American Journal of Sociology

Title Publication Date Language Citations
The Strength of Weak Ties1973/05/01English17,791
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital1988/01/01English14,950
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness1985/11/01English13,528
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony1977/09/01English12,373
The Population Ecology of Organizations1977/03/01English3,513
The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach1981/11/01English2,730
Structural Holes and Good Ideas2004/09/01English2,709
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory1977/05/01English2,609
Power and Centrality: A Family of Measures1987/03/01English2,606
What Is Agency?1998/01/01English2,589
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior1978/05/01English2,457
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure1979/11/01English2,381
Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory1989/01/01English2,374
Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach1989/07/01English2,294
Social Behavior as Exchange1958/05/01English2,143
A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation1992/07/01English2,125
Urbanism as a Way of Life1938/07/01English2,020
World Society and the Nation‐State1997/07/01English1,941
Notes on the Concept of Commitment1960/07/01English1,712
Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action1993/05/01English1,643
Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958– 19901999/11/01English1,636
Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women1977/03/01English1,560
The Mark of a Criminal Record2003/03/01English1,555
Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings1973/11/01English1,535
Where Do Interorganizational Networks Come From?1999/03/01English1,475
The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place1976/09/01English1,452
Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods1999/11/01English1,433
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology1997/09/01English1,371
Statistical Methods for Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Models1995/03/01English1,360
A Status-Based Model of Market Competition1993/01/01English1,296