Soziale Welt (SozW)

About

Soziale Welt is one of the leading sociology journals published in German. It is characterised by its clear focus on empirical studies and publishes contributions that aim to describe, explain and understand social conditions, relations and changes using qualitative and quantitative data. This journal, which is steeped in tradition, aspires to provide the field of sociology with new impetus and actively shape its development by publishing programmatic contributions, such as those by renowned authors like Hans Albert, Ralf Dahrendorf, Karl-Dieter Opp, Renate Mayntz and Helmut Schelsky that it has published in the past.

Soziale Welt will appeal to academic institutes at universities; domestic and foreign research institutions; administration, economics and education academies; schools; libraries; ministries; administrative bodies, especially welfare and youth welfare offices, health authorities, employment authorities, church and charity organisations as well as civil society lobby groups.

Soziale Welt is included in the Social Sciences Citation Index and in Scopus.

ISSN Print 0038-6073
ISSN Online 2942-3414
Published quarterly

Editors

Prof. Dr. Tobias Wolbring (V.i.S.d.P.)
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius
Institut für Soziologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans
Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung GmbH (DZHW) und Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Germany
Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Malte Reichelt
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve
Institut für Soziologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Institut für Kulturwissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Germany

Editorial Staff

Dr. Christoph Müller

Lehrstuhl für Empirische Wirtschaftssoziologie
Raum 3.019
Findelgasse 7/9
90402 Nürnberg
Germany

E-Mail: soziale-welt@nomos-journals.de

Manuscripts are welcome.

Online Appendix

Annual Tables of Contents

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014

Special Editions

2022 – Sonderband 25 – Islam in Europa
2020 – Sonderband 24 – Soziologische Phantasie und kosmopolitisches Gemeinwesen
2020 – Sonderband 23 – Soziologie des Digitalen – Digitale Soziologie?
2015 – Sonderband 22 – Experimente in den Sozialwissenschaften
2014 – Sonderband 21 – Begriffe – Positionen – Debatten
2014 – Sonderband 20 – Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regime
2012 – Sonderband 19 – Zeit, Geld, Infrastruktur
2009 – Sonderband 18 – Demokratie in der Weltgesellschaft
2007 – Sonderband 17 – Konfliktfeld Islam in Europa
2005 – Sonderband 16 – Die Wirklichkeit der Städte
2004 – Sonderband 15 – Konfigurationen der Moderne
1998 – Sonderband 11 – Soziologie als Beruf

Manuscript Submission

Information for Authors

Templates for Manuscript Submission

First Submission Cover Sheet
First Submission Anonymised Version
Re-Submission

Publishing Open Access

Soziale Welt is not an open access journal. However, it is possible to publish individual articles in the journal open access by making the digital version freely available under a Creative Commons license chosen by the respective author(s). The publisher requires a fee to cover the publication costs (Article Processing Charge – APC) in the amount of 1,990.00 EUR (plus VAT). Many scientific institutions and science funding bodies provide corresponding funds for the publication of research results.

Are you interested in this option? Talk to your editorial office or contact open-access@nomos.de!

Review Process

Academics from the fields of sociology and the social sciences, predominantly from German-speaking countries, review articles submitted to the journal Soziale Welt. These reviewers are not only selected in terms of their content-related and methodological expertise but also their heterogeneity. The partiality of the editors and reviewers towards each submission is considered according to the guidelines stipulated by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and individuals who are biased towards any contribution will be excluded from the review process.