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Social Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 11

2018 November - 33 articles

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Articles (33)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,974 Views
13 Pages

Selected Social Policy Instruments in Relation to Tax Policy

  • Vladimíra Žofčinová,
  • Zuzana Horváthová and
  • Andrea Čajková

19 November 2018

Tax sovereignty is now an expression of the phenomenon of state power. In general, there is a widespread but also accepted view that a citizen is dependent on the state and the state is dependent on tax resources. The social status of a citizen in th...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,817 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2018

There is growing agreement that refueling station location plans that aim to encourage public adoption of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) should include sites near freeways in urban areas. Little is known, though, about the refueling behavior of ear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
30,493 Views
13 Pages

16 November 2018

Disney’s Hercules (1997) includes multiple examples of gender tropes throughout the film that provide a hodgepodge of portrayals of traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity. Hercules’ phenomenal strength and idealized masculi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
29,250 Views
21 Pages

15 November 2018

This paper seeks to explore the strategies Hollywood utilizes to capitalize on feminist social movements through replacing hegemonic male characters with female ones or updating traditional stories through a more “feminist” retelling. By...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,152 Views
17 Pages

15 November 2018

The penetration of modern supermarkets is believed to be the cause of the declining role of traditional markets and street vendors in Indonesia. Nevertheless, the competition between state-promoted markets and traditional markets is rarely discussed,...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,905 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2018

In this article, we intend to reflect on community education in Portugal. We analyse the background of the emergence of community education in the aftermath of the revolution of 1974, examine the main reasons that contributed to its dissemination, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community Adult Education and Lifelong Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,687 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2018

In recent decades, so-called “mini-publics” have been organized in many countries to renew policy making and democracy. One characteristic of mini-publics is that the selection of the participants is based on random sampling or sortition....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Civic Enterprises, the Co-Production of Public Governance and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal in Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,734 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2018

Between 1998 and 2011, we coordinated three consecutive research projects in three different provinces of Northern Vietnam. The projects aimed at improving the living conditions of various ethnic minorities in these areas. We focused on poverty allev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community Adult Education and Lifelong Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
19,701 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2018

Throughout this paper, we contend that the ‘gang’ has been appropriated by the state as an ideological device that drives the hypercriminalisation of black, mixed, Asian, and other minority ethnic (BAME) communities. Drawing upon two rese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Race/Ethnicity, Crime and Social Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,372 Views
15 Pages

12 November 2018

The food market is experiencing a period of deep tensions between farmers, food companies, and retailers across the world. This is particularly true in Italy, a Mediterranean country with a strong agricultural tradition and a great interest in the fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Civic Enterprises, the Co-Production of Public Governance and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal in Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,474 Views
9 Pages

Unfolding Ageism: A Comparative Study of the Divided Ethnic Communities in Cyprus

  • Gregory Neocleous,
  • Buse Erzeybek and
  • Menelaos Apostolou

12 November 2018

The aims and objectives of this article are to present the first survey ever conducted in Cyprus of the views and perceptions that Cypriots have of old age. In particular, the researchers, Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot social workers, wanted to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
43,578 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2018

As the consciousness of coloniality, diversity, and the necessity of not only token depictions of otherness but accurate representations of diversity in literature and film has grown, there has been a shift in the processes of adaptation and appropri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,746 Views
10 Pages

11 November 2018

The purpose of the present study was to examine the moderation of parental mediation in the longitudinal association between being a bystander of cyberbullying and cyberbullying perpetration and cyberbullying victimization. Participants were 1067 7th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family, Bullying and Cyberbullying)
  • Article
  • Open Access
170 Citations
17,742 Views
13 Pages

9 November 2018

Industry 4.0 is a current trend of automation and digitalization of industries. The impacts and importance of Industry 4.0 are reflected in all aspects of our lives. The purpose of this article is to analyze the literatures based on a scoping review...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 Implication for Economy and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,190 Views
20 Pages

9 November 2018

In modern democracies, nonprofit organizations and social enterprises have a relevant political role that may be threatened by the entry into the market of services. This risk increases in time of economic crisis, when the competition grows stronger...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Civic Enterprises, the Co-Production of Public Governance and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal in Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,796 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2018

