Our March issue of Sociology Lens is out! 🎉 New articles bridging historical sociology and urgent contemporary debates. Huge thanks to our authors, reviewers, and editorial board. Take a look 👇 #Sociology #HistoricalSociology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2832580x...

We are delighted to welcome Professor Karen Wells to the Sociology Lens Editorial Board. A leading scholar in childhood studies and global development, her work bridges international political economy and socio-cultural approaches to childhood across contexts.

New Early View article (Open Access) in Sociology Lens. This article asks a difficult but important question: how can the expansion of rights sometimes trigger violent backlash? It develops a theory of political vigilantism through the case of anti-Palestinian vigilantism in Israel. #EarlyView

New Early View article (Open Access) in Sociology Lens. How did colonial power actually work on the ground? This article uses field theory to show how British rule in Egypt operated through competing power domains rather than absolute domination. #EarlyView #OpenAccess #HistoricalSociology

New Early View article now available in Sociology Lens. This study examines how European Persophilia helped shape Aryanist racial thought and later influenced Iranian nationalism and identity debates. #EarlyView #Sociology #SociologyLens

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Check out the Sociological Forum’s December 2025 issue and visit us on Blue Sky, @soc-forum.bsky.social. Let’s get connected to keep our voices heard and our sociological ideas relevant to everyday life.

From Sociology Lens Archive! Dr. Zetao Chen develops an “integral process” approach to legitimacy, arguing that authorities select policies they expect will be seen as legitimate and then actively work to justify them. A Ming China tax case links legitimacy debates to fiscal state formation.

We’re delighted to welcome Yagmur Karakaya (Sociology, Yale University) to the Sociology Lens Editorial Board. Dr. Karakaya works at the intersection of political sociology, cultural sociology, and collective memory, with a focus on nostalgia as a collective social force.

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We’re delighted to welcome Yagmur Karakaya (Sociology, Yale University) to the Sociology Lens Editorial Board. Dr. Karakaya works at the intersection of political sociology, cultural sociology, and collective memory, with a focus on nostalgia as a collective social force.

Call for Papers | Sociology Lens Special Issue: Further Right — Social Performativities, New Modes of Power & Democratic Inversions For details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832...

Call for Papers | Sociology Lens Special Issue: Further Right — Social Performativities, New Modes of Power & Democratic Inversions For details: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832...

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📘 New Special Issue | Sociology Lens Further Right: Social Performativities, New Modes of Power and Democratic Inversions This special issue explores how contemporary far-right politics extends beyond parties and elections, operating through culture, media, affect, and everyday performances.

📊 Sociology Lens | Top 3 Most-Read Articles of 2025 From cultural production and risk, to gendered images of science, to the long history of elites.. Here are the three most-read Sociology Lens articles of 2025 👇 #SociologyLens #TopReads #Sociology

📊 Sociology Lens | Top 3 Most-Read Articles of 2025 From cultural production and risk, to gendered images of science, to the long history of elites.. Here are the three most-read Sociology Lens articles of 2025 👇 #SociologyLens #TopReads #Sociology

Call for Reviewers — Sociology Lens. We’re expanding beyond historical sociology and welcoming new voices to our reviewer community. Peer review is vital to our field. Please RT to help us reach potential reviewers!

📘 New Special Issue | Sociology Lens Further Right: Social Performativities, New Modes of Power and Democratic Inversions This special issue explores how contemporary far-right politics extends beyond parties and elections, operating through culture, media, affect, and everyday performances.

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Our December issue is out! 🎉 • Historical sociology debates from the 19th–21st centuries • Sociological analyses of Parasite and Maamannan • A fresh reading of Molière

New article 📘 “Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology” by Ali Meghji @alimeghji.bsky.social is now out in Sociology Lens. The paper shows how early Black sociologists—Du Bois, Frazier, Davis, Johnson and Drake—were doing global historical sociology long before it had a name.

New article 🎸 “Value Rationality in Collective Edgework Experiences: The Making of Chinese Democracy (1994–2008)” by Myles Balfe is now out in Sociology Lens. A fresh sociological look at how a legendary rock band pushed creativity to its limits.

New article 🎬 “Vigilant Symbiosis Through Managing Fear Emotion — Film Analysis of Parasite” by Kyungmoo Heo is now out in Sociology Lens. Using Parasite as a single qualitative dataset, the article offers a sociological reading of fear, inequality, and class relations through cinematic analysis.

