Sociological Perspectives


Sociological Perspectives is the official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association. It is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California. It was first published in 1957. Articles typically address social processes and are related to economic, political, anthropological 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 2017 impact factor of 1.013, ranking it 84th out of 146 journals in the category "Sociology".