Top Downloaded Articles of 2018 | American Sociological Association

The following tables show the 10 articles that were downloaded the most from January 1-December 31, 2018, on each journal’s publisher platform.

American Sociological Review

City & Community

Contemporary Sociology

Contexts

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Social Psychology Quarterly

Society and Mental Health

Sociological Methodology

Sociological Theory

Sociology of Education

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Socius

Teaching Sociology

American Sociological Review

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, Amy Blackstone	Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power	August 2012	15,243
Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz, Carsten Sauer	Why Should Women Get Less? Evidence on the Gender Pay Gap from Multifactorial Survey Experiments	February 2017	7,012
Amy Adamczyk, Brittany E. Hayes	Religion and Sexual Behaviors: Understanding the Influence of Islamic Cultures and Religious Affiliation for Explaining Sex Outside of Marriage	October 2012	6,278
Lauren A. Rivera	Hiring as Cultural Matching The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms	December 2012	6,236
Oliver Hahl, Minjae Kim, Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan	The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth about Political Illegitimacy	February 2018	5,361
Ruth Milkman	A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest	February 2017	5,166
Sarah Brayne	Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing	October 2017	5,007
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, Alison C. K. Fogarty	Accounting for Women’s Orgasm and Sexual Enjoyment in College Hookups and Relationships	June 2012	4,965
Natasha Quadlin	The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring	April 2017	4,965
Joscha Legewie, Thomas A. DiPrete	School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement	June 2012	4,735

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City & Community

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Richard Florida	Cities and the Creative Class	January 2003	2,990
Sharon Zukin, Valerie Trujillo, Peter Frase, Danielle Jackson, Tim Recuber, Abraham Walker	New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City	March 2009	1,801
Andrew V. Papachristos, Chris M. Smith, Mary L. Scherer, Meslissa A. Fugiero	More Coffee, Less Crime? The Relationship between Gentrification and Neighborhood Crime Rates in Chicago, 1991 to 2005	September 2011	1,776
Kevin Loughran	Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces	March 2014	1,700
Gordon C.C. Douglas	Do‐It‐Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of Informal “Improvement” Through Unauthorized Alteration	September 2013	1,366
Micere Keels, Julia Burdick-Will, Sara Keene	The Effects of Gentrification on Neighborhood Public Schools	September 2013	1,237
Loretta Lees	Gentrification, Race, and Ethnicity: Towards a Global Research Agenda?	September 2016	1,087
Sharon Zukin	Gentrification in Three Paradoxes	September 2016	792
Quentin Batréau, Francois Bonnet	Managed Informality: Regulating Street Vendors in Bangkok	March 2016	726
Jinwon Kim	Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave: The Emergence of a New Ethic Enclave in a Global City	February 2018	717

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Contemporary Sociology

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Raewyn Connell	Decolonizing Sociology	July 2018	2,086
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Hirschman	The Sociology of Quantification: Where Are We Now?	May 2018	1,754
Philip S. Gorski	What is Critical Realism? And Why Should You Care?	September 2013	1,668
Arlie Russell Hochschild	The Ecstatic Edge of Politics: Sociology and Donald Trump	November 2016	1,468
Jeremy Freese	The Arrival of Social Science Genomics	September 2018	1,230
Lane Kenworthy	Why the Surge in Income Inequality?	January 2017	881
Monica Prasad	Problem-Solving Sociology	July 2018	872
Thomas B. Hoffer	Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It	January 2016	824
Myra Marx Ferree	Intersectionality as Theory and Practice	March 2018	649
David L. Swartz	Max Weber’s Theory of Modernity: The Endless Pursuit of Meaning	March 2017	634

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Contexts

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Robert J. Sampson	Rethinking Crime and Immigration	February 2008	6,684
Min Zhou	Are Asian Americans Becoming “White?”	February 2004	5,121
Nour Dados, Raewyn Connell	The Global South	February 2012	4,795
Miliann Kang, Katherine Jones	Why do People get Tattoos?	February 2007	4,303
Simón E. Weffer, Rodrigo Dominguez-Martinez, Raymond Jenkins	Taking a Knee	August 2018	3,775
Jessie Daniels	The Algorithmic Rise of the “Alt-Right”	February 2018	3,734
Kristen Schilt, Laurel Westbrook	Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics	August 2015	3,724
Mary Romero	Trump’s Immigration Attacks, in Brief	February 2018	3,397
Victor M. Rios	Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance	February 2012	3,387
Winifred Breines	Struggling to Connect: White and Black Feminism in the Movement Years	February 2007	3,262

