Social Forces

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| title = Social Forces

| cover = File:Cover_of_Social_Forces,_Volume_94,_Issue_1.jpg

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| editor = Arne L. Kalleberg

| discipline = Social sciences

| former_names = The Journal of Social Forces

| abbreviation = Soc. Forces

| publisher = Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

| country =

| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1922–present

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 3.575

| impact-year = 2020

| website = https://academic.oup.com/sf

| link1 = https://academic.oup.com/sf

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/archive/

| link2-name = Online archive

| JSTOR = 00377732

| OCLC = 48534262

| LCCN = 2001-227382

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| ISSN = 0037-7732

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Social Forces (formerly The Journal of Social Forces) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It concentrates on sociology but also has a multidisciplinary approach, publishing works from the fields of social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Each issue includes between 20 and 25 articles. In addition, the journal also publishes book reviews.

Social Forces was established by Howard W. Odum in 1922{{cite book |editor1=Madeleine Grawitz |editor-link=:fr:Madeleine Grawitz |editor2=Jean Leca |editor-link2=:fr:Jean Leca |author=Elisabeth Gayon |author-link=Elisabeth Gayon |date=1985 |title=Traité de science politique |chapter=Guide documentaire de l'étudiant et du chercheur en science politique |page=305 |language=fr |publisher=Presses Universitaires de France |isbn=2-13-038858-2}} as The Journal of Social Forces.{{Cite journal |last=Jocher |first=Katharine |date=1945 |title=Two Decades of Social Forces |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2572294 |journal=Social Forces |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=291–301 |issn=0037-7732}} The name was changed relatively quickly; since 1925 (volume 4), it has been published as Social Forces. Oxford University Press took over publication of the journal from the University of North Carolina Press in 2011.Kalleberg, A. L. (2011). "Social Forces Tomorrow". Social Forces, 90(2), 345–347. {{doi|10.1093/sf/sor033}}

This journal is edited by Arne L. Kalleberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).