Top Downloaded Articles of 2021 | American Sociological Association

The following tables show the top-10 most downloaded articles in each ASA journal in 2021.

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
Deni Mazrekaj, Kristof De Witte, Sofie Cabus	School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data	October 2020	81,880
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	56,366
Victor Ray	A Theory of Racialized Organizations	February 2019	32,084
Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, Amy Blackstone	Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power	August 2021	23,215
Miloš Broćić, Andrew Miles	College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes	October 2021	14,789
Lauren A. Rivera	Hiring as Cultural Matching The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms	December 2012	14,290
Natasha Quadlin	The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring	June 2018	13,345
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, Alison C. K. Fogarty	Accounting for Women’s Orgasm and Sexual Enjoyment in College Hookups and Relationships	June 2012	12,786
Daniel A. McFarland, Peter McMahan	Creative Destruction: The Structural Consequences of Scientific Curation	April 2021	12,240
Callie Harbin Burt, Ronald L. Simons, Frederick X. Gibbons	Racial Discrimination, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, and Crime A Micro-sociological Model of Risk and Resilience	August 2012	10,110

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City & Community

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Tyler Gay, Sam Hammer, Erin Ruel	Examining the Relationship between Institutionalized Racism and COVID-19	September 2020	3,599
Amy Lubitow, Kyla Tompkins, Madeleine Feldman	Sustainable Cycling for all? Race and Gender–Based Bicycling Inequalities in Portland, Oregon	December 2019	2,576
Brenden Beck	Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low–Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment	March 2020	2,259
Greggor Mattson	Small–City Gay Bars, Big–City Urbanism	March 2020	1,525
Clare Forstie	Theory Making from the Middle: Researching LGBTQ Communities in Small Cities	March 2020	1,434
Cameron Hightower, James C. Fraser	The Raced–Space of Gentrification: “Reverse Blockbusting,” Home Selling, and Neighborhood Remake in North Nashville	March 2020	1,346
Alyasah Ali Sewell	Policing the Block: Pandemics, Systemic Racism, and the Blood of America	September 2020	1,248
Andrew V. Papachristos, Chris M. Smith, Mary L. Scherer, Melissa A. Fugiero	More Coffee, Less Crime? The Relationship between Gentrification and Neighborhood Crime Rates in Chicago, 1991 to 2005	September 2011	1,213
Micere Keels, Julia Burdick–Will, Sara Keene	The Effects of Gentrification on Neighborhood Public Schools	September 2013	1,201
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	1,173

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Contemporary Sociology

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Raewyn Connell	Decolonizing Sociology	July 2018	4,101
Stanley Cohen	Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison	January 2019	2,866
Philip S. Gorski	“What is Critical Realism? And Why Should You Care?”	September 2013	2,644
Keith N. Hampton, Barry Wellman	Lost and Saved . . . Again: The Moral Panic about the Loss of Community Takes Hold of Social Media	November 2018	1,617
Jonathan H. Turner	Approaches to the Study of Social Structure	January 2019	1,109
Elizabeth Popp Berman, Daniel Hirschman	The Sociology of Quantification: Where Are We Now?	May 2018	941
Jason Jimerson	Black Men on the Blacktop: Basketball and the Politics of Race	January 2019	774
Jon Atwell	If Only It Were That Complex	March 2020	734
Jeff Livesay	The Challenge of Modernity: Simmel’s Sociological Theory	January 2020	693
Arlie Russell Hochschild	The Ecstatic Edge of Politics: Sociology and Donald Trump	November 2016	685

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Contexts

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Grace Kao, Kelly Stamper Balistreri, Kara Joyner	Asian American Men in Romantic Dating Markets	December 2018	70,394
Nour Dados, Raewyn Connell	The Global South	February 2012	42,872
James P. Curley, Oliver Roeder	English Soccer’s Mysterious Worldwide Popularity	March 2016	24,830
Guang Guo	Twin Studies: What Can They Tell us About Nature and Nurture?	August 2005	11,857
Winifred Breines	Struggling to Connect: White and Black Feminism in the Movement Years	February 2007	11,320
Verta Taylor, Leila J. Rupp	Straight Girls Kissing	August 2010	11,266
Guy Standing	The Precariat	November 2014	10,387
Jonathan Portes	The Economics of Migration	June 2019	9,683
Jessie Daniels	The Algorithmic Rise of the “Alt-Right”	April 2018	9,321
Myron T. Strong, K. Sean Chaplin	Afrofuturism and Black Panther	June 2019	7,055

