THE SOURCES AND SUBJECT MATTER OF PAPERS IN THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY.

This article presents information on the "Journal of Educational Sociology." Those who attempt to assess the status of educational sociology invariably refer to the quality of its literature as an indicator of the field's level of development. The only journal devoted exclusively to the field as such and has published continuously since its founding. For more than three decades, it has been a vehicle for the expression of thinking in educational sociology. The first number of the journal appeared in September 1927. A statistical technique for obtaining descriptive data on content variables, content analysis has proved adaptable for assessing the development of various scholarly and scientific fields, including the literature of theory and research in both the natural and the social sciences. Questionnaires and interviews as sole collection devices were used to a significantly greater extent in 1930-31 and 1940-41 than they were in the last two time periods. The practice of using a combination of methods occurred significantly more often in 1950-51 and 1960-61 than in the earlier two periods.