High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Social Forces (formerly Journal of Social Forces; ISSN 00377732, OCLC: 48534262, LCCN: 2001-227382) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by the University of North Carolina Press. It concentrates on sociology but also has a multidisciplinary approach, publishing works from the fields of social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Each issue includes between 20 and 25 articles. In addition, the journal also publishes book reviews.