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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	15,033
Jo C. Phelan, Bruce G. Link, Parisa Tehranifar	Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications	March 2010	9,786
Stefanie Mollborn, Elizabeth Lawrence	Family, Peer, and School Influences on Children’s Developing Health Lifestyles	March 2018	9,450
Dara Shifrer	Stigma of a Label: Educational Expectations for High School Students Labeled with Learning Disabilities	December 2013	9,185
Jennifer Karas Montez, Debra Umberson	Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy	March 2010	9,014
Peggy A. Thoits	Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications	March 2010	6,995
David R. Williams	Stress and the Mental Health of Populations of Color: Advancing Our Understanding of Race-related Stressors	December 2018	5,734
Josje Ten Kate, Willem De Koster, Jeroen Van der Waal	“Following Your Gut” or “Questioning the Scientific Evidence”: Understanding Vaccine Skepticism among More-Educated Dutch Parents	March 2021	5,161
Peggy A. Thoits	Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and Mental Health	June 2011	4,635
Bernice A. Pescosolido	The Public Stigma of Mental Illness What Do We Think; What Do We Know; What Can We Prove?	March 2013	4,249

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Social Psychology Quarterly

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Gina Perry, Augustine Brannigan, Richard A. Wanner, Henderikus Stam	Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments: A Reanalysis of an Unpublished Test	March 2020	9,115
Valentina Di Stasio, Edvard N. Larsen	The Racialized and Gendered Workplace: Applying an Intersectional Lens to a Field Experiment on Hiring Discrimination in Five European Labor Markets	September 2020	5,898
Alice Goffman	Go to More Parties? Social Occasions as Home to Unexpected Turning Points in Life Trajectories	March 2019	5,369
Matthew W. Hughey	Stigma Allure and White Antiracist Identity Management	September 2012	4,551
Jenny L. Davis, Tony P. Love, Phoenicia Fares	Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data	September 2019	3,778
Michael J. Carter	Advancing Identity Theory Examining the Relationship between Activated Identities and Behavior in Different Social Contexts	September 2013	3,071
Jason Turowetz, Matthew M. Hollander	From “Ridiculous” to “Glad to Have Helped”: Debriefing News Delivery and Improved Reactions to Science in Milgram’s “Obedience” Experiments	March 2018	2,440
William A. Corsaro	Big Ideas from Little People: What Research with Children Contributes to Social Psychology	March 2020	2,415
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, J. Lotus Seeley	“Good Girls”: Gender, Social Class, and Slut Discourse on Campus	June 2014	1,977
Marina Tulin, Bram Lancee, Beate Volker	Personality and Social Capital	December 2018	1,602

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Society and Mental Health

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Christina Kamis	The Long-Term Impact of Parental Mental Health on Children’s Distress Trajectories in Adulthood	March 2021	8,481
Timothy G. Edgemon, Jody Clay-Warner	Inmate Mental Health and the Pains of Imprisonment	March 2019	8,307
Monique Botha, David M. Frost	Extending the Minority Stress Model to Understand Mental Health Problems Experienced by the Autistic Population	March 2020	5,535
Rachel M. Schmitz, Brandon Andrew Robinson, Jennifer Tabler, Brett Welch, Sidra Rafaqut	LGBTQ+ Latino/a Young People’s Interpretations of Stigma and Mental Health: An Intersectional Minority Stress Perspective	July 2020	2,188
Jennifer Vanderminden, Jennifer J. Esala	Beyond Symptoms: Race and Gender Predict Anxiety Disorder Diagnosis	March 2019	1,559
Patricia Louie	Revisiting the Cost of Skin Color: Discrimination, Mastery, and Mental Health among Black Adolescents	March 2020	1,519
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 Socioeconomic Status	March 2018	1,433
Samuel L. Perry	Pornography Use and Depressive Symptoms: Examining the Role of Moral Incongruence	November 2018	1,175
Deniz Yucel, Beth A. Latshaw	Spillover and Crossover Effects of Work-Family Conflict among Married and Cohabiting Couples	March 2020	1,155
Leah Drakeford	Mental Health and the Role of Religious Context among Inmates in State and Federal Prisons: Results from a Multilevel Analysis	March 2019	1,072

