American Journal of Sociology
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| Discipline | Sociology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | John Levi Martin |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1895–present |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago (United States) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 3.232 (2019) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Am. J. Sociol. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | AJSOAR |
| ISSN | 0002-9602 (print) 1537-5390 (web) |
| LCCN | 05031884 |
| JSTOR | 00029602 |
| OCLC no. | 42017129 |
| Links | |
The American Journal of Sociology (abbreviated AJS) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences. It was founded in 1895[1] as the first journal in its discipline. Along with the American Sociological Review, it is considered one of the top journals in the academic field of sociology.[2] The current editor is John Levi Martin.[3] For its entire history, the journal has been housed at the University of Chicago[4] and published by the University of Chicago Press.
History
[edit]For its first thirty years, the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association) was largely dominated by the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and the quasi-official journal of the association was the American Journal of Sociology.
The first issue of the American Journal of Sociology was published in July 1895.[5] In the first 25 years of the journal, the most prominent subjects were social theory and social psychology.[5] In the 1920s, statistical work became increasingly prominent in the journal.[5] Over the period 1920–1944, the journal's most prominent subject matters were social theory, social psychology, human ecology, and institutional theory.[5]
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 the University of Chicago: the American Sociological Review.[6]
Past editors
[edit]Past editors-in-chief of the journal have been:
- Albion Small (1895–1926)
- Ellsworth Faris (1933–1936)
- Ernest Burgess (1936–1940)
- Herbert Blumer (1940–1952)
- Everett Hughes (1952–1957)
- Peter Rossi (1957–1958)
- Everett Hughes (1959–1960)
- Peter Blau (1960–1966)
- C. Arnold Anderson (1966–1973)
- Charles Bidwell (1973–1978)
- Edward Laumann (1978–1984)
- William Parish (1984–1992)
- Marta Tienda (1992–1996)
- Edward Laumann (1996–1997)
- Roger V. Gould (1997–2000)
- Andrew Abbott (2000–2016)
- Elisabeth S. Clemens (2016–2022)
- John Levi Martin (2022–present)
From 1926 to 1933, the journal was co-edited by a number of different members of the University of Chicago faculty including Ellsworth Faris, Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess, Fay-Cooper Cole, Marion Talbot, Frederick Starr, Edward Sapir, Louis Wirth, Eyler Simpson, Edward Webster, Edwin Sutherland, William Ogburn, Herbert Blumer, and Robert Redfield.
Abstracting and indexing
[edit]According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor was 3.232, ranking it 8th out of 150 journals in the category "Sociology".[7]
Roger V. Gould Prize
[edit]In 2002, the American Journal of Sociology created the Roger V. Gould prize in memory of its former editor. The $1,000 prize is awarded annually at the American Sociological Association annual meeting to the paper from the previous volume of the journal that most "clearly embodies Roger's ideals as a sociologist: clarity, rigor, and scientific ambition combined with imagination on the one hand and a sure sense of empirical interest, importance, and accuracy on the other."[8] Winners include Peter Bearman, John Levi Martin, David C. Stark, Michael J. Rosenfeld, Elizabeth E. Bruch, Robert D. Mare, Shelley Correll, and Roberto Garvía.
References
[edit]- ^ Elisabeth Gayon (1985). "Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique". In Madeleine Grawitz [in French]; Jean Leca [in French] (eds.). Traité de science politique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 305. ISBN 2-13-038858-2.
- ^ Jacobs, Jerry A. (2016). "Journal Rankings in Sociology: Using the H Index with Google Scholar". The American Sociologist. 47 (2): 192–224. doi:10.1007/s12108-015-9292-7. ISSN 1936-4784.
- ^ "AJS ANNOUNCES NEW EDITOR". AJS. 2022.
- ^ Small, A. W. (1895). "The Era of Sociology". American Journal of Sociology. 1 (1): 14. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2761491.
- ^ a b c d Shanas, Ethel (1945). "The American Journal of Sociology Through Fifty Years". American Journal of Sociology. 50 (6): 522–533. doi:10.1086/219693. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2771397.
- ^ 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. JSTOR 2094504.
- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2019 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2020.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Abbott, Andrew (March 2002). "Roger V. Gould, 1966–2002". American Journal of Sociology. 107 (5). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: ii–iii. doi:10.1086/344090. JSTOR 10. S2CID 143122272.
Further reading
[edit]- Abbott, Andrew (1999). Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundred. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00099-2.
- Tienda, Marta (July 1994). "Editor's Note". American Journal of Sociology. 100 (1). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: vii–viii. doi:10.1086/230496. JSTOR 2782534. S2CID 222441272.
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