The following are SSSP's twenty-three Divisions, organized around specific topics, interests, or subdisciplines.

Community Research and Development
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
Disability
Drinking and Drugs
Educational Problems
Environment and Technology
Family
Gender
Global
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Institutional Ethnography              		 Labor Studies
Law and Society
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Social Problems Theory
Society and Mental Health
Sociology and Social Welfare
Sport, Leisure, and the Body
Teaching Social Problems    
Youth, Aging, and the Life Course