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| Discipline | Sociology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | John Levi Martin |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1895–present |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press for The Department of Sociology atThe University of Chicago (United States) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 3.232 (2019) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Am. J. Sociol. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | AJSOAR |
| ISSN | 0002-9602 (print) 1537-5390 (web) |
| LCCN | 05031884 |
| JSTOR | 00029602 |
| OCLC no. | 42017129 |
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TheAmerican Journal of Sociology is apeer-reviewed bi-monthlyacademic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field ofsociology and relatedsocial sciences. It was founded in 1895[1] as the first journal in its discipline. It is along withAmerican Sociological Review considered one of the top journals in sociology.[2]
The current editor is John Levi Martin.[3] For its entire history, the journal has been housed at theUniversity of Chicago[4] and published by theUniversity of Chicago Press.
For its first thirty years, theAmerican Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association) was largely dominated by the sociology department of theUniversity of Chicago, and the quasi-official journal of the association was Chicago'sAmerican 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 weresocial theory andsocial 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 andinstitutional theory.[5]
In 1935, the executive committee of the American Sociological Society voted 5 to 4 against disestablishing theAmerican 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: theAmerican Sociological Review.[6]
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 includingEllsworth 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, andRobert Redfield.
According to theJournal Citation Reports, its 2019impact factor was 3.232, ranking it 8th out of 150 journals in the category "Sociology".[7]
In 2002, theAmerican Journal of Sociology created the Roger V. Gould prize in memory of its former editor. The $1,000 prize is awarded annually at theAmerican 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 includePeter Bearman,John Levi Martin,David C. Stark,Michael J. Rosenfeld,Elizabeth E. Bruch,Robert D. Mare,Shelley Correll, andRoberto Garvía.
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