About the Journal
FOCUS AND SCOPE
“Sotsiologicheskij Zhurnal” publishes the articles on sociological disciplines. Interdisciplinary studies in sociology and related disciplines, such as social psychology, cultural studies, anthropology, ethnography, etc. — are also welcomed. The main emphasis is on the fundamental research in the field of theory, methodology and history of sociology. The regular rubric highlights the results of mass surveys and case studies. The rubric “Discussion”, which debated the controversial issues of sociological research, is regular as well. The journal publishes book reviews, and summaries, as well as lists of new books in Russian and English, which represent the main areas of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. The journal aims to not only play samples of knowledge, considered regulatory and standards of internal expertise in the professional community, but also aims for opportunities to improve them. These rules, a tough selection and decision to print only a small portion of incoming materials allow “Sotsiologicheskij Zhurnal” contribute to improving the quality of sociological research. Submitted manuscripts should show a high integrity in problem setting, problem analysis and correspond to the journal’s thematic profile and its scientific priorities.
The key list of thematic areas (rubrics) includes:
- Archives
- Biographical research
- Discussion
- Economic sociology
- Ethnosociology
- Expertise: problems and prospects of social development
- Historical sociology
- History of sociology
- History of Western sociology
- Political sociology
- Professional biography
- Retrospective
- Social demography
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociological education
- Sociology mass media
- Sociology of culture
- Sociology of education
- Sociology of identity
- Sociology of Internet
- Sociology of knowledge
- Sociology of law
- Sociology of management
- Sociology of medicine
- Sociology of politics
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of risk
- Sociology of science
- Sociology of youth
- Surveys, experiments, case studies
- The history of sociological thought in Russia
- Theory and methodology
- Visual methods
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The journal provides free of charge open access to its content based on the following principle: free open access to research results promotes global knowledge sharing. Full-text articles and all other published materials are available at the journal’s official website immediately after its publication. The materials published at the journal’s website permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
Open-access license: Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 CC-BY
