About the Journal
Common Senses: Social and Humanities Journal is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal dedicated to understanding how human beings make sense of themselves, others, society, culture, and the worlds they inhabit. Guided by the principle of Making Sense, the journal provides a space for diverse scholarly perspectives to examine how meanings, values, identities, beliefs, practices, and forms of knowledge are produced, shared, negotiated, contested, and transformed.
The journal brings together scholarship across five interconnected areas: Religion, Belief & Meaning; Culture, Identity & Everyday Life; Communication, Media & Technology; Society, Community & Social Relations; and Philosophy, Ethics & Knowledge. These areas are not intended as disciplinary silos, but as thematic entry points through which diverse questions about human life and meaning can be explored.
Common Senses welcomes critical and theoretically informed Research Articles, Review Articles, and Conceptual Articles from scholars working across the humanities and social sciences. The journal is particularly interested in research that moves beyond describing social and cultural phenomena to examine how particular understandings become meaningful, shared, accepted, contested, or transformed within specific contexts.
The journal adopts an international and interdisciplinary orientation and welcomes scholarship from diverse geographical, cultural, and intellectual contexts. Research grounded in particular local or regional contexts is especially welcome when it offers broader theoretical, conceptual, methodological, or scholarly significance.
Through this orientation, Common Senses seeks to foster meaningful intellectual encounters across perspectives and contexts, contributing to a deeper understanding of human experience, social relations, cultural practices, systems of belief, communication, knowledge, and the changing worlds in which people live.