated Chicago1
When the house finds you: unanticipated opportunities in the housing “search”1
Social Disharmony and Racial Injustice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Theories on Crime1
College Choices, Choice Dilemmas: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Their Children’s College Options1
Gangsters, hoochie mamas, and decent kids: academic taxonomies and teacher bias in a disciplinary alternative education program1
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California1
Rights vs. Lived Realities: Women’s Views of Gender Equality in Relationships in Rural South Africa1
Correction to: The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News1
Queer Social Control and the Homonormative Bargain: Sexual Harassment in the Era of Open LGBT Military Service1
The Susceptibility of Legal Institutions: “Texts” and Contexts of the Transplanted IP Laws in China1
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System1
No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage1
State Capacity and Opportunistic Governance: The Causes and Consequences of Regulatory Brokerage in Thailand’s Guestwork Formalization Process1
Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico1
Loving in the time of George Floyd: how cultural models shape interracial couples’ responses to racialized policing1
Boosting Your Enemies to Garner the Sympathy of Friends: Pro-Fracking Industry Communications and the Geography of Contention1
The Meaning of Success: Ethno-Gendered Reactions to Discrimination at Work1
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap1
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions1
Black women and sex work: gender, respectability, and sensual critiques of power1
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain1
Poverty Governance in the Delegated Welfare State: Privatization, Commodification, and the U.S. Health Care Safety Net1
Destroying Democracy for the People: The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Populist Rule, 1990 to 20171
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America1
Constructing inclusivity: how state laws and local community contexts shape LGBTQ+ student inclusion and belonging in schools1
The Effect of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Budgets: How “Defund the Police” Sparked Political Backlash1
Rooting Race in Place: Whites’ Racial Learning in Southern Kinds of Places1
Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents1
Cruel and unusual punishment: assessing public perceptions of suffering in toxic prisons1
Does local context matter? Unemployment rates and the labor market consequences of incarceration1
Punitive Inertia: Anti-Blackness and the Policing of Motion1
A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students1
“Scum (of the Earth)”: Incarcerated Mothers’ Experiences of Slow Violence1
The hate industry: mass media, moral panic, and the mobilization of anti transgender prejudice1
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth1
Leaving the Pervasive Barrio: Gang Disengagement under Criminal Governance1
To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting INGO-State Partnership in Cambodia1
How Do You Want Your Eggs? The Medical Management of Kin-Making and Reproductive Inequalities in the United States and India1
The Lives and Futures of Late Adolescent Black Members of the LGBTQIA Population1
The Status of the Surveilled: Hyper Surveillance and Status Attainment among Gangs1
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color1
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment1
Militarizing the Climate Crisis: An Analysis of the Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Militarization on Nations’ Carbon Emissions, 1990–20201
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