''The British Journal of Sociology'' is a

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that was established in 1950 at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 milli ...

. It represents the mainstream of sociological thinking and research and publishes high quality papers on all aspects of the discipline, by academics from all over the world. The journal has been considered to be among "the highest-status journals hatare the leaders in their particular field". It is one of the three main sociology journals in the United Kingdom, along with ''

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 an ...

'' and '' The Sociological Review''.A. H. Halsey, ''A History of Sociology in Britain'',

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, 2004, p. 183 The main founders were the sociologists

Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of '' The Sociological Review'' in the 1930s and later became the founding chairm ...

and Thomas Humphrey Marshall. Their intended title, "The London Journal of Sociology", seems to have been changed by the publisher before the first issue was brought out. In the course of 1991–1994, a controversy between

John Goldthorpe John Harry Goldthorpe (born 27 May 1935) is a British sociologist. He is an emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His main research interests are in the fields of social stratification and mobility, and comparative macro-sociology. He ...

and others was carried on in its pages, regarding the merits and weaknesses of current historical sociology.Robert Fine and Daniel Chernilo, "Classes and Nations in Recent Historical Sociology", in ''Handbook of Historical Sociology'', edited by Gerard Delanty and Engin Fahri Isin (SAGE Publications, 2003), p. 248. The most highly cited article, "Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory: The Case of Persisting Differentials in Educational Attainment" by John Goldthorpe, was cited 672 times as of 28 July 2015.

Abstracting and indexing

''British Journal of Sociology'' is abstracted and indexed in the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 1.894, ranking it 37 out of 142 journals in the category "Sociology".

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