Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

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The Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology) is the most important scientific journal for sociology in German language.

[edit] History

The journal's roots go back to the Kölner Vierteljahreshefte für Sozialwissenschaften (Cologne Quarterly of Social Sciences), founded in 1921 by the German sociologist Leopold von Wiese.

After World War II it was again Wiese who refounded the journal as ”Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie” in 1948. Under his successor René König the quarterly soon expanded to social psychological subjects, which was reflected by the once again changed name.

[edit] Today

Today the journal is especially renowned for its empirical focus on social research, both qualitatively and quantitatively. While open for all paradigms, theoretical approaches often stand in the tradition of Max Weber's ”Verstehende Soziologie” (Interpretive Sociology). Articles are usually published in German language and accompagnied by an English abstract.

Famous authors who published in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie or its predecessor include Ulrich Beck, Rainer M. Lepsius, Niklas Luhmann, Karl Mannheim, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Claus Offe, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Piotr Sztompka, Friedrich H. Tenbruck, Ferdinand Tönnies and William J. Wilson.

The Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie is screened for several international Citation indices such as the Social Science Citation Index of the Institute for Scientific Information. Today it is published by the VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden under ISSN 0023-2653. Current editors are Jürgen Friedrichs (Cologne University), Wolfgang Schluchter (Heidelberg University) and Heike Solga (Göttingen University). Notable former editors include Alphons Silbermann.