Letter from the Editors of Sociological Perspectives

Abstract

University of Oregon, where the journal first began as the Pacific Sociological Review in 1958. While much has changed during the intervening years, the journal’s basic mission has not. As the new Co-Editors, and with the help of new Managing Editor Jessica Schultz, we will continue the journal’s tradition of encouraging submissions—empirical, theoretical, or both—that are written to appeal to a wide range of sociologists and that make a clear and distinct contribution to the discipline, regardless of subfield. In assuming these duties, we would like to thank members of the incoming editorial board for joining us in this collective pursuit. We also thank the outgoing editorial team of Charles Powers, Marilyn Fernandez, and Kay Boissicat for their generous assistance in helping us throughout the journal’s transition to Eugene and for continuing to answer questions we didn’t even know we had. With regard to content, we began handling new submissions in July of this year and expect the first set of articles that we accept for publication to appear in the third issue of Volume 55. In the meantime, the contents of this issue and the next will consist of articles processed by the outgoing editorial team at Santa Clara University. Below, they introduce the articles in this issue.