Upcoming thematic issues for 2024

Public Participation as a Factor That Changes Societies and Personalities (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2024)

Demographic Well-Being as a Factor in Social Development (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2024)

Public Participation as a Factor That Changes Societies and Personalities

Public participation presents a broad theoretical framework for interdisciplinary research. As a research field, it seeks to capture diverse patterns of interaction between social groups in the context of ongoing changes at the micro-, meso- and macro societal levels. In this special issue, we are particularly interested in elucidating relationships between different forms of social activity and contemporary processes occurring in civic, political and social spaces. Such an understanding, we believe, may shed light on personal changes that occur under the influence of crises and conflict situations. Topic areas include the actual patterns of social activity (both organised and informal) and its individual representations, including volunteering, mutual aid, civic solidarity, etc.

We welcome papers that analyse the above problems, as well as those that seek answers to the following questions:

What are the reasons for the emergence and transformation of social participation practices among different socio-demographic groups and inhabitants of different regions?
How do these practices depend on the worldview preferences of social actors?
How are social participation practices affected by crisis and conflict situations?
What factors and conditions become triggers or barriers to social activity?
What methodological approaches can be used to investigate social participation patterns or individual practices at the interpersonal, organisational and institutional levels?

Guest Editor:

Maria V. Pevnaya, mailto: m.v.pevnaya@urfu.ru

Key deadlines:

Submission of abstracts – June 1, 2023.

Peer review of abstracts and notification of potential authors – July 1, 2023.

Submission of full texts – November 1, 2023.

Submission of final texts after peer review – February 20, 2024.

Publication – Changing Societies & Personalities, 8(1), 2024.

Author Guidelines

Contact:

Dr. Elena A. Stepanova, Editor-in-Chief, mailto: editor@changing-sp.com

Demographic Well-Being as a Factor in Social Development

Demographic well-being is a relatively new concept, which overlaps partly with the concepts of demographic resilience and demographic stability. Demographic well-being can be considered both at the level of individual and interpersonal relations, as well as at the level of larger social entities, such as a country or a region. Demographic well-being at the individual level assumes the implementation of reproductive and life-saving strategies that are aimed at improving the quality of life. At the societal level, demographic well-being is associated with long-term demographic dynamics, manifested in the optimal reproduction of the population and its gender and age structure. To a large extent, the nature of demographic processes depends on the social, cultural, regional, ethnic, and religious specifics of a particular historical context. Such demographic factors, as age, gender, matrimonial status, education, etc., have a great influence on subjective quality of life indicators and people’s perceptions of their physical, mental, and social health.

We welcome papers that address a broad range of demographic issues, including those focusing on:

Theoretical and methodological backgrounds of the analysis of demographic development.
Demographic transformations in the modern world.
Demographic well-being at the micro- and macro-level.
Prosperous family as a demographic development factor.
Dynamics of fertility and mortality and its socio-cultural factors.
Quality of life and birth rates.
Population ageing.
Dynamics of life expectancy.
Migration policy directions.
Demographic processes and national security.

Guest Editors:

Sergey V. Ryazantsev and Tamara K. Rostovskaya, Institute of Demographic Research of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IDI FNSC RAS)