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Societies, Volume 14, Issue 3

2024 March - 12 articles

Cover Story: This article advocates for an ontological shift, emphasizing indeterminacy and fluidity in examining social phenomena. Through a post-foundationalist lens and exploration of alternative approaches, it proposes the analysis of social configuration as the primary unit of inquiry, challenging conventional categories in social theory. Focusing on Iranian youth in Tehran, it investigates the construction of identity within the cosmopolitized spaces of action and against Iran's current socio-political backdrop. Utilizing configurational analysis, it navigates the complexities of identity politics in everyday Iranian life, adeptly navigating the conflict between the politics of determinacy and indeterminacy through the construction of diverse social configurations. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,695 Views
18 Pages

19 March 2024

Innovation 4.0 is a strategic lever of industrial policies. That is the reason why, over the last decade, many European countries have introduced national plans to implement it in their economic fabric. Within this context, this paper focuses on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Interactions and the Technology Development: Perspectives on E-Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,054 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2024

Family relationships are a distinctive feature of kinship-care placements, but very few studies have examined how the dynamics of these relationships affect the placement experience. This article does explore these dynamics and identifies some possib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Research on Kinship Care and Its Role in Child Protection and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,988 Views
16 Pages

14 March 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online interactions, this article explores the use of digital diaries to unravel the intricacy of Portugal young adults’ experiences within the realm of apps and their connection to gender dynamics. By designing a di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Arts and Design: Practice-Based Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,540 Views
10 Pages

Translation and Validation of the German Version of the Ikigai-9

  • André Hajek,
  • Tadanori Imai,
  • Larissa Zwar and
  • Hans-Helmut König

13 March 2024

Background: The Japanese concept of “ikigai” embodies the feeling of having a meaningful purpose in life. It is associated with several positive outcomes. This study aimed to translate and validate the German version of the Ikigai-9 scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,467 Views
13 Pages

Examining Financial Hardship and Caregiver Subgroups in Kinship Foster Placements: A Machine Learning Approach

  • Imani Careese Johnson,
  • Solomon Hadi Achulo,
  • Kanisha Coleman Brevard and
  • David Ansong

8 March 2024

Children placed with kinship foster parents can experience less disruption and stronger family ties than children in non-kinship placements. However, financial hardship can restrict kinship caregivers from taking in relatives’ children. This st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Research on Kinship Care and Its Role in Child Protection and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,771 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2024

Background: This study explores how arrests changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic across race. Daily life changed for everyone across the country with the onset of the pandemic, and early works have shown that crime changed in this period. Met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,718 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2024

Informal kinship care, an arrangement that is made without the involvement of a child welfare agency or a court, makes up the majority of kinship arrangements in the United States. However, the current literature on informal kinship care is very limi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Research on Kinship Care and Its Role in Child Protection and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,811 Views
22 Pages

26 February 2024

This article explores the incongruous results of creativity and risk-taking within art practice and everyday life as encountered through the photographic image. The impetus for this study was a humorous experience that took place during health and sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Arts and Design: Practice-Based Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,976 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2024

Indigenous people in northern Canada have relied on sustained and safe access to traditional foods for millennia. Today, however, they experience higher rates of food insecurity than non-Indigenous people or Indigenous people living in urban settings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,318 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2024

This article explores the implementation of Connected Art Practice in diverse learning environments, serving as an immersive entry point for students and researchers to develop collaborative transdisciplinary skills. This innovative approach integrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Arts and Design: Practice-Based Research)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,714 Views
23 Pages

21 February 2024

An emerging disparity within contemporary social science highlights a disconnection between the world in the process of metamorphosing and cosmopolitanization and the knowledge of the social world that is still trapped in the cognitive assumptions of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Young People’s Constructions of Identities: Global Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
17,877 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2024

This article explores the intricate landscape of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, an authoritarian state within the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), where the pursuit of modernization strategically utilizes women’s issues as symbo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender, Sexuality, and State Violence: International Perspectives on Institutional and Intersectional Justice)
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