American Sociological Review
The American Sociological Review is the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association, publishing original research that advances the understanding of social life and the development of sociological theory and method.《美国社会学评论》(The American Sociological Review)是美国社会学会旗舰刊,发表增进对社会生活理解并推动社会学理论与方法发展的原创研究。
Scope
The journal's stated aim is to publish original research of interest to the discipline of sociology as a whole, with its official scope covering:刊物官方宗旨为发表对整个社会学学科有意义的原创研究,官方声明的征稿范围包括:
- Social structure and inequality: research on class, status, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, migration, and other dimensions of social stratification and inequality, including their origins, reproduction, and consequences.社会结构与不平等: 关于阶级、地位、种族、族裔、性别、性取向、迁移以及社会分层与不平等其他维度的研究,涵盖其起源、再生产与后果等。
- Institutions and social processes: studies of social institutions including the family, education, work and organizations, religion, health and medicine, law, and the state, and of the social processes that shape and are shaped by them.制度与社会过程: 关于家庭、教育、工作与组织、宗教、健康与医疗、法律、国家等社会制度以及塑造制度且被制度塑造的社会过程的研究。
- Sociological theory: work that develops, extends, and tests sociological theory, including structural, cultural, interactionist, rational choice, and critical perspectives, and that addresses core theoretical questions about social order and change.社会学理论: 发展、拓展与检验社会学理论的研究,涵盖结构主义、文化、互动论、理性选择与批判视角,回答关于社会秩序与变迁的核心理论问题。
- Methods and demography: methodological innovations in quantitative and qualitative sociology, and research on population dynamics, fertility, mortality, migration, and demographic change.方法与人口学: 定量与定性社会学中的方法创新,以及关于人口动态、生育、死亡、迁移与人口变迁的研究。
- Global and historical sociology: research on social phenomena across national and regional contexts, including comparative and historical studies of globalization, development, political change, and the longue durée of social life.全球与历史社会学: 跨越国家与区域情境的社会现象研究,包括全球化、发展、政治变迁以及社会生活长时段的比较与历史研究。
- Article types: original research articles, review essays, and comments and replies, with the journal seeking work that is of broad disciplinary interest rather than limited to a narrow specialization.栏目设置: 接受原创研究论文、综述文章以及评论与回应,刊物追求对整个学科有广泛意义而非局限于狭窄专门领域的工作。
History
- Founding: the journal was founded in 1936 by the American Sociological Association as the association's leading general-interest research journal, succeeding the association's earlier Proceedings as the primary research publication.创刊: 该刊 1936 年由美国社会学会创刊,作为学会主要综合研究期刊,取代学会早期《会议录》成为首要研究出版物。
- Early editorial concentration: from 1948 to 1968, approximately sixty percent of the journal's editors were based at just three universities, Chicago, Harvard, and Columbia, reflecting the institutional concentration of American sociology in that period.早期编辑集中度: 1948 至 1968 年间,该刊约百分之六十的主编来自芝加哥、哈佛与哥伦比亚三所大学,反映了当时美国社会学的机构集中格局。
- ASA flagship: throughout its history the journal has been the official flagship research journal of the American Sociological Association and is widely regarded as one of the leading journals in the discipline worldwide.ASA 旗舰刊: 在整个历史中该刊一直是美国社会学会的官方旗舰研究期刊,被广泛视为全球该学科顶尖期刊之一。
- Editorial leadership: the journal is led by an editorial team appointed by the association for a fixed term, with recent terms organized around co-editors drawn from sociology departments at leading research universities.编辑领导: 该刊由学会任命的固定任期编辑团队领导,近期任期由来自顶尖研究型大学社会学系的联合主编组成。
Editors
The journal is led by a co-editorial team appointed by the American Sociological Association:该刊由美国社会学会任命的联合编辑团队领导:
- Co-editors: Larry W. Isaac, Centennial Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, whose research concerns labor, political economy, and social movements in historical perspective, and Holly J. McCammon, Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, whose work focuses on social movements, law, and gender.联合主编: 拉里·艾萨克(Larry W. Isaac),范德堡大学社会学百年讲席教授,研究方向为历史视角下的劳工、政治经济与社会运动;霍莉·麦卡蒙(Holly J. McCammon),范德堡大学社会学教授,研究方向为社会运动、法律与性别。
- Succession: previous editors and co-editors include William F. Ogburn (the inaugural editor), Reinhard Bendix, Seymour Martin Lipset, Peter M. Blau, Morris Zelditch, Karen S. Cook, Paula England, and Rory McVeigh, among others, with editorial terms rotating among leading sociology departments.历任编辑: 历任主编与联合主编包括创刊主编威廉·奥格本(William F. Ogburn)、莱因哈特·本迪克斯(Reinhard Bendix)、西摩·马丁·李普塞特(Seymour Martin Lipset)、彼得·布劳(Peter M. Blau)、莫里斯·泽尔迪奇(Morris Zelditch)、卡伦·库克(Karen S. Cook)、宝拉·英格兰(Paula England)与罗里·麦克维(Rory McVeigh)等,编辑任期在顶尖社会学系之间轮替。
- Associate editors: associate editors cover the major subfields of sociology and are responsible for overseeing the peer review of manuscripts within their areas of expertise.副编辑团队: 副编辑覆盖社会学主要子领域,负责监督其专长范围内稿件的同行评审。
- Review model: manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by external experts, with final decisions made by the co-editors based on reviewer assessments and the disciplinary significance of the work.评审模式: 稿件由外部专家进行双盲同行评审,联合主编基于评审意见与稿件的学科重要性做出最终决定。