👥 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 Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach

Oliver E. Williamson (1981)

American Journal of Sociology

4.2K citesjournal articlePDF

Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory

John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald (1977)

American Journal of Sociology

4.2K citesjournal articlePDF

Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure

Arlie Russell Hochschild (1979)

American Journal of Sociology

4.1K citesjournal articlePDF

Power and Centrality: A Family of Measures

Phillip Bonacich (1987)

American Journal of Sociology

4.0K citesjournal articlePDF

A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality*

Ulrik Brandes (2001)

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

3.9K citesjournal articlePDF

The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences

Michèle Lamont, Virág Molnár (2002)

Annual Review of Sociology

3.8K citesjournal articlePDF

Social Behavior as Exchange

George C. Homans (1958)

American Journal of Sociology

3.8K citesjournal articlePDF

Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice

John Child (1972)

Sociology

3.3K citesjournal articlePDF

Dynamic models of segregation†

Thomas C. Schelling (1971)

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

3.4K citesjournal articlePDF

A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

William H. Sewell, (1992)

American Journal of Sociology

3.2K citesjournal articlePDF

Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach

William A. Gamson, Andre Modigliani (1989)

American Journal of Sociology

3.2K citesjournal articlePDF

Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory

Robert J. Sampson, W. Byron Groves (1989)

American Journal of Sociology

3.1K citesjournal articlePDF

In Other Words

Pierre Bourdieu (1990)

3.0K citesedited book

Assessing “Neighborhood Effects”: Social Processes and New Directions in Research

Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Morenoff et al. (2002)

Annual Review of Sociology

3.0K citesjournal articlePDF

World Society and the Nation‐State

John W. Meyer, John Boli et al. (1997)

American Journal of Sociology

2.9K citesjournal articlePDF