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The Sociological Review

Academic journal

The Sociological Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology, including anthropology, criminology, philosophy, education, gender, medicine, and organization. The journal is published by SAGE Publications; before 2017 it was published by Wiley-Blackwell. It is one of the three "main sociology journals in Britain", along with the British Journal of Sociology and Sociology, and the oldest British sociology journal.[1]

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The Sociological Review also publishes a monograph series that presents scholarly articles on issues of general sociological interest, and a themed monthly magazine that "present[s] timely insights grounded in sociological thinking and [...] writing for a broad readership".[2]

History

Established in 1908[3] as a successor of the Papers of the Sociological Society, its founder and first editor-in-chief was Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. As the first professor of sociology in the United Kingdom, Hobhouse had a central role in establishing sociology as an academic discipline, and The Sociological Review became an important forum in this regard, and generally as a forum for new liberal theory of the early 20th century.[4]

Editors

The journal's founder and first editor, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

The following persons have been editors of this journal:

The current editor-in-chief of The Sociological Review Journal is Xiaodong (Wes) Lin.[5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.5.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    A. H. Halsey, A History of Sociology in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2004, p. 183
  2. [2]
    "Our Team".
  3. [3]
    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. 306. ISBN 2-13-038858-2.
  4. [4]
    Stefan Collini, Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880–1914, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0521274087
  5. [5]
    "Our Team".
  6. [6]
    "The Sociological Review". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
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