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List of sociological associations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ18349482 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article is a list of sociological associations. It is intended to cover all professional associations dedicated to sociological inquiry or a subset thereof, whether or not the association is currently active.

A

Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association

American Sociological Association

Armenian Sociological Association

Asia Pacific Sociological Association

Association for Humanist Sociology

Association for the Sociology of Religion, Formed in 1938 as the American Catholic Sociological Society

Association Francaise de Sociologie (France)

Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS)

Australian Sociological Association

Azerbaijani Sociological Association

B

Bangladesh Sociological Society (BSS)

Berufsverband Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen e.v.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of sociological associations” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, sociological and associations, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, sociological and associations is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18349482. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1938.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of sociological associations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.