OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Problems is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Increasing Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition on Housing Values, 1980–2015	47
Family Structure, Risks, and Racial Stratification in Poverty	46
Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India	28
Protecting the Flock or Policing the Sheep? Differences in School Resource Officers’ Perceptions of Threats by School Racial Composition	27
Governing Marginality: Coercion and Care in Probation	25
Landlord Paternalism: Housing the Poor with a Velvet Glove	20
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy	20
The Rise and Fall of the Tahrir Repertoire: Theorizing Temporality, Trajectory, and Failure	18
Black Girls and the Talk? Policing, Parenting, and the Politics of Protection	18
“The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease”: Rental Assistance Applicants’ Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource	17
How Information about Inequality Impacts Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Australia, Indonesia and Mexico	17
Populism and Carbon Tax Justice: The Yellow Vest Movement in France	16
“Healthier Than Just Healthy”: Families Transmitting Health as Cultural Capital	16
Toward a Du Boisian Framework of Immigrant Incorporation: Racialized Contexts, Relational Identities, and Muslim American Collective Action	16
Transition into Liminal Legality: DACA’s Mixed Impacts on Education and Employment among Young Adult Immigrants in California	15
Contesting Commemorative Landscapes: Confederate Monuments and Trajectories of Change	15
Help-Seeking Behaviors as Cultural Capital: Cultural Guides and the Transition from High School to College among Low-Income First Generation Students	15
Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements	15
When Mothers Can’t “Pay the Cost to Be the Boss”: Roles and Identity within Doubled-Up Households	15
Compounded Vulnerability: The Consequences of Immigration Detention for Institutional Attachment and System Avoidance in Mixed-Immigration-Status Families	14
Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina	14
Charity and Shame: Towards Reciprocity	13
The “New Father” Between Ideals and Practices: New Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Attitudes, and Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare	13
Policing, Recognition, and the Bind of Legal Cynicism	12
The Usual, Racialized, Suspects: The Consequence of Police Contacts with Black and White Youth on Adult Arrest	12

The Contradictions of Liminal Legality: Economic Attainment and Civic Engagement of Central American Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status	12
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations	10
Beyond the Binary: Intraracial Diversity in Family Organization and Black Adolescents’ Educational Performance	10
Race and the Geography of Opportunity in the Post-Prison Labor Market	10
Racial Valuation: Cultural Gatekeepers, Race, Risk, and Institutional Expectations of Success and Failure	10
The Great Recession and Ethno-Racial Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit	10
Race, Racism, and the Cool Pose: Exploring Black and White Male Masculinity	9
Kin Support of the Black Middle Class: Negotiating Need, Norms, and Class Background	9
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations	9
Disrupting Monolithic Thinking about Black Women and Their Mental Health: Does Stress Exposure Explain Intersectional Ethnic, Nativity, and Socioeconomic Differences?	9
Surviving Capitalism: Affordability as a Racial “Wage” in Contemporary Housing Markets	9
Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis	8
Discriminating Palates: Evaluation and Ethnoracial Inequality in American Fine Dining	8
Synchronizing the Biological Clock: Managing Professional and Romantic Risk through Company-Sponsored Egg Freezing	8
Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College	8
Call-In, Call-Out, Care, and Cool Rationality: How Young Adults Respond to Racism and Sexism Online	8
Contesting Inequality: The Impact of Immigrant Legal Status and Education on Legal Knowledge and Claims-Making in Low-Wage Labor Markets	8
Why LGBTQ Adults Keep Ambivalent Ties with Parents: Theorizing “Solidarity Rationales”	7
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship: Learning to Perform the Speculative Self in University Entrepreneurship Programs	7
“Please Don’t Take This”: Rural Gentrification, Symbolic Capital, and Housing Insecurity	7
Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status through Brokering	7
White Supervisor and Subordinate Beliefs about Black/White Inequality: Implications for Understanding and Reducing Workplace Racial Disparities	7
Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia	7
Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use	7
Training for War: Academy Socialization and Warrior Policing	7
Gendered Logics of Biomedical Research: Women in U.S. Phase I Clinical Trials	6
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention	6
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India	6
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets	6
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition	6
Race, Nation, and the Color-Line in the Twenty-First Century: A Du Boisian Analysis	6
Right-Wing Stewards: The Promoting Effect of Religiosity on Environmental Concern among Political Conservatives in a Global Context	6
Assembling the Local Politics of Noncitizenship: Contesting Access to Healthcare in Toronto-Sanctuary City	6
“We’d Rather Be Relevant than Theoretically Accurate”: The Translation and Commodification of Social Scientific Knowledge for Clinical Practice	6
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System	6
“Screaming, ‘No! No!’ It was Literally Like Being Raped”: Connecting Sexual Assault Trauma and Coerced Obstetric Procedures	6
“Whose streets? Our streets!”: Negotiations of Space and Violence in Protests	6
Divergent Residential Pathways from Flood-Prone Areas: How Neighborhood Inequalities Are Shaping Urban Climate Adaptation	6
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership	6
In the Shadow of the Schooled Society: Feelings of Misrecognition and the Education Ladder	5
“Different Strolls, Different Worlds? Gentrification and its Impact on Outdoor Sex Work”	5
More than Recruitment: How Social Ties Support Protest Participation	5
Not Seeing Like a State: Mandated Reporting, State-Adjacent Actors and the Production of Illegible Subjects	5
Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois	5
Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Lens	5
Protest Waves and Social Movement Fields: The Micro Foundations of Campaigning for Subaltern Political Parties	5
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during COVID-19	5
Demobilizing or Activating? The Effect of Anti-Muslim Discrimination on Muslims’ Counter-Extremism Engagement	4
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab	4

State Capacity and Opportunistic Governance: The Causes and Consequences of Regulatory Brokerage in Thailand’s Guestwork Formalization Process	4
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University	4
Antiracism without Races: How Activists Produce Knowledge about Race and Policing in France	4
The Dynamics of Brokering in Second Generation Transnationalism	4
Ratchet-Rasquache Activism: Aesthetic and Discursive Frames within Chicago-Based Women-of-Color Activism	4
Forced Out of Fatherhood: How Men Strive to Parent Post-Deportation	4
Destroying Democracy for the People: The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Populist Rule, 1990 to 2017	4
Social Disharmony and Racial Injustice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Theories on Crime	4
Proliferation of Punishment: The Centrality of Legal Fines and Fees in the Landscape of Contemporary Penology	4
Exposure to Food Insecurity during Adolescence and Educational Attainment	4
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide	4
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups	4
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–2010	4
Privilege in the Delivery Room? Race, Class, and the Realization of Natural Birth Preferences, 2002–2013	4
House of Cards: Informal Housing Markets and Precarious Pathways to Homeownership in Baltimore	4
Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity	4
The Limits of Tolerance: Extreme Speakers on Campus	4
Narrowing Racial Differences in Trust: How Discrimination Shapes Trust in a Racialized Society	4
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness	3
The Agency Myth: Persistence in Individual Explanations for Gender Inequality	3
Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the Wedding Venue Business: Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Germany and Austria	3
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment	3
Men’s Social Integration after Incarceration: The Role of Organizationally Embedded Prison-Forged Networks	3
Borders, Politics, and Bounded Sympathy: How U.S. Television News Constructs Refugees, 1980–2016	3
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States	3
“Positive discrimination doesn’t mean anything”: Understanding Black French Ambivalence toward Affirmative Action	3
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South	3
Analyzing the Military’s Role in Producing Air Toxics Disparities in the United States: A Critical Environmental Justice Approach	3
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis	3
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism	3
I Know Why the White Lady Cries: Growing Pains of an Antiracist Cleft Habitus	3
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom	3
Selling the Ability to “Have It All”: How Direct Selling Organizations Exploit Intensive Mothering Ideologies	3
The Racial and Economic Foundations of Municipal Redistricting	3
Policing and Punishing Illegal Gun Behavior: An Examination of Jail Detainee Experiences with Gun Law Enforcement In Los Angeles	3
Gendering and Degendering: The Problem of Men’s Victimization in Intimate Partner Relations in Social and Crisis Workers’ Talk	3
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities	3
The Long-Term Consequences of Imprisoning Our Youth: The Lasting Impact of Time Spent in Adult Jails and Prisons	3
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust	2
The Dynamic Racial Structure and Disparities in Neighborhood Crime Change	2
“My Baby Went Straight to Heaven”: Morality Work in Abortion Online Storytelling	2
“My Favorite One Is the One Who Is There Right Now”: Socioeconomic Differences in Support Exchanges within Stepfamilies	2
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?	2
The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification	2
Urban Borderlines: Negotiating Spatial, Social, and Symbolic Boundaries in Urban Contexts	2
The Brain and Causality: How the Brain Becomes an Individual-Level Cause of Illness	2
Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools	2
Structural Stigma and 7-Year Improvement in Life Satisfaction among Diverse Groups of Sexual Minority Individuals: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study across 28 Countries	2
Leaving the Pervasive Barrio: Gang Disengagement under Criminal Governance	2
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State	2
Inter-State Competition and Transnational Capitalists across the North-South Divide: Different Strategies, New Configurations of Power	2
Threat and Emotions: Mobilizing and Attitudinal Outcomes of a Ballistic Missile Scare	2
Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation among Young Adults	2
The Early-Life Origins of Later-Life Networks	2
The Limits of Expectations and the Minimization of Collateral Consequences: The Experience of Electronic Home Monitoring	2
Best Laid Plans: How the Middle Class Make Residential Decisions Post-Disaster	2
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging	2
Unemployment and Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in U.S. Counties: Investigating Social Capital and Social Isolation-Smoking Pathways	2
Emotions and Ambient Racism in America’s Whitest Big City	2
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution	2
The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings	2
Racializing Emasculation: An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Men’s Evaluations of Sexual Assault	2
For Love of Money: Rewards of Care for India’s Women Community Health Workers	2
What If They Were White? The Differential Arrest Consequences of Victim Characteristics for Black and White Co-offenders	2
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records	2
Contextualizing Educational Disparities and the Evaluation of Teacher Quality	2
The Bureaucratic Dissociation of Race in Policing: From State Racial Projects to Colorblind Ideologies	2
The Promise of Property: Legal Optimism and Collective Efficacy in Chicago’s Urban Agriculture District	2
Precarious Legal Patchworking: Detained Immigrants’ Access to Justice	2
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods	2
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	2