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Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Peter Conrad, Kristin K. Barker	The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications	March 2010	13,791
Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link, Parisa Tehranifar	Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications	March 2010	9,341
Peggy A. Thoits	Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications	March 2010	8,978
Debra Umberson, Jennifer Karas Montez	Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy	March 2010	5,816
Peggy A. Thoits	Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and Mental Health	June 2011	4,217
Dara Shifrer	Stigma of a Label Educational Expectations for High School Students Labeled with Learning Disabilities	December 2013	3,546
David R. Williams, Michelle Sternthal	Understanding Racial-ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions	March 2010	2,668
Erin York Cornwell, Linda J. Waite	Social Disconnectedness, Perceived Isolation, and Health among Older Adults	March 2009	2,509
Catherine E. Harnois, João L. Bastos	Discrimination, Harassment, and Gendered Health Inequalities: Do Perceptions of Workplace Mistreatment Contribute to the Gender Gap in Self-reported Health?	June 2018	1,843
Bernice A. Pescosolido	The Public Stigma of Mental Illness What Do We Think; What Do We Know; What Can We Prove?	March 2013	1,708

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Social Psychology Quarterly

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, J. Lotus Seeley	“Good Girls”: Gender, Social Class, and Slut Discourse on Campus	June 2014	1,986
Paolo Parigi, Jessica J. Santana, Karen S. Cook	Online Field Experiments Studying Social Interactions in Context	March 2017	1,179
Peggy A. Thoits	Resisting the Stigma of Mental Illness	March 2011	1,067
Michael Hughes, K. Jill Kiecolt, Verna M. Keith, David H. Demo	Racial Identity and Well-Being among African Americans	March 2015	912
Michael J. Carter	Advancing Identity Theory: Examining the Relationship between Activated Identities and Behavior in Different Social Contexts	September 2015	889
Jane Sell	Definitions and the Development of Theory in Social Psychology	March 2018	851
David S. Pedulla	The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes Race, Sexual Orientation, and the Job Application Process	March 2014	845
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush	Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of “Broken Windows”	December 2004	843
Betsie Garner, David Grazian	Naturalizing Gender through Childhood Socialization Messages in a Zoo	September 2016	671

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Society and Mental Health

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Seth Abrutyn, Anna S. Mueller	When Too Much Integration and Regulation Hurts: Reenvisioning Durkheim’s Altruistic Suicide	March 2016	1,008
Allan V. Horwitz	Creating an Age of Depression The Social Construction and Consequences of the Major Depression Diagnosis	March 2011	845
Alice P. Villatoro, Vickie M. Mays, Ninez A. Ponce, Carol S. Aneshensel	Perceived Need for Mental Health Care: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioecomomic Status	March 2018	810
Kristin Turney, Rebecca Kissane, Kathryn Edin	After Moving to Opportunity: How Moving to a Low-poverty Neighborhood Improves Mental Health among African American Women	November 2013	767
Carol S. Aneshensel, William R. Avison	The Stress Process: An Appreciation of Leonard I. Pearlin	July 2015	600
Kaitlin M. Boyle	Sexual Assault and Identity Disruption: A Sociological Approach to Posttraumatic Stress	July 2017	557
Lisa Strohschein, Anne. H. Gauthier	Poverty Dynamics, Parenting, and Child Mental Health in Canada	November 2018	522
Giuseppina Valle Holway, Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer	Binge Drinking and Depression The Influence of Romantic Partners in Young Adulthood	March 2017	473
Christy L. Erving, Courtney S. Thomas	Race, Emotional Reliance, and Mental Health	March 2018	428
Andrew R. Payton, Peggy A. Thoits	Medicalization, Direct-to-Consumer Advertising, and Mental Illness Stigma	March 2011	426

