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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions32
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies29
Ethical turn in the social sciences27
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas27
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore25
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries25
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach24
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda23
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course22
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation22
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families21
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies21
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Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South18
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions18
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology18
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective18
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness17
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women16
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination15
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury15
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis14
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness14
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine14
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Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey13
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future13
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies13
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity13
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers13
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda13
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐1913
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness12
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies12
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences11
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Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters10
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An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology9
The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide9
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour9
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Hacking age9
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z9
Femicide: A Need for Orientation8
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans8
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”8
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise8
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action8
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University8
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?8
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders7
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Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates7
The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective7
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The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames7
Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States7
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Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States7
Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise7
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The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas7
Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework7
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories6
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France6
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development6
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Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education6
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
The institution of medicine and transgender identity construction: Between a doc and a hard place6
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)6
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula6
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In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies5
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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
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation5
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships5
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach5
For a Du Boisian economic sociology5
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again5
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Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research5
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory5
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces4
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Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world4
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance4
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Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach4
Precarious work: A global perspective4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe4
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Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family3
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities3
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand3
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation3
Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics3
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The intelligence concept and racial classification as sociological products of Western education3
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What makes a developmental network state durable?3
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness3
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A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain3
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)3
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative3
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities3
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations3
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Ethnicity on the table: A content analysis of online reviews for Syracuse's cuisines3
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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects3
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives3
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives3
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Learning to labour in the gym: Training to fight to reimagine the self and work under neoliberalism3
Critique and expansion of conceptions of control3
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Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain3
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?3
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective3
Sociocultural perspectives on neurodiversity—An analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the basic terms, discourses and theoretical positions2
Criminology of Disasters: Natural Disaster Victim Identification Issues in the Philippines and Vietnam2
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.2
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting2
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Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom2
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps2
The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime?2
Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS2
Whiteness, contact, gentrification, and critical diversity: A new racial ideology of gentrifying whites?2
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence2
“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
Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science2
The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Understanding Racialized Injustice and Health2
Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms2
The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey2
From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye2
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Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice2
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution2
Ideological foundations of capitalism and its organizational models: A study using popular management content on LinkedIn2
A Smile is Worth a Thousand Words: Individual Versus Structural Explanations of Poor Oral Health2
Enchanted companionship of Korean Catholic youth amid compressed individualization2
Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education2
Coloniality, Socio‐Epistemic Vices and the Question of Knowledge in Iran2
The mental health of migrant people: Western medical systems facing a globalized society2
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How collective demands strengthen sympathy for normative and non‐normative protest action: The example of Hong Kong's anti‐extradition law amendment bill protests2
“Why would we take men? This is an OB/GYN”: Gender, hysterectomy, and the patriarchal dividend2
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt2
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Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD2
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Brexit and precarity: Polish female workers in the UK as second‐class citizens?2
Social network, Biden approval, and pediatric COVID‐19 vaccine uptake2
The rise of market‐based “choice” programs: 100 years of social sorting in social welfare services2
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Teaching and Learning Guide for: Historicizing Black Hair Politics2
Neuroqueering sexuality: Learning from the life‐writings of queer neurodivergent women2
What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?1
Negotiating class, religion, and residential segregation: Aspirations of Muslim middle‐class women in Delhi1
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology1
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Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications1
Critical Challenges to the Sociology of Work: From a Perspective of Russian Labor Studies1
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Alt‐right gangs and far‐right extremists: From the margins to the mainstream1
Teaching and Learning Guide for “What is algorithmic governance?”1
Introduction: Intellectual decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives1
Decolonising and decriminalising child marriage in Africa1
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework1
School racial‐ethnic socialization of multiracial K12 students: A systematic review of the literature using MultiCrit1
Polarization and Partitioning Representation: How an Overlooked Aspect of Contemporary Democracy Leads to Polarizing Societies1
Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice1
Unveiling Disadvantages Faced by Refugee Professionals: A Review of Intersecting Challenges in Professional Reintegration1
Manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and the city on a hill seen through Winthrop, O'Sullivan, and Bush: Opportunities for religious peacebuilding1
Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness1
Disclosure as family practice: Changing family dynamics in Hong Kong after a gay son comes out1
Health literacy and uptake of annual physical checkups among emerging adults in the United States: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System1
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South1
Losing Empathy With Assimilation: Immigrants' Attitudes Toward Other Immigrants in Europe1
Going beyond poles of power to examine the poles: A review of racism/anti‐blackness in Poland1
Confronting the Philippines' war on drugs: A literature review1
The Influence of Collective Action: A Relational Perspective on the Consequences of Social Movements and Grassroots Politics1
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice1
The Price Is Not Right: Grocery Taxation, Race and Food Insecurity During COVID‐191
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?1
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“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 Mexico1
Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions1
Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans1
“Plants Don’t Have a Culture to Appropriate”: Accounting for Accusations of Cultural Appropriation of Peyote Ceremonies1
A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption1
The rise in cross‐national marriages and the emergent inequalities in East and Southeast Asia1
“That's funny but…!”: University students, humor, and critical consciousness about anti‐black racism1
On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods1
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Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa1
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?1
“Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling1
The Dynamics of Earnings Inequality between Israel's Sub‐Populations: A Longitudinal Perspective1
The persistence of gendered dating1
A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–20181
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“The First Mark of Pain”: Toward a child‐centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race and corporal punishment in American life1
Financial literacy education: An opportunity for colleges and sociology1
From Runaway Wives to Regretting Motherhood: Understanding Mothers Who Choose to Live Apart From Their Children1
Organizational perspectives on digital labor market intermediaries1
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