Sociology has been identified in the extant literature as the foundation upon which leisure studies has been based. This paper assesses the validity of this claim. It does so by examining the departmental affiliation of the authors who have published in the double-blind peer-reviewed journals in the leisure studies field. Analysis of the data suggests that in the early years of the journals, in the early 1970s, sociologists represented a large component of the authors of the published articles. However, the presence of authors based in sociology departments rapidly declined thereafter. Overall, the results highlighted in this paper question the idea that sociology is the foundation of leisure studies while identifying those situated in sociology departments as a strong component of the authors publishing in the early years of the field’s journals, albeit one that has declined since then.