''Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed

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published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the

British Sociological Association The British Sociological Association (BSA) is a scholarly and professional society for sociologists in the United Kingdom, and was founded in 1951. It publishes the academic journals ''Sociology'', '' Work, Employment and Society, Sociological R ...

. ''Sociology'' is the highest impact ranked journal in the UK for the subject area. ''Sociology'' is regarded as one of the three "main sociology journals in Britain," along with ''

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'' and the ''

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 ...

''. The journal was established in 1967 as "the clearest intellectual representative of the social aspirations of the Butskellite era," with

Michael Banton Michael Parker Banton CMG, FRAI (8 September 1926 – 22 May 2018) was a British social scientist, known primarily for his publications on racial and ethnic relations. He was also the first editor of ''Sociology'' (1966-1969). Academic contrib ...

serving as its first editor. It was formerly published by

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and has been published by Sage Publications since 2002. Shortly after its establishment, it became the official journal of the

, replacing the ''

''.

A. H. Halsey Albert Henry 'Chelly' Halsey (13 April 1923 – 14 October 2014) was a British sociologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Social and Administrative Studies at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of ...

, ''A History of Sociology in Britain'',

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, 2004, p. 183

Abstracting and indexing

''Sociology'' is abstracted and indexed in

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and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

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'', its 2019

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is 4.816, ranking it 8 out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology".

Former editors

1967–1970 *

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 ...

1970–1973 * Gordon Horobin 1973- * Philip Abrams * Joan Chandler * David S. Byrne *

Martin Albrow Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist at Reading University, and subsequently wor ...

1981–1984 *

Jennifer Platt Jennifer Platt FAcSS is a sociologist who is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex, where she taught from 1964 to 2002. She has been President of the British Sociological Association The British Sociological Association (BSA) is a schol ...

1985–1987 * David Morgan 1992–1993 * Stephanie Lawlor 2003–2006

Notable articles

According to

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, the most-cited articles published in ''Sociology'' are: * John Scott, "Social network analysis", Sociology 1988 vol. 22 no. 1 109-127 *John Child, "Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice", Sociology 1972 vol. 6 no. 1 1-22 *

Sylvia Walby Sylvia Theresa Walby (born 16 October 1953) is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Sociology, Director of the Violence and Society Centre at the City University of London. She has an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfas ...

, "Theorising patriarchy", Sociology 1989 vol. 23 no. 2 213-234 * Bryan S. Turner, "Outline of a Theory of Citizenship", Sociology 1990 vol. 24 no. 2 189-217 *

, "Women and Class Analysis: In Defence of the Conventional View", Sociology 1983 vol. 17 no. 4 465-488 , the most highly cited article, "Social network analysis" by John Scott, had been cited over 5500 times.

References

External links

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