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Social Forces
Cover:File:Cover_of_Social_Forces,_Volume_94,_Issue_1.jpg
Editor:Arne L. Kalleberg
Discipline:Social sciences
Former Names:The Journal of Social Forces
Abbreviation:Soc. Forces
Publisher:Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frequency:Quarterly
History:1922–present
Impact:3.575
Impact-Year:2020
Website:https://academic.oup.com/sf
Link1:https://academic.oup.com/sf
Link1-Name:Online access
Link2:http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/archive/
Link2-Name:Online archive
Jstor:00377732
Oclc:48534262
Lccn:2001-227382
Issn:0037-7732

Social Forces (formerly The Journal of Social Forces) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It concentrates on sociology but also has a multidisciplinary approach, publishing works from the fields of social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Each issue includes between 20 and 25 articles. In addition, the journal also publishes book reviews.

Social Forces was established by Howard W. Odum in 1922[1] as The Journal of Social Forces. The name was changed relatively quickly; since 1925 (volume 4), it has been published as Social Forces. Oxford University Press took over publication of the journal from the University of North Carolina Press in 2011.[2]

This journal is edited by Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

Abstracting and indexing

Social Forces is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.575, ranking it 23rd out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology".[3]

Former editors

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Madeleine Grawitz .

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    . Jean Leca .

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    . Elisabeth Gayon . Elisabeth Gayon . 1985 . Traité de science politique . Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique . 305 . fr . . 2-13-038858-2.
  2. Kalleberg, A. L. (2011). "Social Forces Tomorrow". Social Forces, 90(2), 345–347.
  3. Web site: 2021 . 2020 Journal Citation Reports – Journal Profile. Social Forces. . . Social Sciences . Web of Science .