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Papers

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

Article	Citations
Meeting the Moral Markers of Success: Concerted Cultivation among Second‐Generation Muslim Parents*	32
The elephant in the room? Considerations of politics among older adult daters	29
Goodbye religion: The causes and consequences of secularization By RyanCragun, JesseSmith, New York, NY: NYU Press. 2024. 352 pages. $35.00. ISBN: 9781479825301	27
When Economists Eat Sociologists' Lunch	24
About the Authors	16
The Complexities of Commemorating Evil	16
About the Authors	16
Beyond The God Gap: Mapping Religiopolitical Heterogeneity in the United States¹	14
Introduction to the Forum	14
Cultivated Participation: Looking Closer at the Relationship Between Education and Participation¹	13
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	13
Gender and Family Financial Support in the Transition to Adulthood¹	12
Ambivalent Action: Recognizing Bothness in the Narratives of Blackout Tuesday¹	11
High‐Risk Transnationalism: Why Do Israeli‐Americans Volunteer in the Israeli Military?*	11
Issue Information	11
Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response	11
Embracing a Radically Transformative Intellectual Approach	9
Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings	9
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	9
The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error	9
Infrastructures of Sociality: How Disadvantaged Students Navigate Inequity at the University¹	9
Dreams of a Lifetime	9
The Enduring Impact of Hart‐Celler	8
Can Talk Reveal Nondeclarative Culture? Deliberation Strategies in Talking About Social Controversies¹	8
Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology	8

COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	8
Tough Ties and Rough Networks: Inequality and Exploitation in African Slums	7
The Diffusion of Culture and Cognition Within and Beyond Sociology, 1997–2021¹	7
Has Pandemic Threat Stoked Xenophobia? How COVID‐19 Influences California Voters’ Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration*	7
Divergent Pathways: How Pre‐Orientation Programs Can Shape the Transition to College for First‐Generation, Low‐Income Students¹	6
A call for a sociology of adaptation	6
Broker Wisdom: How Migrants Navigate a Broker‐Centric Migration System in Vietnam¹^,²	6
Sex and Power on Campus	6
Toward a middle‐range theory of environmental morality	6
Open‐Ended Analyses of the Sociopolitical Impact of Celebrity Change: Advantages, Operationalization, and an Illustration with Hong Kong Celebrity	6
Sayyid Qutb: An intellectual biography By GiedreŠabasevičiūtė, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. 2021. pp. 274	6
Individual‐Level Determinants of Religious Intergenerational Transmission: Evidence from Catholic Europe¹	6
“Like if you Get a Hotel Bill”: Consumer Logic, Pay‐to‐Stay, and the Production of Incarceration as a Public Commodity*	5
Educational inequality as a consequence and cause of race	5
A New Guide Offers Helpful Methodological Advice on Life History Interviewing	5
Issue Information	5
Moving Onward and Upward in a “Dead‐End” Job: Extrinsic Motivations and Rewards in Health Care Work	5
Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude	5
Critical Junctures and Path Dependence in Sentencing Policy: A Case Study¹	4
Where’s the Global?	4
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism: Why Concerned People Acquiesce to the Oil and Gas Industry¹	4
The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other	4
Decolonizing Sociology Through Collaboration, Co‐Learning and Action: A Case for Participatory Action Research¹	4
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Girls’ Night Out: The Role of Women‐Centered Friendship Groups in University Hookup Culture*	4
City of men: Masculinities and everyday morality on public transport By RomitChowdhury, Rutgers University Press, 2023	4
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	4
Emotions in Action: The Role of Emotions in Refugee Solidarity Activism¹^,²	4
“Big Tent” Feminism?	4
Issue Information	4
Putting Research on LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools to Use: The Stories and Numbers Project¹	4
Have Schemas Been Good To Think With?*	4
Beyond the protest paradigm: Four types of news coverage and America's most prominent social movement organizations	4
Violence and the Gray Zone of Politics: An Outline for a Relational Approach	4
Dark Fun: The Cruelties of Hedonic Communities¹	4
Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces¹	4
About the Authors	3
Heterosexual women's pleasure trajectories: How aging helps undo gendered sexual scripts	3
Who Controls the Code, Controls the System: Algorithmically Amplified Bullshit, Social Inequality, and the Ubiquitous Surveillance of Everyday Life	3
Lifting Place and the Future of Black and Brown Coalitions	3
Superdiversity a Concept or a Theory?	3
The Sociologist as Civil Theologian	3
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Red Schools, Blue Schools? Republican and Democratic Student Groups at U.S. Colleges and Universities¹	3
All Roads Lead to Polenta: Cultural Attractors at the Junction of Public and Personal Culture	3
To Follow the Prescribed Pathway? Aspiring Professional Women and Anticipations of Work–Family Conflict¹	3
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	3
Going for Broke	3
Studying Each Other	3
Siting Schools, Choosing Students? Protecting White Habitus Through Charter School Recruitment	3

Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹	3
Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter	2
Framing the Collective “We” and the Antagonistic “Other” through Metacontrast: Intragroup Homogenization and Intergroup Polarization in the Hindu Nationalist Movement*	2
Just transformations	2
The Promise of Sociology of Television: Investigating the Potential of Phenomenological Approaches	2
Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra‐ and inter‐ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups	2
How sociology can help us save ourselves	2
The Du Boisian Turn	2
Resurrecting National Greatness: The Changing Faces of Golden Age in the Balkans	2
The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois	2
The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment¹	2
‘You fine an industry, then return the funding to them’: State‐facilitated corporate crime and Colorado's Suncor Oil Refinery	2
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	2
Like if you Get a Hotel Bill: Consumer Logic, Pay‐to‐Stay, and the Production of Incarceration as a Public Commodity	2
Exploring the Use of Exclusionary Practices Against African American Participation in Urban Nightlife	2
Issue Information	2
The Cultural Roots of January Sixth	2
Race, Digital Disadvantage, and the Pursuit of Micro‐Celebrity in DIY‐Gangsta rap	2
Correction to Last Words	2
Syllabus as argument in an era of politicized pedagogy	2
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	2
Building Global Sociology in a Divided World (1949–1990)	2
Masking and meaning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Gendering a New Marker of Adulthood: Home Ownership in Southwest China	2
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Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	1
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	1
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: A Cross‐National Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita, 1980–2018¹	1
Issue Information	1
Paint it White: Segregationist Logics in Advertising and the Electric Guitar	1
Debt‐based welfare: Debt‐to‐asset relationships across Black and White households in the United States	1
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American Dreams and Urban Realities: The Latino Second Generation	1
Why No One Can “Have It All” and Why That Matters for Everyone¹	1
“I’m Trying to Give Them My Face.” Everyday Embodied Agency of the Muslim Other in Amsterdam	1
Glitches in the Aspirational Discourse: Between Enterprise and Compromise¹	1
Wanting, liking, and the sociology of motivation	1
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies	1
About the Authors	1
The Perfect Fit	1
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective	1
Wrong versus Right(eous): Online Reader Comments as Scientific Boundary‐Work	1
Public Sociology for a Pandemic Era	1
“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution¹	1
Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	1
Peer Support Specialists and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice: Lay Experts and Recovery in Mental Health Organizations¹	1
“Hurdles” or “lubricants”: Petty corruption and Chinese migrants in Africa	1
Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	1
About the Authors	1
What Should Sociologists Do?	1
The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology	1
“Eurowhite Conceit,” “Dirty White” Ressentiment: “Race” in Europe by József Böröcz: A Comment	1
Masculine, independent, and “not acting”: Hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia within an online community of queer men	1
A Dual‐Process Model of Economic Behavior: Using Culture and Cognition, Economic Sociology, Behavioral Economics, and Neuroscience to Reconcile Moral and Self‐Interested Economic Action*	1
Issue Information	1
The Imperial Origins ofNation‐States: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Totalitarianism¹	1
Abortion as a sociological case	1
Response to Vaisey¹	1
“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	1
Embodied Othering Encounters with Muslim(‐Looking) Passengers: Riding across Amsterdam, Tallinn, Leipzig, and Turku¹	1
Editors' introduction	1
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The Legal Life of Property Relations	1
Nativism Redux	1
Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	1
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	1
Why temporality matters in collective resistance: Shifting civic norms in a post‐traumatic society	1
About the Authors	1
Do environmental shocks create new coalitions? The development of a contingent coalition after Three Mile Island	1
Issue Information	0
“I Don’t Want Everybody to Vote”: Christian Nationalism and Restricting Voter Access in the United States	0
Fight‐or‐Flight for America: The Affective Conditioning of Christian Nationalist Ideological Views During the Transition to Adulthood¹^,²	0
Playing for Keeps: A Long‐Term Community‐Engaged Research Partnership to Support Safe and Healthy Elementary School Recess	0
Why Fight? The Combatant Careers of the Anti‐Kyiv Fighters in the Donbas War¹	0
Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology¹	0
Open to More: Queer Hookups, Temporalities, and Life Courses	0
Why Are Old Binary Descriptions of Race So Misleading in the Twenty‐first Century?	0
Civic Engagement and Latina Immigrant Mothers' Remote Learning Involvement DuringCOVID‐19¹	0
Return Migration Intentions Driven by Parental Concerns and the Value of Children	0

