The Russian Sociological Review, an international peer-reviewed academic journal published by the National Research University — Higher School of Economics , invites contributions from philosophy, social sciences and cognate fields for the special issue entitled «Friendship, Trust, and Conflict: From Conceptual History towards Studies of Social Ontology»
Warfare, social conflicts, revolutions, shifts of national borders, and mass migration continue to transform the existing social order that emerged in Europe by the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th centuries. The previous special issues of the Russian Sociological Review on borders and warfare discussed these transformations of social order that is now in jeopardy, and thus may change unexpectedly. However, the notion of social order is a complex one, and has other crucial aspects. Although dissolved and disintegrated, social order is still omnipresent despite all the challenges facing it. States and global state systems are not the only fundamental phenomena that maintain social order.
While solidarity was the essential feature of civil society within the borders of nation states, theories of global society have emphasized the phenomena of mobility and touristic gaze on social worlds. However, to understand recent social and political transformations, one needs to go beyond this agenda and to focus on those aspects of interpersonal relations that are still important for social order, even within the spaces of conflicts. Among other phenomena that continue to define and maintain the “grand orders” are trust, friendship, and conflict.
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Schedule
April 20, 2016 — 500 words abstracts deadline
May 1, 2016 — Invitation to submit full papers
September 1, 2016 — 6000 words full papers deadline
October 1, 2016 — Notification of acceptance
October 20, 2016 — Revised papers deadline
December, 2016 — Publication