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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Perspectives 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Foreign Capital and Economic Growth: A Social Network Analysis, 2001–2017	70
Who Are Gun Owners in the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of the 2019 National Lawful Use of Guns Survey	57
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	33
The Language of Immigration Coverage: The Arizona Republic and Media’s Role in the Production of Social Illegality	29
“You Start with the Youth”: Narratives of Deservingness and Dissent at a Homeless Service Organization	20
Diversity, Disrupted: A Critique of Neoliberal Difference in Tech Organizations	19
Preferences for Paid Paternity Leave Availability, Lengths of Leave Offerings, and Government Funding of Paternity Leaves in the United States	18
The Correlates of Panethnic Identification: Assessing Similarities and Differences among Latinos and Asians in the United States	18
“Of Course We Need to Help the Undocumented Immigrants!”: Twitter Discourse on the (Un)deservingness of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Intergroup Contact and White Racial Apathy: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR)	15
Time as a Resource for Constructing Long-term Visions among Two Generations of Feminist Activism in Peru and Ecuador	13
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	13
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	13
Durkheim’s Failed Darwinian Encounter: Missed Opportunities on the Path to a Post-exemptionalist Environmental Sociology	12
Between Distancing and Interdependence: The Conflict of Solidarities in the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
“Everything Is Connected”: Health Lifestyles and Teenagers’ Social Distancing Behaviors in the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Exploring the Making of the Economy in South Korea: A Venue for Sociology and Science and Technology Studies	10
Local Confederate Memorialization and Gender-Ethnic Variation in Mental Health among Black Residents	10
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	9
Long-term Consequences of Men’s Migration for Women’s Well-being in a Rural African Setting	9
Industrial Pollution, Social Trust, and Civic Engagement: A Nationwide Study of the Socioenvironmental Nature of Social Capital	9
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change	9
Golden Years in the Red: Indebtedness Patterns across Cohorts of Older American Adults	9
Corporate Responses to COVID-19: A Nonmarket Strategy Approach	8
Peer and Community Influences on Adolescent Substance Use in the Context of Adverse Childhood Experiences	8

Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	7
Pharmaceuticalization to Opioid Pharmacovigilance: A Qualitative Investigation of the Impact of Opioid-related Policy Changes and the Perspectives of Residents and Chronic Non-cancer Pain Patients	6
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	6
Elite Cues and the Rapid Decline in Trust in Science Agencies on COVID-19	5
“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims	5
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	5
Worksites as Sacrifice Zones: Structural Precarity and COVID-19 in U.S. Meatpacking	5
Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries	5
Making the Grade during Pandemic: Early-stage and Late-stage Provisional Institutions	5
“I Could Feel His Sadness and Disdain as He Told Me”: A Qualitative Analysis of Black Women’s Accounts of Vicarious Racism	5
American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South	5
Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and the First Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates: A Spatial Analysis of Four U.S. Cities	4
Family Socioeconomic Status in Adolescence and Gender Identification in Emerging Adulthood	4
Gun Dealer Motivations for Complying with the Law: Lessons from the Australian Experience of Gun Control	4
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice	4
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Society	4
The Cogs and Wheels of Authenticity: How Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs Explain the Unequal Appreciation of Authentic Products	4
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	4
Arts for Whose Sake? Arts Course-taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools	4
Gun Ownership, Threat, and Gun Attitudes in an Experiment	4
Caregiving, Gender, and Health: The Moderating Role of Age	3
No Choice but to Be Essential: Expanding Dimensions of Precarity During COVID-19	3
Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008–2016	3
Asian Americans and Income Inequality: Disparities Between and Within Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Groups	3
The U.S. Space of Lifestyles and Its Homologies	3
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	3
How Attitudes about Guns Develop over Time	3
Collective Social Capital, Outgroup Threat, and Americans’ Preference for Restrictive Immigration	3
Policy Relay: How Affirmative Consent Went from Controversy to Convention	3
In Millennial Footsteps: California Social Movement Organizations for Generation Z	3
Motherhood and Mentoring Networks: The Unequal Impact of Overwork on Women’s Workplace Mentoring Networks	2
Returning Biology to Evolutionary Sociology: Reflections on the Conceptual Hiatuses of “New Evolutionary Sociology” as a Vantage Point	2
Staying in Bad Jobs: An “Institutional Peg” as Poland’s Adaptation to Precarious Markets	2
“There’s the Black Woman Thing, and There’s the Age Thing”: Professional Black Women on the Downsides of “Black Don’t Crack” and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work	2
Feminism and Firearms: Gun Ownership, Gun Carrying, and Women’s Empowerment	2
Unpacking the Influence of Islamic Religious Culture and Individual Religious Affiliation on Testing HIV-positive	2
Graduate School, Work, or Unclear? Gender Differences in Post-college Plans among China’s Recent College Students	2
Pathways of Intergenerational Support between Parents and Children throughout Adulthood	2
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	2
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	2
Cohort Differences in Occupational Retention among Computer Science Degree Holders: Reassessing the Role of Family	2
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	2
Does Disassociation with a Majority Religion Influence Community Desirability? Evidence from Rural Utah	2
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	2
The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production	2
Sources of Mattering for Women and Men: Gender Differences and Similarities in Feelings of Social Significance	2
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries: New Cross-National Evidence, 1990–2016	2
“What Else Explains This Trauma but Porn?” Women Partners of Porn Addicts as Claims-Makers	2
Repertoire Communities in American Popular Music, 1900–1949	2

Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers