''Social Forces'' (formerly ''The Journal of Social Forces'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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published by

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for the Department of Sociology at the

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. It concentrates on

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but also has a multidisciplinary approach, publishing works from the fields of

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, and

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. Each issue includes between 20 and 25 articles. In addition, the journal also publishes

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s. ''Social Forces'' was established by Howard W. Odum in 1922 as ''The Journal of Social Forces''. The name was changed relatively quickly; since 1925 (volume 4), it has been published as ''Social Forces''.

took over publication of the journal from the

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in 2011.Kalleberg, A. L. (2011). "Social Forces Tomorrow". ''Social Forces'', 90(2), 345–347. This journal is edited by Arne L. Kalleberg (

Abstracting and indexing

''Social Forces'' is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.575, ranking it 23rd out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology".

Former editors

* Peter R. Uhlenberg, 2006–2007 * Judith R. Blau, 2003–2006 *

Richard L. Simpson Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

, 1969–1972; 1983–2003 * Everett K. Wilson, 1972–1982 * Guy Benton Johnson, 1961–1969 *

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, 1957–1969 * Gordon W. Blackwell, 1955–1956 * Katharine Jocher, 1927–1961 * Howard W. Odum, 1922–1954

References

External links

''Social Forces''
at the Department of Sociology at the

*
''Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science''

''Social Forces''
at

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