''The Sociological Review'' is a quarterly

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academic journal covering all aspects of sociology, including anthropology,

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, education, gender, medicine, and organization. The journal is published by

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; before 2017 it was published by Wiley-Blackwell. It 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. ''The Sociological Review'' also publishes a

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series that presents scholarly articles on issues of general sociological interest, and a themed monthly magazine that ″present timely insights grounded in sociological thinking and ..writing for a broad readership″.

History

Established in 1908 as a successor of the ''

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'', 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

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theory of the early 20th century.

Editors

The following persons have been editors of this journal: * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse 1908–1910 *

Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe (1868–1958) was an English journalist and lecturer. Life Ratcliffe's father owned a King's Lynn flour mill, but moved to work as a railway clerk in Manchester when that business failed. Samuel was sent to be live with an ...

1910–1917 *

Victor Branford Victor Branford (25 September 1863 – 22 June 1930) was a British sociologist. He was the founder of the Sociological Society and was made an Honorary member of the American Sociological Society, now the American Sociological Association. Lif ...

1917–? * Alexander Carr-Saunders, Alexander Farquharson, and

Morris Ginsberg Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of '' The Sociological Review'' in the 1930s and later became the founding chairm ...

1934–? The current Editor-in-Chief of The Sociological Review Journal is Xiaodong (Wes) Lin.

Abstracting and indexing

''The Sociological Review'' is abstracted and indexed in the

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. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.258.

References

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