 Articles are usually published in German with an abstract in English.The journal's roots go back to the "Kölner Vierteljahreshefte für Sozialwissenschaften (Cologne Quarterly of Social Sciences)", founded in 1921 by the German sociologist Leopold von Wiese.After World War II it was again von Wiese who refounded the journal as ”Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie” in 1948.