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American anthropologist

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1888-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1888-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1888-present.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Judd & Detweiler,

American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The journal publishes articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits.
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American ethnologist

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1974-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1974-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1974-present.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Anthropological Association,

American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term.
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American journal of sociology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1895-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1895-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1895-present.

Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press.

Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, the American Journal of Sociology 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 offers a substantial book review section.

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American sociological review

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1936-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1936-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1936-present.

Publisher: Menasha, Wis. : American Sociological Society,

The American Sociological Review is the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The ASA founded this journal in 1936 with the mission to publish original works of interest to the sociology discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations. The American Sociological Review does not include book reviews.
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Annual review of anthropology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1972-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1972-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1972-present.

Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc.,

Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

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Annual review of sociology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1975-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1975-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1975-present.

Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc.,

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Archives européennes de sociologie

Holdings:
(Haverford College) Available from 2001-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 2001-present.

Publisher: [Cambridge, England] : Cambridge University Press.

Consolidating its reputation for historical and comparative sociology of the highest order, European Journal of Sociology publishes articles of interdisciplinary scope. The journal has a strongly international perspective, with a special interest devoted to the transition from totalitarism to democracy, to the multiple citizenship and now publishes a third issue every year exclusively devoted to surveys, the elucidation of central concepts and review essays which explore key topics with reference to the most relevant recent publications.
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Contemporary sociology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1972-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1972-present except most recent 1 year(s).
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1972-present.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Sociological Association,

Contemporary Sociology publishes reviews and critical discussions of recent works in sociology and in related disciplines that merit the attention of sociologists. Since not all sociological publications can be reviewed, a selection is made to reflect important trends and issues in the field.
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Critical inquiry

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1974-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1974-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1974-present.

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

Critical Inquiry is an academic journal relating to critical analysis of the literary arts, published out of the University of Chicago Press. It is considered a leading journal within literary studies, and particularly in the field of critical theory.
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Cultural anthropology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1986-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1986-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1986-present.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Anthropological Association,

Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics.
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Cultural sociology

Holdings:
(Swarthmore College) Available from 2007-present.

Publisher: Los Angeles : Sage Publications,

Cultural Sociology is the first journal explicitly to be dedicated to the sociological comprehension of cultural matters. It acts as a key meeting point for sociological analysts of culture coming from a wide range of theoretical and methodological positions, and from a great variety of national contexts. It is a locale where different analytical traditions in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture can engage with and learn from each other. Cultural Sociology is an official journal of the British Sociological Association.

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Current anthropology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1959-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1959-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1959-present.

Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,

Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics.
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Discourse (Berkeley, Calif. : Online)

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1998-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 2000-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1998-present.

Publisher: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press.

Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.
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European journal of social theory

Holdings:
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1999-present.

Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications,

European Journal of Social Theory's conception of social theory is broad-ranging including all varieties of contemporary social and political thought. It brings together social theorists and theoretically-minded social scientists with the objective of making social theory relevant to the challenges facing the social sciences in the 21st century.

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Journal of historical sociology

Holdings:
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1997-present.

Publisher: Oxford ; B. Blackwell,

The Journal of Historical Sociology was founded in 1988 on the conviction that historical and social studies ultimately have a common subject matter and can only benefit from the interchange of ideas and perspectives. As well as refereed articles, the journal presents reviews essays and commentary in its 'Issues and Agendas' section, and aims to provoke discussion and debate.
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Journal of linguistic anthropology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1991-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1991-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1991-present.

Publisher: [Berkeley, CA] : University of California Press.

The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (JLA), a publication of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA), publishes articles on the anthropological study of language, including analysis of discourse, language in society, language and cognition, and language acquisition of socialization.
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Law & society review

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1966-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1966-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1966-present.

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications for the Law and Society Association,

Founded in 1966, Law & Society Review is regarded by sociolegal scholars worldwide as a leading journal in the field. The Review is a peer-reviewed publication for work bearing on the relationship between society and the legal process, including articles or notes of interest to the research community in general, new theoretical developments, results of empirical studies, and reviews and comments on the field or its methods of inquiry. Broadly interdisciplinary, The Review welcomes work from any tradition of scholarship concerned with the cultural, economic, political, psychological, or social aspects of law and legal systems.
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Poetics (Hague, Netherlands : Online)

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.

Publisher: [Amsterdam] : Elsevier Science.

Poetics is an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines - psychology, sociology, and economics - within which promising lines of research on art and culture have been developed including economic sociology and the sociology of culture. Poetics publishes not only advanced research reports but also overview articles.
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Political and legal anthropology review

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1973-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1973-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1973-present.

Publisher: [Washington, D.C. : Association for Political and Legal Anthropology],

PoLAR publishes work in the field of political and legal anthropology, broadly defined. This interdisciplinary publication features articles on such issues as nationalism, citizenship, political and legal processes, the state, civil society, colonialism, postcolonial public spheres, multiculturalism, and media politics.
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Public culture

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1999-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1999-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1999-present.

Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press.

Public Culture seeks a critical understanding of the global cultural flows and the cultural forms of the public sphere which define the late twentieth century. As such, the journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks.
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Qualitative sociology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1997-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1997-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1997-present.

Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Springer Science+Business Media B.V.,

Qualitative Sociology is dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life. The journal offers both theoretical and analytical research, and publishes manuscripts based on research methods such as interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, content analysis and others which do not rely primarily on numerical data.
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Science, technology, & human values

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1978-2004.
(Haverford College) Available from 1978-2004.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1978-present.

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy,

Science, Technology, & Human Values is a peer-reviewed, international, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, including their relationship to politics, society and culture.
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Signs (Chicago, Ill. : Online)

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1975-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1975-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1975-present.

Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,

Signs publishes pathbreaking articles of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and/or sexuality either as central focuses or as constitutive analytics; symposia engaging comparative, interdisciplinary perspectives from around the globe to analyze concepts and topics of import to feminist scholarship; retrospectives that track the growth and development of feminist scholarship, note transformations in key concepts and methodologies, and construct genealogies of feminist inquiry; and new directions essays, which provide an overview of the main themes, controversies, and approaches in recent scholarship in particular fields and introduce this work and its theoretical and conceptual innovations to an interdisciplinary audience. Special issue and symposia topics cover a broad range of geopolitical processes, conditions, and effects; cultural and social configurations; and scholarly and theoretical developments.
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Social research

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1995-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1995-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1995-present.

Publisher: New York : Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research.

In 1933, the New School’s first president, Alvin Johnson, with support from philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, initiated an historic effort to rescue endangered scholars from the shadow of Nazism in Europe at the brink of WWII. These refugees became the founding scholars of “The University in Exile,” and constituted what became known as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, now known as The New School for Social Research. Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Political and Social Sciences was launched in 1934 by these scholars, who held the deep conviction that every true university must have its own distinct public voice.

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Social science history

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1976-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1999-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1976-present.

Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh,

Social Science History seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to the journal's interdisciplinary readership of historians, sociologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and geographers. The journal invites articles that blend empirical research with theoretical work, undertake comparisons across time and space, or contribute to the development of quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis.
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Sociological theory

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1983-2005.
(Haverford College) Available from 1983-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1983-2005.

Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass,

Published for the American Sociological Association, this journal covers the full range of sociological theory - from ethnomethodology to world systems analysis, from commentaries on the classics to the latest cutting-edge ideas, and from re-examinations of neglected theorists to metatheoretical inquiries. Its themes and contributions are interdisciplinary, its orientation pluralistic, its pages open to commentary and debate.
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Theory and society

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1974-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1974-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1974-present.

Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier Scientific Pub.,

Theory and Society publishes theoretically-informed analyses of social processes, providing a forum for an international community of scholars. The coverage ranges across a broad landscape, from prehistory to contemporary affairs, from treatments of individuals to nations to world culture, from discussions of theory to methodological critique, from First World to Third World. The effort is always to bring together theory, criticism and concrete observation.
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Theory, culture & society

Holdings:
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1982-present.

Publisher: [Thousand Oaks, Calif.] : Sage Publications.

Launched in 1982 to cater for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science, Theory, Culture & Society provides a forum for articles which theorize the relationship between culture and society. The journal has helped to break down some of the disciplinary barriers between the humanities and the social sciences by opening up a wide range of new questions in cultural theory.

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