歷史社會學雜志（JHS）成立于1988年，其宗旨是認為歷史和社會研究具有共同的主題。我們歡迎那些有助于對社會和文化現象有歷史基礎的理解的文章，不管它們的學科來源或理論立場如何。我們對歷史上與當代社會、文化、政治和經濟事務相關的話題特別感興趣。我們在主題、時期和地點方面都很開放，并且在文章的內容和作者方面力求盡可能地國際化。除了文章之外，我們還偶爾發表一些關于學校和學者、評論和評論的文章，以及在我們的問題和議程部分特意挑起的短文。我們也開放非傳統的創造性學術寫作。一篇典型的JHS文章將包含少量的延伸文獻回顧（我們傾向于將其編輯掉），將對其經驗性的主題發表一些實質性的和新的東西，將意識到其主題的理論含義，而不會變成對純理論的深奧討論，并將引起讀者的興趣超越專攻地理或學科的聽眾。

The Journal of Historical Sociology (JHS) was founded in 1988 on the conviction that historical and social studies have a common subject-matter. We welcome articles that contribute to the historically-grounded understanding of social and cultural phenomena, whatever their disciplinary provenance or theoretical standpoint. We are particularly interested in topics that are historically relevant to contemporary social, cultural, political and economic urgencies. We are open as to topic, period, and place, and seek to be as international as possible in both the content and the authorship of articles. Alongside articles, we carry occasional essays on Schools and Scholars and of Review and Commentary, and shorter pieces in our Issues and Agendas section which are deliberately designed to provoke. We are also open to non-conventional creative academic writing. A typical JHS article will contain little by way of extended literature review (which we are prone to edit out), will say something substantial and new about its empirical subject-matter, will be aware of the theoretical implications of its topic without turning into an abstruse discussion of pure theory, and will be of interest to readers beyond a specialist geographical or disciplinary audience.