Today the AAPSS is headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and aims to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on important social issues.

The primary modes of the Academy's communication were to be the bimonthly journal, The Annals,[3] annual meetings, symposia, and special publications.

[4][6] In 2000 the Academy began selecting and installing Fellows in recognition of social scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field.

[8] The Academy continues to publish its bimonthly journal, and holds congressional briefings, special conferences, and biannual meetings of its board of directors.

[9] Recent authors and editors in The Annals have included Henry Louis Gates Jr., Richard A. Clarke, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and William Julius Wilson.

More recent volumes have focused on such topics as "Confronting the Specter of Nuclear Terrorism" and "The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades".