Sociological Bulletin
Sociological Bulletin, a journal of the Indian Sociological Society, was launched on 1 March 1952. The credit for founding both the Indian Sociological Society and the Sociological Bulletin goes to G. S. Ghurye, the then Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay. From 2021, the journal has become a quarterly refereed journal. The journal is a powerful platform for sociologists and social scientists to share their research with the professional fraternity. Non-sociologists and non-members of the Indian Sociological Society are not prohibited from their contributions to the journal. Owing to its liberal policy of accepting contributions from all social scientists and from any region of the world, it is pertinent to inform that various articles of this journal, despite their main focus on India, have published about societies of thirty-seven different countries. Using qualitative, quantitative, textual, triangulation and historical data, the journal publishes three kinds of articles, namely discursive, empirical and historical.
Sociological Bulletin believes in broad boundaries of vision and its mission. Any article submitted with sociological inputs is given equal consideration. This practice has been fruitful in terms of diversity of fields covered in the journal. The journal follows a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy.
Although two sections remain unchanged, there could be three to five sections in the journal.
Unchanged Sections:
a. Research Articles: Only the research articles are refereed.
b. Book Reviews: Vary from number to number invariably guided by limits to the size of the manuscript.
Other miscellaneous sections which may not appear in every number:
a. Communication/Discussion
b. Profession
c. Review Article
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Sociological Bulletin is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the Indian Sociological Society. The journal has an interdisciplinary approach with the sociological perspective. It welcomes original articles primarily based on research.
The aim of Sociological Bulletin is to offer a platform for sharing research in any area of sociology with strong grounding in the multidisciplinary perspectives. It also offers an intellectual forum to scholars to participate in critical discussion on various issues of sociological concern, with an aim to disseminate and share sociological knowledge, not necessarily confined to the Indian subcontinent but all over the world within the profession.
Although two sections remain unchanged, three to five sections can be allowed in the journal.
Unchanged Sections:
a. Research Articles: Only the research articles are refereed.
b. Book Reviews: Vary from number to number invariably guided by limits to the size of the manuscript.
Other miscellaneous sections which may not appear in every number:
a. Communication/Discussion
b. Profession
c. Review Article.
The journal follows a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy.
| Manish Kumar Thakur | Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India |
| Dipti Rajan Sahu (President) | Professor of Sociology, University of Lucknow, India |
| Arvinder A Ansari (Secretary) | Professor of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India |
| Dilip Ramdas Khairnar (Treasurer) | Professor of Sociology, Deogiri College, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, India |
| Rajni Bala | Associate Professor of Sociology, Baring Union Christian College, Batala, India |
| Sandip Murlidhar Chaudhari | Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, SBES College of Arts and Commerce, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra, India |
| Anshu Kedia | Professor and Principal, Khun Khun Ji Girls PG College Chowk, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Sudha Khokate | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India |
| Sanjay Nilkanth Kolekar | Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India |
| Ramesh Makwana | Professor of Sociology, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat, India |
| Bibhuti Bhushan Malik | Professor of Sociology and Vice Chancellor, Rajendra University, Balangir, India |
| Alok Kumar Meena | Professor and Principal, Government College Kudi Bhagtasani, Jodhpur Gramin, India |
| Nilika Mehrotra | Professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Sudeshna Mukherjee | Director and Associate Professor, Centre for Social Impact, Chanakya University, Bengaluru, India |
| Rukmini Sen | Professor of Sociology, School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B R Ambedkar University, New Delhi, India |
| Pramod Kumar Shukla | Professor (Sociology), KIPM Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gorakhpur, India |
| Vinita Singh | Associate Professor and Head, Department of Sociology Professor-in-Charge, Ranchi Women's College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India |
| Khwaja Mohammed Ziyauddin | Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, SA&SS, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India |
| Papesh Kumar Lenka | Department of Sociology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India |
| Arvinder A Ansari (Secretary) | Professor of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India |
| Dilip Ramdas Khairnar (Treasurer) | Professor of Sociology, Deogiri College, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, India |
| Sarbeswar Sahoo | Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India |
| Dipti Rajan Sahu (President) | Professor of Sociology, University of Lucknow, India |
| Sanjay Srivastava | Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom |
| V Sujatha | Professor, C.S.S.S., School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Pradeep Swarnakar | Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, India |
| Soma Chaudhuri | Professor of Sociology, Centre for Gender in Global Context, Michigan State University, United States |
| Sukant Chaudhury | Former Professor of Sociology, University of Lucknow, India |
| S M Dahiwale | Former Professor of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India |
| Ananta Kumar Giri | Professor of Sociology, Vishwaneedam Center for Asian Blossoming, Chennai, India; School of Liberal Studies, MIT World Peace University, Pune, India |
| N Jayaram | Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India |
| Vidyut Joshi | Former Professor, Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad, India |
| Paramjit Judge | Former Professor of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India |
| Roland Lardinoi | Centre for South-Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Campus Condorcet, Paris, France |
| B B Mohanty | Professor of Sociology, Pondicherry University, India |
| Indira Munshi | Former Professor of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India |
| Ajit Kumar Pandey | Former Professor of Sociology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India |
| Sujata Patel | Former Professor of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India |
| A K Sharma | Former Professor of Sociology, IIT Kanpur, India |
| Sudha Vasan | Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi, India |