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. Please note that Contemporary Sociology does not accept unsolicited reviews.
Editor: Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Montclair State University (2020-2024)
Published: January, March, May, July, September, November
ISSN: 0094-3061
Featured Reviews and Essays
- Lovers in a Digital Time. Casey Scheibling on The New Laws of Love: Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy by Marie Bergström (May 2024)
- What Does Good Qualitative Research Look Like? How to Do It? Bin Xu on The Science and Art of Interviewing by Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske, Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Data Analysis in Qualitative Research: Theorizing with Abductive Analysis by Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory (March 2024); listen to the podcast
- The Limitations of Using Women as a Lever of Development. Marnia Lazreg on Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (January 2024); listen to the podcast
- The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream. John R. Weeks on The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream by Richard Alba (November 2023)
- How Outsiders Within Are Made: Structural Inequalities and the Making of Academic Outsiders. Ali Meghji on Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope by Victoria Reyes (September 2023)
- Soccer in Mind. Robert Podhurst on Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to the Global Game by Andrew M. Guest (July 2023)
