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Journal of Sociology

 
Aims and Scope 

Journal of Sociology publishes world leading research across all fields of sociology. As the official journal of The Australian Sociological Association, it showcases vibrant research from the Asia Pacific region and the wider world. Tackling complex social problems and addressing the most current social issues and inequalities, Journal of Sociology is a leading source of cutting-edge sociological ideas and inquiry drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods. The journal also features interdisciplinary and applied research that is firmly anchored in the sociological imagination. The journal is relevant and accessible for both scholars and practitioners engaged in sociology.


 
Editor in Chief:

Ashley Barnwell and Signe Ravn, The University of Melbourne

Managing Editor:

Amy Vanderharst, The University of Melbourne

Editors:

  • Lutfun Nahar Lata (Book Review Editor), The University of Melbourne
  • Nicholas Hill, The University of Melbourne
  • Megan Sharp, The University of Melbourne
  • Max Holleran, The University of Melbourne
  • Jens Zinn, The University of Melbourne
  • Nikki Moodie, The University of Melbourne
  • Belinda Hewitt, The University of Melbourne
  • Lyn Craig, The University of Melbourne
  • Karen Farquharson, The University of Melbourne
  • Dan Woodman, The University of Melbourne
  • Garrity Hill, The University of Melbourne
  • Nick Pendergrast, The University of Melbourne
  • Jack Lam, The University of Melbourne
  • Sophie Rudolph, The University of Melbourne

The National Expert Advisory Board can be viewed on the Sage website here.

Sample issues of JoS are available (page under construction). To sign up for contents alerts for JoS please create an account or login here and update your alert settings to include Journal of Sociology. Instructions for signing up to content alerts and including JoS are available here (Pdf 689kb).

The Journal of Sociology was founded in 1965, turning 60 in 2025. Come celebrate with us at the TASA conference at The University of Melbourne!

For further information on this journal, including submitting a manuscript, please go to the Sage website.

 

The first Special Issue for 2025 is Future/tense: A sociology of temporal dis/order, guest edited by Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom, Barbara Prainsack, Michelle Peterie, Leah Williams Veazey and Stephanie Raymond.

Check out the video abstract here:




 

 

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Current and previous Editors-in-Chief
Current and previous Editors-in-Chief
2021 - 2024:

Editor in Chief:
Helen Forbes-Mewett, Monash University

Managing Editor:
Faiza Yasmeen, Monash University (Allegra Schermuly was at the start of the editorial term)

Editors:
JaneMaree Maher, Monash University
Neil Selwyn, Monash University
Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University
Yolande Strengers, Monash University
Brady Robards, Monash University
Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania
Naomi Pfitzner, Monash University
Charishma Ratnam, Monash University (Book Review Editor)
Claire Tanner, Monash University

2017 - 2020
Editors-in-Chief:
Kate Huppatz, Western Sydney University, Australia and Steve Matthewman, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Editorial Board Members: 
Sara Amin, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Marcelle Dawson, University of Otago, New Zealand
Catriona Elder, University of Sydney, Australia
Joshua Roose, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Shawna Tang, University of Sydney, Australia
Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Robert van Krieken, University of Sydney, Australia
Maggie Walter, University of Tasmania, Australia
Robert Webb, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2013 - 2016
Editor-in-Chief: Alphia Possamai-Inesedy

Managing Editor: Dr Alex Norman

Editors:
Dr Rebecca Olson, Professor Adam Possamai, Professor Kerry Robinson, Professor David Rowe, Professor Deborah Stevenson, Professor Rob Stones, Professor Bryan Turner

Book Review Editor: Dr Kate Huppatz

2009 - 2012
Editor-in-Chief:
Andy Bennett, Griffith University

Managing Editor: Russell Brennan

Editorial Board Members: 
Sarah Baker, Griffith University
Margaret Gibson, Griffith University      
Ian Woodward, Griffith University
Malcolm Alexander, Griffith University
Simone Fullagar, Griffith University  
Suzanne Goopy, Griffith University            
Georgina Murray, Griffith University  
Russell Brennan, Griffith University

Book Reviewer: Young-Sook Lee, Griffith University


2006 - 2009
John Scott, University of New England

 

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Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award

The Sage/TASA Best Paper Award for the Journal of Sociology (JoS) is an annual process that uses academic peer review to select papers of outstanding quality published in JoS.

