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2026

1 paper

• Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Party Articulation: Bolivia’s MNR (1952–1964)
  Ackerman · 2026
  data · archival records data · case study method · qualitative coding bolivia party articulation

2025

7 papers

• Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value
  Agbai · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · regression method · causal inference historical inequality housing policy
• Who Polices Which Boundaries? How Racial Self-Identification Affects External Classification
  Abascal et al. · 2025
  data · experiment method · causal inference racial classification boundary policing
• How Protests Spread: Diasporas, Wide Bridges, and the Transnational Diffusion of “Un violador en tu camino”
  Saetre · 2025
  data · digital trace data data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · time series analysis social movements complex contagion
• : Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery
  Davidson · 2025
  data · interview data · ethnography method · qualitative coding racial inequality affective captivity
• Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets
  Rilinger · 2025
  data · archival records data · case study method · qualitative coding modularity electricity markets
• Territoriality and the Emergence of Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Bergemann & Brandtner · 2025
  data · digital trace data method · regression method · spatial analysis social norms covid 19
• Does Ethnic Similarity Increase Well-Being?
  Kruse et al. · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · causal inference method · fixed effects modeling ethnic diversity intergroup contact

2024

4 papers

• The Increase in Refugees to Germany and Exclusionary Beliefs and Behaviors
  Giesselmann et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · panel data analysis method · fixed effects modeling immigration contact theory
• : The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry
  Velthuis · 2024
  data · case study data · ethnography method · qualitative coding knowledge production creative work
• Attractiveness and Attainment: Status, Beauty, and Jobs in China and the United States
  Marquis et al. · 2024
  data · experiment method · regression hiring labor market
• The Spatial Organization of Inequality
  Garrido · 2024
  data · archival records data · case study method · qualitative coding comparative analysis inequality

2023

9 papers

• Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content
  Heiserman · 2023
  data · experiment method · regression method · descriptive statistics intersectionality social cognition
• Multilateralism of the Marginal: Least Developed Countries and International Climate Negotiations, 1995–2016
  Gray & Cointet · 2023
  data · content analysis method · network analysis method · embedding method · nlp climate negotiations institutional scripts
• Life Course Trajectories and Wealth Accumulation in the United States: Comparing Late Baby Boomers and Early Millennials
  Gruijters et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · sequence analysis life course wealth inequality
• No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 2016
  Kretschmer et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · network analysis replication social networks
• When ERGMs Lead to Biased Samples: Reply to Kretschmer et al.
  Smith et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · network analysis friendship networks ethnic segregation
• (Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion
  Teeger · 2023
  data · interview data · ethnography method · qualitative coding collective memory boredom
• Black-White Trends in Intergenerational Educational Mobility: A Positional Analysis
  Karlson · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics intergenerational mobility racial inequality
• Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations
  Elwert et al. · 2023
  data · experiment method · causal inference education discrimination
• The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden
  Hällsten & Kolk · 2023
  data · archival records method · regression social stratification intergenerational mobility

2022

4 papers

• Regulating the Risk of Debt: Exemption Laws and Economic Insecurity across U.S. States, 1986–2012
  Martin · 2022
  data · archival records method · descriptive statistics method · fixed effects modeling economic insecurity consumer protection
• Green American City: Civic Capacity and the Distributed Adoption of Urban Innovations
  Brandtner · 2022
  data · archival records method · regression method · time series analysis nonprofit organizations civic capacity
• The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?
  McArthur & Reeves · 2022
  data · archival records method · causal inference method · fixed effects modeling educational inequality social mobility
• The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South
  Baker · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · multilevel modeling method · regression method · descriptive statistics poverty racial inequality

2021

4 papers

• Pensioner Employment, Well-Being, and Gender: Lessons from Russia
  Ashwin et al. · 2021
• Resource Extension and Status Identity: Marriage Ties among Family Business Groups in an Emerging Economy
  Chung et al. · 2021
  data · archival records method · regression family business groups marriage ties
• The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910–1925
  Muller & Schrage · 2021
  data · archival records method · causal inference incarceration racial inequality
• “A Nowadays Disease”: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in a Rural South African Community
  Mojola et al. · 2021
  data · interview method · qualitative coding life course social change

