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Social Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 4

2021 April - 32 articles

Cover Story: The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the sports industry, which, pre-pandemic, was worth four trillion US dollars. One third of the world’s gyms have closed down temporarily, which puts a strain on fitness professions. Group fitness instruction essentially relies on coming together physically to exercise. Taking a social constructionist approach, this paper explores, through online focus group discussions with Les Mills certified trainers from different countries, the ways in which group fitness instructors have navigated their professional identities amid social distancing. The study indicates that instructors are currently attempting to reinvent themselves as motivators—animating participants to stay active at home through online streaming services—while also continuing their own personal fitness journeys—waging a war against the virus by strengthening their physiques. View this paper.
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Articles (32)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,927 Views
21 Pages

20 April 2021

Emerging research on the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic draws attention to the labor effects of the crisis in the Global South. Developing countries show high levels of labor informality, where most workers cannot work from home and d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family, Work and Welfare: A Gender Lens on COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,263 Views
14 Pages

19 April 2021

This paper explores how advanced liberal democracies respond to climate migrants in ways that reflect colonial logics and practices. With a focus on the Pacific, it reflects on three constructions of climate crisis victims. First, as savages—those in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Rights and Displaced People in Exceptional Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
73,269 Views
15 Pages

16 April 2021

Background: Incest is a form of sexual activity that occurs within family or kinship systems. It is prohibited by religion and law in most countries as well as by social mores or taboos. Data from various parts of the world indicate, however, that it...

(This article belongs to the Section Family Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,795 Views
15 Pages

16 April 2021

Young Spanish Black people born to migrant parents continue to be either invisible or problematized in public discourses, which project a monocultural and phenotypically homogeneous Europe. Research in countries with a long immigration history has sh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Racialized Citizenship in Superdiverse Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,049 Views
20 Pages

15 April 2021

The introduction of ‘illegal’ migration in West African countries represented a major conceptual policy shift for societies that were historically characterized by intra-regional free movement. However, this transformation went along with severe alle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Racialized Citizenship in Superdiverse Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
13,247 Views
12 Pages

15 April 2021

This article considers the impact of COVID-19 on international protection applicants in the Irish asylum system. It presents a critical reflection on the failings of direct provision and how the experience of COVID-19 has further heightened the issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Rights and Displaced People in Exceptional Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,031 Views
12 Pages

15 April 2021

From March 2020 until July 2020, the UAE implemented mandatory distance learning due to COVID-19, which meant that children had to continue their learning remotely at home. Though schools concerted exemplary efforts to ensure that children received a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family, Work and Welfare: A Gender Lens on COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,916 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2021

Anti-racism in Europe operates in political, policy, and civic spaces, in which organizations try to counter racial discrimination and violence. This paper applies a textual analysis to the European discourse of the transnationally connected anti-rac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Racialized Citizenship in Superdiverse Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,667 Views
14 Pages

14 April 2021

This study examines the correlations between urban environmental satisfaction, neighborhood relations, and livability. Previous studies on livability have insufficiently dealt with urban environments and neighborhood relations and have failed to cond...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,294 Views
13 Pages

13 April 2021

Given the outbreak of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), pandemic during March 2020, lockdown measures taken by governments have forced many families, especially those who have children, to re-arrange domestic and market work division. In this s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family, Work and Welfare: A Gender Lens on COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Citations
17,413 Views
15 Pages

Green Entrepreneurial Orientation and Green Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

  • Chaiyawit Muangmee,
  • Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz,
  • Nusanee Meekaewkunchorn,
  • Nuttapon Kassakorn and
  • Bilal Khalid

13 April 2021

Since environmental issues are becoming an integral part of business performances, policymakers and managers have started recognizing the importance of green innovation towards sustainable business performances. The role of the automotive parts indus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and New Entrepreneurial Models—the Transformative Forces in the Era of Global Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,342 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2021

The number of unaccompanied minors (UAMs) arriving in the European Union (EU) has been increasing dramatically over recent years resulting in the formulation of EU policy directives around safeguarding and well-being. Notably, the majority of UAMs en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue International Migration Crisis: Critical Social Work and Social Policy Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,643 Views
13 Pages

Increasing the Efficiency of Enterprises in Tourism Sector Using Innovative Management Methods and Tools

  • Peter Gallo,
  • Ján Dobrovič,
  • Veronika Čabinová,
  • Petra Pártlová,
  • Jarmila Straková and
  • Bohuslava Mihalčová

9 April 2021

The paper deals with the issue of increasing the efficiency of business management using modern management methods and tools in tourism enterprises. The basis of the paper form hypotheses focused on the use of the concept of Balanced Scorecard, contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and New Entrepreneurial Models—the Transformative Forces in the Era of Global Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,225 Views
15 Pages

9 April 2021

In Europe, gender equality can be framed as a secular value, juxtaposed against affiliation with and practice of Islam. Academic and public debate has either given special attention to the spread of religious fundamentalism in Europe, or to the way M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Racialized Citizenship in Superdiverse Europe)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,324 Views
16 Pages

6 April 2021

In the contemporary era, societies are divided, and political polarization is increasing. One of the most powerful instruments the government can use is general standard education, specifically citizenship education. We will look at the case of Eston...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Programmes to Support Disadvantaged Youth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,653 Views
12 Pages