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Sociological Methodology

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Trenton D. Mize, Long Doan, J. Scott Long	A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects across Models	August 2019	5,416
Paul A. Jargowsky, Christopher A. Wheeler	Estimating Income Statistics from Grouped Data: Mean-constrained Integration over Brackets	August 2018	4,773
Han Zhang, Jennifer Pan	CASM: A Deep-Learning Approach for Identifying Collective Action Events with Text and Image Data from Social Media	August 2019	3,414
Mark S. Handcock, Krista J. Gile	Comment: On the Concept of Snowball Sampling	August 2011	2,437
Susanne Vogl	Telephone Versus Face-to-Face Interviews Mode Effect on Semistructured Interviews with Children	August 2011	2,125
Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie	Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Presence of Self-Selection: A Propensity Score Perspective	August 2020	1,363
Sasha Shen Johfre, Jeremy Freese	Reconsidering the Reference Category	August 2021	1,255
Pablo A. Mitnik, David B. Grusky	The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility	August 2020	1,223
Kristian Bernt Karlson, Anders Holm, Richard Breen	Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Same-sample Nested Models Using Logit and Probit A New Method	August 2012	1,061
Matthias Studer	Validating Sequence Analysis Typologies Using Parametric Bootstrap	August 2021	1,027

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Sociological Theory

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Stefan Timmermans, Iddo Tavory	Theory Construction in Qualitative Research From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis	September 2012	7,414
Yuchen Yang	What’s Hegemonic about Hegemonic Masculinity? Legitimation and Beyond	December 2020	4,219
Steven Klein, Cheol-Sung Lee	Towards a Dynamic Theory of Civil Society: The Politics of Forward and Backward Infiltration	March 2019	4,075
Kieran Healy	Fuck Nuance	June 2017	3,776
Monika Krause	On Sociological Reflexivity	March 2021	2,467
Julian Go	Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism	March 2021	2,449
Jennifer C. Mueller	Racial Ideology or Racial Ignorance? An Alternative Theory of Racial Cognition	June 2020	2,316
Adam S. Hayes	The Behavioral Economics of Pierre Bourdieu	March 2020	2,053
Gabriel Abend	The Meaning of ‘Theory’	June 2008	1,962
Mathieu Hikaru Desan	Bourdieu, Marx, and Capital A Critique of the Extension Model	December 2013	1,899

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Sociology of Education

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Jason N. Houle	Disparities in Debt: Parents’ Socioeconomic Resources and Young Adult Student Loan Debt	January 2014	4,590
Natasha Quadlin	From Major Preferences to Major Choices: Gender and Logics of Major Choice	April 2020	3,763
Douglas B. Downey, Dennis J. Condron	Fifty Years since the Coleman Report Rethinking the Relationship between Schools and Inequality	July 2016	3,675
Patrick B. McGrady, John R. Reynolds	Racial Mismatch in the Classroom Beyond Black-white Differences	January 2013	3,308
Ann Owens	Income Segregation between School Districts and Inequality in Students’ Achievement	January 2018	3,013
Jeffrey Grigg	School Enrollment Changes and Student Achievement Growth A Case Study in Educational Disruption and Continuity	October 2012	2,985
Biörn Ivemark, Anna Ambrose	Habitus Adaptation and First-Generation University Students’ Adjustment to Higher Education: A Life Course Perspective	July 2021	2,979
Paul T. von Hippel, Joseph Workman, Douglas B. Downey	Inequality in Reading and Math Skills Forms Mainly before Kindergarten: A Replication, and Partial Correction, of “Are Schools the Great Equalizer?”	October 2018	2,881
Angran Li, Daniel Hamlin	Is Daily Parental Help with Homework Helpful? Reanalyzing National Data Using a Propensity Score–Based Approach	October 2019	2,422
Anthony Abraham Jack	(No) Harm in Asking Class, Acquired Cultural Capital, and Academic Engagement at an Elite University	January 2016	2,250

