OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT

Przegląd Socjologiczny is a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Łódź Scientific Society (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe). All content is freely available online immediately upon publication without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT

Starting from 2022, all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. In previous years, articles were published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Information about the applicable license is provided with each individual article.

Authors retain full copyright to their works. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish, archive, and disseminate the accepted version. Authors may deposit the publisher’s final version (Version of Record) in institutional and subject repositories without embargo, in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license.

ARCHIVING AND PRESERVATION

  • assignment of DOIs (Crossref)
  • digital archiving in PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)
  • national digital libraries such as POLONA

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES (APCs)

The journal follows the diamond open access model. This means that:

  • publishing in the journal is free of charge for authors,
  • the journal does not charge submission fees, peer-review or editorial fees, nor article processing charges (APC),
  • all published content is freely accessible to readers worldwide.

The costs of running the journal (including the maintenance of the OJS publishing system, editorial services, DOI assignment, and digital archiving) are covered by:

  • the Łódź Scientific Society as the publisher,
  • ministerial grants and programmes supporting scholarly and publishing activities,
  • partner institutions – primarily the University of Łódź and other academic centres that support the development and dissemination of the journal.

POLISH GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The journal is financed by the Ministry of Education and Science within the ‘Development of Scientific Journals’ programme under agreement no. RCN/SN/0110/2021/1 of 6 December 2022. Project duration: 31 October 2022 – 30 October 2024. The grant amount is 55 220,00 PLN. The programme aims to support editorial staff in the implementation of the journal’s development strategy.

 

Announcements

Call for papers: The dark sides of digitalization: Technologies as sources of social tensions and risks

2026-03-04

The editorial team of Przegląd Socjologiczny invites authors to submit articles for the thematic issue:

The dark sides of digitalisation: Technologies as sources of social tensions and risks

Editors of the thematic issue:

Dr Anna Turner, IFiS PAN

Dr hab. Kamil Filipek, UMCS

Dr Małgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska, UJ

Read more about Call for papers: The dark sides of digitalization: Technologies as sources of social tensions and risks

Current Issue

Vol. 74 No. 4 (2025)
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VOLUME EDITORS: Agnieszka Kampka, Adam Konopka, Sylwia Męcfal

Co-financed by the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz.

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Published: 2025-12-15

Full Issue

  • From the Editors

    7-8
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2025/74.4/0

ARTICLES

DISCUSSION

  • Introduction to the debates

    Sylwia Męcfal, Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak, Katarzyna Waniek
    177-181
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2025/74.4/7

  • On fashionable, necessary and mariginalised concept. Panel discussion held on the occasion of professor Marek Czyżewski’s jubilee

    Katarzyna Waniek, Lena Inowlocki, Gerhard Riemann, Sylwia Męcfal, Fritz Schütze, Marek Czyżewski
    183-204
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2025/74.4/8

  • What concepts does Polish sociology need? Between imitation and its own voice. Transcript of the debate held on the occasion of professor Marek Czyżewski’s jubilee

    Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak, Marek Czyżewski, Andrzej Piotrowski, Anna Radiukiewicz, Marek Krajewski
    205-221
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/PS/2025/74.4/9

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