Publication History

The journal Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai was founded in Cluj in 1956 under the name Bulletin of the “V. Babeş” and “Bolyai” Universities with the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences series; from 1970 until 1974 appears the journal Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Series Sociologia-Politologia, ISSN 1221-8197; and reappears in 1990, under the name Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Sociologia-Politologia, ISSN 1221-812x; starting 1996 from this series 3 series become detached autonomous: Sociologia,  Politica (ceased in 2011) and Ephemerides.

Studia UBB Sociologia was one of the first Sociology journals in Romania, fully published in English since 2008. The majority of articles are authored by Eastern European scholars who embrace a theoretically informed, empirically grounded, comparative and critical perspective on social changes in the region.