Research Article
Aim & Scope
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is an interdisciplinary academic journal aiming to provide an international basis for original works in social sciences and humanities. The main purpose of the journal is to give opportunities for publication of high-quality interdisciplinary studies and to present them as open access to researchers.
Sciences
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Philosophy
• History
• Turkish Language and Literature
• Arabic Language and Literature
• English / American Language and Literature
• Religious Studies
• Islamic History and Arts
• Economics
• Political Science
• Administrative Science
Author Guidelines
Articles that do not fully comply with the stylesheet, the ethical rules and the publication principles will not be evaluated. Please read the "Ethical Rules and Publication Principles " menu before checking stylesheet.
Rules updated: Januray 1st, 2021
Submission: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jscs.
"Conlict statement" should also be filled in, signed and uploaded during submission.
Turnitin /iThenticate report must also be uploaded to the Dergipark system. The author's name and information should not be included in the similarity report to be uploaded during the application! To get support on this issue, please send an e-mail to editor@toplumvekultur.com.
Articles accepted after the date of November 12th, 2020 are assigned a doi number.
All submissions to be considered for publication should be written in Turkish or English. If the article is written in Turkish, it should include Turkish and English abstracts; if written in English, it should include English and Turkish abstracts. In addition, upon request, pro-bono support will be provided for the author's Turkish translation of the abstract.
All texts should be uploaded in .doc or .docx format after being overwritten on the "Sheet" which is seen as a link above.
It should be noted that the work submitted to this journal has not been previously published or is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The margins should be set at 2.5 cm top and bottom, left and right on A4 paper. The spacings in paragraph settings of main body text should be as written below.
The main body text spaceline:1,5, Spacing before:6 nk, Spacing after: 6nk; Abstract text space line:1, Spacing before:6 pt, Spacing after: 6pt
Font of the text should be "Garamond". The main body and Abstract text should be 12 pt type. For quotations longer than 3 lines or 40 words, start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 1 cm from the left and right margin, use 11 pt type and 1-spaced paragraph for the text. Italic text type is not allowed for the abstract and the quotations.
Use bold for the title of the article and section headings only. One line blank should be left before each subtitle.
Notes and explanations must be inserted as footnotes.
The text must be justified, the main title should be centered and subheadings should be left-justified.
Subtitles should be like the sample below:
Intoduction
1.Küreselleşme ve Göç
1.1. Göçmen Ağları
1.2. Sosyal Sermaye ve Göç
1.2.1. Aktarılamayan Sosyal Sermaye Biçimleri
Türkiye'ye Zorunlu Göçler
2.1. Önder Mahallesi'nde Suriyeliler
Results
The papers should not be less than 3,500 words, nor should they exceed 9,000 words. The abstract in article language should not be less than 200 words, nor should it exceed 300 words.
Tables, graphs and figures should be titled as Table 1, Figure 2, or Figure 3 in bold and left justified in Garamond 12 font, and Garamond 11 font should be used for the text in the content.
All submissions should conform to the requirements of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association. Further information can be obtained from the American Psychological Association’s style website: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references
References in the article should be as in these examples:
Bourdieu (2014) in a paper on ... [commonest version];
Wagner (2001, pp.81-82) states that ... or Wagner (2001: pp.81-82) state that [where the page number is required];
----------- (Berger, 2011, p.38).
Note: The only exception to the absence of page numbers in in-text citations is references to the whole work or its main idea.
For references and citation examples, see:
Samples from web page: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references
https://www.toplumvekultur.com/tvkjml/index.php/en/stylesheet-submission
Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Social & Cultural Studies) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright Form
Contribution Rate, Conflict Of Interest And Statement Of Support Received
All authors of scientific papers submitted to the journal should take into account the International Standards for Editors and Writers of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).
Authors are required to use their ORCID ID when submitting an article for consideration.
It is allowed all versions of the articles to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.
Turnitin or Itenticate plagiarism reports should also be attached to the articles to be submitted.
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is published in Turkish and English. The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.
It is not guaranteed that the manuscript evaluation process will be completed in time for the first issue after submission.
Evaluation Process:
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” is open to submissions from all researchers, provided that at least one of the authors holds a PhD degree or is a doctoral student. An article should has been written by max. four authors.
Double-blind peer-review is valid in the journal. The articles prepared in accordance with the writing rules are presented to the reviewer for review after they have passed the editorial review. Reviewers may request corrections, reject or accept the article directly. For articles rejected or accepted as a result of reviewer evaluation, the editorial board may request a third reviewer evaluation or follow the decision of the first two reviewers. In cases where one of the two reviewers accepts and the other rejects the manuscript, the editorial board requests a third reviewer to evaluate the manuscript.
The articles previously published in another publication or in the evaluation stage by another publication are not accepted into “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” publication process. All the ethical and legal responsibilities related to the published articles belong to the authors.. It is not guaranteed that the evaluation of a submitted article will be completed before the first issue to be published after the submission date.
Price Policy:
No fees are charged for publications, no fees are paid to the editors, the editorial board, and the reviewers and their owners. It is accepted that the authors who submit articles to the contact address for publication in the journal should read and acknowledge this copyright statement.
Open Access Policy:
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (J-SCS) is published only in electronic form through its website & Dergipark. It adopts “Open Access Policy”.
All articles submitted to the journal are deemed to approve the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License under which the journal is licensed.
