Social Forces

*Social Forces*
Discipline	Social sciences
Language	English
Edited by	Arne L. Kalleberg
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Journal of Social Forces
History	1922–present
Publisher	Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	3.575 (2020)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Soc. Forces
Indexing;
ISSN	0037-7732;
LCCN	2001-227382
JSTOR	00377732
OCLC no.	48534262
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

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.

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Social Forces was established by Howard W. Odum in 1922^[1] as The Journal of Social Forces.^[2] 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.^[3]

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

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".^[4]

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

[1]
Elisabeth Gayon (1985). "Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique". In Madeleine Grawitz [in French]; Jean Leca [in French] (eds.). Traité de science politique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 305. ISBN 2-13-038858-2.
[2]
Jocher, Katharine (1945). "Two Decades of Social Forces". Social Forces. 23 (3): 291–301. ISSN 0037-7732.
[3]
Kalleberg, A. L. (2011). "Social Forces Tomorrow". Social Forces, 90(2), 345–347. doi:10.1093/sf/sor033
[4]
"2020 Journal Citation Reports – Journal Profile. Social Forces". Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.