Zeitschrift
American Journal of Sociology
Website: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ajs/about
Erscheint: 6 issues/year
Established in 1895 as the first US scholarly journal in its field, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociology reader and is open to contributions from across the social sciences—sociology, political science, economics, history, anthropology, and statistics—that seriously engage the sociological literature to forge new ways of understanding the social.
AJS offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and enduring scholars of social science. Commissioned review essays appear occasionally, offering readers a comparative, in-depth examination of prominent titles.
Although AJS publishes a very small percentage of the papers submitted to it, a double-blind review process is available to all qualified submissions, making the journal a center for exchange and debate "behind" the printed page and contributing to the robustness of social science research in general.
Ausgaben
Ausgabe | Zeitschrift
American Journal of Sociology 128 (2022), 4
A core feature of prisons is their institutionalization of a fixed male/female binary. Yet, definitions of and responses to prison gender boundary violation are historically variable. This article draws on archival data, 20 months of ethnography, and 136 interviews to investigate the making, managing, and navigating of…
Ausgabe | Zeitschrift
American Journal of Sociology 128 (2022), 3
Why do some cities adopt practices to resolve social and environmental problems more rapidly and extensively than others? Although diffusion studies emphasize administrative adoption by central authorities, a range of private and public organizations are involved in the distributed adoption of innovations. The author…