Mixed Company	0
Sociology and the climate crisis: A momentum surge and the roots run deep	0
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A game of chutes and ladders: Gender and aspirational resources during the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory	0
Behind the Cultural Veil	0
Summing Up What Can Never be Summed Up: A Meditation on the Work and Legacy of Charles L. Bosk	0
Trapped in a Maze	0
Transmission of values or access to resources? Effects of social class, capitals, and networks on civic engagement	0
Domain‐Dependent National Pride and Support for the Radical Right: Pride in the Nation's History	0
Mnemonic labor and the construction of civil service at the National Mall and Memorial Parks	0
The social life of climate projects	0
The new generationalism: Generational antagonism and partisan polarization	0
Issue Information	0
“We Foreigners Lived In Our Foreign Bubble”: Understanding Colorblind Ideology In Expatriate Narratives¹	0
The Contrast‐Ridden World of the Migrant Entrepreneur in the Urban Margins	0
Du Boisian sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St Clair Drake, and the global and comparative study of race and empire	0
Revision, Reclassification, and Refrigerators¹	0
No Face, No Race? Racial Politics of Voice Actor Casting in Popular Animated Films¹	0
Issue Information	0
Workplace discrimination and older Black women's mental health: An examination of relational support‐strain processes	0
The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long‐Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults	0
Inventing Latinos¹	0
Gay and Race Cognizant: Interstitial Storytelling and the Narrative Positioning of an Interracial Gay Organization in the 1980s¹	0
Less Like Magic, More Like a Chore: How Sex for the Purpose of Pregnancy Becomes a Third Shift for Women in Heterosexual Couples*¹	0
Patterns of Fantasy	0
The Narrative Construction of State (il)Legitimacy in Colombia's Peace Laboratory¹^,²	0
Reckoning with Asian America and the New Culture War on Affirmative Action*	0
Norms and concealment	0
Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt	0
Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation¹	0
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Du Boisian/Decolonial Perspective¹	0
Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition	0
Public Characters	0
What Can We Learn about Migration and Migrants from Southern Scholars? A Brief Discussion	0
“Who Can We Get to Make this Place More Equitable?”	0
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The specter of performance metrics	0
About the Authors	0
“Girls Can Kick Ass … Without Being Angry”: Practices of Alignment, Postfeminism, and the Production of Niceness in the Face of Sexism in Work and Family Lives¹	0
Reclaiming the Past to Transcend the Present: Nostalgic Appeals in U.S. Presidential Elections	0
Issue Information	0
Good guys, bad guys: The perils of men's gender activism	0
Political boundary objects in debates over police funding	0
Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses¹	0
Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society	0
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About the Authors	0
Recovering Whiteness in Medical‐Restorative Rehab	0
Creating Secular Spaces: Religious Threat and the Presence of Secular Student Alliances at US Colleges and Universities¹	0
Silicon Valley's Occupational Caste System	0
Spatiotemporal Variation in Armed Group Recruitment Among Former Members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam¹	0
Political Embeddedness or World Cultural Pressure? Explaining Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China, 2006–2020¹	0
Disciplining Student Activism: Secondary Schools as Sites of Resistance and Control in Hong Kong*	0
Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk	0
Assimilation in the Suburbs and the Endurance of Whiteness	0
Spaces on the Spectrum	0
Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia¹	0
Dead Jews Are Not A Metaphor	0
Hardship duty: Women's experiences with sexual harassment, sexual assault, and discrimination in the U.S. military By StephanieBonnes, New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. 256 pages. $90.00. ISBN:	0
The Indoors/Outdoors Divide: Homelessness, Rat Infestation, and Spatial Management in Downtown Los Angeles	0
Day People, Night People: Being Chuck Bosk	0
Dashed dreams: Climate change comes for the middle class	0
The Enigma of an Emerging Pink Economy in China: Pain Points, Entrepreneurial Opportunities, and Organizational Legitimacy¹	0
The Formation and Consequences of Political Generations in Social Movements: Cases of Feminist Activism in Ecuador and Peru¹^,²	0
“We're gonna get you through it”: The role of bonding social capital in the development of bridging social capital	0
Is the Crack Era Really Misunderstood? The Need to Go in New Directions	0
Nostalgic Resignation:Working‐ClassCharacters in Neoliberal Film	0
About the Authors	0
Bending History’s Arc	0
“A Rigged Process from the Beginning”: Power and Procedural Injustice Within the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force¹	0
Why SLANTing Isn't Enough	0
The language of “diversity” or “DEI”? Exploring job titles of diversity professionals in US institutions of higher education	0
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The Spatial Mobility Trap? How Urban Contexts Shape the Spatial Mobility of Male Undocumented Youths	0
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Fill the Earth and Subdue It: Christian Nationalism, Ethno‐Religious Threat, and Nationalist Pronatalism	0
What matters more for happiness than income in China: Intentional activities, social attitudes, or social comparison?	0
Dividing paradise: Rural inequality and the diminishing American dream By JenniferSherman, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2021. pp. 288. $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9780520305137	0
Religion Matters (And Doesn't Go Away When Sociologists Ignore It)	0
On Rupture: Establishing the Cognitive Bases of Social Change	0
The promise of public sociology in India: Looking at Burawoy and beyond	0
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Issue Information	0
Aesthetic Engagement*	0
Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well‐being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well‐being?	0
It depends: Platform dependence, schedule control, and satisfaction among gig workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform	0
Unpacking Nuances in Mechanisms Linking Religion and Socioeconomic Standing: An Empirical, Mixed‐Effects, and Cross‐National Analysis	0
The Movement Against Democratic Backsliding in Israel	0
Deepening the divide: The Dobbs decision and race, class, and gender inequality	0
Dream Weavers	0
Civil Society from the Group Up: A Review of Gary Alan Fine's The Hinge	0
Old wine in new wineskins: Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, and the problem of essentialism in explanations of religiopolitical conflict	0
Culture, Cognition, and Internalization	0