Social Structures and Contemporary Change

Social Structures and Contemporary Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the publication of original research, theoretical contributions, comparative studies, empirical analyses, field-based research, case studies, and critical reviews in the broad fields of sociology, social structures, demographic change, social transformation, inequality, institutions, communities, and contemporary societal dynamics.

The journal aims to provide an international scholarly platform for sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, social-policy researchers, development scholars, economists, political scientists, education researchers, public-health scholars, communication specialists, and other researchers interested in understanding the structures, institutions, relationships, inequalities, behaviors, and transformations that shape contemporary societies.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary research connecting sociology and social studies with economics, political science, anthropology, law, geography, history, education, public health, communication, environmental studies, technology, and development studies, provided that social structures or contemporary social change remains central to the manuscript.

The journal’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

• Social Theory: classical, modern, and contemporary sociological theories, social structures, agency, institutions, power, social relations, and theoretical approaches to societal transformation.
• Social Structure: social organization, institutions, roles, status, hierarchy, networks, social groups, and patterns of interaction within societies.
• Social Change: modernization, globalization, technological transformation, demographic transitions, institutional change, cultural transformation, and changing forms of social organization.
• Social Stratification: class, status, socioeconomic differentiation, social hierarchy, privilege, disadvantage, and mechanisms of stratification.
• Social Inequality: income, wealth, education, health, gender, territorial, digital, and other forms of inequality and their social consequences.
• Social Mobility: intergenerational and intragenerational mobility, occupational mobility, educational mobility, class reproduction, and changing opportunity structures.
• Poverty and Social Vulnerability: multidimensional poverty, deprivation, precarity, social exclusion, economic insecurity, vulnerability, and poverty-reduction policies.
• Social Exclusion and Inclusion: marginalization, barriers to participation, social integration, access to services, inclusion policies, and experiences of disadvantaged groups.
• Social Justice: fairness, redistribution, equality of opportunity, recognition, social rights, institutional justice, and public responses to inequality.
• Family Sociology: family structures, marriage, divorce, parenthood, household organization, intergenerational relations, care, and contemporary family change.
• Childhood Studies: childhood, socialization, education, child protection, poverty, family relations, rights, and changing experiences of children.
• Youth Studies: youth transitions, education, employment, unemployment, political participation, identity, culture, migration, and digital practices.
• Ageing and Later Life: ageing populations, elderly care, pensions, intergenerational relations, social participation, health, and social protection.
• Gender Studies: gender relations, gender inequality, division of labor, social roles, representation, participation, and institutional dimensions of gender.
• Women and Society: women’s participation in education, employment, politics, family life, public institutions, entrepreneurship, and social change.
• Men and Masculinities: constructions of masculinity, gender roles, family relationships, work, identity, and changing social expectations.
• Population and Demography: fertility, mortality, ageing, migration, population structure, demographic transition, and relationships between population and social change.
• Migration Studies: internal and international migration, mobility, migration networks, integration, transnationalism, migration policy, and social consequences of migration.
• Diaspora Studies: transnational communities, identity, belonging, remittances, diaspora networks, social ties, and relations between origin and destination societies.
• Refugees and Forced Displacement: displacement, asylum, refugee integration, social vulnerability, humanitarian responses, and community relations.

The journal also welcomes emerging and innovative research addressing new forms of inequality, changing institutions, demographic transitions, technological disruption, transformations in work and family life, evolving identities, environmental pressures, and other major forces reshaping contemporary societies.