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  • Pacific Sociological Association
    CSU Sacramento
    6000 J Street
    Sacramento CA 95819-6005
    tel 916.278.5254
    fax 916.278.6281
    psa@csus.edu

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who we are

  • Since 1929, the PSA has been the premiere regional association for faculty, students and those working in practice areas of the discipline in the western US, Canada and Mexico. Please contact Executive Director Dean Dorn with any questions or comments related to the organization.

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The PSA publishes a quarterly journal, Sociological Perspectives, issued in spring, summer, fall and winter, and a newsletter, The Pacific Sociologist, issued in January, May and September. In addition, it has published a book, Seventy-Five Years of the Pacific Sociological Association, 1929-2004.

PSA history book now available!

Executive Director Dean S. Dorn's account of the history of the PSA, Seventy-Five Years of the Pacific Sociological Association 1929-2004, is now available from the PSA office. Dorn_2

Find out more than you want to know about the history, struggles, challenges, and successes of this voluntary association. The PSA is the oldest regional association and has had an event-filled past.

Only $15, and all proceeds go to the PSA Endowment Fund!

Send your name and address, along with payment (made out to the PSA) to Dean S. Dorn, Dept. of Sociology, CSU Sacramento , 6000 J Street , Sacramento , CA 95819-6005

Seventy Five Years of the Pacific Sociological Association 1929-2004, ISBN 0-9766963-
0-0, 170 pages. $15

Submission Procedures Soc Perspectives

Submission Procedures for the PSA journal, Sociological Perspectives, published by the University of California Press

  • 1) Visit the UC Press special page for Sociological Perspectives where you will find details about the submission process.

  • 2) All manuscripts must be submitted eletronically through Scholar One: Manuscript Central.

  • 3) If you have questions, contact the Editorial Office at SocPerspectives@scu.edu

    The journal is Co-Edited by Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez, Santa Clara University. You can contact them at SocPerspectives@scu.edu

  • journal: Sociological Perspectives

    Sociological Perspectives (ISSN:0731-1214) is the PSA journal. It is published four times per year, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by the University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley CA 94720-5812. phone: 510-643-7154; fax: 510-642-9917; email. The University of California Press has set up a special home page for the journal.

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    The journal's purpose is to advance research, theory, scholarship, andpractice within sociology and related disciplines. Preference is given to articles that are of general interest to members of the discipline and that, as a result, advance the accumulation of knowledge about social processes. The SocPerspectives@scu.edu Editorial Office is located at Santa Clara University.

    The Co-Editors of Sociological Perspectives are Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez, Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University SocPerspectives@scu.edu

    Editorial and submission information

    Past Editors of the Journal

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    newsletter: The Pacific Sociologist

    The PSA Newsletter, The Pacific Sociologist, is published three times per year, in January, May, and September. The newsletter is prepared in the association office.

    The Newsletter publishes information on the functions of the PSA, the annual meeting, the call for papers, officers, elections,  as well as other items. Cover Below are current and back issues of The Pacific Sociologist. All files are available as PDF. For the newest version of the Acrobat Reader, click here.

  • Volume 16, No. 1 Jan, 2008
  • Volume 15, No. 3 Sept. 2007
  • Volume 15, No. 2 May 2007
  • Volume 15, No.1 January 2007
  • Volume 14, No.3 September 2006
  • Volume 14, Number 2, May 2006
  • Volume 14, Number 1, January 2006
  • Volume 13, Number 3, September, 2005
  • Volume 13, Number 2, May 2005
  • Volume 13, Number 1, January 2005
  • Volume 12, Number 3, September 2004
  • Volume 12, Number 2, June 2004
  • Volume 12, Number 1, January 2004
  • Volume 11, Number 3, September 2003
  • Volume 11, Number 2, May 2003
  • Volume 11, Number 1, January 2003
  • Volume 10, Number 3, September 2002
  • Volume 10, Number 2, May 2002
  • Volume 10, Number 1, January 2002
  • Volume 9, Number 3, September 2001
  • Volume 9, Number 2, May 2001
  • Volume 9, Number 1, January 2001
  • Volume 8, Number 3, September 2000
  • Volume 8, Number 2, May 2000
  • Volume 8, Number 1, January 2000
  • Volume 7, Number 3, September 1999
  • Volume 7, Number 2, May 1999
  • Volume 7, Number 1, January 1999
  • Volume 6, Number 3, September 1998
  • Volume 6, Number 2, May 1998
  • Volume 6, Number 1, January 1998
  • Volume 5, Number 3, September 1997
  • Volume 5, Number 2, May 1997
  • Volume 5, Number 1, January 1997
  • Volume 4, Number 3, September 1996