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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program88
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison67
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences44
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution41
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest23
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab23
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology20
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football20
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents20
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities19
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health18
Crafting Charismatic Cops: Community Policing and the Faulty Reputations Paradigm17
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring16
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership16
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec16
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System15
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector15
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults14
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers14
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India13
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work12
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide12
Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools12
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized11
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention11
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks11
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South11
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis11
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry10
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?10
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood10
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?10
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology10
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda10
More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills10
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness9
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War9
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico9
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records9
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers9
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students8
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action8
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development8
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail8
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic8
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row7
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time7
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families7
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies7
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China7
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State6
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women6
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy6
Thanks to Reviewers6
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force6
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–20106
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project6
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work6
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime5
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations5
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway5
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets5
Index to Volume 685
“We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement5
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy5
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment5
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions5
Narrowing Racial Differences in Trust: How Discrimination Shapes Trust in a Racialized Society5
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth5
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States5
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents5
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets5
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods5
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence5
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations5
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging5
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications5
Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College4
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship4
Fired and Evicted: Istanbul Doorkeepers’ Strategies of Navigating Employment and Housing Precarity4
Correction to: Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance4
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during COVID-194
Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images4
Incarceration Exposure during Pregnancy and Father’s Acknowledgment of Paternity4
Mechanisms Linking High Residential Mobility to Decreased Contraceptive Use: The Importance of Method Availability4
The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States4
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?4
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates4
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust4
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom4
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings4
Navigating Spatial Enclosures: Race, Place, and School Policing4
Brokers and Boundary Managers: School Expulsions amid the Non-Punitive Turn4
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage4
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University4
Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement3
Advising through Adversity: Urban High Schools’ Diverging Approaches to Postsecondary Planning3
Antiracism without Races: How Activists Produce Knowledge about Race and Policing in France3
Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures3
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–20163
Inter-minority Relations: Factors Shaping Cognitive and Affective Intergroup Attitudes between Asian and Black Americans3
Divergent Residential Pathways from Flood-Prone Areas: How Neighborhood Inequalities Are Shaping Urban Climate Adaptation3
Navigating the Situation: Family Experiences of Jail Incarceration in Rural America3
Racialized Emotion Management among Asian Americans in the Professional Workplace3
Politics at the Gun Counter: Examining Partisanship and Masculinity among Conservative Gun Sellers during the 2020 Gun Purchasing Surge3
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid3
The High Cost of Doing Good: Earnings in Social Assistance Jobs in the United States3
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–19723
