Sociology Compass

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology Compass 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Ethical turn in the social sciences79
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Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course31
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore29
When (Financial) Knowledge Isn't Power: How Race Disrupts Financial Literacy's Relationship to Health Precarity27
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality: Gender in K‐12 Schooling25
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach24
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions24
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Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries23
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies22
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation22
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas21
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda20
Structures of Labor Exploitation: Sociology, Management, and Modern Slavery in the Global North19
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Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South17
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Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women16
Primary Habitus Formation in Families From the Upper Social Milieus16
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis15
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine15
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions15
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When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye13
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future13
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective13
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity12
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers12
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies12
Contain and Callout: A Critical Investigation of SWAT Team Use of Force Reporting and the Limits of Institutional Statistics12
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey12
Everyday Life Within Precarious Working Conditions: A Conceptual Home for the Practical, Subjective and Emotional Actions of Precariousness12
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences11
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z11
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies11
Unpacking “Expat”: Identity, Status, and Mobility Among Contemporary Western Residents in Türkiye11
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University11
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness11
Parenting Culture in a Neoliberal Market Society and the “No‐Kids Zone” Controversy in South Korea11
A Relational Theory of Inequality in the Criminal Legal System11
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Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms10
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology10
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Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?10
Sociology Compass Editorial 202310
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The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis9
Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X9
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action9
Uses of Anger, Love, and Joy: Emotions in Black Resistance9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives9
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Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain8
Femicide: A Need for Orientation8
Sociology Compass Editorial 20268
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour8
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States8
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing8
Hacking age8
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Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise7
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Protect the land. Poison the sea. An environmental history of the Kirkcudbright Training Area and the firing of depleted uranium by the British Army (1982–2013)7
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The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises7
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Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives7
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective7
Deficit‐Oriented Teacher Beliefs and Student Outcomes in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries7
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Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”: An exploratory study into the ways racialized PhD students experience white ignorance in elite universities in the UK6
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again6
Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics6
In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education6
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism6
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames6
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development6
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness6
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France6
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A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions5
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Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach5
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships5
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe5
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations5
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world5
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Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis5
Are Refugee Workers ‘Peers’, ‘Competitors’, or Both? Socioeconomic Justifications of Boundary Work Through the Lens of Native Employees5
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation5
Single Parenthood and Child Development in Contemporary China5
Precarious work: A global perspective5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach5
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective5
The Paradox of Modernity: The Creation of a Tradition of Anti‐Tradition5
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory5
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Masculinity and Mental Health in Later Life in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Literature5
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil5
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)4
A Diachronic Comparative Study of Climate Change Discourse in China Daily and the New York Times: Analyzing the Evolution of Discursive Strategies4
Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain4
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives4
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness4
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation4
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A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain4
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Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom4
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative4
Evaluator versus Target Characteristics: What Impacts Blame‐Attribution in Inter‐ and Intra‐ethnic Sexual Violence?4
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Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate4
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces4
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective4
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities4
Learning to labour in the gym: Training to fight to reimagine the self and work under neoliberalism4
Status Concerns Drive Self‐Optimization: The Role of Status Seeking, Status Anxiety, and Competitive Working Climate4
