Editorial.

It feels good to know that Thórólfur Thórlindsson, Rúnar Vilhjálmsson and Torgerdur Einarsdottir will be taking over the responsibility of the journal Acta Sociologica for the years 2001 to 2003. The former editors claimed that they worked as a close team but Klaus Mäkelä had the main responsibility for articles, Risto Heiskala was in charge of review essays and book reviews and Anna Leppo was the editorial secretary. During their 3 years as editors, Acta Sociologica published 63 articles, 11 review essays and 65 book reviews, with an acceptance rate for articles of 29%. In 28% of the articles and review essays, the first author was a woman and in 72% a man; 15% came from Denmark, 12% from Finland, 1% from Iceland, 19% from Norway, 30% from Sweden and 23% from non-Nordic countries. The following are their goals: to be open to a wide variety of theoretical approaches and research techniques; to publish as many articles as possible presenting data from more than one country; to keep Acta open to contributions from all members of the international republic of sociology; to publish high quality articles from all Nordic countries; to assist young Nordic sociologists in learning the trade of writing articles; to provide feedback as quickly as possible on the manuscripts submitted to Acta; to have each manuscript reviewed by at least two specialists from different countries; to provide constructive comments to all authors irrespective of whether their manuscript might be accepted for publication; to publish informative reviews and review essays on books by Nordic scholars, on Nordic countries or on topics of special interest to Nordic sociologists, written by sociologists from a country and academic tribe other than those of the authors; to print as comprehensible English as possible for a team of non-native editors in a community of non-native authors.