Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Soc. Rev. Language English Publication history 1908-present | ||
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Edited by Sarah Green, Mike Michael, Michael Burawoy, Beverley Skeggs | ||
The Sociological Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology, including anthropology, criminology, philosophy, education, gender, medicine, and organization. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell and 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.
Contents
The Sociological Review also publishes a monograph series that publishes scholarly articles on issues of general sociological interest.
History
Established in 1908 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.
Editors
The following persons have been editors of this journal:
The current editors are Sarah Green (University of Helsinki), Mike Michael (University of Sydney), Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley), and Beverley Skeggs (University of London).
Abstracting and indexing
The Sociological Review is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.102.