Forum Ilmu Sosial is a peer reviewed journal that covers the fields of scientific knowledge or academic that study social groups and human society. This journal published innovative research encompassed within the social sciences that include to sociology, anthropologhy, political science, history, geography and related disciplines. Contributions are welcome in any suitable form, including critical essays, reviews of significant topics, case studies, theoretical and empirical articles, and statistical analysis. It has been published biannually since 2008 by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Negeri Semarang with registered number ISSN 1412-971X (print), ISSN 2549-0745 (online). Forum Ilmu Sosial is an open access journal and also available in print.