About our Publications

SSSP and its divisions publish a number of newsletters, journals, booklets, and more. In addition to these publications, the SSSP Special Problems Divisions periodically publish newsletters throughout the year available in print or electronically for its members. For more information on the SSSP Special Problems Divisions visit the Special Problems Divisions section of our website.


Social Problems Journal
Social Problems Journal brings to the fore influential sociological findings and theories that have the ability to help us both better understand, and better deal with, our complex social environment. One of the most respected and widely read professional journals in the social sciences; published quarterly.
Social Problems Newsletter
Social Problems Forum: The SSSP Newsletter features community news, essays summarizing facts, issues, opinions or policies regarding current social problems, annual meeting information, election news including candidate biographies, student columns, and more; published 3 times annually.
Agenda For Social Justice
Agenda For Social Justice  is designed to inform policy makers and the public-at-large about some of the nation's most pressing social problems and to propose policy responses to those problems. It is an effort to nourish a more "public sociology" that will be easily accessible to policy makers.
Social Problems Course Texts
Social Problems Course Texts are social problem texts for course adoption published by SSSP in cooperation with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. There are 5 books in the SSSP Presidential Series.
Working Toward A Just World: Visions, Experiences, and Challenges
Working Toward A Just World: Visions, Experiences, and Challenges is intended for SSSP members, their colleagues and their students who want to learn more about one or more areas of study and activism that are the foci of the SSSP Divisions.