The ''American Journal of Sociology'' is a
peer-reviewed bi-monthly
academic journal
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that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of
sociology
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and related
social science
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s. It was founded in 1895
as the first journal in its discipline. The current editor is Elisabeth S. Clemens. For its entire history, the journal has been housed at the
University of Chicago
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and published by the
University of Chicago Press
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.
Past editors
Past editors-in-chief of the journal have been:
From 1926 to 1933, the journal was co-edited by a number of different members of the University of Chicago faculty including
Ellsworth Faris Ellsworth Faris (September 30, 1874 – December 19, 1953) was an influential sociologist of the Chicago school.
Faris was born in 1874 in Salem, Tennessee. He studied at Texas Christian University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1894 ...
,
Robert E. Park,
Ernest Burgess,
Fay-Cooper Cole
Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago; he was a student of Franz Boas. Most famously, he was a witness for the defense for Joh ...
,
Marion Talbot
Marion Talbot (July 31, 1858 – October 20, 1948) was Dean of Women at the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1925, and an influential leader in the higher education of women in the United States during the early 20th century. In 1882, whil ...
,
Frederick Starr,
Edward Sapir,
Louis Wirth
Louis Wirth (August 28, 1897 – May 3, 1952) was an American sociologist and member of the Chicago school of sociology. His interests included city life, minority group behavior, and mass media, and he is recognised as one of the leading urban ...
,
Eyler Simpson
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* John Eyler, author, academic and historian
* Larry Eyler (1952–1994), American serial killer
* Phil Eyler
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,
Edward Webster,
Edwin Sutherland,
William Ogburn
William Fielding Ogburn (June 29, 1886 – April 27, 1959) was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer U ...
,
Herbert Blumer
Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research. Believing that individuals create social reality through collective ...
, and
Robert Redfield.
Abstracting and indexing
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', its 2019
impact factor
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was 3.232, ranking it 8th out of 150 journals in the category "Sociology".
Roger V. Gould Prize
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
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fif ...
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."
Winners include
Peter Bearman
Peter Shawn Bearman (born 1956) is an American sociologist, notable for his contributions to the fields of adolescent health, research design, structural analysis, textual analysis, oral history and social networks. He is the Jonathan R. Cole ...
,
John Levi Martin,
Michael J. Rosenfeld,
Elizabeth E. Bruch,
Robert D. Mare,
Shelley Correll, and
Roberto Garvía
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
.
References
Further reading
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External links
* {{Official website, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ajs
''American Journal of Sociology''at The Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago
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The American Journal of Sociology, 1896-1916
Sociology journals
University of Chicago Press academic journals
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals
Publications established in 1895