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ISSN : 26226952     EISSN : 26568721     DOI : -
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The scope of the journal includes general and specific areas of sociology, social work, social psychology, social statistics, criminology, social research methods, and other related disciplines. SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI accepts both qualitative and quantitative journal manuscripts for publication. All published articles in SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI will have a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.
Arjuna Subject : Umum - Umum
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Impacts of land exclusion on women's socio-economic wellbeing in post-war Sri Lanka Suheera, Mohamed Yaseen Minnathul; Wazeema, Thaseem Mohamed Fathima
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 1: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i1.27716

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Land is widely considered a fundamental asset and provides economic and social security to women. Land-based access is complicatedly linked to various dimensions of women's well-being. The exclusion of women from land ownership or use of land creates limits to their ability in economic activities, and decision-making processes, leading to socio-economic inequalities. Before the war, women in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province owned land-based assets, ensuring economic welfare and social status. Post-war, their loss of land raises concerns about their economic strength. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of land exclusion on women's welfare in Batticaloa district, Sri Lanka, by using qualitative research methods. A purposive sampling was used, and the sample size was 25. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were carried out to collect primary data and a thematic analysis was used for data analysis. The study found that most women were excluded from their land in the post-war context, leading to significant economic hardship, loss of rights, and social exclusion. Therefore, this study recommends a multidimensional approach to addressing the socio-economic impacts of land exclusion on women, including legal reforms, targeted support programs, and community-based initiatives.
The social meanings of coffee consumption in Brunei: A sociological exploration Rizal, Waliyah Haji Mohammad Saiful; Alam, Meredian
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 2: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i2.32078

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Coffee, as one of the world’s principal commodities, has long been connected with Western culture in the beverage industry. This study explores the reasons of the stated phenomenon, why it arose, the social significance and meanings of consuming coffee, and lastly, the influences of coffee culture on individuals' lifestyles through coffee consumption in Brunei. This study employed a qualitative technique, including interviews via an online conferencing platform Zoom, which involved 11 respondents aged 17-47 years-old occupying various professions such a manager, clerks, teachers, and officers as well as graduate students. This original article discovered that consumers consumed coffee leading to particular social meanings, including prestige and productivity, symbolism, personal recollections and nostalgia, and social features attributed to coffee consuming activities. Coffee was also consumed as a lifestyle habit and daily routine, as well as connoisseurship from establishing an acquired taste and social identity constructs. It is worth-noting that the shift in social meaning about coffee consumption in Brunei is dynamic, complexed, and obviously inseparable from one another. Our interview accounts also unfold that there is a sensuous juxtaposition within these socio-cultural elements of coffee emanating from subjective experiences of regularly consuming specific coffee brands in selected cafes, which also embody pivotal ambiences.
The flexibility illusion: Algorithmic control and precarity in Indonesia’s gig economy Asrori, Saifudin; Isma’il, Muhammad; Gamalinda, Eve F.
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 2: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i2.30214

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This study critically examines the lived experiences of gig workers in Indonesia to interrogate the gap between the platform economy’s promise of flexibility and the structural realities of precarity. In the Global South, where weak social protections and high levels of informal employment render workers especially vulnerable, digital platforms frame gig work as a pathway to autonomy and entrepreneurship. This study argues that flexibility often functions as a rhetorical device concealing intensified algorithmic control and economic insecurity. Drawing on a qualitative case study, data were collected through 20 semi-structured interviews and non-participant observations with workers employed by a multinational beverage delivery platform in Tangerang, Indonesia. The findings reveal that gig work is shaped by algorithmic management, unstable income, psychosocial strain, and limited institutional protections, with gendered and intersectional vulnerabilities further exacerbating precarity. Far from enabling autonomy, gig labor reproduces digital Taylorism by externalizing risks while minimizing employer responsibility. These insights underscore the urgency of regulatory reforms that recognize hybrid employment status, ensure portable benefits, and implement gender-responsive protections to safeguard equity and dignity in platform-mediated work.
Exploring the para-social relationship dynamics of a Bangladeshi Facebook author with the local community Asadi, Samiya
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 1: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i1.29314

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Facebook has redefined digital interactions, shaping community formation and identity construction. This study explores how a Bangladeshi Facebook-born author uses social presence strategies to build community attachment, foster parasocial relationships, and enhance digital authorship. By negotiating cultural and social capital, the author uses digital networks for self-promotion and audience engagement. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study applies parasocial relationship and social presence theory to explore three key questions: How does a celebrity maintain digital authorship for promotion and community attachment? What are the different dimensions of social presence between celebrities and audiences? How have parasocial relationships evolved in the digital age? The study analyzed Facebook posts and comments from Mouri's official novel Facebook page for quantitative content analysis and conducted in-depth interviews with the author and her six fans for qualitative insights. Findings show that the author strategically used UGC (user-generated content), among other strategies, to strengthen community ties. Audiences engaged primarily through interactive strategies, followed by affective and cohesive strategies. A nuanced mix of these strategies was also observed. In addition, open communication facilitated both positive and negative self-disclosure, making the parasocial relationship more reciprocal, interactive, and engaging. This study highlights the sociological dynamics of technology, connectivity, and digital authorship.
Digitizing zines: Spreading resistance discourses in the digital era al Ramadhan, Muhammad Fakhran; Zufar, Biko Nabih Fikri; Papineau, Elise Imray
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 2: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i2.31558

