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Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus (History, 2024).

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x
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Currently, Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus (History, 2024).
Sociology Lens continues to grow as a leading venue for innovative sociological and historical research. @wileysocsci.bsky.social
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Call for Reviewers — Sociology Lens. We’re expanding beyond historical sociology and welcoming new voices to our reviewer community. Peer review is vital to our field. Please RT to help us reach potential reviewers!
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Currently, Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus (History, 2024).
Sociology Lens continues to grow as a leading venue for innovative sociological and historical research. @wileysocsci.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
All awarded Sociology Lens articles are now free to access for the next three months. Enjoy reading! @wiley.com @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social @wileysocsci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards @wileysocsci.bsky.social
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards!
Honoring our tradition in historical sociology — dating back to 1988 as the Journal of Historical Sociology — while connecting this legacy with today’s dynamic sociological debates.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology)
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards!
Honoring our tradition in historical sociology — dating back to 1988 as the Journal of Historical Sociology — while connecting this legacy with today’s dynamic sociological debates.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
We’re happy to announce Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards. With these awards, we aim to keep the journal’s historical sociology legacy alive while also highlighting the importance of historical context in contemporary sociological debates. @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social @wileysocsci.bsky.social
Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards (2023–2025): Sociology Lens
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November 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards @wileysocsci.bsky.social
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards!
Honoring our tradition in historical sociology — dating back to 1988 as the Journal of Historical Sociology — while connecting this legacy with today’s dynamic sociological debates.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology)
🏆 Sociology Lens Perspective Award
goes to Aurélien Boucher for
“Writing like a Bourdieusian Scholar: From The Craft of Sociology to the Writing Patterns in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales”
Sociology Lens (2024) 37(2): 285–300.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology)
🏆 Sociology Lens Sociological Insight Award
goes to Jennifer Tabler, Racheal Pinkham, Rachel M. Schmitz & Katelyn Golladay for
“The Legacy of Matthew Shepard: Queer Erasure and the Lives of Rural LGBTQ+ Young Adults”
Sociology Lens (2023) 36(3): 282–304.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Reposted by Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology)
We are happy to share the first special virtual issue of Sociology Lens. We begin this series with Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media, a theme that reflects the journal's expanding vision and its aim to connect its historical sociology roots with today's digital and visual worlds.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We’d also like to highlight that social history is one of our key areas, and we especially welcome contributions in this field. @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!

🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London

Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected]

More info coming soon!
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Call for Reviewers — Sociology Lens. We’re expanding beyond historical sociology and welcoming new voices to our reviewer community. Peer review is vital to our field. Please RT to help us reach potential reviewers!
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We are happy to share the first special virtual issue of Sociology Lens. We begin this series with Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media, a theme that reflects the journal's expanding vision and its aim to connect its historical sociology roots with today's digital and visual worlds.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🏆 Sociology Lens Perspective Award
goes to Aurélien Boucher for
“Writing like a Bourdieusian Scholar: From The Craft of Sociology to the Writing Patterns in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales”
Sociology Lens (2024) 37(2): 285–300.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🏆 Sociology Lens Sociological Insight Award
goes to Jennifer Tabler, Racheal Pinkham, Rachel M. Schmitz & Katelyn Golladay for
“The Legacy of Matthew Shepard: Queer Erasure and the Lives of Rural LGBTQ+ Young Adults”
Sociology Lens (2023) 36(3): 282–304.
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🏆 Sociology Lens Historical Insight Award
goes to Fatma Tunç Yaşar & Onur Güneş Ayas for
“Early Acquaintances with Modern Mass Culture in Late Ottoman Istanbul: The Experiences of Child Audiences at Direklerarası”
Sociology Lens (2024) 37(1): 8–27.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards!
Honoring our tradition in historical sociology — dating back to 1988 as the Journal of Historical Sociology — while connecting this legacy with today’s dynamic sociological debates.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
📢 📢 New Article for Sociology Lens. Bahtiyar Mermertaş’s article “From the Birth of Universal Humanity to National Identity in Ottoman and Republican Thought: An Archeology of the Statement ‘My Nation Is Mankind, My Homeland Is the Earth’ (1860s–1930s)”
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📢 📢 New Article for Sociology Lens.
The Construction of Identities and Resistance Through Film Narratives: A Study on Mari Selvaraj's Maamannan (2023)
by S. Anthony Jeya Prathap, Devimeenakshi Kabaleeswaran.
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
📢 📢 New Article for Sociology Lens.
Continuities and Changes: A Trend Analysis of Historical Sociology in the 21st Century
by Zhengxin Li, and Amir Karimi.
November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
📢 New Article for Sociology Lens.
Activist Muslim Students' Perspectives on Digital Public Sphere and the Power of Activism in the USA
by Bayram Sevinc
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📢 📢 📢 The September issue of Sociology Lens is now live!

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September 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📢 New Article for Sociology Lens.
Exploring Workplace Spirituality in Higher Education Faculty Based on the Ongoing Context of Low Birthrate in Taiwan
by Hsiao-Fen Liu, Yu-Hsi Yuan & Juiching Chiang
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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📢 📢 📢 Call for Papers for Sociology Lens.
Our guest editors Nabila Islam, Veda Hyunjin Kim and Aaron Yates invite contributions for the upcoming special issue:
“Anticolonial Theories as Objects of Historical Inquiry”
#Sociology #HistoricalSociology #PostcolonialStudies #CfP
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
📢 We are happy to announce that Dr. Ebru Çiğdem Thwaıtes Diken (Department of Film, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) has joined the Editorial Board of Sociology Lens.
August 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM