Guest Editor's Introduction: The SEESSP Project

Abstract

This issue of the International Journal of Sociology presents some of the first studies based on the South-East European Social Survey Project—a social survey data resource for the sociology and social history of the group of societies included in what is now commonly referred to as the Western Balkans during late 2003 and early 2004. This introduction is intended to give an overview of the project that produced these data, concentrating on the data structure itself. It also discusses the articles based on the project that are included in this journal issue.