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Social Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2022 - 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
34 Citations
12,333 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,755 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,
  • Xiaorui Zhang and
  • Michael Carroll

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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,649 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,671 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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,668 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,714 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,759 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,055 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
3 Citations
6,654 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
3 Citations
4,376 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...

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