Saint-Petersburg State University
(Faculty of Sociology)
Kovalevsky Sociological Society
Sociological Institute of Russian Academy of Science

A new scientific quarterly "The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology" was organized in 1998.

Objectives:

General goals of the JSSA are:

• organization and widening of communicative space for interaction between Russian and foreign sociologists and social anthropologists;
• promotion of discussions on urgent issues of sociology and social anthropology;
• information of professionals and public about the events of international and national sociological communities;
• exchange of teaching experience in fields of sociology and social anthropology.

The Journal is published four times a year. These four issues constitute one volume. A volume contents and author index is bound in the last issue.
The Journal accepts original manuscripts.

The structure of the issue: key presentations (main articles on theoretical and methodological problems of contemporary sociology and social anthropology); surveys and research; essays and publicism; discussions and debates; teaching of sociology and social anthropology; book reviews; conference announcements and reports.