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. SC is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the Institute of Social Research at Korea University.
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
