Sociological Perspectives

Sociological Perspectives is the official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association. It is a peer-reviewed academic journal published in six issues each year by SAGE. It was first published in 1957 as The Pacific Sociological Review, with John M. Foskett as founding editor. Since 1983 it is known under its current name.^[1]

Sociological Perspectives

Discipline	Sociology
Language	English
Edited by	Black Hawk Hancock, Bryan Sykes (2020-2022)
Publication details
Former name(s)	Pacific Sociological Review
History	1957–present
Publisher	SAGE for the Pacific Sociological Association (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.194 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Sociol. Perspect.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0731-1214 (print) 1533-8673 (web)
LCCN	83643392
JSTOR	07311214
OCLC no.	8123782
Links
Online access Online archive

As of 2022, the editors are Black Hawk Hancock and Bryan L. Sykes. Articles typically address social processes and are related to economic, political, social, and historical issues.

Abstracting and indexing

Sociological Perspectives is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.771, ranking it 80th out of 149 journals in the category "Sociology", and a 5-year impact factor of 2.384.^[2]