The American Sociological Review is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology . It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association . It was established in 1936. It is along with American Journal of Sociology considered one of the top journals in sociology.
5-634: The editors-in-chief are David Cort ( University of Massachusetts Amherst ), Laurel Smith-Doerr ( University of Massachusetts Amherst ), and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey ( University of Massachusetts Amherst ). For its first thirty years, the American Sociological Society (now the American Sociological Association) was largely dominated by the sociology department of the University of Chicago , and
10-657: The University of Michigan. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports , its 2019 impact factor is 9.1, ranking it 3rd out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology". The following persons have been editors-in-chief: Editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief ( EIC ), also known as lead editor or chief editor , is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of
15-595: The measure was passed on for consideration of the general membership, which voted 2 to 1 to establish a new journal independent of Chicago: the American Sociological Review . Over the period 1948–1968, more than 60% editors of the ASR earned their doctorate at University of Chicago, Harvard University or Columbia University. Over the period 1955–1965, four out of ten articles in the ASR were by individuals with doctorates from Chicago, Columbia, Harvard or
20-410: The organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers , magazines , yearbooks , and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and the editorial staff. The term is also applied to academic journals , where the editor-in-chief gives the ultimate decision whether
25-545: The quasi-official journal of the association was Chicago's American Journal of Sociology . The creation of the American Sociological Review has been seen as a rebellion against the dominance of the Chicago School in sociology. In 1935, the executive committee of the American Sociological Society voted 5 to 4 against disestablishing the American Journal of Sociology as the official journal of society, but
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