“Jocks Gone Wild”: Masculinity, Sexual Bullying, and the Legal Normalization of Boys’ Victimization3
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis3
Unemployment and Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in U.S. Counties: Investigating Social Capital and Social Isolation-Smoking Pathways3
Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support3
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories: The Case of Sex Addiction3
Paved with Good Intentions: Moral Evaluation of Volunteer Tourism as Social Action3
Whose Neighborhood Now? Gentrification and Community Life in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods3
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century3
Does Racial Bias Explain the Black-White Sentencing Gap across U.S. Courts?3
I Know How It Feels: Empathy and Reluctance to Mobilize Legal Authorities3
Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity3
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future3
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups2
The White View of Black America: Three Forms of Prejudice2
The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings2
Buen Crédito y Buen Seguro: Legal Status and Restricted Access to Shelter among Low-Income Latina/o Renters in an Immigrant Gateway City2
Ethnicity, Imprisonment, and Confidence in Police and Courts: Evidence from an International Survey2
Selling the Ability to “Have It All”: How Direct Selling Organizations Exploit Intensive Mothering Ideologies2
Invisible Money and Gendered Dispossession: Relational Work in Matrimonial Disputes in India2
Why LGBTQ Adults Keep Ambivalent Ties with Parents: Theorizing “Solidarity Rationales”2
Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents2
How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement2
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline2
Adolescent Cybervictimization in 31 Countries: The Gender Gap, Gendered Opportunity, and the Contextual Influence of Gender Stratification2
Young Black Women’s Perceptions of Otherfather Involvement2
“Bureaucrats with Badges”: Bylaw Enforcement and the Invisibilization of Homelessness2
Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal2
For Love of Money: Rewards of Care for India’s Women Community Health Workers2
Live and (Let) Die – Shifting Legitimacies and Organizational Mortality in American Higher Education, 1944–20182
Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Neighborhoods2
Understanding Discrimination: Outcome-Relevant Information Does Not Mitigate Discrimination2
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain2
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California2
Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar2
Cultural Sidelining: How Campus Cultures across University Contexts Shortchange Working-Class Hispanic Students2
Gateway to Dignity: Legal Name Changes for Transgender People in the United States2
Disrupting Monolithic Thinking about Black Women and Their Mental Health: Does Stress Exposure Explain Intersectional Ethnic, Nativity, and Socioeconomic Differences?2
“It’s Complicated”: How Black and White Women Innovate with Situationships at Midlife2
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes2
Correction to: The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News1
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color1
Queer Social Control and the Homonormative Bargain: Sexual Harassment in the Era of Open LGBT Military Service1
To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting INGO-State Partnership in Cambodia1
The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification1
A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students1
The Susceptibility of Legal Institutions: “Texts” and Contexts of the Transplanted IP Laws in China1
Punitive Inertia: Anti-Blackness and the Policing of Motion1
Family Structure, Risks, and Racial Stratification in Poverty1
Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico1
Earning the Role: Father Role Institutionalization and the Achievement of Contemporary Fatherhood1
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions1
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
More than Recruitment: How Social Ties Support Protest Participation1
Carceral Liberalism: The Coloniality and Antiblackness of Coercive Benevolence1
A Culture of White Violence: The Enduring Impact of Slavery on Contemporary Interracial Killings1
Wealth and the Transition to Motherhood1
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap1
The Lives and Futures of Late Adolescent Black Members of the LGBTQIA Population1
Boosting Your Enemies to Garner the Sympathy of Friends: Pro-Fracking Industry Communications and the Geography of Contention1
“Screaming, ‘No! No!’ It was Literally Like Being Raped”: Connecting Sexual Assault Trauma and Coerced Obstetric Procedures1
The Effect of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Budgets: How “Defund the Police” Sparked Political Backlash1
High-Hanging Fruit: How Gender Bias Remains Entrenched in Performance Evaluations1
The Meaning of Success: Ethno-Gendered Reactions to Discrimination at Work1
Leaving the Pervasive Barrio: Gang Disengagement under Criminal Governance1
College Choices, Choice Dilemmas: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Their Children’s College Options1
Rights vs. Lived Realities: Women’s Views of Gender Equality in Relationships in Rural South Africa1
State Capacity and Opportunistic Governance: The Causes and Consequences of Regulatory Brokerage in Thailand’s Guestwork Formalization Process1
No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage1
“The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease”: Rental Assistance Applicants’ Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource1
Rooting Race in Place: Whites’ Racial Learning in Southern Kinds of Places1
How Do You Want Your Eggs? The Medical Management of Kin-Making and Reproductive Inequalities in the United States and India1
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment1
In the Shadow of the Schooled Society: Feelings of Misrecognition and the Education Ladder1
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth1
The Status of the Surveilled: Hyper Surveillance and Status Attainment among Gangs1
Social Disharmony and Racial Injustice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Theories on Crime1
“Scum (of the Earth)”: Incarcerated Mothers’ Experiences of Slow Violence1
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System1
Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents1
Serv/eillance: Cops, Queers, and Clinics in Segregated Chicago1
The “Stuff” of Class: How Property Rules in Preschool Reproduce Class Inequality1
“My Baby Went Straight to Heaven”: Morality Work in Abortion Online Storytelling1
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America1
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