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Journal of Asian Sociology

Journal of Asian Sociology

  • Frequency : 4 issues/year
  • ISSN : 2671-4574(Print) / 2671-8200(Online)
  • Publisher : The Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National University, Korea
  • Editor in Chief : Kim, Seok-ho
  • Contact : jasoceditor@gmail.com / +82 2 880 4240
  • Indexed in SCOPUS
Journal of Asian Sociology (JAS) is one of the most established academic journals for social science in English-language published by the Institute of Social Development and Policy Research (ISDPR) at Seoul National University. Founded as Bulletin of the Population and Development Studies Center in 1972 and evolving into Korea Journal of Population and Development from 1990 to 1997, and then Development and Society from 1998 to 2018, JAS has more than 40 years of history. JAS is currently indexed in SCOPUS and is also included in JSTOR archive.
With its main focus on Asia, and especially the East Asian region, JAS provides path breaking works from social, cultural, political to economic field, and discusses various sociological issues such as inequality, social change, policy, labor, environment, social quality, demographic change and so on. The journal presents empirical analysis and theoretical discussions on important topics of modern society, including culture, economics, politics, demographics and the varied sociological issues that emerge in the Asian region.

Journal of Asian Sociology

Volume 55 Number 3, September 2026

CONTENTS
Articles
  • Cultural Worldviews and ESG-Related Activism Intentions in South Korea

    Hyungjun Suh

  • Social ties, Depression, and Self-rated Health among Ethnic Minority Youth: Longitudinal Findings from a Nine-wave Panel Study

    Ahhyun Cho

  • Social media platforms and intrafamilial communication dynamics in Saudi Arabia: a sociological study from younger generation perspectives

    Nesreen Salman Alawaad and Munirah A. Alduraywish

  • The Social Construction of Markets: A Comparative Analysis of the Automobile Industries in Japan, Korea, and China

    Yiyun He and Sang Min Lee


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