Sociology after COVID-19: A Note from the Editors of Sociologica

Measures undertaken to face the current COVID-19 pandemic have an impact on social relations on many different levels. In this moment, the task of sociology is to reflect on these consequences and their implications for ongoing social transformations. To this end, David Stark and the other editors of Sociologica offer the journal as an open forum to host contributions on these topics or on other research questions connected with the COVID-19 crisis.

As an international online journal for sociological debate, with neither pay-walled access nor pay-for-publication policy, Sociologica can allow for rapid dissemination and open discussion. We commit ourselves to peer-review any contribution at the highest standards and publish rapidly all accepted papers.

We welcome proposals by scholars or teams of scholars for: (1) symposia on strategic topics for the post-COVID-19 sociology, organized through open calls for papers or as groups of papers already commissioned by symposia editors (or a mix of open and commissioned papers); (2) papers reflecting on the most important challenges, in the standard format of scientific articles or in shorter form; (3) flashback and focus papers discussing the COVID-19 outbreak in the light of social history or using sociological tools to reconsider its challenges; (4) accounts and reconstructions of the COVID-19 events in unconventional formats.