New article 🎭 “Flattery and The Misanthrope” by Bülent Diken, Elif Akçalı & Defne Tüzün is now published in Sociology Lens. The authors revisit Molière’s The Misanthrope to unpack how flattery functions as a social glue, shaping sincerity, hypocrisy and the politics of truth-telling.

See our the first special virtual issue collection named "Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media" here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Currently, Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus (History, 2024). Sociology Lens continues to grow as a leading venue for innovative sociological and historical research. @wileysocsci.bsky.social

All awarded Sociology Lens articles are now free to access for the next three months. Enjoy reading! @wiley.com @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social @wileysocsci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards @wileysocsci.bsky.social

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards! Honoring our tradition in historical sociology — dating back to 1988 as the Journal of Historical Sociology — while connecting this legacy with today’s dynamic sociological debates.

We’re happy to announce Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards. With these awards, we aim to keep the journal’s historical sociology legacy alive while also highlighting the importance of historical context in contemporary sociological debates. @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social @wileysocsci.bsky.social

Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards @wileysocsci.bsky.social

🏆 Sociology Lens Perspective Award goes to Aurélien Boucher for “Writing like a Bourdieusian Scholar: From The Craft of Sociology to the Writing Patterns in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales” Sociology Lens (2024) 37(2): 285–300.

🏆 Sociology Lens Sociological Insight Award goes to Jennifer Tabler, Racheal Pinkham, Rachel M. Schmitz & Katelyn Golladay for “The Legacy of Matthew Shepard: Queer Erasure and the Lives of Rural LGBTQ+ Young Adults” Sociology Lens (2023) 36(3): 282–304.

We are happy to share the first special virtual issue of Sociology Lens. We begin this series with Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media, a theme that reflects the journal's expanding vision and its aim to connect its historical sociology roots with today's digital and visual worlds.

We’d also like to highlight that social history is one of our key areas, and we especially welcome contributions in this field. @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Call for Reviewers — Sociology Lens. We’re expanding beyond historical sociology and welcoming new voices to our reviewer community. Peer review is vital to our field. Please RT to help us reach potential reviewers!

We are happy to share the first special virtual issue of Sociology Lens. We begin this series with Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media, a theme that reflects the journal's expanding vision and its aim to connect its historical sociology roots with today's digital and visual worlds.

🏆 Sociology Lens Perspective Award goes to Aurélien Boucher for “Writing like a Bourdieusian Scholar: From The Craft of Sociology to the Writing Patterns in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales” Sociology Lens (2024) 37(2): 285–300.

🏆 Sociology Lens Sociological Insight Award goes to Jennifer Tabler, Racheal Pinkham, Rachel M. Schmitz & Katelyn Golladay for “The Legacy of Matthew Shepard: Queer Erasure and the Lives of Rural LGBTQ+ Young Adults” Sociology Lens (2023) 36(3): 282–304.

🏆 Sociology Lens Historical Insight Award goes to Fatma Tunç Yaşar & Onur Güneş Ayas for “Early Acquaintances with Modern Mass Culture in Late Ottoman Istanbul: The Experiences of Child Audiences at Direklerarası” Sociology Lens (2024) 37(1): 8–27.

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the Sociology Lens Best Paper Awards! Honoring our tradition in historical sociology — dating back to 1988 as the Journal of Historical Sociology — while connecting this legacy with today’s dynamic sociological debates.

📢 📢 New Article for Sociology Lens. Bahtiyar Mermertaş’s article “From the Birth of Universal Humanity to National Identity in Ottoman and Republican Thought: An Archeology of the Statement ‘My Nation Is Mankind, My Homeland Is the Earth’ (1860s–1930s)”

📢 📢 New Article for Sociology Lens. The Construction of Identities and Resistance Through Film Narratives: A Study on Mari Selvaraj's Maamannan (2023) by S. Anthony Jeya Prathap, Devimeenakshi Kabaleeswaran.

📢 📢 New Article for Sociology Lens. Continuities and Changes: A Trend Analysis of Historical Sociology in the 21st Century by Zhengxin Li, and Amir Karimi.

📢 New Article for Sociology Lens. Activist Muslim Students' Perspectives on Digital Public Sphere and the Power of Activism in the USA by Bayram Sevinc

📢 📢 📢 The September issue of Sociology Lens is now live! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2832580x...