Papers
- 2009. Small, Mario Luis. "'How Many Cases Do I Need?':On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Fieldbased Research." Ethnography. 10(1): 5-38.
- 2008. Small, Mario Luis. "Four Reasons to Abandon the Idea of 'the Ghetto'." City & Community. 7(4):389-98.
- 2008. Small, Mario Luis. "Lost in Translation: How Not to Make Qualitative Research More Scientific." National Science Foundation. Pp. 165-71 in Michèle Lamont and Patricia White (eds.), Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation.
- 2008. Small, Mario Luis, Erin M. Jacobs, and Rebekah P. Massengill. "Why Organizational Ties Matter for Neighborhood Effects: A Study of Resource Access through Childcare Centers." Social Forces. 87(1).
- 2008. Lamont, Michele and Mario Luis Small. "How Culture Matters: Enriching our Understanding of Poverty." Pp. 76-102 in David Harris and Ann Lin (eds), The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. New York: Russell Sage.
- 2007. Small, Mario Luis. "Is There Such a Thing as 'The Ghetto'? The Perils of Assuming that the South Side of Chicago Represents Poor Black Neighborhoods." City. 11(3):413-21.
- 2007. Small, Mario Luis and Christopher Winship. "Black Students' Graduation from Elite Colleges: Do Institutional Characteristics Matter?" With Christopher Winship. Social Science Research . 36(3): 1257-75.
- 2007. Small, Mario Luis. "Racial Differences in Networks: Do Neighborhood Conditions Matter?" Social Science Quarterly. 88(2):320-43.
- 2006. Small, Mario Luis. "Race and Ethnic Politics." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
- 2006. Small, Mario Luis. "Neighborhood Institutions as Resource Brokers: Childcare Centers, Inter-Organizational Ties, and Resource Access Among the Poor." Social Problems. 53(2):274-92.
- 2006. Small, Mario Luis and Monica McDermott. "The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects." Social Forces. 84(3):1697-1724.
- 2005. Small, Mario Luis and Laura Stark. "Are Poor Neighborhoods Resource Deprived? A Case Study of Childcare Centers in New York." Social Science Quarterly. 86(s1):1013-36.
- 2002. Small, Mario Luis. "Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project." American Journal of Sociology. 108(1):1-54.
- 2001. Small, Mario Luis and Katherine Newman. "Urban Poverty after The Truly Disadvantaged: The Rediscovery of the Family, the Neighborhood, and Culture." Annual Review of Sociology. 27:23-45.
- 1999. Small, Mario Luis. "Departmental Conditions and the Emergence of New Disciplines: Two Cases in the Legitimation of African-American Studies." Theory and Society. 28:659-707