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Sociological Methodology

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
John Muñoz, Cristobal Young	We Ran 9 Billion Regressions: Eliminating False Positives through Computational Model Robustness	August 2018	1,640
Kristian Bernt Karlson, Anders Holm, Richard Breen	Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Same-sample Nested Models Using Logit and Probit A New Method	August 2012	873
Duane F. Alwin, Brett A. Beattie	The KISS Principle in Survey Design Question Length and Data Quality	August 2016	839
Susanne Vogl	Telephone Versus Face-to-Face Interviews Mode Effect on Semistructured Interviews with Children	August 2013	832
Christoph Stadtfeld, James Hollway, Per Block	Dynamic Network Actor Models: Investigating Coordination Ties through Time	August 2017	694
Mattias Studer, Emanuaela Struffolino, Anette E. Fasang	Estimating the Relationship between Time-varying Covariates and Trajectories: The Sequence Analysis Multistate Model Procedure	August 2018	616
Bruce Western	Comment: Bayes, Model Uncertainty, and Learning from Data	August 2018	586
Dana Garbarski, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Jennifer Dykema	Interviewing Practices, Conversational Practices, and Rapport Responsiveness and Engagement in the Standardized Survey Interview	August 2016	518
Yu Xie, Jennie E. Brand, Ben Jann	Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data	August 2012	479
Douglas D. Heckathorn	Comment: Snowball versus Respondent-Driven Sampling	August 2011	671

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Sociological Theory

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Kieran Healy	Fuck Nuance	June 2017	3,289
Stefan Timmermans, Iddo Tavory	Theory Construction in Qualitative Research From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis	September 2012	2,690
Hae Yeon Choo, Myra Marx Ferree	Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities	June 2010	1,445
Claudio Benzecry, Randall Collins	The High of Cultural Experience Toward a Microsociology of Cultural Consumption	December 2014	1,245
Gabriel Abend	The Meaning of ‘Theory’	June 2008	1,059
Terence E. McDonnell, Christopher A. Bail, Iddo Tavory	A Theory of Resonance	March 2017	1,032
Joshua Wakeham	Bullshit as a Problem of Social Epistemology	March 2017	1,026
Charles Tilly	Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists	March 2004	1,008
Anthony King	Thinking with Bourdieu against Bourdieu: A ‘Practical’ Critique of the Habitus	November 2000	884
Max Besbris, Shamus Khan	Less Theory. More Description.	June 2017	823

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Sociology of Education

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Ann Owens	Income Segregation between School Districts and Inequality in Students’ Achievement	January 2018	4,093
Jason N. Houle	Disparities in Debt: Parents’ Socioeconomic Resources and Young Adult Student Loan Debt	January 2014	2,778
Linda Hamilton, Josipa Roksa, Kelly Nielsen	Providing a “Leg Up”: Parental Involvement and Opportunity Hoarding in College	April 2018	2,604
Francis A. Pearman, Walker A. Swain	School Choice, Gentrification, and the Variable Significance of Racial Stratification in Urban Neighborhoods	July 2017	2,409
Jason N. Houle, Cody Warner	Into the Red and Back to the Nest? Student Debt, College Completion, and Returning to the Parental Home among Young Adults	January 2017	2.321
Anthony Abraham Jack	(No) Harm in Asking: Class, Acquired Cultural Capital, and Academic Engagement at an Elite University	January 2016	1,813
Edward W. Morris, Brea L. Perry	Girls Behaving Badly? Race, Gender, and Subjective Evaluation in the Discipline of African American Girls	April 2017	1,740
Heidi M. Gansen	Reproducing (and Disrupting) Heteronormativity: Gendered Sexual Socialization in Preschool Classrooms	July 2017	1,535
Patrick B. McGrady, John R. Reynolds	Racial Mismatch in the Classrooms: Beyond Black-white Differences	January 2013	1,522
Angran Li, Mary J. Fischer	Advantaged/Disadvantaged School Neighborhoods, Parental Networks, and Parental Involvment at Elementary School	October 2017	1,495

