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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Ethical turn in the social sciences59
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda34
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas31
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach29
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families28
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course28
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore24
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation23
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies22
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Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries22
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions20
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An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology20
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda20
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine18
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The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury18
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women16
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay16
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions15
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination15
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective15
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South14
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity13
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis13
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey13
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Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future12
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness11
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐1911
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers10
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies10
When Gender Roles Turn Into Violence: Perspectives of Women and Men Perpetrators in Türkiye10
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences10
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What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives9
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies9
Hacking age9
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?9
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise9
Femicide: A Need for Orientation9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z9
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans9
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”8
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The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide8
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Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters8
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action8
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing8
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework7
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States7
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives7
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis7
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective7
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain7
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates7
Informal Care Work From a Queer Lens: Challenging Heteronormative Paradigms7
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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 enterprises6
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Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories6
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness6
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In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion6
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Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula6
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 UK5
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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)5
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames5
Ethical Analysis of Anomie: From Durkheim to the Digital Age5
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The sociological dimensions of multicultural education5
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again5
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research5
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism5
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France5
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development5
The institution of medicine and transgender identity construction: Between a doc and a hard place5
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media4
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field4
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective4
A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions4
For a Du Boisian economic sociology4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness4
Precarious work: A global perspective4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance4
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A discussion on coloniality and global social theory4
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis4
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures4
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The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives4
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Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach4
Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review4
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach4
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach4
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships4
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives3
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Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS3
Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics3
Ethnicity on the table: A content analysis of online reviews for Syracuse's cuisines3
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Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative3
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate3
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand3
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective3
A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain3
Evaluator versus Target Characteristics: What Impacts Blame‐Attribution in Inter‐ and Intra‐ethnic Sexual Violence?3
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Learning to labour in the gym: Training to fight to reimagine the self and work under neoliberalism3
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Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain3
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What makes a developmental network state durable?3
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family3
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation3
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How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)3
The rise of market‐based “choice” programs: 100 years of social sorting in social welfare services3
Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD3
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Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom3
The intelligence concept and racial classification as sociological products of Western education3
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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects3
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Re/Claiming Pauline Tarnowsky: Pioneering Female Criminologist2
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting2
School racial‐ethnic socialization of multiracial K12 students: A systematic review of the literature using MultiCrit2
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities2
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The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime?2
“Why would we take men? This is an OB/GYN”: Gender, hysterectomy, and the patriarchal dividend2
How collective demands strengthen sympathy for normative and non‐normative protest action: The example of Hong Kong's anti‐extradition law amendment bill protests2
The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey2
Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans2
“A male feminist walks into a bar, because it was set so low: The pedestal effect and the economy of gratitude in feminist spaces”2
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Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps2
Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms2
Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science2
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Historicizing Black Hair Politics2
“The First Mark of Pain”: Toward a child‐centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race and corporal punishment in American life2
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Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice2
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations2
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Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution2
Ideological foundations of capitalism and its organizational models: A study using popular management content on LinkedIn2
Whiteness, contact, gentrification, and critical diversity: A new racial ideology of gentrifying whites?2
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Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.2
Enchanted companionship of Korean Catholic youth amid compressed individualization2
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Sociocultural perspectives on neurodiversity—An analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the basic terms, discourses and theoretical positions2
From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye2
The mental health of migrant people: Western medical systems facing a globalized society2
“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
From “Bad Apples” to “Toxic Masculinity”: Framing Blame in Media Narratives of Elite Boy Violence2
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Critique and expansion of conceptions of control2
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A Smile is Worth a Thousand Words: Individual Versus Structural Explanations of Poor Oral Health2
Social network, Biden approval, and pediatric COVID‐19 vaccine uptake2
Coloniality, Socio‐Epistemic Vices and the Question of Knowledge in Iran2
Neuroqueering sexuality: Learning from the life‐writings of queer neurodivergent women2
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence2
The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Understanding Racialized Injustice and Health2
Criminology of Disasters: Natural Disaster Victim Identification Issues in the Philippines and Vietnam2
Sharing economy as a field: Revisiting debates and introducing new research avenues1
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Organizational perspectives on digital labor market intermediaries1
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications1
The Influence of Collective Action: A Relational Perspective on the Consequences of Social Movements and Grassroots Politics1
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?1
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The Dynamics of Earnings Inequality between Israel's Sub‐Populations: A Longitudinal Perspective1
Exploring the Link Between Masculinity and Violent Extremism: Remasculinization as Individual and Political Project1
“We Are All Family”: Black Diasporic Solidarity Among Black Cuban Immigrants1
A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption1
Polarization and Partitioning Representation: How an Overlooked Aspect of Contemporary Democracy Leads to Polarizing Societies1
Unveiling Disadvantages Faced by Refugee Professionals: A Review of Intersecting Challenges in Professional Reintegration1
Inequalities and interrelations: The sociology of disasters at a new crossroads1
The rise in cross‐national marriages and the emergent inequalities in East and Southeast Asia1
Negotiating class, religion, and residential segregation: Aspirations of Muslim middle‐class women in Delhi1
Disclosure as family practice: Changing family dynamics in Hong Kong after a gay son comes out1
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework1
On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods1
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice1
From Runaway Wives to Regretting Motherhood: Understanding Mothers Who Choose to Live Apart From Their Children1
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?1
The persistence of gendered dating1
Decolonising and decriminalising child marriage in Africa1
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What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?1
“Plants Don’t Have a Culture to Appropriate”: Accounting for Accusations of Cultural Appropriation of Peyote Ceremonies1
Toward New Organizational Sociology of Quantification: From Interlopers to Plurality and Contestation1
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology1
Crime and deviance during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Health literacy and uptake of annual physical checkups among emerging adults in the United States: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System1
Housing affordability, market interventions, and policy platforms in the 2022 Ontario provincial election1
Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa1
“Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling1
Confronting the Philippines' war on drugs: A literature review1
Teaching and Learning Guide for “What is algorithmic governance?”1
Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring: Causes and Countermeasures—A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence1
A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–20181
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South1
Brexit and precarity: Polish female workers in the UK as second‐class citizens?1
Critical Challenges to the Sociology of Work: From a Perspective of Russian Labor Studies1
Examining Trends in Homelessness Research: A Literature Review1
Going beyond poles of power to examine the poles: A review of racism/anti‐blackness in Poland1
Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness1
The child welfare system as a social determinant of health1
“That's funny but…!”: University students, humor, and critical consciousness about anti‐black racism1
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