British Journal of Sociology
Last updated ISSN 0007-1315
British Journal of Sociology is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,840.
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What it publishes
Recent work in British 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
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Critical Realism in Sociology
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0007-1315, 1468-4446 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,840 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 7,137 |
| Publishing since | 1950 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-4 |
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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