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Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach4
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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere4
Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions4
The Impossibility of Habitability: The Carceral State as Ecological Catastrophe4
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations4
“So What Chance, What Opportunities Do We Have?” Homeowners Associations as Racialized Organizations3
Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms3
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting3
Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD3
Sociocultural perspectives on neurodiversity—An analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the basic terms, discourses and theoretical positions3
Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics3
The rise of market‐based “choice” programs: 100 years of social sorting in social welfare services3
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Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS3
From “Bad Apples” to “Toxic Masculinity”: Framing Blame in Media Narratives of Elite Boy Violence3
Keep It Abstract, Keep It Equal: Reconsidering Contextual Demands in Global Sociology3
“A male feminist walks into a bar, because it was set so low: The pedestal effect and the economy of gratitude in feminist spaces”3
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A Smile is Worth a Thousand Words: Individual Versus Structural Explanations of Poor Oral Health3
The mental health of migrant people: Western medical systems facing a globalized society3
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Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science3
Ethnicity on the table: A content analysis of online reviews for Syracuse's cuisines3
Re/Claiming Pauline Tarnowsky: Pioneering Female Criminologist3
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities3
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Coloniality, Socio‐Epistemic Vices and the Question of Knowledge in Iran3
Enchanted companionship of Korean Catholic youth amid compressed individualization3
A Social Cartography of Trans Homicides: Data, Epistemologies, and Contradictions3
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Historicizing Black Hair Politics3
From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye3
How collective demands strengthen sympathy for normative and non‐normative protest action: The example of Hong Kong's anti‐extradition law amendment bill protests3
The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Understanding Racialized Injustice and Health3
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Critique and expansion of conceptions of control3
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Criminology of Disasters: Natural Disaster Victim Identification Issues in the Philippines and Vietnam3
Social network, Biden approval, and pediatric COVID‐19 vaccine uptake3
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International Solidarity: Principles, Challenges, and Pathways to a Shared Future3
Brexit and precarity: Polish female workers in the UK as second‐class citizens?2
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps2
Whiteness, contact, gentrification, and critical diversity: A new racial ideology of gentrifying whites?2
“Why would we take men? This is an OB/GYN”: Gender, hysterectomy, and the patriarchal dividend2
Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India2
Theorising Incels and Co.: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of the Manosphere2
A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–20182
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?2
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“We Are All Family”: Black Diasporic Solidarity Among Black Cuban Immigrants2
Automation, AI, and the Global Future of Work: Bridging North‐South Divides2
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Toward Sociology of Metaethics: The Effects of Sociopsychological and Demographic Factors on Folk Moral Objectivism (in a Non‐Western Context)2
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Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution2
The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime?2
Neuroqueering sexuality: Learning from the life‐writings of queer neurodivergent women2
School racial‐ethnic socialization of multiracial K12 students: A systematic review of the literature using MultiCrit2
“You Are Not a Racist, Right?”—Racism as a Political Activity2
Hype, Resistance, Power and Inequalities: Why Synthesizing Critical Perspectives Is Essential to AI Research2
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?2
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A Literature Review of U.S. Stepfamilies: Directions Toward an Intersectional, Feminist Understanding of Lived Experiences Centered on Social Justice Praxis2
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Two Forms of Racism in Poland as an Explanation of Ideologically Driven Anti‐Refugee Hostility2
“I'm going to do battle… I'm going to do some good”. Biographical trajectories, moral politics, and public engagement among highly religious young Catholics in Spain and Mexico2
Ideological foundations of capitalism and its organizational models: A study using popular management content on LinkedIn2
The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey2
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.2
The Global Rise of Populist Nostalgia: Lessons From Collective Memory2
From Runaway Wives to Regretting Motherhood: Understanding Mothers Who Choose to Live Apart From Their Children2
Confronting the Philippines' war on drugs: A literature review2
The Dynamics of Earnings Inequality between Israel's Sub‐Populations: A Longitudinal Perspective2
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Studying the Family and Gender With Survey Experiments2
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Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans2
Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis1
Collective parent action: A review of motivations, experiences, and social transformations1
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Disclosure as family practice: Changing family dynamics in Hong Kong after a gay son comes out1
The rise in cross‐national marriages and the emergent inequalities in East and Southeast Asia1
The child welfare system as a social determinant of health1
Protests as Imagined Futures1
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Inequality in Family Formation and Dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe1
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Sharing economy as a field: Revisiting debates and introducing new research avenues1
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology1
Alt‐right gangs and far‐right extremists: From the margins to the mainstream1
Health literacy and uptake of annual physical checkups among emerging adults in the United States: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System1
The Process of Criminalization of Transmigration in Mexico1
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Intimate mobilities—International (transnational) marriage and migration: Japanese marriage migrants floating between Japan and Korea1
“That's funny but…!”: University students, humor, and critical consciousness about anti‐black racism1
Inequalities and interrelations: The sociology of disasters at a new crossroads1
Ethnic‐racial socialization in mono‐racial Asian American and Pacific Islander families: A 21‐year systematic literature review1
Beyond measurement of the motherhood penalty: How social locations shape mothers' work decisions and stratify outcomes1
Integrating intercohort changes in the composition of social origin into OED triangle research: A literature review and an outlook for future research1
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