| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. | Social Forces | 1968 | 6,112 |
| 2 | Trust as a Social Reality | Social Forces | 1985 | 2,299 |
| 3 | The Dimensions of Residential Segregation | Social Forces | 1988 | 1,981 |
| 4 | Attitudes vs. Actions | Social Forces | 1934 | 1,538 |
| 5 | Testing Structural Equation Models. | Social Forces | 1995 | 1,457 |
| 6 | The Dimensions of Residential Segregation | Social Forces | 1988 | 1,431 |
| 7 | Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. | Social Forces | 1976 | 1,369 |
| 8 | Trust as a Social Reality | Social Forces | 1985 | 1,253 |
| 9 | Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor | Social Forces | 2000 | 1,177 |
| 10 | The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art | Social Forces | 2000 | 1,172 |
| 11 | Roles in Sociological Field Observations | Social Forces | 1958 | 1,060 |
| 12 | Language and Symbolic Power. | Social Forces | 1992 | 1,032 |
| 13 | Measuring Tie Strength | Social Forces | 1984 | 992 |
| 14 | Bureaucratic Structure and Personality | Social Forces | 1940 | 849 |
| 15 | Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in Europe: Contact, Threat Perception, and Preferences for the Exclusion of Migrants | Social Forces | 2003 | 758 |
| 16 | Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor | Social Forces | 2000 | 746 |
| 17 | Conceptualizing Political Opportunity | Social Forces | 2004 | 713 |
| 18 | The Duality of Persons and Groups | Social Forces | 1974 | 708 |
| 19 | School Teacher: A Sociological Study. | Social Forces | 1976 | 682 |
| 20 | Social Control in the Newsroom: A Functional Analysis | Social Forces | 1955 | 676 |
| 21 | Parental Involvement as Social Capital: Differential Effectiveness on Science Achievement, Truancy, and Dropping Out | Social Forces | 1999 | 673 |
| 22 | The Professions and Social Structure | Social Forces | 1939 | 631 |
| 23 | The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art | Social Forces | 2000 | 631 |
| 24 | Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter? | Social Forces | 2012 | 627 |
| 25 | Social Movement Organizations: Growth, Decay and Change | Social Forces | 1966 | 604 |
| 26 | Feminist Attitudes and Support for Gender Equality: Opinion Change in Women and Men, 1974-1998 | Social Forces | 2004 | 594 |
| 27 | Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime | Social Forces | 1996 | 591 |
| 28 | Gender, Time and Inequality: Trends in Women's and Men's Paid Work, Unpaid Work and Free Time | Social Forces | 2005 | 577 |
| 29 | Reconsidering Peers and Delinquency: How do Peers Matter? | Social Forces | 2005 | 576 |
| 30 | The Relationship Between Sex Roles, Marital Status, and Mental Illness | Social Forces | 1972 | 562 |
| 31 | The Social Construction of Status Value: Gender and Other Nominal Characteristics | Social Forces | 1991 | 551 |
| 32 | Measuring Tie Strength | Social Forces | 1984 | 532 |
| 33 | The Duality of Persons and Groups | Social Forces | 1974 | 525 |
| 34 | The Glass Ceiling Effect | Social Forces | 2001 | 501 |
| 35 | A Theory of Self-Esteem | Social Forces | 2002 | 500 |
| 36 | Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes | Social Forces | 2000 | 467 |
| 37 | Intergenerational Ties in Context: Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China | Social Forces | 2011 | 449 |
| 38 | The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. | Social Forces | 1974 | 447 |
| 39 | Secularization as Declining Religious Authority | Social Forces | 1994 | 443 |
| 40 | Perceived Cohesion: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination | Social Forces | 1990 | 440 |
| 41 | Review of “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” | Social Forces | 2020 | 427 |
| 42 | Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. | Social Forces | 1995 | 423 |
| 43 | The Culture of Mexican Migration: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis | Social Forces | 2002 | 423 |
| 44 | Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice? | Social Forces | 1996 | 421 |
| 45 | Process and Protest: Accounting for Individual Protest Participation | Social Forces | 2005 | 407 |
| 46 | A Biosocial Model of Status in Face-to-Face Primate Groups | Social Forces | 1985 | 405 |
| 47 | Religious Involvement, Stress, and Mental Health: Findings from the 1995 Detroit Area Study | Social Forces | 2001 | 405 |
| 48 | Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disarmament Movement | Social Forces | 1993 | 404 |
| 49 | Why Does It Take a Village? The Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Educational Achievement | Social Forces | 2002 | 404 |
| 50 | A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency | Social Forces | 1985 | 402 |