2 April 2021

In the wake of the demolition of the “The Jungle” at Calais, northern France, in October 2016, more than three thousand asylum seekers, refugees and other informal immigrants at any given time live in informal tent cities throughout the city’s northe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Rights and Displaced People in Exceptional Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,073 Views
13 Pages

1 April 2021

This article analyses the differences in the level of transparency and quality of information on the institutional websites of Spanish councils depending on whether the mayor’s office is held by a woman or a man. We focus on 605 Spanish municipalitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,806 Views
11 Pages

1 April 2021

The history of the acquisition of French citizenship by Indochinese university élites remains yet to be written because few researchers have looked at the role played by sport and physical education in developing the Vietnamese élite. These young stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Access to Higher Education in European Colonial Empires: Citizenship, Social Structures and Globalisation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,551 Views
12 Pages

Secondary School Students’ Perception of the Acquisition of Social Science Skill

  • José María Álvarez-Martínez-Iglesias,
  • Pedro Miralles-Martínez,
  • Jesús Molina-Saorín and
  • Francisco Javier Trigueros-Cano

31 March 2021

The aim of this study is to find out the relevance of the competences worked on in the area of social science, specifically in the subjects of geography and history, through the perceptions of pupils in the 4th year of compulsory secondary education...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The End-Purpose of Teaching Social Sciences and the Curricular Inclusion of Social Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,521 Views
10 Pages

31 March 2021

Parenting is recognized as a complex and stressful activity, which in recent years has been linked to the potential development of parental burnout among mothers and fathers. With the spread of COVID-19 around the globe, not only have situations of h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Family, Work and Welfare: A Gender Lens on COVID-19)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,868 Views
16 Pages

30 March 2021

Building on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Rights and Displaced People in Exceptional Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,834 Views
17 Pages

30 March 2021

Due to the increasing importance of digitization, ICT and engineering sectors are also growing. In these sectors, there are a lot of high-qualified and well-paid jobs. However, despite the growing importance and popularity of digital solutions, one f...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,710 Views
17 Pages

30 March 2021

The article analyzes the impact of language barriers on the medical treatment of foreign-speaking patients and illustrates that the absence of systemic, institutional responses to language barriers in healthcare facilities exacerbates racist attitude...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue International Migration Crisis: Critical Social Work and Social Policy Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,170 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2021

(1) Background: The challenge of immigrants and their integration into adopted countries is a key topic for the global field of social work. However, there is a paucity of research on immigrants’ lived experiences in gaining access to the labour mark...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,959 Views
16 Pages

A Conceptual Examination about the Correlates of Psychological Capital (PsyCap) among the Saudi Arabian Workforce

  • Nasser Saad Alkahtani,
  • M. M. Sulphey,
  • Kevin Delany and
  • Anass Hamad Elneel Adow

29 March 2021

Psychological capital (PsyCap), which is considered a higher-order construct, is composed of hope, efficacy, optimism, and resilience. The importance of PsyCap stems from the fact that it has the propensity to motivate individuals in their accomplish...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,102 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2021

The intention of this special issue of Social Sciences is to study state fragility and its relationship with conflict and grievances in the post-Cold War Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This article will lay the foundation for such a study by of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA))
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,724 Views
22 Pages

Work–Family Articulation Policies in Portugal and Gender Equality: Advances and Challenges

  • Susana Ramalho Marques,
  • Sara Falcão Casaca and
  • Manuela Arcanjo

26 March 2021

Portugal has been described as a singular case in terms of the participation of women in the labour market and work–life balance policies. Unlike the other so-called Southern European countries, where a belated and somewhat slower move away from the...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,370 Views
18 Pages

25 March 2021

This article studies some stages and debates about the access of New Spain’s Indians to major studies: The discussion about their mental capacity in the 16th century, the impulse of Carlos II to the indigenous nobility in the 17th century, or the ret...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Access to Higher Education in European Colonial Empires: Citizenship, Social Structures and Globalisation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
14,384 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2021

Ukraine has been viewed by some as having become a training ground, networking opportunity, and general hub for the far-right due to the conflict in the east of the country, which began in 2014. With this type of terrorism on the rise in the West and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Investigating Antecedents to Radicalisation: European Concepts at the Top of the Global Counter-Terrorism Agenda)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,718 Views
27 Pages

Entrepreneurship, Sport, Sustainability and Integration: A Business Model in the Low-Season Tourism Sector

  • Ricardo Reier Forradellas,
  • Sergio Luis Náñez Alonso,
  • Javier Jorge-Vazquez,
  • Miguel Ángel Echarte Fernández and
  • Nicolas Vidal Miró

25 March 2021

The global tourism reality is changing, and not only because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This reality is especially representative in countries such as Spain, which are highly dependent on the income generated by the tourism sector. In these destinatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and New Entrepreneurial Models—the Transformative Forces in the Era of Global Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,592 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2021

Research question and purpose: Les Mills is a New Zealand-based fitness distributor with a community consisting of approximately 140.000 instructors worldwide who teach standardized workout routines. This paper aims to explore how the COVID-19 pandem...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,957 Views
14 Pages

Differentiated Uses of Social Networking Platforms among Young People in the Autonomous Region of Madrid

  • María Cruz López-de-Ayala,
  • Antonio García-Jiménez and
  • Yolanda Pastor-Ruiz

24 March 2021

Young people make intensive and varied use of social networks, which depends on individual differences and use motives. This study analyses the different ways in which young people use the main social media platforms and the role that gender, age and...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
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