American Sociological Review

American Sociological Review
Abbreviated title (ISO)	Am. Sociol. Rev.
Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Tony Brown, Katharine Donato, Larry Isaac, Holly McCammon
Publication details
Publisher	SAGE Publications (United States)
Publication history	1936–present
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor (2010)	3.693
Indexing
ISSN	0003-1224
LCCN	37010449
OCLC number	38161061
Links
Journal homepage Online access JSTOR

The American Sociological Review is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology, including new theoretical developments, results of research that advance the understanding of fundamental social processes, and methodological innovations. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It was established in 1936. The current editors in chief are Tony Brown, Katharine Donato, Larry Isaac, and Holly McCammon (Vanderbilt University).

Acceptance rate

In 2010, the journal considered 684 manuscripts and accepted 8% for publication. On average, authors waited 11.4 weeks for a first editorial decision.

Founding

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 onto for consideration of the general membership which voted 2 to 1 to establish a new journal independent of Chicago: the American Sociological Review.

Past editors

Editors	Institution	Tenure
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 Maxwell	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

See also

• ASA style

External links

• Official website
• Journal page at publisher's website
• SAGE