Social Forces

Social Forces (formerly The Journal of Social Forces) is a quarterly

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

• Peter R. Uhlenberg, 2006–2007
• Judith R. Blau
  , 2003–2006
• Richard L. Simpson, 1969–1972; 1983–2003
• Everett K. Wilson, 1972–1982
• Guy Benton Johnson, 1961–1969
• Rupert B. Vance, 1957–1969
• Gordon W. Blackwell, 1955–1956
• Katharine Jocher, 1927–1961
• Howard W. Odum, 1922–1954

References

External links

• Social Forces at the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Official website
• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
• Social Forces, at
  Project MUSE

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