Social Problems is the official publication of the The Society for the Study of Social Problems

The Society for the Study of Social Problems

The Society for the Study of Social Problems , founded in 1951 by Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee, is a non-profit interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in the application of critical, scientific, and humanistic perspectives to the...

. It is a quarterly journal

Academic journal

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 published by University of California Press

University of California Press

University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...

, in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. It was first published in 1953.

Some of the areas covered by the journal include: conflict, social action, and change; crime and juvenile delinquency; drinking and drugs; health, health policy, and health services; mental health poverty, class, and inequality; racial and ethnic minorities; sexual behavior, politics, and communities; youth, aging, and the life course. Among Sociology journals ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information

Institute for Scientific Information

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, Social Problems was ranked 5th, with an impact factor

Impact factor

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of 1.796.

External links

• Society for the Study of Social Problems Official website
• Social Problems on University of California Press Journals website