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Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Forum 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
About the Authors	42
Introduction to the Forum	30
Beyond The God Gap: Mapping Religiopolitical Heterogeneity in the United States¹	28
Open‐Ended Analyses of the Sociopolitical Impact of Celebrity Change: Advantages, Operationalization, and an Illustration with Hong Kong Celebrity	20
Toward a middle‐range theory of environmental morality	17
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	15
Issue Information	14
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	14
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More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	14
The Du Boisian Turn	14
Where’s the Global?	12
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	11
The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment¹	11
Issue Information	11
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	10
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	10
The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other	10
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	10
The Promise of Sociology of Television: Investigating the Potential of Phenomenological Approaches	9
Introduction: Special Issue on Social Constructionism	9
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	8
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“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	8
Social Constructionism and Reality: The Case of Death by Execution	8

“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution¹	7
Masculine, independent, and “not acting”: Hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia within an online community of queer men	7
Collegiate Sports Participation, Academic Achievement, and Bachelor's Degree Completion¹	7
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: A Cross‐National Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita, 1980–2018¹	7
A Social Disorganizational Theory of Suicide¹	7
Response to Vaisey¹	7
Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	6
Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	6
Navigating the City in Black and White	6
Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future By ZekeBaker, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 368 pp. $29.95. ISBN	6
About the Authors	6
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries	5
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior	5
Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk	5
Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Gender Gap in Occupational Authority¹	5
Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition	5
Navigating the institutional maze of undocumented life	5
Micropolitics in School‐Based Health Centers' Provision of Sexual Health Services	5
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In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student¹	5
Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt	5
Carnival, charisma, and kayfabe: The delegation of intellectual labor through ludic layering in Donald Trump's rhetorical style	5
Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition	5
Rating Prestige: Status‐Seeking and Creditworthiness on the Global Stage¹	5
The promise of public sociology in India: Looking at Burawoy and beyond	5
School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time	5
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Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap	4
It's Not for the Faint of Heart : Empathy Socialization Among Birth Doulas	4
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism: Why Concerned People Acquiesce to the Oil and Gas Industry¹	4
About the Authors	4
Dreams of a Lifetime	4
Gendered Economy: Sociality and the Lesbian Consumer Market in China¹	4
The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long‐Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults	4
The Enigma of an Emerging Pink Economy in China: Pain Points, Entrepreneurial Opportunities, and Organizational Legitimacy¹	4
Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter	3
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The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online. By Simon JamesCopland (ed.), Cambridge, UK:Polity Press, 2025. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐956255‐8	3
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	3
Issue Information	3
The stigma trap: College‐educated, experienced, and long‐term unemployed By OferSharone. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024, 200 pp., Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2020, 186 pp.,	3
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Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces¹	3
What Should Sociologists Do?	3
Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings	3
Superdiversity a Concept or a Theory?	3
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The Co‐Construction and Co‐Deconstruction of Childhood and Sociology	3
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Networks, Hierarchy, and “Stickiness”	3

Issue Information	3
Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	3
Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?¹	3
Correction to Last Words	3
About the Authors	3
Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹	3
Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	3
Caregiving and Redemptive Love: a sociological memoir	3
Following Transformative Projects As Pathways to Confronting Inequality	3
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective	3
About the Authors	3
“We're gonna get you through it”: The role of bonding social capital in the development of bridging social capital	2
The Narrative Construction of State (il)Legitimacy in Colombia's Peace Laboratory¹^,²	2
Issue Information	2
Norms and concealment	2
Drug Normalization and Conventional Social Institutions: The Unusual Case of Prescription Drug Misuse	2
The marvelous ones: Drugs, gang violence, and resistance in East Los Angeles	2
Less Like Magic, More Like a Chore: How Sex for the Purpose of Pregnancy Becomes a Third Shift for Women in Heterosexual Couples*¹	2
What Makes Middle‐aged Ukrainian Women into “Soviet” Babushki?	2
The specter of performance metrics	2
Issue Information	2
Good guys, bad guys: The perils of men's gender activism	2
Domain‐Dependent National Pride and Support for the Radical Right: Pride in the Nation's History	2
Is Good Credit Good? State Credit Ratings and Economic Insecurity, 1996–2012¹	2
Trapped in a Maze	2
Black Reconstruction : W. E. B. Du Bois in Racial Capitalism Theory	2
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Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well‐being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well‐being?	2
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About the Authors	2
Why SLANTing Isn't Enough	2
Issue Information	2
Unpacking Nuances in Mechanisms Linking Religion and Socioeconomic Standing: An Empirical, Mixed‐Effects, and Cross‐National Analysis	2
There's Research on That: Translating and Sharing Sociology for Public Audiences	2
The Contrast‐Ridden World of the Migrant Entrepreneur in the Urban Margins	2