''The British Journal of Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed

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that was established in 1950 at the

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. It represents the mainstream of sociological thinking and research and publishes high quality papers on all aspects of the discipline, by academics from all over the world. The journal has been considered to be among "the highest-status journals

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are the leaders in their particular field". It is one of the three main sociology journals in the United Kingdom, along with ''

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

'' and ''

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''.A. H. Halsey, ''A History of Sociology in Britain'',

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, 2004, p. 183 The main founders were the sociologists Morris Ginsberg and

Thomas Humphrey Marshall Thomas Humphrey Marshall (1893–1981) was an English sociologist who is best known for his essay " Citizenship and Social Class," a key work on citizenship that introduced the idea that full citizenship includes civil, political, and social ci ...

. Their intended title, "The London Journal of Sociology", seems to have been changed by the publisher before the first issue was brought out. In the course of 1991–1994, a controversy between John Goldthorpe and others was carried on in its pages, regarding the merits and weaknesses of current

historical sociology Historical sociology is an interdisciplinary field of research that combines sociological and historical methods to understand the past, how societies have developed over time, and the impact this has on the present. It emphasises a mutual lin ...

.Robert Fine and Daniel Chernilo, "Classes and Nations in Recent Historical Sociology", in ''Handbook of Historical Sociology'', edited by Gerard Delanty and Engin Fahri Isin (SAGE Publications, 2003), p. 248. The most highly cited article, "Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory: The Case of Persisting Differentials in Educational Attainment" by John Goldthorpe, was cited 672 times as of 28 July 2015.

Abstracting and indexing

''British Journal of Sociology'' is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 1.894, ranking it 37 out of 142 journals in the category "Sociology".

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* {{London School of Economics Quarterly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1950 Wiley-Blackwell academic journals 1950 establishments in the United Kingdom British Sociological Association Academic journals associated with universities and colleges