The present study examines inner and outer suburban ring attainment outcomes among racial and ethnic groups that reside in the nation’s metropolitan areas. The main objective is to evaluate the extent to which the relationship between racial an...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,770 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2018

Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in youth justice outcomes and a fall in the number of children drawn into the youth justice system in England and Wales. However, it appears that children from some backgrounds have not benefited as much as oth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Race/Ethnicity, Crime and Social Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,574 Views
22 Pages

7 November 2018

As education experiences are increasingly mediated by technology, the present research explored how causal attributions for academic computing difficulties impacted emotions and achievement in two studies conducted with post-secondary students in Nor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,731 Views
15 Pages

Augmented Reality Marketing in Malaysia—Future Scenarios

  • Choon Ching Ng and
  • Chandrashekar Ramasamy

7 November 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) marketing is a novel and creative way to market products and services. However, there are concerns about its marketing effectiveness as it is still immature to take over the place of traditional marketing method. Hence, this st...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
14,645 Views
11 Pages

7 November 2018

Disney’s influence as a cultural purveyor is difficult to overstate. From cinema screen to television programming, vacation theme parks to wardrobe, toys and books, Disney’s consistent ability to entertain children as well as adults has m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,947 Views
22 Pages

6 November 2018

Fracking in the United Kingdom has yet to reach full industrial development, but it is still subject to significant opposition. This study uses Beck’s risk society theory and anti-politics to examine the views voiced by opponents to fracking in Yorks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,712 Views
25 Pages

5 November 2018

In this research, the challenges of using human capital and the effectiveness of social capital as an alternative resource used by immigrant women from non-English-speaking countries living in Central Alberta for them to attain economic security are...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
20,613 Views
10 Pages

5 November 2018

A recent trend in Disney scholarship attends to postfeminist readings of Disney film and media. This paper contributes to that conversation by focusing on the representations of masculinity that accompany postfeminist sensibilities in and through Dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,893 Views
11 Pages

1 November 2018

Previous studies on global food security have indicated that in order to sustain the global population by the year 2050, a significant increase in food production will be needed. Consequently, it is crucial that today’s students are educated to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
30,909 Views
13 Pages

1 November 2018

A growing body of literature examines how social control is embedded within, and enacted through, key social institutions generally, and how it impacts disproportionately upon racially minoritised people specifically. Despite this, little attention h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Race/Ethnicity, Crime and Social Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,088 Views
10 Pages

The Effect of Values and Secularism on Attitude towards Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis of Embryos

  • Graziella Di Marco,
  • Zira Hichy,
  • Sharon Coen and
  • Noelia Rodriguez-Espartal

31 October 2018

In this study we tested the associations of four high-order values (openness to change, self-transcendence, conservation, and self-enhancement, devised according to Schwartz’s model) and secularism of state with individuals’ attitude towa...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,652 Views
31 Pages

31 October 2018

Tourism is considered to be an engine for socioeconomic development and a tool to alleviate the problems of different regions and, specifically, of industrial zones. Furthermore, from this standpoint, industrial tourism tries to harness any potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
20,367 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2018

In Australia since about the turn of the millennium, discrimination against Muslims has been increasingly normalized, made respectable, and presented as prudent precaution against violent extremism. Vilification of Muslims has posed as defending &lsq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Race/Ethnicity, Crime and Social Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,443 Views
34 Pages

30 October 2018

To contribute to the understanding of gender inequalities within the workplace, this article explored gender differences in claims-making for career advancement and how they depend on workplace contexts based on unique German linked employer–em...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Work-Family Balance and Gender (In)equalities in Europe: Policies, Processes and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,482 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2018

The social influence of Disney discourse is difficult to ignore, as is their repetitive matricide and positioning of the patriarchal and heteronormative family model in their bloc.kbuster animated films. Yet, through its Pixar Animation Studios subsi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Psychosocial Implications of Disney Movies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,848 Views
14 Pages

29 October 2018

This study investigates the volatility of book income and taxable income, and their relevance to stock returns variability. Book income is recognized under the financial accounting principle whereas taxable income is determined on the basis of legal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,808 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2018

This article argues for the continued importance of adult education in communities, an approach to adult education which has been maligned and ignored in policy that has, instead, incessantly prioritised employability skills training. The significanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community Adult Education and Lifelong Learning)
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