The Journal of Historical Sociology
Edited by:
Derek Sayer and Yoke-Sum Wong
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 17/21 History of Social Sciences; 86/99 Sociology
Impact Factor: 0.213
The Journal of Historical Sociology was founded in 1988 on the conviction that historical and social studies ultimately have a common subject matter and can only benefit from the interchange of ideas and perspectives. Edited by a distinguished international panel of historians, anthropologists, geographers and sociologists, it is both interdisciplinary in approach and innovative in content. As well as refereed articles, the journal presents reviews essays and commentary in its 'Issues and Agendas' section, and aims to provoke discussion and debate
TopNews and Announcements
Now Available
We are delighted to announce that the Journal of Historical Sociology has produced its first book. The book comes in two volumes and contains a selection of articles from the Journal. To purchase your copy, please click on the following links:
- Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 1: Essays on the British State
- Twenty Years of the Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 2: Challenging the Field
Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these issues please visit our Librarian Site.
TopHighlights
Special Issue: The History of Childhood and Youth
Edited by R. Danielle Egan & Gail L. Hawkes
Introduction:
Imperiled and Perilous: Exploring the History of Childhood Sexuality
R. Danielle Egan & Gail L. Hawkes
The Kiss of Death and Cabal of Dons: Blackmail and Grooming in Georgian Oxford
George Rousseau
Battling 'Unhealthy Relations': Soviet Youth Sexuality as a Political Problem
Ann Livschiz
The Tightrope of Normalcy: Homosexuality, Developmental Citizenship, and American Adolescence
Dom Romesburg
Developing the Sexual Child
Gail L. Hawkes & R. Danielle Egan
Queer Wordplay: Language and Laughter in the 'Boys of Boise' Morals Panic
Jen Schneider
Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire
Nazan Maksudyan
'Children's Talk and Parental Fears'. Cases of Sexual Misconduct in Danish State Schools 1900-1970
Ning De Connick-Smith
TopEndorsements
In my understanding of history and sociology, there can be no relationship between them because, in terms of their fundamental preoccupations, history and sociology are and always have been the same thing. Both seek to understand the puzzle of human agency and both seek to do so in terms of the process of social structuring. It is the task that commands the attention, and not the disciplines. '
Philip Abrams, Historical Sociology
These days scholarly journals, online and in print, are a dime a dozen. The difference lies in the rigor of their peer review, and then, and as crucially, at the production end of the research they decide to publish. My experience with JHS has been stellar on both fronts. No detail, no concern, was too minute for their attention. Long may the journal continue to thrive.
Professor George Rousseau (Oxford University)