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Zines are grassroots publications that have long served as media of cultural and political resistance, traditionally circulated in material form within relatively small and tightly bound communities. With the advent of the internet, however, the scope and visibility of zines have expanded well beyond spatial and temporal boundaries, reducing production costs while simultaneously amplifying the reach of counter- hegemonic discourses. This study investigates how zines operate simultaneously as subject and as power within digital contexts, drawing conceptually on Michel Foucault’s theory of knowledge and power to frame the analysis. A mixed-methods design was employed, with 85 zines purposively selected from a population of 568 titles, determined through the Slovin formula with a 10% margin of error. Data were examined through a narrative approach, supported by AI-assisted text analysis, allowing for both qualitative interpretation and systematic computational support. The findings reveal that digital environments not only reinforce the omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence of resistance discourses but also transform the dynamics of knowledge production, positioning zines as effective vehicles for disseminating counter-discourses. By operating as both disseminators of resistance (subject) and as agents shaping collective truths (power), zines highlight the shifting relationship between grassroots media and structures of authority. Limitations and recommendations for future research are also discussed.
Front Cover Simulacra, Volume 8, Issue 1, June 2025 Hidayat, Medhy Aginta
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 1: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i1.30062

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We are decolonizing the pulpit: Discursive postures of Pentecostal-styled preachers venerating ancestors in South Africa Khanyile, Sphesihle Blessing
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 1: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i1.28613

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South Africa has recently experienced a new religious vitality. Apparently, select Pentecostal-style preachers are embracing syncretic technologies and discourses. These blatantly counter-biblical narratives are heavily charged with aspirations to decolonize the pulpit and reclaim African spiritualities and reform mentalities. Forbidden practices of ancestor worship have emerged as important accommodations to express African methodologies of spirituality, cosmology, and thought. The play examines a preacher from South Africa who brazenly promotes this shunned accommodation. Prophet Magejageja re-articulates biblical textuality to traverse a decolonial horizon. The preacher knowingly commits doctrinal suicide by contradicting his Pentecostal theological heritage in order to promote something religiously innovative. The preacher encourages a return to the past, even though Pentecostalism enthusiastically calls for a break with the past because of evil and retrogressive associations with the past. Four YouTube sermons are linguistically examined using thematic critical discourse analysis with the aim of elucidating the preacher's decolonially charged pulpit language tropes. Key findings reveal entanglements of multiple ideological discourses: Post-Christianity, Afrocentrism, Counter-Pentecostalism, Missionary Critique, Black Consciousness, Pan-Africanism, Black physical liberation, anti-inferiority complexes, and counter-narratives to Western oppression in Africa. His syncretistic register undoubtedly underscores that the new media facilitate the possibility of undermining the insidious life of the coloniality of power.
Front Cover Simulacra, Volume 8, Issue 2, November 2025 Hidayat, Medhy Aginta
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 2: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i2.32473

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Unraveling structural poverty: Insights from small-scale fishermen’s households on the coast of Muara Gembong, Indonesia Taufik, Iswan; Kinseng, Rilus A.; Pandjaitan, Nurmala K.
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 2: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i2.30463

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Structural poverty in Muara Gembong District, Bekasi Regency, Indonesia, remains a serious issue affecting small-scale fishermen. This study examines the poverty conditions of fishermen’s households using quantitative and qualitative approaches. A census of 31 households and interviews with 5 key informants reveal that all households’ experience income decline during the lean season, keeping them below the poverty line. The stark income fluctuations between fishing and non-fishing periods show their economic vulnerability. Poverty among these fishermen is multidimensional, covering inadequate access to food, health, housing, and education-meeting the definition of poverty in Law No. 13 of 2011 Republic of Indonesia on Handling the Poor. Using Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory, poverty is interpreted as the result of interactions between social structures and individual agency. The study uniquely applies this theory to explore fishermen’s poverty from a multidimensional perspective. Findings show that political-economic structures, environmental degradation, policy failures, limited capital and technology, patron-client systems, and unequal market access restrict social mobility. To overcome these challenges, comprehensive and cross-sectoral policy interventions are required to address the structural roots of poverty and improve the resilience and welfare of small-scale fishermen.
The paradox influence of peer groups on online gambling behavior of students at the Islamic university in Indonesia Abrori, Ahmad; Ramadhan, Muhammad Azza; Sugianto, Aris
SIMULACRA: JURNAL SOSIOLOGI Vol 8, No 1: 2025
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21107/sml.v8i1.29326

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The prevalence of online gambling among college students is increasing due to its accessibility and the significant influence of the social environment. One important element that can both encourage and discourage people from participating in this activity is peer groups. Previous research has tended to focus on only one aspect of peer group influence, and there aren't many studies that thoroughly address the multiple roles that peers play in students' online gambling decisions. Using Albert Bandura's social learning theory, this study attempts to examine how peer group social dynamics influence college students' online gambling behaviors. Using a qualitative approach, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 28 Islamic university students from different social contexts and observed their online gambling activities. The results showed that students in the peer group who gambled experienced a process of observation, retention, reproduction, and social reinforcement that increased their engagement. In contrast, students in the non-gambling peer group received negative reinforcement and social support to refrain from the behavior. These findings support the importance of peer-based prevention strategies. Therefore, campuses and stakeholders need to strengthen student communities that instill anti-gambling values and provide positive and educational alternative activities.

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