The Revue Française de Sociologie is a quarterly journal founded in 1960 by Jean Stoetzel and published with support from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It aims at publishing work that furthers knowledge of the social world and the development of conceptual and technical instruments in the service of that knowledge. With its readership of professional scientists, the Revue Française de Sociologie provides an open forum for sociological thought and plays an important role in promoting French and French-language sociological research. Since 2001, the journal has further developed this role by inaugurating an annual selection of Revue articles in English translation. The Revue Française de Sociologie covers all areas of the discipline and publishes a variety of texts, including theoretical and empirical studies, reviews of research questions and book reviews. Issues are regularly focused, wholly or partially, on a single subject or question.