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Social Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 5

2022 May - 46 articles

Cover Story: Violence against women is a persistent, cross-cultural feature of societies. A surplus of men is assumed to play a key role because they are the primary perpetrators of violence, yet it is unclear if an excess or, rather, a shortage of men drives negative outcomes. To test these differing views, we examined sexual violence against women in the US. We found that violence does not simply increase with male surplus or shortage, but instead with sex ratio imbalance. However, our findings are particularly challenging to interpret from a ‘more males = more violence’ stance because violence increases most quickly with male scarcity and is lowest at low levels of male excess. Ultimately, these results highlight a need to target the specific type of violent behavior expected to be motivated by the sex ratio, rather than simplistic predictions of male surfeit or deficit leading to excess violence. View this paper
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Articles (46)

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
14,171 Views
19 Pages

Asian Australians’ Experiences of Online Racism during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Alanna Kamp,
  • Nida Denson,
  • Rachel Sharples and
  • Rosalie Atie

Between 13 November 2020 and 11 February 2021, an online national survey of 2003 Asian Australians was conducted to measure the type and frequency of self-identified Asian Australians’ experiences of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Race and Ethnic Relations: New Perspectives, Methodologies and Approaches between Online-Offline Spaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,223 Views
19 Pages

“There’s Something Very Wrong with the System in This Country”: Multiracial Organizations and Their Responses to Racial Marginalization

  • Jenifer Bratter,
  • Allan Farrell,
  • Sharan Kaur Mehta,
  • Raul S. Casarez and ,
  • Xiaorui Zhang and
  • Michael Carroll
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Multiracial organizing since the 1980s has centered around the need to define and make visible the term multiracial (e.g., U.S. Census). In the contemporary era when multiple race populations are a growing and institutionally recognized demographic,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,496 Views
12 Pages

Unless widows recount their painful experiences of caring for their children, their day-to day lived challenges of childcare may be misunderstood if not totally missed by social workers in practice. This article discusses the widow’s painful ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Family Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,181 Views
23 Pages

Did Immigrants Perceive More Job Insecurity during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic? Evidence from German Panel Data

  • Marvin Bürmann,
  • Jannes Jacobsen,
  • Cornelia Kristen,
  • Simon Kühne and
  • Dorian Tsolak

Immigrants have been affected more than native-born ethnic majority populations by the negative economic consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This contribution examines whether they have also experienced higher levels of perceived job insecurity,...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,955 Views
20 Pages

Family complexity is increasing in Europe, experienced by a significant proportion of children. More evidence is needed in Europe how children’s family type influences their well-being, especially their family-related subjective well-being, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,331 Views
15 Pages

Incidence of Human Capital in the Innovative Performance of Service Companies: A Study in Ecuador

  • Orly Carvache-Franco,
  • Mauricio Carvache-Franco,
  • Wilmer Carvache-Franco and
  • Miguel A. Bustamante-Ubilla

The relationship between human capital and innovative performance in service companies has been studied in countries with fast-growing economies and knowledge-intensive companies, but little evidence exists in other contexts. The research examined th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation as a Source of Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Strategy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,731 Views
30 Pages

For decades, the world’s dominant ideological and policy framework, neoliberal globalization, increasingly faces important disrupters. Long backers of neoliberalism, conservative movements now face pressing, convergent policy challenges (climat...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,741 Views
16 Pages

Peer Effects of the Same and Different Religions on Faithfulness: A Comparison between Indonesia and India

  • Muhammad Zilal Hamzah,
  • Yukichika Kawata,
  • Syed Ahmed Salman and
  • Eleonora Sofilda

By employing questionnaire surveys to empirically examine peer effects on religious faithfulness, this study mainly compares Muslims in Indonesia and India as examples. This study uses religious restrictions on foods as the main component of the ques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,119 Views
26 Pages

Smartphones are often spontaneously used for personal purposes and during face-to-face gatherings. New terms like “phubbing” and “technoference” describe negative consequences of this behavior, but analysis of the actual every...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,198 Views
24 Pages

This contribution addresses the puzzle of whether Industry 4.0 is able to autochthonously bring back the real economy (non-financial corporate sector) into the consciousness of the financial sector. It is all the more important since the conventional...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,526 Views
19 Pages

