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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)

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,032 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,423 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,042 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,195 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,541 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,084 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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,380 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
7 Citations
4,704 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,864 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,
  • Marta Figueras,
  • Judit Fullana,
  • Cristina González,
  • Maria Pallisera,
  • Joan Pujolar and
  • Ana Rey

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...

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