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3 unusual facts about American Journal of Sociology


David C. Stark

Stark won the 2009 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the American Sociological Association for his paper, “Social Times of Network Spaces” (with Balazs Vedres), which appeared in American Journal of Sociology (2006).

Louis B. Boudin

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Boudin was a frequent contributor of book reviews to scholarly journals such as the Columbia Law Review, The American Journal of Sociology, and The Journal of Politics.

Organizational ecology

Introduced in 1977 by Michael T. Hannan and the late John H. Freeman in their American Journal of Sociology piece "The population ecology of organizations" and later refined in their 1989 book Organizational Ecology, organizational ecology examines the environment in which organizations compete and a process like natural selection occurs.



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