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Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva	Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times	Forthcoming	16,647
José G. Soto-Márquez	“I’m Not Spanish, I’m from Spain”: Spaniards’ Bifurcated Ethnicity and the Boundaries of Whiteness and Hispanic Panethnic Identity	January 2019	12,063
Tressie McMillan Cottom	Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet: The Sociology of Race and Racism in the Digital Society	October 2020	11,539
Evelyn Nakano Glenn	Settler Colonialism as Structure A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation	January 2015	8,131
Michelle Christian	A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness	April 2019	7,754
Tanya Golash-Boza	A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism	April 2016	5,421
Julian Schaap, Pauwke Berkers	“You’re Not Supposed to Be into Rock Music”: Authenticity Maneuvering in a White Configuration	July 2020	4,954
Ted Thornhill	We Want Black Students, Just Not You: How White Admissions Counselors Screen Black Prospective Students	October 2019	4,913
Shantel Gabrieal Buggs	Dating in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter: Exploring Mixed-race Women’s Discourses of Race and Racism	October 2017	4,226
Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead, Joshua T. Davis	God’s Country in Black and Blue: How Christian Nationalism Shapes Americans’ Views about Police (Mis)treatment of Blacks	January 2019	4,175

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Socius

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Scott J. South, Lei Lei	Why Are Fewer Young Adults Having Casual Sex?	2021	250,356
Vincent J. Roscigno	Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and the Impact of Workplace Power	2019	36,780
Scott Schieman, Philip J. Badawy, Melissa A. Milkie, Alex Bierman	Work-Life Conflict During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2021	21,707
Eric Dahlin	Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?	2019	18,910
Peter Hart-Brinson	The Social Imagination of Homosexuality and the Rise of Same-sex Marriage in the United States	2016	17,957
Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry	How Culture Wars Delay Herd Immunity: Christian Nationalism and Anti-vaccine Attitudes	2020	16,114
Landon Schnabel	Sexual Orientation and Social Attitudes	2018	15,936
Charles Kurzman, Willa Dong, Brandon Gorman, Karam Hwang, Renee Ryberg, Batool Zaidi	Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality	2019	15,838
Daniel DellaPosta	Gay Acquaintanceship and Attitudes toward Homosexuality: A Conservative Test	2018	14,587
Amelia R. Branigan, Christopher Wildeman, Jeremy Freese, Catarina I. Kiefe	Complicating Colorism: Race, Skin Color, and the Likelihood of Arrest	2017	14,041

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Teaching Sociology

Author	Title	Publication Date	Number of Downloads
Alanna Gillis, Laura M. Krull	COVID-19 Remote Learning Transition in Spring 2020: Class Structures, Student Perceptions, and Inequality in College Courses	October 2020	19,071
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	10,416
Josh Packard	The Impact of Racial Diversity in the Classroom Activating the Sociological Imagination	April 2013	5,134
Alanna Gillis	Reconceptualizing Participation Grading as Skill Building	January 2019	4,637
Alicia M. Walker	Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale	January 2020	3,496
Christian Schneickert, Alexander Lenger, Leonie C. Steckermeier, Tobias Rieder	The Sociological Canon, Relations between Theories and Methods, and a Latent Political Structure: Findings from a Survey of Sociology Students in Germany and Consequences for Teaching	October 2019	2,900
David Purcell	Sociology, Teaching, and Reflective Practice Using Writing to Improve	January 2013	2,380
Dana Berkowitz, Namita N. Manohar, Justine E. Tinkler	Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Woman Teaching the Social Construction of Gender	April 2010	1,965
Andrea Krieg	Book Review: Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side	July 2019	1,956
Adam M. Messinger	Teaching Content Analysis through Harry Potter	October 2021	1,944

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