The American Academy of Political and Social Science was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor Edmund J. James[1] and drawing from members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College, the Academy sought to establish communication between scientific thought and practical effort.[2] The goal of its founders was to foster, across disciplines, important questions in the realm of social sciences, and to promote the work of those whose research aimed to address important social problems. Today the AAPSS is headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center in Philadelphia and aims to continue to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on important social issues.
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The primary modes of the Academy's communication were to be the bimonthly journal, The Annals,[3] annual meetings, symposia, and special publications. Difficult topics were not avoided. The 1901 annual meeting was on race relations in America,[4] and included a paper by Booker T. Washington.[5]
Membership was open and inclusive[2] with an emphasis on educated professionals; even from the its establishment, women were permitted to obtain membership.[4] The Academy's members have included not only academicians, but also distinguished public servants such as Herbert Hoover and Frances Perkins.[2] Perhaps for this reason, it is not a member of the American Council of Learned Societies.[4][6] Nevertheless, in 2000 the Academy began selecting and installing Fellows in recognition of social scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field.[7] Since 2008 the Academy has presented an annual Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to recognize public officials and scholars who have used social science and informed judgment to advance the public good [8]
| Annals Of The American Academy of Political and Social Science | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title (ISO) | Ann. Am. Acad. Polit. Soc. Sci. |
| Discipline | Social Sciences |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Emily Wood |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (United Kingdom) |
| Publication history | 1890-present |
| Frequency | 6 times a year |
| Impact factor (2009) |
1.014 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0002-7162 (print) 1552-3349 (web) |
| OCLC number | 1479265 |
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The Annals, a policy and scientific journal in political and social science, began publication in July 1890 and has continued uninterrupted up until the present. Authors and special editors of The Annals have included influential individuals, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Margaret Mead, Thurgood Marshall, Mahatma Gandhi, and Booker T. Washington.[2] More recently, authors and editors have included Henry Louis Gates Jr., Richard A. Clarke, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and William Julius Wilson. The Annals has been published by SAGE Publications since 1981. In 2003 it changed from its traditional plain orange cover to a more graphic cover containing photographs.[7]
'The Annals' has covered topics ranging from “The World’s Food” (November, 1917) to “The Motion Picture and its Economic and Social Aspects” (November 1926), “Women in the Modern World” (May, 1929), “America and Japan” (May, 1941), “Urban Renewal Goals and Standards (March, 1964), and “The Global Refugee Problem” (May, 1982). More recent volumes have focused on such topics as “Confronting the Specter of Nuclear Terrorism,” and “The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades."
In 2006, the Academy Blog[9] was created to take advantage of the Internet to provide a forum for ideas and research in the social sciences.
| Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about AAPSS. |