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Journal of Classical Sociology Template

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About the Journal of Classical Sociology format

Journal of Classical Sociology is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory, Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice, Emile Durkheim and Sociology.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Classical Sociology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inWeber, Simmel, Sociological Theory Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice Emile Durkheim and Sociology Social and Cultural Dynamics Critical Theory and Philosophy
ISSN1468-795X
Citation impact (2-yr)1.06
h-index38
i10-index210
Total citations7,808
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of South Florida
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Journal of Classical Sociology per year

30
2014
28
2015
18
2016
42
2017
27
2018
45
2019
12
2020
40
2021
30
2022
41
2023
36
2024
19
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Classical Sociology by publication year

377
2014
193
2015
265
2016
790
2017
190
2018
256
2019
87
2020
268
2021
81
2022
95
2023
44
2024
18
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Classical Sociology

Symbolic capital and social classes

Pierre Bourdıeu, Loïc Wacquant · 1 May 2013

In this short but dense piece, written for a special issue of the journal L'Arc devoted to the medieval historian Feorges Duby (whose sprawling oeuvre Bourdieu admired and drew on for its scrupulous genealogy of the mental-cum-social structure of the feudal triad of knight, priest, and peasant: see Georges Duby, The Three Orders (1982 [1978]),…

How to use Max Weber’s ideal type in sociological analysis

Richard Swedberg · 8 Dec 2017

The main problem that is addressed in this article is how to use Max Weber’s concept of the ideal type in concrete sociological research. The ideal type was invented by Weber more than a century ago, but has rarely been used in empirical research. One reason for this is that Weber was not very clear…

Symbolic power and group-making: On Pierre Bourdieu’s reframing of class

Loïc Wacquant · 1 May 2013

Pierre Bourdieu’s recasting of the question of class exemplifies the major features of his sociology and the way he extends, melds, and mends classical views into a distinctive framework. Bourdieu’s approach is relational, agonistic, and synthetic; it spotlights the symbolic dimension of group formation as practical achievement while fusing theory and research, and it introduces…

Practice and symbolic power in Bourdieu: The view from Berkeley

Loïc Wacquant, Aksu Akçaoğlu · 1 Feb 2017

In 2014–2015, Aksu Akçaoğlu was a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he had come to work with Loïc Wacquant on his research on “the conservative habitus” in contemporary Turkey (with the support of the TÜBİTAK Science Program). In this dialogue, he invites Wacquant to explicate the…

Halbwachs’ studies in collective memory: A founding text for contemporary ‘memory studies’?

Sarah Gensburger · 24 Oct 2016

In the past few years, an increasing number of scholars have begun working to develop an integrated field introduced as a new discipline. From now on, these ‘memory studies’ have their own scientific journals, academic departments and international conferences. Now the scholars involved in this institutionalization situate themselves in an intellectual genealogy headed by the…

Journal of Classical Sociology template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Journal of Classical Sociology use?
Journal of Classical Sociology uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Classical Sociology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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