September 3, 1999

Sociologists Debate How to Broaden Scholarship in Their Flagship Journal

By D.W. MILLER

The American Sociological Association knows it has a problem with its flagship journal. Many of the group's members complain that the American Sociological Review publishes mainly technical, quantitative papers, to the exclusion of other research areas and methodologies. In response to growing criticism of the journal's latest editorial appointments, the association's governing board, the Council, moved at the sociologists' annual conference in mid-August to reassure members that it is

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