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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Ted Thornhill	We Want Black Students, Just Not You: How White Admissions Counselors Screen Black Prospective Students	September 2018	6,819
Tanya Golash-Boza	A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism	April 2016	4,738
Evelyn Nakano Glenn	Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation	January 2015	2,007
Elijah Anderson	“The White Space”	January 2015	1,989
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva	More than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory	January 2015	1,390
Amada Armenta	Racializing Crimmigration: Structural Racism, Colorblindness, and the Institutional Production of Immigrant Criminality	January 2017	1,328
David L. Brunsma, David G. Embrick, Jean H. Shin	Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia	January 2017	1,007
Victor Erik Ray, Antonia Randolph, Megan Underhill, David Luke	Critical Race Theory, Afro-Pessimism, and Racial Progress Narratives	April 2017	852
Monica M. Trieu, Hana C. Lee	Asian Americans and Internalized Racial Oppression: Identified, Reproduced, and Dismantled	January 2018	767
Elizabeth Aranda, Elizabeth Vaquera	Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults	January 2015	734

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Socius

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Ryan Jerome LeCount	Visualizing the Increasing Effect of Racial Resentment on Political Ideology among Whites, 1986 to 2016	September 2018	15,746
Stephen Vaisey, Omar Lizardo	Cultural Fragmentation or Acquired Dispositions? A New Approach to Accouting for Patterns of Cultural Change	October 2016	11,757
Peter Hart-Brinson	The Social Imagination of Homosexuality and the Rise of Same-sex Marriage in the United States	January 2016	9,464
Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, Christopher P. Scheitle, Kristin R. W. Matthews, Steven W. Lewis	Religion among Scientists in International Context: A New Study of Scientists in Eight Regions	September 2016	4,900
Emily Kazyak, Kelsy Burke, Mathew Stange	Logics of Freedom: Debating Religious Freedom Laws and Gay and Lesbian Rights	February 2018	4,761
Daniel L. Carlson, Amanda Jayne Miller, Sharon Sassler	Stalled for Whom? Change in the Division of Particular Housework Tasks and Their Consequences for Middle- to Low-Income Couples	April 2018	3,885
Amelia R. Branigan, Christopher Wildeman, Jeremy Freese, Catarina I. Kiefe	Complicating Colorism: Race, Skin Color, and the Likelihood of Arrest	August 2017	3,841
Landon Schnabel	Sexual Orientation and Social Attitudes	April 2018	3,475
Kamesha Spates, Brittany C. Slatton	I’ve Got My Family and My Faith: Black Women and the Suicide Paradox	December 2017	3,279
Molly M. King, Carl T. Bergstrom, Shelley J. Correll, Jennifer Jacquet, Jevin D. West	Men Set Their Own Cities High: Gender and Self-citation across Fields and over Time	December 2017	2,851

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Teaching Sociology

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Josh Packard	The Impact of Racial Diversity in the Classroom: Activating the Sociological Imagination	April 2013	1,301
Adam Driscoll, Karl Jicha, Andrea N. Hunt, Lisa Tichavsky, Gretchen Thompson	Can Online Courses Deliver In-class Results? A Comparison of Student Performance and Satisfaction in an Online versus a Face-to-face Introductory Sociology Course	October 2012	1,243
Adam M. Messinger	Teaching Content Analysis through Harry Potter	October 2012	1,164
Hannah Wohl, Gary Alan Fine	The Active Skim: Efficient Reading as a Moral Challenge in Postgraduate Education	July 2017	1,121
Jessica MacNamara, Sarah Glann, Paul Durlak	Experiencing Misgendered Pronouns: A Classroom Activity to Encourage Empathy	July 2017	740
Julianne Weinzimmer, Jacqueline Bergdahl	The Value of Dialogue Groups for Teaching Race and Ethnicity	July 2018	731
David Purcell	Sociology, Teaching, and Reflective Practice: Using Writing to Improve	January 2013	716
Marisela Martinez-Cola, Rocco English, Jennifer Min, Jonathan Peraza, Jamesetta Tambah, Christina Yebuah	When Pedagogy is Painful: Teaching in Tumultuous Times	April 2018	692
Rachel E. Stein, Corey J. Colyer, Jason Manning	Student Accountability in Team-based Learning Classes	January 2016	627
Shane Dixon, Linda Quirke	What’s the Harm? The Coverage of Ethics and Harm Avoidance in Research Methods Textbooks	January 2018	613

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