A New Military Hierarchy of Needs Model

  • Márta Pákozdi and
  • György Bárdos

The aim of our research was to create an up-to-date model of the hierarchy of needs of regular soldiers serving in the Hungarian Defense Forces. Our starting point was the theory of motivation, which states that people’s actions are motivated b...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,558 Views
18 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the ability of the national governments to manage a crisis by covering policy sectors, which are decisive for health, well-being, sustainability of individuals, and society at large. Communication plays a crucial role...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,735 Views
21 Pages

Youths’ Perceptions and Aspiration towards Participating in the Agricultural Sector: A South African Case Study

  • Johannes I. F. Henning,
  • Nicolette Matthews,
  • Moatlhodi August and
  • Primrose Madende

Agriculture is considered as a leading source of employment while ensuring food security to the world and especially rural communities. However, the youth do not appear to be interested in the agricultural sector due to various reasons such as their...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,297 Views
13 Pages

Slave labour or work in conditions analogous to slavery continues on all continents and sometimes tends to be mistaken for “simple” violations of labour laws. Therefore, this work aims to identify parameters that allow distinguishing betw...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,746 Views
21 Pages

This paper puts in perspective the reforms of the Portuguese and Finnish higher education (HE) sectors in the light of the role intergovernmental organisations have—especially the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)&mda...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,670 Views
19 Pages

The paper investigates China’s effort to create an eldercare market to shed light on how China’s economic reform entailed the creation of new institutions (e.g., eldercare market including eldercare labour market) and the reconfiguration...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,521 Views
15 Pages

Who Are the People at Socio-Economic Risk? Socio-Demographical Analysis of the Czech People in Specific Economical Situations Recognized in Value-Based Risk Prediction Model

  • Jiří Pospíšil,
  • Ivana Olecká,
  • Nataša Matulayová,
  • Helena Pospíšilová and ,
  • Pavlína Jurníčková and
  • Pavla Macháčková
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The aim of this study was to analyze the dependence of personal economic situation on gender, age, education, occupational status, field of work or study, family situation, and number of children in the family. The research was designed as cross-sect...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,494 Views
12 Pages

Muted Voices: The Underrepresentation of Women in COVID-19 News in Portugal

  • Rita Araújo,
  • Felisbela Lopes,
  • Olga Magalhães and
  • Carla Cerqueira

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Portuguese media seemed to contribute to the symbolic annihilation of women. In spite of the fact that women play leading political roles as the Minister of Health and the Directorate-General of Health, women were al...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,285 Views
20 Pages

Suicidal ideation and deaths among children and adolescents have seen an unprecedented rise over the last ten years, recently further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explores mental health professionals’ approaches to delive...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,812 Views
9 Pages

Patterning of Sexual Violence against Women across US Cities and Counties

  • Jennifer Pabst,
  • Scott M. Walfield and
  • Ryan Schacht

Sexual violence against women is a global public health concern; yet, determining its patterning is still largely understudied. An excess of males has emerged as a central concern given that men are the primary perpetrators of violent behavior, parti...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender Studies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,572 Views
16 Pages

Mapping the Cyber Interpersonal Violence among Young Populations: A Scoping Review

  • Bárbara Machado,
  • Sónia Caridade,
  • Isabel Araújo and
  • Paula Lobato Faria

The increase in digital practices and networking has introduced important changes to social interactions. The extensive use of technology among young people has allowed for cyber communication, which has numerous benefits but can also trigger violenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Violence, Victimization and Prevention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,307 Views
35 Pages

In the United States (US), citizens’ political participation is 15%. Contemporary psychological models explaining political participation are based on education and socioeconomic status, which are unable to explain the overall low political par...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Elections and Political Campaigns in Times of Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,195 Views
23 Pages

Despite the relative freedoms gained after the transition to democracy in 1994 in South Africa, dominant narratives of Whiteness stemming from settler-colonial and apartheid legacies of White supremacy remain pervasive within all structures of post-a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,923 Views
24 Pages

Multiracial identities in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States all formed within White supremacist, White racist, and anti-Black social orders. Brazil and South Africa historically acknowledged multiracials in ternary racial orders with a stru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiracial Identities and Experiences in/under White Supremacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,012 Views
15 Pages

Adolescents’ access and use of reproductive and maternal health (RMH) services is a critical part of the global strategy for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, previous studies have shown that a complex range of factor...

