Social Currents

Social Currents, the official journal of the Southern Sociological Society, is a broad-ranging social science journal that focuses on cutting-edge research from all methodological and theoretical orientations with implications for national and international sociological communities. The uniqueness of Social Currents lies in its format. The front end of every issue is devoted to short, theoretical, agenda-setting contributions and brief, empirical and policy-related pieces. The back end of every issue includes standard journal articles that cover topics within specific subfields of sociology, as well as across the social sciences more broadly.

The journal welcomes and will review:

Standard Journal Articles. These ideally range from 8,000-10,000 words, and entail a more tradition format, including an abstract, introduction, literature review and extension, data, analysis and conclusions. 

We also welcome and will review short pieces (1,500-4,000 words) surrounding:

Data, Methods, and Empirical insights. Such manuscripts pertaining to data and/or methodological advances should make a case that there is a data or methodological innovation, or in the case of an empirically focused submission, a trend, pattern, or relationship that sociologists should take note off, that is important yet understudied, and/or that has potential to either inform a core area of the field and/or demarcate a research agenda that others in the field might find interesting and worth pursuing. We encourage authors interested in submitting such pieces to keep in mind broader relevance and the general readership of the journal. An abstract should be included.

Clear-Cut Policy Implications. Such submissions should highlight an important policy-relevant topic, finding, orientation, or approach, or a pattern that has quite clear-cut and explicit policy implications about which sociology can contribute. We encourage authors interested in submitting such pieces to keep in mind broader relevance and the general readership of the journal. An abstract should be included.

About the SSS: Established in 1935, the Southern Sociological Society is a society of professionals that promotes the development of sociology as a profession and the scientific discipline by the maintenance of high academic professional and ethical standards, and by encouraging: the effective teaching of sociology; valid and reliable research in the study of society; the diffusion of sociological knowledge and its application to societal problems; cooperation with related disciplines and groups; recruitment and training of sociologists; and the development of sociology programs in educational and other agencies.