Social Constellations: A World Perspective (SC) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal in social sciences, spanning sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, political science, policy studies, criminology, psychology, and media studies. SC publishes cutting-edge research that debunks and envisions collective human life in the world: the South and beyond, humans and beyond, and the globe and beyond. Amid the dizzying velocity of knowledge production and reproduction, SC believes in the growing value of a de-centered, open-access, yet vetted research outlet that overcomes partiality to reach totality as the true form of knowledge.
In highlighting constellations as such a social scientific venture, SC is committed to scholarly efforts to deliver collective life processes in the following manner:
- It advances theoretical, empirical, and methodological innovation in social sciences about collective life processes, from a world (not only the North-dominated nor the nature-excluded) perspective.
- It pays attention to how problems and promises emerge, intersect, and evolve within and across personal, local, national, global, and supra-global contexts in the coming years.
- By respecting yet operating across disciplinary boundaries, SC welcomes contributions that examine the interplay among social, cultural, political, economic, environmental, and technological dimensions of human experience.
- SC endorses diverse methodological approaches: qualitative, quantitative, comparative, historical, computational, and mixed methods.
- By connecting diverse ideas, methods, and perspectives, SC aims to foster a vibrant world dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers committed to understanding and addressing the complexities of collective human life.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
● Social structures, inequality, and stratification
● Power, identity, collective behavior, and social movements
● Globalization, migration, and transnational relations
● Environmental and climate-related social change
● Human-nonhuman interaction
● Science, technology, and digital transformation
● Governance, institutions, and policy processes
● Crime, deviance, and social regulation
● Health, well-being, and everyday life
● Culture, communication, and symbolic interaction
