This list presents representative
academic journal
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s covering
sociology
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and its various subfields.
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Acta Sociologica''
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The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
''The American Journal of Economics and Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1941 by Will Lissner with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. The purpose of the journal was to create a forum for continuing discu ...
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American Journal of Sociology
The ''American Journal of Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences. It was founded in 1895 as the first journal in its disci ...
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American Sociological Review
The ''American Sociological Review'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic 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- ...
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales''
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Année Sociologique''
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Annual Review of Sociology
The ''Annual Review of Sociology'' is an annual peer-reviewed review journal published by Annual Reviews since 1975. It is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. As of 2022, ''Journal Citation Reports'' gives the journal a ...
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Armed Forces & Society''
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Articulo – Journal of Urban Research''
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Body & Society''
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British Journal of Sociology
''The British Journal of Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics. It represents the mainstream of sociological thinking and research and publishes high quality papers on all asp ...
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Chinese Sociological Review''
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City and Community''
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Comparative Studies in Society and History''
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Contemporary Jewry
''Contemporary Jewry'' is a peer reviewed academic journal published by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) is a cross-disciplinary organization of individuals w ...
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Contemporary Sociology
''Contemporary Sociology'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal of sociology published by SAGE Publications in association with the American Sociological Association since 1972. Each issue of the journal publishes many in-depth as well as ...
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Contributions to Indian Sociology''
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Contexts''
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Criminology
Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and ...
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Critical Sociology''
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Current Sociology''
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Demography''
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Deviant Behavior''
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Electronic Journal of Sociology''
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Ethnic and Racial Studies''
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European Sociological Review''
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Gender and Society''
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International Review of Social History''
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Journal of Applied Social Science''
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation''
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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography''
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Journal of Family Issues
''Journal of Family Issues'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of family studies. The journal's editor-in-chief is Constance L. Shehan (University of Florida). It was established in 1980 and is currently publi ...
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior''
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Journal of Homosexuality
The ''Journal of Homosexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts.
History
The founding editor-in-chief was Ch ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
The ''Journal of Marriage and Family'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations. It was established in 1939 as ''Living'', renamed to ''Marriage and Family Living'' in 1 ...
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Journal of Mundane Behavior''
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Journal of Politics & Society''
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Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency''
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Journal of Sociology''
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Journal of World-Systems Research''
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie''
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Men and Masculinities''
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Migration Letters''
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Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research''
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Nature and Culture''
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Population and Development Review
''Population and Development Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Population Council. It was established in 1975 and the journal is co-edited by Raya Muttarak and Joshua Wilde. The j ...
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Public Culture''
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Qualitative Sociology''
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Quality & Quantity''
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Research and Practice in Social Sciences''
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Rural Sociology
Rural sociology is a field of sociology traditionally associated with the study of social structure and conflict in rural areas. It is an active academic field in much of the world, originating in the United States in the 1910s with close ties ...
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Science and Society
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society''
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Social Currents''
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Social Forces
''Social Forces'' (formerly ''The Journal of Social Forces'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ...
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Social Justice
Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals f ...
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Social Networks
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for ...
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Social Problems
A social issue is a problem that affects many people within a society. It is a group of common problems in present-day society and ones that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's cont ...
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Social Psychology Quarterly''
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Social Research
Social research is a research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan. Social research methodologies can be classified as quantitative and qualitative.
* Quantitative designs approach social phenomena through quantifiabl ...
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soc ...
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Socio-Economic Review''
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Sociological Forum
''Sociological Forum'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Eastern Sociological Society. The journal was established in 1986 with Robin M. Williams Jr as founding editor-in-chief. Subsequent editors ...
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Sociological Inquiry''
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Sociological Insight''
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Sociological Methodology''
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Sociological Perspectives''
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Sociological Quarterly''
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Sociological Research Online''
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Sociological Theory
A sociological theory is a that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective,Macionis, John and Linda M. Gerber. 2010. ''Sociology'' (7th Canadian ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson E ...
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Sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...
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Sociology of Education''
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Symbolic Interaction
Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to particular effects of communication and interaction in people to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence w ...
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Teaching Sociology''
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Tönnies-Forum''
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Work and Occupations''
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Youth & Society''
See also
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List of academic journals
External links
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SCImago Journal Rank
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Journals
Sociology
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...