Societies, Volume 16, Issue 1

This study explored the impact of social conformity when participants encountered unanimous responses from bots to both objective and subjective questions. Seventy-two participants from Heidelberg University participated in a simulated “Quiz Sh...

The United States is experiencing an attack on disability rights unprecedented since the emergence of the modern Disability Rights Movement. This paper examines the various ways in which disability rights have been undercut in 2025. To do so, I provi...

The purpose of this study is to examine how employees’ artificial intelligence awareness (AIA) influences adaptive performance in the workplace through the mediating roles of eustress and task crafting within the Job Demands–Resources (JD...

Background: Suicide represents a challenging societal question. There is a correlation between multi-comorbidity (mental, addictive, social, and physical) and excess suicide. Aside from recognizing this correlation, our understanding of employment&rs...

This study explores the empowerment of local communities through homestay management as an innovative strategy for sustainable rural tourism in Yogyakarta. Using a qualitative research design, data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus gr...

This study examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the role of university teachers and transforming the foundations of academic work in the digital age. Building on the Dynamic Capabilities Theory (sensing–seizing–transform...

Despite existing studies on creativity, examining human resource management practices alongside knowledge management models for constructing creativity remains lacking. This study investigates employee creativity in small and medium enterprises (SMEs...

There is an established association between neurodivergence and gender variance, with growing documentation of the challenges and inequities faced by those who exist at this intersection. This paper contributes a critical analysis of interviews with...

In post-Soviet Georgia, the renewed visibility of religion in the public sphere has generated ambivalent effects, fostering both social cohesion and identity-based exclusion. This article focuses on the work I Am the Way by Georgian Orthodox thinker...

How do Kashmiri women, seeking justice for the enforced disappearance and detention of their male relatives, navigate and negotiate with the gendered borders of ‘spaces of legality’? Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with ke...

This study examines the social determinants of the digital divide in pre-service teacher education through the design and validation of the Digital Hospitality Scale (DSBD-HD-FID). The instrument was developed to diagnose social inequalities across s...

This paper examines how narrative authority shapes craft evolution by analyzing two Indian craft development initiatives: the Golden Eye exhibition (1985) and the Jawaja project (1970s–1990s). Drawing on narrative theory and design research, I...

Inclusive graphic design has emerged as a relevant approach within contemporary visual communication studies, driven by the need to ensure that graphic messages can be understood and used by diverse groups of users. Within this context, the present s...

This paper examines how young adults integrate generative artificial intelligence chatbots into everyday life and the implications of these engagements for the constitution of selfhood. Whilst existing research on AI-mediated subjectivity has predomi...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented global transition to emergency remote teaching, fundamentally disrupting traditional higher education delivery methods. This study investigated how Greek higher education students adapted to m...

For the Simeulue community, trauma does not remain a source of fear or psychological burden. Instead, it becomes a guideline for their survival. This study explores how societies reconstruct themselves through memory by examining smong, the local kno...

Every act of design tells a story about who belongs, who is seen, and who is heard. This paper looks at how participatory design-based research (PDR), practiced with relational care and reflexivity, can help shift interactions among marginalized yout...

The acceptance of, perceived advantages to, and skepticism toward the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in undergraduate education is investigated in this paper. In this study, a total of 675 students from six Romanian universities answered...

The article presents an analysis of the mechanisms used by a vocational high school in Bulgaria to develop dual training and implement it sustainably. It focuses on the school management’s leadership role in the network of different stakeholder...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China has evolved from reproducing Western-centric frameworks to engaging with the institutional and political particularities that shape how CSR is reconfigured and practiced. Yet few studies have critically...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most globally disruptive social events in recent history, bringing widespread lockdowns, restrictions on movement, remote work, mass vaccination campaigns, and millions of deaths worldwide. These unprecedente...

This study investigates the institutional transformations within Indonesia’s research ecosystem, focusing on the impacts of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) establishment and the subsequent Work From Office (WFO) policy on the...

While there are many approaches in the use of narratives for children and young people as symbolic forms of real-life education, this article specifically investigates the use of narratives as a public health communication and intervention strategy f...

Since 2015, nearly 3 million Venezuelans have fled to Columbia, forced to leave their homeland by a multidimensional humanitarian crisis. Entering the Columbian labour market has become one of the key challenges facing these migrants. In the fragile...

Land defense is crucial in the face of the current ecological crisis. From a qualitative perspective, this work describes and analyzes the relations between place attachment disruption, emotions, and psychological distress among a group of Mexican la...

Therapy farms are increasingly recognized as social innovations that respond to exclusion, mental health challenges, and youth disconnection, particularly in rural areas. While often praised for their inclusive and rehabilitative potential, their bro...

Incivility and civility have been studied for more than a century across disciplines and in many areas ranging from workplaces to communication, the digital world, and everyday life. They are often used to the detriment of marginalized groups. Their...

This study explores the multifactorial synergistic effects and configurational pathways for enhancing corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance among Chinese professional sports clubs. Drawing on 188 valid questionnaires from Chinese professi...

This study, based on the Neo-Malthusian framework, examines the association between population growth, resource scarcity, and political instability in 128 developing countries from 1960 to 2022. Results show that rapid population growth is associated...

Background: Life for women drastically altered after the 2021 US-NATO military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Methods: Applying a gendered general strain theory (GGST) model, this paper presents mixed-method findings from a 2023 semi-structured digital...

The TV series Architecture School depicts entanglements between design (education), urban development, and the complexities of everyday life through its presentation of students in a program of “public-interest” design–build educati...

The living lab Enrekang, established in 2019 in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, was created to strengthen rural communication and support collaborative innovation across agriculture, livestock, environment, and extension services. Its flagship initiative,...

Between 2020 and 2025, rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) reshaped how individuals access emotional support, express feelings, and build interpersonal trust. This article offers a critical reflection—based on an analytical review of...

This study examines the perceptions and experiences of Indigenous Kankuamo women in northern Colombia regarding their sexual and reproductive rights (SRR), exploring how cultural traditions and public policies shape their exercise. The main objective...

Grassroots and community-led initiatives are increasingly recognized as important actors of local development, yet their role of “local networkers” capable of co-designing and co-creating solutions remains insufficiently explored, particu...

Existing jealousy scales often conceptualize jealousy as an undesirable or maladaptive emotion. However, jealousy is a biologically rooted emotion inherent in humans and observable in certain animal species as well. The key lies not in the eliminatio...

Latine immigrants may experience a heightened degree of stress related to their immigration status. This is particularly true for immigrants who are in the country unauthorized. Individuals who are unauthorized may experience unique psychosocial stre...

Compulsory education is a foundation for equitable development, yet many children in urban slums remain excluded. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, this exclusion challenges the assumption that cities naturally provide better educational opportunities. This stud...