American Journal of Sociology
Last updated ISSN 0002-9602
American Journal of Sociology is published by University of Chicago Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Journal of Sociology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Social Capital and Networks
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- American History and Culture
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0002-9602, 1537-5390 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 28,013 |
| Publishing since | 1800 |
| Journal website | www.journals.uchicago.edu/ajs |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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