(This article belongs to the Collection Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Global Perspectives)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,691 Views
4 Pages

With the severe upswing in divorce experienced by developed nations in the last fifty years, social scientists in many disciplines are intensifying their focus on marital dissolution and its implications for society, families, and individuals [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Divorce and Life Course)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,884 Views
15 Pages

In this article, I explore how faith and religion shaped the resilience of forced migrant women subjected to intersecting gender-based violence (GBV) and trafficking. Adopting a social constructivist perspective, I draw upon interviews with 11 Christ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Interface between Human Trafficking, “Modern Slavery” and Asylum)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,561 Views
19 Pages

Method for Detecting Far-Right Extremist Communities on Social Media

  • Anna Karpova,
  • Aleksei Savelev,
  • Alexander Vilnin and
  • Sergey Kuznetsov

Far-right extremist communities actively promote their ideological preferences on social media. This provides researchers with opportunities to study these communities online. However, to explore these opportunities one requires a way to identify the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,980 Views
17 Pages

During the COVID-19 health crisis, the Spanish Government launched a series of urgent measures to protect the population from its economic effects. At first, it seemed that sex workers would have access to this protection, given that, technically, th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Human Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,507 Views
16 Pages

Relationships of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Times of Pandemic: An Inclusive Study

  • Carolina Puyaltó,
  • Maialen Beltran,
  • Tània Coll,
  • Gemma Diaz-Garolera and ,
  • Marta Figueras,
  • Judit Fullana,
  • Cristina González,
  • Maria Pallisera,
  • Joan Pujolar and
  • Ana Rey
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2022

(1) Background: Since 2012, our Inclusive Research Team has developed several studies on various topics that interest the co-researchers with intellectual disabilities. In 2021, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the co-researchers decided to investig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive Research: Is the Road More or Less Well Travelled?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,716 Views
13 Pages

Increasing Refugees’ Work and Job Search Self-Efficacy Perceptions by Developing Career Adaptability

  • Roberta Morici,
  • Davide Massaro,
  • Federico Brajda Bruno and
  • Diego Boerchi

29 April 2022

Today’s unstable labor market increasingly requires flexibility and adaptability to cope with the threat of unemployment. Though this threat can cause distress in many people, its negative impact is even more significant on vulnerable workers s...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,140 Views
26 Pages

Perspectives of Adolescents, Parents, Service Providers, and Teachers on Mobile Phone Use for Sexual Reproductive Health Education

  • Beverly M. Ochieng,
  • Lesley Smith,
  • Bev Orton,
  • Mark Hayter and ,
  • Margaret Kaseje,
  • Charles O. Wafula,
  • Penina Ocholla,
  • Franklin Onukwugha and
  • Dan C. O. Kaseje
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2022

Mobile health (mHealth) programs offer opportunities to improve the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents by providing information. This paper reports the findings of a study carried out in Homabay County, Kenya, to assess stakeholders&...

(This article belongs to the Collection Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Global Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,630 Views
16 Pages

Towards Community Rooted Research and Praxis: Reflections on the BSS Safety and Youth Justice Project

  • Uriel Serrano,
  • David C. Turner,
  • Gabriel Regalado and
  • Alejandro Banuelos

29 April 2022

This article focuses on the Brothers, Sons, Selves (BSS) Safety and Youth Justice project to describe what we refer to as a Community Rooted and Research Praxis (CRRP) approach. BSS is an organizing coalition for boys, young men, and masculine-identi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice)
  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
19,614 Views
18 Pages

29 April 2022

In this paper, the author investigates rural Chinese citizens’ encounters of structural and institutional inequalities and social (im)mobility. The author addresses social (im)mobility from a holistic perspective (i.e., in institutional, occupa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,890 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2022

In this study, we use experimental methods to probe how far individuals depart from choices consistent with “Rational Economic Man” and whether these departures are associated with financial and numeric literature on the one hand, and, mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,516 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2022

Digital transformation (DT) has changed the means and mechanisms for acquiring knowledge, meaning that higher education institutions (HEI) have changed the form of student-lecturer and teaching-learning interaction. Digital transformation must have a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,186 Views
15 Pages

