''The Sociological Review'' is a quarterly

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covering all aspects of

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 ...

, including

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, and

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. The journal is published by

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; before 2017 it was published by

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. It is one of the three "main sociology journals in Britain", along with the ''

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'' and ''

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 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 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 and ...

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 '' Papers of the Sociological Society'', its founder and first

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was

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, FBA (8 September 1864 – 21 June 1929) was an English liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating i ...

. 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: *

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 Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, (14 January 1886 – 6 October 1966) was an English biologist, sociologist, academic, and academic administrator. He was Director of the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1957. Early life Carr-Saunde ...

, 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 ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 4.258.

References

External links

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