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Soziale Welt (SozW)
Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung
The German Sociological Review
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
Institut für Soziologie, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, 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. Daniela Schiek
Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany - Prof. Dr. Roland Verwiebe
Universität Potsdam, 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.
Publication Alert (TOC-Alert)
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Online Appendix
- Issue 1|2023
Eileen Peters, Mareike Reimann, Martin Diewald: The stress and resources of higher status hypotheses in light of COVID-19: Effects on work-life conflict and self-rated health - Issue 1|2023
Florian Weber, Raffaela Gentile, Hanna Reichelt, Andreas Horr, Tatjana Taraszow, Angelina Springer: Differences in political trust between migrants and non-migrants in pandemic times - Issue 2|2022
Philip Wortschak, Claire Samtleben: Vom Helfer zur Fachkraft mit betrieblicher Weiterbildung? Berufliche Aufstiege und Lohnveränderungen von an- und ungelernten Beschäftigten in regulierten und unregulierten internen Arbeitsmärkten - Issue 1|2022
Thomas Lux: Die AfD-Wahlabsicht aus ungleichheitssoziologischer Perspektive - Issue 3|2021
Richard Nennstiel: Do more demanding lower secondary school certificates for minority students pay off? A comparison of VET access between Germany and German-speaking Switzerland
Annual Tables of Contents
Special Editions
- 2026 – SB 28 – Verbreitung, Verwerfungen, Vorstellungen
- 2024 – SB 27 – Begriffe als Werkzeuge der Soziologie
- 2023 – SB 26 – Career Paths Inside and Outside Academia
- 2022 – SB 25 – Islam in Europa
- 2020 – SB 24 – Soziologische Phantasie und kosmopolitisches Gemeinwesen
- 2020 – SB 23 – Soziologie des Digitalen – Digitale Soziologie?
- 2015 – SB 22 – Experimente in den Sozialwissenschaften
- 2014 – SB 21 – Begriffe – Positionen – Debatten
- 2014 – SB 20 – Sorge: Arbeit, Verhältnisse, Regime
- 2012 – SB 19 – Zeit, Geld, Infrastruktur
- 2009 – SB 18 – Demokratie in der Weltgesellschaft
- 2007 – SB 17 – Konfliktfeld Islam in Europa
- 2005 – SB 16 – Die Wirklichkeit der Städte
- 2004 – SB 15 – Konfigurationen der Moderne
- 1998 – SB 11 – Soziologie als Beruf
Manuscript Submission
Submissions can be made via OJS, please note the information for authors.
Templates for Manuscript 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.
Abstracting & Indexing
- SSCI Impact Factor 2022: tbc (2021: tbc; 2020: 0.290; 2018: 0,095)
Soziale Welt regularly scores among the top 100 German scholarly journals in the Google Scholar ranking and is also included in
- Baidu Xue Shu
- ProQuest ExLibris Primo Index
- PubPsych
- SocINDEX (EBSCO)
- ANVUR Rating of Scientific Journals
- DZI SoLit
- World Affairs Online (WAO)
Soziale Welt is included in the following ProQuest databases