D. Molodtsov (1999) introduced the concept of a soft set as a new approach for modeling uncertainties. The aim of this work is to define special kinds of soft sets, namely soft, L-fuzzifying soft, L-soft, and L-fuzzy soft neighborhood sets and to use them in order to give an alternative characterization of categories related to topology: crisp topological, L-topological, L-fuzzifying topologica...