The University of Chicago Press: American Journal of Sociology: Table of Contents
Exams, Meritocracy, and Disenchantment with the Chinese Dream
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 972-981, January 2026.
Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation by Kim Pernell
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 997-999, January 2026.
The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress by James R. Jones
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 994-997, January 2026.
Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago by Andy Clarno, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Lydia Dana, Michael De Anda Muñiz, Ilā Ravichandran, and Haley Volpintesta
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 989-991, January 2026.
Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law by Jennifer M. Chacón, Susan Bibler Coutin, and Stephen Lee
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 986-989, January 2026.
Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement by Stephen Steinberg
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 1002-1005, January 2026.
Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions by Patrik Aspers
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 982-984, January 2026.
Front Matter
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, January 2026.
Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 868-917, January 2026.
(Dis)orderly Bodies: Gender Identification and Disability in Social Context
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 773-828, January 2026.
Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 729-772, January 2026.
Dual Justice: America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime by Anthony Grasso
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 991-994, January 2026.
Asylum Decision-Making Under Trump: Shared Aspirations for Moral Realignment as a Mechanism of Moral Boundary Work in Times of Crisis
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 829-867, January 2026.
Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 918-971, January 2026.
Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society by Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 999-1002, January 2026.
On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence by Nicole Bedera
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 984-986, January 2026.
Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beers by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page 1005-1007, January 2026.
Contributors List
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 4, Page iii-iii, January 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.