The prize is awarded to the paper judged by the panel to be the best published in the previous year of the Journal of Sociology. Symposia or parts of symposia, replies or rejoinders, notes and book reviews (but not review essays) are excluded from consideration.


The JoS BP Award is presented every year at the TASA annual conference. The Award is sponsored by Sage. The full details are available here. .

 

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Special Issues
Special Issues
  • 2000: Special Issue: Neoliberalism, New Public Management and the human service professions (possibly the first special issue)
  • 2001:none
  • 2002: none
  • 2003: Commercializing Emotions
  • 2004: Fear and Loathing in the New Century
  • 2005: Special Issue: 'Life pathways: insights from longitudinal research' ; Guest edited by: Janeen Baxter and David de Vaus
  • 2006: none
  • 2007: none
  • 2008: Special Issue: Cultural Sociology: Australian Perspectives and Themes
  • 2009: Special Issue: Neoliberalism, New Public Management and the human service professions
  • 2010: Special Issue: Sociology of food and eating
  • 2011: Special Issue: Youth: Identities, Transitions, Cultures
  • 2012: Special Issue: Sociology’s object(s) and the discipline’s relevance
  • 2013: Special issue: Teaching Sociology: Reflections on the Discipline & Special issue: Antipodean Fields: Working with Bourdieu
  • 2014: Special issue: Migration and Multiculturalism: Australia and Europe
  • 2015: Special issue: Sociology of bio-knowledge at the limits of life
  • 2016: Special issue: Sociology of the military & Special issue: Chinese sociology
  • 2017: none
  • 2018: none
  • 2019: Special issue – Gendered and Generational Inequalities in the Gig Economy Era
  • 2020: Special Issue - Indigenous Sociology & Special issue – Asylum Seekers in the Global Context of Xenophobia
  • JOS_57_1 March 2021
    Special Issue: Post-national formations and cosmopolitanism
    Guest editors: Associate Professor Farida Fozdar and Professor Ian Woodward.
  • JOS_57_3 September 2021
    Special Section: Hospitality and Hostility: The intimate life of borders and migration
    Guest editors: Associate Professor Fataneh Farahani, Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam and Associate Professor Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
  • JOS_58_2 June 2022
    Special Issue: Imagining Rural and Rural Sociology Futures in Times of Uncertainty and Possibility
    Guest editors: Dr Christina Malatzky and Dr Kiah Smith.
  • JOS_58_3 September 2022
    Special Issue: Education and the Production of Inequalities: Dialogues from the Global South and North’
    Guest editors: Dr Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez, Dr Manuela Mendoza Horvitz, Dr Sara Joiko and Francisca Ortiz Ruiz
  • JOS_59_2 June 2023
    Special Section: Fields, Capitals, Habitus: What Next? A Review Symposium
    Guest editors: Emeritus Professors Tony Bennett and David Rowe
  • JOS_59_3 September 2023
    Special Issue: What do misinformation practices feel like? Wellness culture and digital health in a post-COVID world.
    Guest editors: Dr Naomi Smith and Dr Clare Southerton
  • JOS_59_4 December 2023
    Special Issue: A Basic Income for a Complex Society
    Guest editors: Dr Fabian Cannizzo and A/Prof. Ben Spies-Butcher
  • JOS_60_3 September 2024
    Special Issue: The Digital Welfare State: Contestations, Considerations and Entanglements
    Guest editors: Dr Georgia van Toorn, Professor Karen Soldatić and Professor Paul Henman.
  • JOS_60_4 December 2024
    Special Issue: Decolonising Truth Globally: Challenges and Possibilities
    Guest editors: Professor Yin Paradies, Dr Vanessa Barolsky and Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro


 


We are thrilled to celebrate Sara James and Anne-Maree Sawyer,  the recipients of the prestigious Journal of Sociology Best Paper Award for 2024. Sara and Anne-Maree’s paper is titled How to navigate a pandemic: Competing discourses in The Australian Women's Weekly magazine. It is a shining example of inventive lockdown research.

Journal of Sociology features high quality sociological scholarship in all its forms. We are dedicated to showcasing theory as well as applied sociology, quantitative and qualitative research. Interdisciplinary pieces are welcome, as are submissions from outside the academy. Based in the Southern Hemisphere and committed to intellectual works from the Asia-Pacific region, including Indigenous scholarship, we also encourage submissions from across the globe.


The full-text of over 90 peer-reviewed Sage journals encompassing over 63,000 articles are available online to TASA members. 


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