About the Journal

The OJSS, as an international multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed online open access academic journal, publishes academic articles deal with different problems and topics in various areas of sociology (urban and rural sociology, economic sociology, sociology of science, sociology of education, political sociology, political science, criminology, demography, human ecology, sociology of religion, sociology of sport and leisure, applied sociology – social work, methodology of sociological research, etc.).

The OJSS is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

All articles published in the OJSS are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 

Authors hold the copyrights of their own articles by acknowledging that their articles are originally published in the OJSS.