The American Sociological Review is a bi-monthly peer-reviewedacademic journal covering all aspects of sociology. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It was established in 1936. The editors-in-chief are Omar Lizardo (University of California, Los Angeles), Rory M. McVeigh, and Sarah Mustillo (University of Notre Dame).[1]
Description: The official flagship journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA), American Sociological Review (ASR) publishes works of interest to the discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations.All areas of sociology are welcome. The latest Tweets from ASR (@asrjournal). Official Twitter account of American Sociological Review (ASR), flagship Journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Notre Dame, IN.
American Sociological Review | |
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Discipline | Sociology |
Language | English |
Edited by | Omar Lizardo, Rory M. McVeigh, and Sarah Mustillo |
Publication details | |
1936–present | |
Publisher | SAGE Publications(United States) |
Frequency | Bi-monthly |
5.063 | |
Standard abbreviations | |
Am. Sociol. Rev. | |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0003-1224 (print) 1939-8271 (web) |
LCCN | 37010449 |
JSTOR | 00031224 |
OCLC no. | 38161061 |
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History
For its first thirty years, the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association) was largely dominated by the sociology department of the University of Chicago, and the quasi-official journal of the association was Chicago's American Journal of Sociology. In 1935, the executive committee of the American Sociological Society voted 5 to 4 against disestablishing the American Journal of Sociology as the official journal of society, but the measure was passed on for consideration of the general membership, which voted 2 to 1 to establish a new journal independent of Chicago: the American Sociological Review.[2]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 5.063, ranking it 3rd out of 146 journals in the category 'Sociology'.[3]
Past editors
The following persons have been editors-in-chief:
- F.H. Hankin (Smith College (1936–1937)
- Read Bain (Miami University (1938–1942)
- Joseph K. Folsom (Vassar College (1943–1944)
- F. Stuart Chapin and George B. Vold (University of Minnesota (1945–1946)
- Robert C. Angell (University of Michigan (1947–1948)
- Maurice R. Davie (Yale University (1949–1951)
- Robert E.L. Faris (University of Washington (1952–1955)
- Leonard Broom (University of California, Los Angeles (1956–1957)
- Charles Page (Smith College (1958–1960)
- Harry Alpert (University of Oregon (1961–1962)
- Neil J. Smelser (University of California, Berkeley (1963–1965)
- Norman Ryder (University of Wisconsin (1966–1968)
- Karl F. Schuessler (Indiana University (1969–1971)
- James F. Short Jr. (Washington State University (1972–1974)
- Morris Zelditch (Stanford University (1975–1977)
- Rita J. Simon (University of Illinois, Urbana (1978–1980)
- William Form (University of Illinois, Urbana (1981)
- Sheldon Stryker (Indiana University (1982–1986)
- William Form (Ohio State University (1987–1989)
- Gerald Marwell (University of Wisconsin (1990–1993)
- Paula England (University of Arizona (1994–1996)
- Glenn Firebaugh (Pennsylvania State University (1997–2000)
- Charles Camic and Franklin Wilson (University of Wisconsin (2000–2003)
- Jerry Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania (2003–2006)
- Randy Hodson and Vincent Roscigno (Ohio State University (2006–2009)
- Tony Brown, Katharine M. Donato, Larry W. Isaac, and Holly J. McCammon, Vanderbilt University (2010-2012)
- Larry W. Isaac and Holly J. McCammon, Vanderbilt University (2013-2015)
- Omar Lizardo, Rory M. McVeigh, and Sarah Mustillo, University of Notre Dame (2016-2020)
References
- ^'American Sociological Association: Notre Dame Sociologists to Lead American Sociological Association's Flagship Journal'. www.asanet.org. 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ^Lengermann, Patricia Madoo (1979). 'The Founding of the American Sociological Review: The Anatomy of a Rebellion'. American Sociological Review. 44 (2): 185–198. doi:10.2307/2094504. JSTOR2094504.
- ^'Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology'. 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2017.
External links
- Official website (SAGE Publishing)
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