ASA Scholarly Journals
The American Sociological Association publishes 15 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals that are popular in sociological research and related areas of scholarship. These scholarly journals can be an excellent starting point for student research. The list below includes links to the ASA journals that we currently have access to through UNCW library. For the few ASA journals listed that are not currently accessible through UNCW Library, access to individual articles can easily be requested for free through InterLibrary Loan: https://library.uncw.edu/ill.
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American Sociological Review
ASA’s flagship journal, includes the latest general interest scholarship in sociology that advances our understanding of fundamental social processes through theoretical, methodological, and empirical innovation -
City & CommunityWe do not currently have access to this journal, but digital copies of individual articles can easily be requested for free using InterLibrary Loan.
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Contemporary Sociology
publishes reviews and critical discussions of recent books in sociology that merit the attention of sociologists -
Contexts
is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. It is the public face of sociology -
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
publishes empirical and theoretical articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and health care -
Journal of World Systems Research
an open access, online-only journal of the ASA Section on Political Economy of the World-System, publishes research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. Because this journal is open access, this link takes you to the journal's freely available archives. -
Sex & SexualitiesWe do not currently have access to this journal, but digital copies of individual articles can easily be requested for free using InterLibrary Loan.
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Social Psychology Quarterly
publishes theoretical and empirical work on the link between the individual and society, including the study of the relations of individuals to one another, as well as to groups, collectivities, and institutions -
Society & Mental Health
a journal of the ASA Section on Sociology of Mental Health, publishes articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of the social origins of mental health and illness, the social consequences for persons with mental illness, and the organization and financing of mental health services and care -
Sociological Methodology
publishes qualitative and quantitative contributions that address the full range of methodological problems confronted by empirical research in the social sciences -
Sociological Theory
publishes work in all areas of theory, including new substantive theories, history of theory, metatheory, formal theory construction, and synthetic contributions -
Sociology of Education
publishes research that examines how social institutions and individuals’ experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development -
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
a journal of the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, publishes sociological research on race and ethnicity across epistemological, methodological, and theoretical orientations -
Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
provides an open access online-only forum for rapid publication of sociological research from any subfield of the discipline -
Teaching Sociology
publishes articles, conversations, notes, and reviews to advance the quality of sociology instruction and the scholarship of teaching and learning in sociology