👥 Sociology Papers

Scholarly works matching "sociology" in Crossref, sorted by the number of times other DOI-registered works cite them. Citation counts come from Crossref and are usually lower than Google Scholar figures.

530 top-cited papers indexed

The Strength of Weak Ties

Mark S. Granovetter (1973)

American Journal of Sociology

27.6K citesjournal articlePDF

Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

James S. Coleman (1988)

American Journal of Sociology

21.5K citesjournal articlePDF

Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness

Mark Granovetter (1985)

American Journal of Sociology

19.7K citesjournal articlePDF

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

John W. Meyer, Brian Rowan (1977)

American Journal of Sociology

19.3K citesjournal articlePDF

Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks

Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin et al. (2001)

Annual Review of Sociology

14.0K citesjournal articlePDF

Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria

Juliet M. Corbin, Anselm Strauss (1990)

Qualitative Sociology

7.7K citesjournal articlePDF

Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology

Alejandro Portes (1998)

Annual Review of Sociology

7.4K citesjournal articlePDF

Conceptualizing Stigma

Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan (2001)

Annual Review of Sociology

7.4K citesjournal articlePDF

Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment

Robert D. Benford, David A. Snow (2000)

Annual Review of Sociology

6.5K citesjournal articlePDF

Organizational Learning

Barbara Levitt, James G. March (1988)

Annual Review of Sociology

5.5K citesjournal articlePDF

The Population Ecology of Organizations

Michael T. Hannan, John Freeman (1977)

American Journal of Sociology

4.9K citesjournal articlePDF

What Is Agency?

Mustafa Emirbayer, Ann Mische (1998)

American Journal of Sociology

4.7K citesjournal articlePDF

Structural Holes and Good Ideas

Ronald S. Burt (2004)

American Journal of Sociology

4.2K citesjournal articlePDF

Threshold Models of Collective Behavior

Mark Granovetter (1978)

American Journal of Sociology

4.2K citesjournal articlePDF

The Reproduction of Mothering

Nancy Chodorow (1978)

4.0K citesedited bookPDF