American Sociological Association

American Sociological Association

Formation	January 1, 1905; 119 years ago (1905-01-01)
Headquarters	1717 K Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Membership	9,333[1] (2024)
2024 President	Joya Misra
Publication	Footnotes
Website	www.asanet.org

The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fifty people, the first president of the association would be Lester Frank Ward.^[2] Today, most of its members work in academia, while around 20 percent of them work in government, business, or non-profit organizations.

ASA publishes ten academic journals and magazines, along with four section journals, including the American Sociological Review and Contexts.

The ASA had 9,893 members in 2023, as an association of sociologists even larger than the International Sociological Association.^[3] It is composed of researchers, students, college/university faculty, high school faculty, and various practitioners^[4] The "American Sociological Association Annual Meeting" is an annual academic conference held by the association consisting of over 4,000 participants.