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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies31
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas29
Ethical turn in the social sciences26
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries25
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore25
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach24
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda24
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation23
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course22
Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions22
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families22
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An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology19
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South19
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions18
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective18
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay17
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness17
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination15
Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine15
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women15
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda14
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis14
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury14
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences13
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Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness13
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies13
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
Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐1912
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey12
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future11
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies11
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The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide10
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Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z9
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology9
Femicide: A Need for Orientation9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”9
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Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University9
The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives9
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action8
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise8
The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans8
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?8
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Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective7
Maintenance work: Interrogating the sociology of art7
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders7
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates7
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Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework7
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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New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives7
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
Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism7
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Hacking age7
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
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France6
Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness6
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
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories6
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Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development6
In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula6
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education6
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The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships5
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach5
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion5
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis5
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach5
A discussion on coloniality and global social theory5
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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
For a Du Boisian economic sociology5
The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces4
Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures4
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation4
What makes a developmental network state durable?4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe4
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Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach4
Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand4
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Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations4
Precarious work: A global perspective4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature4
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Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field4
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Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family4
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The rise of market‐based “choice” programs: 100 years of social sorting in social welfare services3
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Critique and expansion of conceptions of control3
Ethnicity on the table: A content analysis of online reviews for Syracuse's cuisines3
How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)3
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The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives3
The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects3
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate3
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative3
Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom3
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations3
Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics3
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Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain3
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Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation3
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective3
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities3
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Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD3
Learning to labour in the gym: Training to fight to reimagine the self and work under neoliberalism3
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities3
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Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?3
A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain3
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness3
The intelligence concept and racial classification as sociological products of Western education3
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt2
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Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS2
Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms2
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Neuroqueering sexuality: Learning from the life‐writings of queer neurodivergent women2
Ideological foundations of capitalism and its organizational models: A study using popular management content on LinkedIn2
Coloniality, Socio‐Epistemic Vices and the Question of Knowledge in Iran2
Criminology of Disasters: Natural Disaster Victim Identification Issues in the Philippines and Vietnam2
Enchanted companionship of Korean Catholic youth amid compressed individualization2
Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science2
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From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye2
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“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
A Smile is Worth a Thousand Words: Individual Versus Structural Explanations of Poor Oral Health2
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice2
Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.2
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence2
The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey2
Social network, Biden approval, and pediatric COVID‐19 vaccine uptake2
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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
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps2
The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Understanding Racialized Injustice and Health2
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Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education2
Sociocultural perspectives on neurodiversity—An analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the basic terms, discourses and theoretical positions2
Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution2
The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime?2
Whiteness, contact, gentrification, and critical diversity: A new racial ideology of gentrifying whites?2
The mental health of migrant people: Western medical systems facing a globalized society2
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Historicizing Black Hair Politics2
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting2
Brexit and precarity: Polish female workers in the UK as second‐class citizens?2
Ethnic‐racial socialization in mono‐racial Asian American and Pacific Islander families: A 21‐year systematic literature review1
How does Social Trust Shape the Politicization of America’s Climate Change Perception?—A Study of Two National Surveys in 2022 and 20231
The Influence of Collective Action: A Relational Perspective on the Consequences of Social Movements and Grassroots Politics1
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South1
From Runaway Wives to Regretting Motherhood: Understanding Mothers Who Choose to Live Apart From Their Children1
A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption1
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice1
Introduction: Intellectual decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives1
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications1
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Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice1
The persistence of gendered dating1
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Going beyond poles of power to examine the poles: A review of racism/anti‐blackness in Poland1
“Plants Don’t Have a Culture to Appropriate”: Accounting for Accusations of Cultural Appropriation of Peyote Ceremonies1
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
Glued on for the grandkids: The gendered politics of care in the global environmental movement1
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Unveiling Disadvantages Faced by Refugee Professionals: A Review of Intersecting Challenges in Professional Reintegration1
Punishment, support, or discipline? Taking stock of recent debates about homeless governance in neoliberal cities1
Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa1
Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans1
Critical Challenges to the Sociology of Work: From a Perspective of Russian Labor Studies1
A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–20181
The Price Is Not Right: Grocery Taxation, Race and Food Insecurity During COVID‐191
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?1
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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
“Why would we take men? This is an OB/GYN”: Gender, hysterectomy, and the patriarchal dividend1
“Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling1
Teaching and Learning Guide for “What is algorithmic governance?”1
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Sibling caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness1
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology1
On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods1
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Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions1
Financial literacy education: An opportunity for colleges and sociology1
Innovation and creativity in creative industries1
Manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and the city on a hill seen through Winthrop, O'Sullivan, and Bush: Opportunities for religious peacebuilding1
The Dynamics of Earnings Inequality between Israel's Sub‐Populations: A Longitudinal Perspective1
What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness?1
Decolonising and decriminalising child marriage in Africa1
Hegemonic whiteness: Expanding and operationalizing the conceptual framework1
How do macro‐ and micro‐level changes interact in the emergence of educational outcomes?1
“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
Polarization and Partitioning Representation: How an Overlooked Aspect of Contemporary Democracy Leads to Polarizing Societies1
School racial‐ethnic socialization of multiracial K12 students: A systematic review of the literature using MultiCrit1
Organizational perspectives on digital labor market intermediaries1
In sickness and in health: The politics of public health and their implications during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
“That's funny but…!”: University students, humor, and critical consciousness about anti‐black racism1
Housing affordability, market interventions, and policy platforms in the 2022 Ontario provincial election1
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