A selective list of sociology journals suitable for qualitative paper submission Compiled by Nick Fox, University of Sheffield, 2013 IF = Impact Factor General Journals Papers submitted to these journals should be of interest to a general sociological audience Journal and web address IF Notes British Journal of Sociology http://www2.lse.ac.uk/bjs/home.aspx Journal of Sociology http://jos.sagepub.com Qualitative Sociology http://link.springer.com/journal/11133 Sage Open http://sgo.sagepub.com/ Sociology http://soc.sagepub.com/ Sociological Review http://www.keele.ac.uk/socrev/ Sociological Research Online http://www.socresonline.org.uk/ 1.6 High quality international journal that has represented the mainstream of sociological thinking and research. 0.9 Papers on sociological research and theory on issues of interest to a primary Australian sociology audience. 0.8 Theoretical and analytical research based on interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, and content analysis. - Open access journal of social and behavioural sciences and the humanities. Fee for publication: $99 (waivable). 1.4 Papers that advance theoretical understanding or promote and report empirical research across sociology. 26 per cent acceptance rate. 0.6 All areas of sociology, social anthropology, cultural and women's studies, social policy and industrial relations. Meticulous but lengthy review process. 0.4 Online only. All topics in sociology, and publish special sections and rapid response articles, which address key issues in the public arena.
Sociology of Culture Cultural Sociology http://cus.sagepub.com/ European Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.sagepub.com/journals/journal200898 International Journal of Cultural Studies http://ics.sagepub.com/ Media, Culture and Society http://mcs.sagepub.com/ Poetics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/poetics/ 0.4 BSA journal focusing on empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers. 0.3 The journal promotes a conception of cultural studies rooted in lived experience. 0.4 Accepts theoretical and empirical papers addressing local and regional realities, every-day practices, identities, media, texts and cultural forms. 1.1 Situates media and information and communication technologies within a political, economic, cultural and historical contexts 1.4 Interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Focuses on empirical papers Gender, Sexuality and Women s Studies Feminist Review http://www.feminist-review.com/ Gender & Society http://gas.sagepub.com/ Men and Masculinities http://jmm.sagepub.com/ 0.4 Is committed to exploring gender in its relationship to other axes of power including race, class and sexuality. 2.4 Top journal in women s studies that analyses gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations and societies. 10 per cent acceptance rate. 0.8 Using diverse methodologies, M&M's articles explore the evolving roles and perceptions of men across society. Sexualities 0.6 Covers interdisciplinary topics including the stratification of sexualities by
http://sexualities.sagepub.com/ class, race, gender and age, plus queer theory and lesbian and gay studies. Political, economic and work sociology Cultural Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/current Human Relations http://hum.sagepub.com/ International Political Sociology http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(issn)1749-5687 International Sociology http://iss.sagepub.com/ Work, Employment & Society http://wes.sagepub.com/ 0.5 Explores the relation between cultural practices, everyday life, material, economic, political, geographical and historical contexts. 1.7 Focuses on social relationships, practices and processes that affect the nature, structure and conditions of work and work organizations. 1.4 Concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders. 1.5 Explores contemporary social challenges and transformations affecting global society, and development of international sociological theory and knowledge. 1.2 Covers all aspects of work, employment and unemployment, and their connections with wider social processes and social structures. Health, Illness, Embodiment Body and Society http://bod.sagepub.com/ Health http://hea.sagepub.com/ 1.4 Journal with strong theoretical focus on embodiment. Very high rejection rate (c. 85 per cent) 2.1 Interdisciplinary social science journal publishing papers that develop theoretical and empirical understandings of health, illness and health care. Health and Place 2.7 Cross-disciplinary journal exploring interaction of place and health.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/health-and-place/ Health Sociology Review http://hsr.e-contentmanagement.com/ Qualitative Health Research http://qhr.sagepub.com/ Social Science & Medicine www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-and-medicine/ Sociology of Health and Illness http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shil_enhanced/ 0.5 Australian journal of health sociology that accepts UK papers 2.2 Publishes empirical qualitative health research. 2.7 Frequent (12 issues a year) top journal of health sociology research. 1.9 Highly regarded health sociology journal. Science and Technology Studies History of Science http://www.shpltd.co.uk/hs.html Science, Technology and Society http://sts.sagepub.com/ Science, Technology and Human Values http://sth.sagepub.com/ Social Studies of Science http://sss.sagepub.com/ 0.7 Empirical, theoretical and methodological studies of history of science, medicine and technology from earliest times to the present day. 0.5 Looks at sociology of science and technology in developed and developing countries; multi-disciplinary. 2.3 Explores social issues deriving from use of science and technology. 1.5 Cross-disciplinary journal accepting empirical and more theoretical papers.
