👥 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.

531 top-cited papers indexed

Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science

Robert K. Merton (1957)

American Sociological Review

987 citesjournal article

Motivation and Justification: A Dual‐Process Model of Culture in Action

Stephen Vaisey (2009)

American Journal of Sociology

957 citesjournal articlePDF

Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants

Cecilia Menjívar, Leisy J. Abrego (2012)

American Journal of Sociology

984 citesjournal articlePDF

What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy

Steven Vallas, Juliet B. Schor (2020)

Annual Review of Sociology

1.1K citesjournal articlePDF

Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology

John Bellamy Foster (1999)

American Journal of Sociology

999 citesjournal articlePDF

Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action

James S. Coleman (1986)

American Journal of Sociology

933 citesjournal articlePDF

The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation

Camille Zubrinsky Charles (2003)

Annual Review of Sociology

922 citesjournal articlePDF

Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems

Paul M. Hirsch (1972)

American Journal of Sociology

944 citesjournal articlePDF

A Theory of Marriage Timing

Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer (1988)

American Journal of Sociology

928 citesjournal articlePDF

An Affect Theory of Social Exchange

Edward J. Lawler (2001)

American Journal of Sociology

941 citesjournal articlePDF

Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital

Annette Lareau (1987)

Sociology of Education

915 citesjournal article

The Social Rejection of Former Mental Patients: Understanding Why Labels Matter

Bruce G. Link, Francis T. Cullen et al. (1987)

American Journal of Sociology

915 citesjournal articlePDF

Inequality of Opportunity in Comparative Perspective: Recent Research on Educational Attainment and Social Mobility

Richard Breen, Jan O. Jonsson (2005)

Annual Review of Sociology

928 citesjournal articlePDF

Endogenous Selection Bias: The Problem of Conditioning on a Collider Variable

Felix Elwert, Christopher Winship (2014)

Annual Review of Sociology

935 citesjournal articlePDF

Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America

James Moody (2001)

American Journal of Sociology

915 citesjournal articlePDF