Socialissues are matters that can be explained only by factors outside an individual’s control and immediate social environment which affect many individuals in a society.
For example, a serial murderer who wreaks havoc in an area for a number of months or years is certainly a problem, but this is not a socialissue; it is part of the larger socialissue of crime.
Common socialissues include poverty, violence, justice, human rights (suppression of), equality (or discrimination), and crime, and usually revolve around conflicting viewpoints and tensions between people who take different stances.
An Issue Editor (or set of editors), who is knowledgeable on that topic, plans and develops each issue, solicits contributors, and submits a formal proposal.
In general, the issue should move from a theoretical perspective on the topic to examples of research findings and applications, and end with a discussion of policy or practice implications.
Issue Editors should attempt to draw their authors from more than one discipline and to represent a sampling of perspectives different from their own.
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