Theory and Methodology journals Economy and Society http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/reso20 International Journal of Social Research Methodology http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/current Journal of Mixed Methods Research http://mmr.sagepub.com/ Qualitative Inquiry http://qix.sagepub.com/ Qualitative Research http://qrj.sagepub.com/ Symbolic Interaction http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(issn)1533-8665 Theory, Culture and Society http://tcs.sagepub.com/ Thesis Eleven http://the.sagepub.com/ Time & Society http://tas.sagepub.com/ 1.7 Radical interdisciplinary journal of theory and politics 1.1 Mix of academic/theoretically-slanted methodological articles and articles relating to research practice in professional and service settings. 1.9 Focuses on empirical, methodological, and theoretical articles about mixed methods research in the social, behavioural, health, and human sciences. 0.8 Publishes articles that experiment with manuscript form and content, and focus on methodological issues rather than the content or results of research. 1.4 Publishes original research and review articles on the methodological diversity and multi-disciplinary focus of qualitative research. 0.4 Publishes research that develops substantive topics from an interactionist perspective, interactionist theory, or new methodological directions. 1.8 Offers a forum for articles which theorize the relationship between culture and society. Very high rejection rate (c. 85 per cent) - Encourages civilisational analysis on a wide range of alternative modernities and takes critical theory from the margins of the world system to its centre. 0.5 Focuses on empirical, methodological and theoretical discussions of temporality in society and organisational contexts.
Radical, innovative or interdisciplinary journals Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies http://csc.sagepub.com/ Emotion, Space and Society www.journals.elsevier.com/emotion-space-and-society/ Gaia http://www.oekom.de/etc/gaia.html Science as Culture http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/csac20 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society http://signsjournal.org/ Soundings http://www.soundings.org.uk/ Space & Culture http://sac.sagepub.com/ - Publishes peer-reviewed research articles, critical analyses of contemporary media representations, auto-ethnography, poetry, and creative non-fiction - A forum for interdisciplinary debate on theoretically informed research on the emotional intersections between people and places. - A trans-disciplinary journal concerned with the causes and analyses of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions. - Interdisciplinary journal that analyses the underlying frameworks, assumptions and terms of reference of science. 0.5 Cultivates alternative research practices that further feminist, queer, and antiracist goals of social transformation. - Radical journal of politics and culture for academic and general audiences. 0.4 Critical interdisciplinary research at the interface of cultural geography, sociology, cultural studies, urban and environmental studies.
Other specialist journals Appetite http://www.journals.elsevier.com/appetite/ Arts & Health http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahe20/current British Journal of Sociology of Education http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cbse20/current Ethnicities http://etn.sagepub.com/ Sociology of Education http://soe.sagepub.com/ Sociology of Religion http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/ Sociology of Sport Journal http://journals.humankinetics.com/ssj Youth & Society http://yas.sagepub.com/ 2.6 Journal focusing on behavioural nutrition and the cultural, sensory, and physiological influences on choices and intakes of foods and drinks. - Practitioner-oriented journal of arts practices in health care. 1.0 Publishes high quality original, theoretically informed analyses of the relationship between education and society. 0.6 Offers critical, interdisciplinary dialogue on questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights. 1.8 Examines how social institutions and individuals experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development. 0.9 Publishes original work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. 0.9 International journal offering theoretical and methodological perspectives on sport, play, games, exercise, leisure, and body culture. 1.8 Explores transitions from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, and factors that influence healthy and harmful development.