The University of Chicago Press: American Journal of Sociology: Table of Contents
Front Matter
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Local Communities, Distant Origins: How Cultural Distance and Local Context Shape Immigrant Ethnoreligious Infrastructures
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1182-1221, March 2026.
On Settler Colonialism, Its Critics, and Its Critics’ Critics
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Is the Criminal Legal System Becoming More Gender Egalitarian? The Gender Gap in Criminal Court Case Outcomes in Texas, 1993–2015
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1108-1146, March 2026.
Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1074-1107, March 2026.
Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles by Neil Gong
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Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration by Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks
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Contributors
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Soft Regulatory Capture and Institutional Change: Factory Inspection in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1879–1912
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1009-1073, March 2026.
Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families by Hyeyoung Kwon
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1249-1252, March 2026.
The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America by Bruce G. Carruthers
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1237-1240, March 2026.
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge by Andrew Lakoff
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1252-1255, March 2026.
Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt by Amanda McMillan Lequieu
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Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis by Elizabeth Chiarello
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1240-1243, March 2026.
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg by Benjamin H. Bradlow
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1234-1235, March 2026.
The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States by Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1243-1245, March 2026.
Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston by Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1247-1249, March 2026.
Policing the Boundaries of Blackness: How Black and White Americans Evaluate Racial Self-Identifications
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1147-1181, March 2026.
American Journal of Sociology
Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences. The journal presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociological reader and is open to sociologically informed contributions from anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists. AJS prizes research that offers new ways of understanding the social.
AJS offers a substantial book review section that identifies the most salient work of both emerging and enduring scholars of social science. Commissioned review essays appear two or three times a year, offering the journal's readers a comparative, in-depth examination of prominent titles.
Although AJS publishes a very small percentage of the papers submitted to it, a double-blind review process is available to all qualified submissions, making the journal a center for exchange and debate "behind" the printed page and contributing to the robustness of social science research in general.
