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Societies, Volume 15, Issue 12

December 2025 - 39 articles

Cover Story: At a moment when the U.S. administration has intensified policy attacks on Latino communities through exclusionary rhetoric, aggressive enforcement, and efforts to normalize racial inequality, this paper challenges claims that discrimination is exaggerated or not relevant. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study, we show discrimination remains widespread and unfolds along two dimensions: subtle everyday slights and blatant mistreatment. Examining Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and other groups separately reveals patterns obscured when Latinos are treated as a single panethnic group. Modeling discrimination as layered yields clearer links to depressive symptoms and chronic health conditions, underscoring the value of frameworks that locate racism within broader systems of racialized inequality and challenge color-blind ideologies. View this paper
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
18 Pages

12 December 2025

This study examines the role of algorithms—particularly artificial intelligence—in scientific research processes and how automation intersects with expert knowledge and the autonomy of the researcher. Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews...

  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
25 Pages

12 December 2025

This exploratory study examines how discursive design—using provocative, speculative artifacts to spark reflection and discussion—might expand public health experts’ problematization of approaches to tailoring and targeting interven...

  • Article
  • Open Access
360 Views
27 Pages

11 December 2025

Dementia disrupts communication not only as a cognitive process but as a relational practice, leaving people living with dementia (PLwD) at risk of exclusion when language fragments. This study examines how communication closeness, the felt sense of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2025

Learning the host language is a crucial factor in the settlement of migrants and refugees in a new country. It offers opportunities, but can also generate exclusion, marginalization, and isolation, hindering the possibilities of participation and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
29 Pages

10 December 2025

Vocational training aims to facilitate the acquisition of a series of professional skills by students, specified through a series of Learning Outcomes described in the official curricula. This requires teachers to adopt a wide variety of teaching met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
14 Pages

The Role of US Adult Cancer Risk Perceptions and Knowledge on Nutritional Behaviors and Alcohol Intake

  • Christine Kamm,
  • Nada Eldawy,
  • Kendell Lewis,
  • Isabella Abraham,
  • Erik Miron,
  • Morgan Decker,
  • Yasmine Zerrouki and
  • Lea Sacca

10 December 2025

Background: This study on US adult cancer risk perceptions aims to explore the relationship between an individual’s perceived risk of developing cancer and the extent to which they engage in preventative behaviors, such as nutrition and physica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
21 Pages

9 December 2025

Disabled people commonly report experiencing predetermined perceptions and assumptions of disability that form barriers towards understanding and treating disabled people equally. This process is known as ableism; a specific type of ableism called be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
305 Views
21 Pages

9 December 2025

As digital literacy becomes central to cybercrime prevention, we examine how adults of different ages engage with online learning, moving beyond age alone to consider additional drivers of preference. We analyzed a nationally representative U.S. adul...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
1,980 Views
16 Pages

The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Childhood Education

  • Silvia Cimino,
  • Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani and
  • Luca Cerniglia

4 December 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into early childhood education presents new opportunities and challenges in fostering cognitive, social, and emotional development. This theoretical discussion synthesizes recent research on AI’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
375 Views
11 Pages

Cyberbullying Victimization and Depression in Youth: Brazilian Findings

  • Iara Teixeira,
  • Guilherme Welter Wendt,
  • Bianca Ribeiro Pinno,
  • Paula Andrea Rauber Suzaki,
  • Emerson Do Bú,
  • Washington Allysson Dantas Silva and
  • Felipe Alckmin-Carvalho

4 December 2025

Cyberbullying victimization (CBV) is widely linked to adolescent depression, but most studies collapse depression into a single score. Far less is known about which specific depressive symptoms track with CBV—and whether those patterns differ b...

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