Call For Papers
Krisis dedicates its December 2026 issue to the theme “The Crisis of the Social Sciences.” Today, the social sciences are being fundamentally reconsidered at multiple levels, including their theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, disciplinary boundaries, and public role. This issue aims to explore the crisis of the social sciences as a productive framework for rethinking their past, present, and future from diverse theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Contributors are encouraged to engage with the contemporary international literature and offer original theoretical, methodological, or empirical contributions. The topics listed below are illustrative rather than exhaustive.
Suggested topics include
- The origins, historical development, and crisis narratives of the social sciences
- Capitalism, modernization, the nation-state, colonialism, and globalization in the making of the social sciences
- Philosophy of the social sciences: explanation, understanding, causality, objectivity, interpretation, realism, and constructivism
- Social theory and contemporary theoretical developments; reassessing the classical tradition
- Methodology of the social sciences: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods; methodological pluralism, computational social science, and methodological crises
- Disciplinary differentiation, specialization, convergence, and integration; interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity
- Relationships among the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences, including the Two Cultures debate
- Critical reassessments of the foundational assumptions of sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, history, geography, law, and related disciplines
- Colonialism, imperialism, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, and the geopolitics of knowledge across the social sciences
- Critical traditions in the social sciences, including feminist, postcolonial, decolonial, Marxist, pragmatist, critical realist, and related approaches
- Science and Technology Studies (STS), digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data, and algorithmic governance
- Evidence-based policy, expertise, the public role of the social sciences, and the possibilities and limits of policy-oriented empirical research
- Contemporary debates and methodological developments in the social sciences in Türkiye