2020

1 paper

• On the Other Side of Values
  Martin & Lembo · 2020

2019

3 papers

• Empowerment or Disintegration? Migration, Social Institutions, and Collective Action in Rural China
  Lu · 2019
• Categorization by Organizations: Manipulation of Disability Categories in a Racially Desegregated School District
  Saatcioglu & Skrtic · 2019
• The Geography of Racial/Ethnic Test Score Gaps
  Reardon et al. · 2019

2018

2 papers

• How Cultural Capital Emerged in Gilded Age America: Musical Purification and Cross-Class Inclusion at the New York Philharmonic
  Accominotti et al. · 2018
• Political Islam, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Aksoy & Billari · 2018

2017

2 papers

• Organizational Structure and Collective Action: Lineage Networks, Semiautonomous Civic Associations, and Collective Resistance in Rural China
  Lu & Tao · 2017
• School-to-Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France
  DiPrete et al. · 2017

2016

2 papers

• The Diffusion of Strikes: A Dyadic Analysis of Economic Sectors in the Netherlands, 1995–2007
  Jansen et al. · 2016
• Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population
  Navon & Eyal · 2016

2015

3 papers

• The Social Origins of Networks and Diffusion
  Centola · 2015
• Family Structure Instability, Genetic Sensitivity, and Child Well-Being
  Mitchell et al. · 2015
• Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity
  Vaan et al. · 2015

2014

2 papers

• Beyond Strong and Weak: Rethinking Postdictatorship Civil Societies
  Riley & Fernández · 2014
• Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America
  Wilde & Danielsen · 2014

2013

1 paper

• For a Sociology of Expertise: The Social Origins of the Autism Epidemic
  Eyal · 2013

2012

1 paper

• Citizenship Rights for Immigrants: National Political Processes and Cross-National Convergence in Western Europe, 1980–2008
  Koopmans et al. · 2012

2011

1 paper

• Pride and Prejudice: Employment Discrimination against Openly Gay Men in the United States
  Tilcsik · 2011

2010

1 paper

• Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in Executive Pay
  DiPrete et al. · 2010

2009

1 paper

• Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries
  Jönsson et al. · 2009

2008

2 papers

• Exploring Genetics and Social Structure
  Bearman · 2008
• Off‐Scheduling within Dual‐Earner Couples: An Unequal and Negative Externality for Family Time
  Lesnard · 2008

2007

1 paper

• Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds
  Espeland & Sauder · 2007

2006

2 papers

• Malfeasance and the Foundations for Global Trade: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601–1833
  Erikson & Bearman · 2006
• Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary
  Stark & Vedres · 2006

2005

2 papers

• Cooperation and the Emergence of Role Differentiation in the Dynamics of Social Networks
  Eguı́luz et al. · 2005
• [[_papers/Centola (2005) - The Emperor’s Dilemma A Computational Model of Self‐Enforci|The Emperor’s Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self‐Enforcing Norms]]
  Centola et al. · 2005

2004

2 papers

• Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks
  Bearman et al. · 2004
• The Impact of Parental Wealth on Early Living Standards in Israel
  Spilerman · 2004

2002

3 papers

• Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Economic Knowledge: The Transnational Roots of Neoliberalism
  Bockman & Eyal · 2002
• Swift Neighbors and Persistent Strangers: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation of Trust and Reciprocity in Social Exchange
  Buchan et al. · 2002
• Opposite‐Sex Twins and Adolescent Same‐Sex Attraction
  Bearman & Brückner · 2002

2001

4 papers

• The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change in the United States
  Hout et al. · 2001
• One Way or Multiple Paths: For a Comparative Sociology of East European Capitalism
  Stark & Bruszt · 2001
• Promising the Future: Virginity Pledges and First Intercourse
  Bearman & Brückner · 2001
• The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology
  Eyal et al. · 2001

2000

3 papers

• After Postmodernism: Reactionary Tribalism
  Antonio · 2000
• Mesolevel Networks and the Diffusion of Social Movements: The Case of the Swedish Social Democratic Party
  Hedström et al. · 2000
• Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise
  Wright · 2000