Long-Term Changes in the Character of the Sociological Discipline: A Short Note on the Length of Titles of Articles Submitted to the American Sociological Review during the year 2002

Abstract

Having often struggled during our years as ASR Editors to adjust the number of words in article titles to fit the space limitations of ASR's page design, we have been struck by the sheer length of many of the titles that we see. To gain perspective on this matter, we furnished Howard S. Becker, the longest-serving member of our Editorial Board, with some relevant data on ASR manuscript titles and invited him to write the following editorial. — Eds.