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American Journal of Sociology Publication Info

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Coverage: 1895-2011 (Vols. 1-117)

About Journal

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DESCRIPTION

Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, American Journal of Sociology remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences. The journal presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociological reader and is open to sociologically informed contributions from anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. AJS prizes research that offers new ways of understanding the social; for example, a project currently under way seeks to compile a special issue organized around genetic influences on social interaction.

AJS offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and enduring scholars of social science. Commissioned review essays appear two or three times a year, offering the journal's readers a comparative, in-depth examination of prominent titles.

Although AJS publishes a very small percentage of the papers submitted to it, a double-blind review process is available to all qualified submissions, making the journal a center for exchange and debate "behind" the printed page and contributing to the robustness of social science research in general.


EDITORIAL BOARD


Editor

Andrew Abbott

Associate Editors

Julia Burdick-Will
Dan Huebner
Stephen Raudenbush
Mario Small

Book Review Editor

Kristen Schilt

Associate Editors, Book Review

Derwin Cheng
Jan Doering
Jean Lin
Danielle Raudenbush
Craig Tutterow

Managing Editor

Susan Allan

Editorial Assistants

Stephanie Jiambalvo
Theresa Rothschadl

Consulting Editors  

Shyon Baumann • Delia Baldassarri • Jason Beckfield • Irene Bloemradd • David Brady • Richard Breen • Chris Browning • Simon Cheng • Lynn Prince Cooke • Isabelle Fernandez-Mateo • Joseph Gerteis • Chad Alan Goldberg • Elizabeth Gorman • Don Grant • Eric Grodsky • Kieran Healy • Joseph Hermanowicz • Jennifer Johnson-Hanks • Ryan David King • Ching Kwan Lee • Isaac Martin • Kelly Moore • Kwai Ng • Monica Prasad • Jeff Timberlake • Stephen Vaisey • Frank van Tubergen • Andreas Wimmer • Al Young

Editorial Board

Gary Becker • Charles Bidwell • Donald J. Bogue • Karen Knorr Cetina • Terry N. Clark • Elisabeth S. Clemens • John Comaroff •  Andreas Glaeser  •  Hans Joas • Ryon Lancaster • Edward O. Laumann • Cheol-Sung Lee • Donald N. Levine • John Levi Martin • Omar McRoberts • Martin Riesebrodt • Ross M. Stolzenberg • Richard Taub • Linda Waite • Kazuo Yamaguchi • Dingxin Zhao

CONTACT EDITORIAL OFFICE

Please address all editorial correspondence to:

Andrew Abbott, Editor
American Journal of Sociology
5835 S. Kimbark Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637-1684

Telephone: (773) 702-8580; Fax: (773) 702-6207
ajs@press.uchicago.edu

Contributors, please consult Information for Authors.