Technological Utopias: Loneliness and Rural Contexts in Western Iberia

  • Borja Rivero Jiménez,
  • David Conde-Caballero and
  • Lorenzo Mariano Juárez

26 April 2022

Background: Urbanisation and rural migration in some areas of Spain and Portugal have given rise to rural contexts largely defined by ageing and depopulation. Rural populations have suffered from increasing social isolation, with older people living...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,101 Views
3 Pages

26 April 2022

This Special Issue focuses on the value of active ageing and its beneficial impact on mental and physical health [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asian Perspectives on Active Aging: Meaning, Purpose and Hope)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,703 Views
10 Pages

25 April 2022

A lack of culturally appropriate healthcare is a common problem for colonial nations, and this can explain the different patterns of health in indigenous populations worldwide. Our study is the first ethnography realized with the neglected Patax&oacu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Science Perspectives in Global Health: Insights and Analysis of Issues at the Margins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,675 Views
20 Pages

24 April 2022

In Mexico, as part of the historical and political context, race heavily influences a person’s opportunities. Moreover, the data refer to a scenario of normalized gender-based violence caused by sociocultural practices, the lack of application...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender, Politics, and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance, and Representation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,350 Views
13 Pages

Exploring UTAUT Model in Mobile 4.5G Service: Moderating Social–Economic Effects of Gender and Awareness

  • Sara Mehrab Daniali,
  • Sergey Evgenievich Barykin,
  • Marzieh Zendehdel,
  • Olga Vladimirovna Kalinina and ,
  • Valeriia Vadimovna Kulibanova,
  • Tatiana Robertovna Teor,
  • Irina Anatolyevna Ilyina,
  • Natalia Sergeevna Alekseeva,
  • Anton Lisin and
  • Tomonobu Senjyu
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

24 April 2022

The current study aims to examine how students’ intentions to use 4.5G mobile phones are affected by the social-economic factors of performance expectancy, cost, effort expectancy, and social influence. This study is based on the perspectives o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,959 Views
16 Pages

A Closer Look at the Quest for an Inclusive Research Project: ‘I Had No Experience with Scientific Research, and then the Ball of Cooperation Started Rolling’

  • Miriam Zaagsma,
  • Mark Koning,
  • Christien van Andel,
  • Karin Volkers and ,
  • Alice Schippers and
  • Geert van Hove
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 April 2022

The original adage of the movement of people with disabilities ‘Nothing about us without us’ is fortunately more and more adopted in the research world. There is, for example, increasing recognition of the importance and value of actively...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive Research: Is the Road More or Less Well Travelled?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,915 Views
13 Pages

On the Road Together: Issues Observed in the Process of a Research Duo Working Together in a Long-Term and Intense Collaboration in an Inclusive Research Project

  • Sofie Sergeant,
  • Henriëtte Sandvoort,
  • Geert Van Hove,
  • Petri Embregts and ,
  • Kim van den Bogaard,
  • Elsbeth Taminiau and
  • Alice Schippers
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 April 2022

Inclusive research practices can lead to progress towards an inclusive society. With this study, we aimed to gain insight into dilemmas and catalysing processes within the long-term collaboration of an inclusive research duo: one non-academic researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive Research: Is the Road More or Less Well Travelled?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
17,859 Views
19 Pages

Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Portugal in Times of Pandemic Crisis

  • Inês Casquilho-Martins,
  • Helena Belchior-Rocha and
  • David Ramalho Alves

21 April 2022

During the last two years, the pandemic has dominated the public attention and debate around the world, centering on socio-economic aspects and having camouflaged other social, cultural and even environmental issues. This study sought to analyze ethn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Race and Ethnic Relations: New Perspectives, Methodologies and Approaches between Online-Offline Spaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,652 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2022

Academic and community research partnerships have gained traction as a potential bridge between the university and local area to address pressing social issues. A key question for developing justice-oriented research is how to integrate best practice...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,009 Views
12 Pages

Reflections on Working Together in an Inclusive Research Team

  • Phillippa Carnemolla,
  • Jack Kelly,
  • Catherine Donnelley and
  • Aine Healy

20 April 2022

The funding of a research project working with local governments and people with intellectual disabilities led to the establishment of an inclusive research team within a university faculty. The core team consisted of four people, including a design...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inclusive Research: Is the Road More or Less Well Travelled?)
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