American Journal of Sociology

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History

For its first thirty years, the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association) was largely dominated by the sociology department of the University of Chicago, and the quasi-official journal of the association was Chicago's American Journal of Sociology.

The first issue of the AJS was published in July 1895. [5] In the first 25 years of the journal, the most prominent subjects were social theory and social psychology. [5] In the 1920s, statistical work became increasingly prominent in the journal. [5] Over the period 1920–1944, the journal's most prominent subject matters were social theory, social psychology, human ecology and institutional theory. [5]

In 1935, the executive committee of the American Sociological Society voted 5 to 4 against disestablishing the American Journal of Sociology as the official journal of society, but the measure was passed on for consideration of the general membership, which voted 2 to 1 to establish a new journal independent of Chicago: the American Sociological Review . [6]

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, Robert E. Park, Ernest Burgess, Fay-Cooper Cole, Marion Talbot, Frederick Starr, Edward Sapir, Louis Wirth, Eyler Simpson, Edward Webster, Edwin Sutherland, William Ogburn, Herbert Blumer, and Robert Redfield.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports , its 2019 impact factor was 3.232, ranking it 8th out of 150 journals in the category "Sociology". [7]

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 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." [8] Winners include Peter Bearman, John Levi Martin, Michael J. Rosenfeld, Elizabeth E. Bruch, Robert D. Mare, Shelley Correll, and Roberto Garvía.

References

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Gayon (1985). "Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique". In Madeleine Grawitz [in French]; Jean Leca [in French] (eds.). Traité de science politique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 305. ISBN   2-13-038858-2.
  2. ↑ Jacobs, Jerry A. (2016). "Journal Rankings in Sociology: Using the H Index with Google Scholar". The American Sociologist. 47 (2): 192–224. doi:10.1007/s12108-015-9292-7. ISSN   1936-4784.
  3. ↑ "AJS ANNOUNCES NEW EDITOR". AJS. 2022.
  4. ↑ Small, A. W. (1895). "The Era of Sociology". American Journal of Sociology. 1 (1): 14. ISSN   0002-9602. JSTOR   2761491.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Shanas, Ethel (1945). "The American Journal of Sociology Through Fifty Years". American Journal of Sociology. 50 (6): 522–533. doi:10.1086/219693. ISSN   0002-9602. JSTOR   2771397.
  6. ↑ Lengermann, Patricia Madoo (1979). "The Founding of the American Sociological Review: The Anatomy of a Rebellion". American Sociological Review. 44 (2): 185–198. doi:10.2307/2094504. JSTOR   2094504.
  7. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Sociology". 2019 Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2020.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Abbott, Andrew (March 2002). "Roger V. Gould, 1966–2002". American Journal of Sociology. 107 (5). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: ii–iii. doi:10.1086/344090. JSTOR   10. S2CID   143122272.

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