According to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License the material can be copied, redistributed in any medium or format and adapted for any purpose, including commercially purposes, under the terms specified in https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.tr#.
“Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” (Toplum ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi) J-SCS supports the initiative of open access of the peer-reviewed journal literature included in the Budapest Open Access Declaration and offers all published articles free of charge in an environment that everyone can access. In this declaration, open access means that “scientific literature can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to full text, indexed, transferred to the software as data and used for any legal purpose, without financial, legal and technical barriers via the internet”. Therefore, studies in this journal can be used as long as the author and original source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the journal authorities. The work in this journal is available across search engines, websites, blogs and other digital platforms. These open access policies adopted by our journal can be accessed at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read
Plagiarism Policy
Turnitin and iThenticate – Plagiarism Prevention Programs are used in many academic journals and “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” to detect plagiarism in academic studies.
The program has a comprehensive academic content directly related to the evaluation of academic publications. Each document uploaded to Turnitin and iThenticate is compared to documents in a large database.
The authors who submit their works are deemed to have declared that they have not committed any ethical violation. The works of authors who are found to have plagiarized through the Turnitin and iThenticate programs are not included in our journals.
Journal editors review the reports qualitatively and quantitatively. The report on this subject is sent to the author and (if necessary) to the relevant institutions and organizations.
Contribution Rate, Conflict Of Interest And Statement Of Support Received:
Contribution rate, conflict of interest and statement of support received must be submitted by completing the form above. This form, together with the article and other documents, should be uploaded to the system during the application or sent to the editor via e-mail.
Ethical Rules for Authors:
All authors must have significantly contributed to the research.
All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
Authors should read and sign the copyright agreement at the top of the page and send it to the contact address.
The articles previously published in another publication or in the evaluation stage by another publication are not accepted into “Journal of Social and Cultural Studies” publication process.
All the ethical and legal responsibilities related to the published articles belong to the authors.
It should be ensured that the articles, figures, drawings, findings and conclusions are made in accordance with the rules of academic publication and do not contain plagiarism in any way.
The author whose name is written first in the article is assigned as Corresponding Author and acts on behalf of all co-authors and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately addressed.
Role of the Corresponding Author
The Corresponding Author is responsible for the following requirements:
Ensuring that all listed authors have approved the manuscript before submission, including the names and order of authors;
Managing all communication between the Journal and all co-authors, before and after publication;
Providing transparency on re-use of material and mention any unpublished material included in the manuscript in a cover letter to the Editor;
Making sure disclosures, declarations and transparency on data statements from all authors are included in the manuscript as appropriate.
Ethical Rules for Editors:
Field editors and issue editors will examine whether the articles are original, scientific, or not, according to the criteria above.
A plagiarism report from the Turnitin or Itenticate plagiarism program will be evaluated by the issue editor. Articles that appear problematic will be reviewed by the editorial board.
The reviewer evaluation process will not be initiated for any article that is not approved by the Editor – Editorial Board.
Ethical Rules for Reviewers:
Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field.
Judgments are required to be objective.
Reviewers are required to have no conflict of interest.
Reviewers are required to point out relevant published work that is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles are treated confidentially.
Reviewers will evaluate the article in terms of academic quality as well as compliance with https://publicationethics.org/guidance standards and general international publication ethics.
On ethical issues, Reviewers and editors work on the principle of cross-checking.
Price Policy
No fees are charged for publications, no fees are paid to the editors, the editorial board, and the reviewers and their owners. It is accepted that the authors who submit articles to the contact address for publication in the journal should read and acknowledge this copyright statement.
Indexes
Journal Boards
Editörler Kurulu
Yayın Kurulu
Fahri Atasoy Hacettepe Üniversitesi felsefe bölümünden 1986 yılında mezun oldu. HÜ sosyoloji bölümünde 1. yüksek lisansını 1989 yılında, Gazi Üniversitesi felsefe bölümünde 1995 yılında tamamladı. MEB okullarında öğretmen, GÜ felsefe bölümünde araştırma görevlisi, PÜ sosyoloji bölümünde öğretim görevlisi olarak çalıştıktan sonra bir süre akademi dışında kamu kurumlarında görev almıştır. 2003 yılında HÜ sosyoloji bölümünde doktora, 2021 yılında doçentlik unvanı almıştır. 2015 yılında Kırıkkale Üniversitesi sosyoloji bölümünde tekrar akademide görev almış, 2023 yılı itibariyle Gazi Eğitim Fakültesi bünyesinde akademik çalışmalarına devam etmektedir. Milliyetçilik Tartışmaları, Küreselleşme ve Milliyetçilik, Sorokin'in Toplum Felsefesi kitapları yayımlanmıştır.
Oleksandr has a broad experience in international collaboration, management project in education, capacity building, and research. He has a vast experience in project management in East Neighborhood, Central Asia and Afrika countries, often with an additional specific role in proposal development circle and cooperation in the context of internationalization and management in Higher Education. Working in multicultural environment in different contexts with partners and stakeholders of different backgrounds he gained expertise in risk assessment, flexibility and alternative implementation of tasks. He likes challenges solving and pay high attention on sensitive issues that could influence on the project.
Oleksandr has many years of experience in implementing different training and educating activities in Germany, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Jordan, Kenya, Kazakhstan. As the trainer/moderator/facilitator he has focused on various issues, in particular Project Management, Proposal Development, Higher Education Management, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Use for Social Policy Development etc
