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Social Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 8

2022 August - 59 articles

Cover Story: Academia is often said to be a challenging environment for women. Studies point out still-existing gender gaps in academia and leadership positions. We look at decision-making positions in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in academic research. We seek to understand if research roles are distributed equally gender-wise among cohorts in research units, as well as if deans’ genders are a factor of influence in such role attributions. Using univariate and bivariate tests, our research assesses gender distribution in research roles fostered by HEIs in public and private institutions. We take the specific case of Portugal; therefore, we cannot extrapolate the results to other countries. Our results highlight resisting differences in fields of research and coordination and role distribution among R&D units, as well as in relations between power positions in academia and research. View this paper
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Articles (59)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,700 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2022

This study deals with the crisis volunteering during the lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jordan. This study aims to identify the skills that volunteers acquire during voluntary work. Moreover, it aims to identify whether there are signifi...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,409 Views
13 Pages

Correlates of Acquiring a Traumatic Brain Injury before Experiencing Homelessness: An Exploratory Study

  • Stephanie Chassman,
  • Katie Calhoun,
  • Blair Bacon,
  • Sara Chaparro Rucobo,
  • Emily Goodwin,
  • Kim Gorgens and
  • Daniel Brisson

22 August 2022

The rates of traumatic brain injury (TBI) are significantly higher among individuals experiencing homelessness compared to the general population. The relationship between TBI and homelessness is likely bi-directional as factors associated with homel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,724 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2022

The spread of hate speech challenges the health of democracy and media systems in contemporary societies. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of user-generated online hate speech reported by Internet users to national monitoring o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,672 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2022

This article examines the impact of overeducation on attitudes towards the political system and political participation. Using survey data from Spain, diagonal reference models were estimated to contrast hypotheses based on the theory of status incon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,863 Views
19 Pages

18 August 2022

In the US, ‘campus climate surveys’ are an established measure of the prevalence of, and students’ awareness of and attitudes to sexual and gender-based violence and harassment (SGBVH). They are regularly carried out by universities...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender-Related Violence: Social Sciences’ Research & Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,135 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2022

In an attempt to address the debate among social science scholars regarding whether or not online political engagement is a legitimate form of political participation, this study investigates the conditions under which migrants engage politically wit...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,916 Views
18 Pages

18 August 2022

Understanding the range of factors influencing career and employment decisions of individuals with disabilities is crucial for policy makers, businesses, and other stakeholders to support and integrate individuals with disabilities in the economic an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,289 Views
18 Pages

18 August 2022

Athlete advocacy is recognized as an important method of persuading the public on social issues, and it demonstrates the role of athletes in achieving racial justice. However, how athlete advocacy can gain the persuasiveness to encourage public invol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Sport and Social Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,572 Views
22 Pages

18 August 2022

In response to the “Great Recession and Global Financial Crisis”, central banks had to deploy unconventional monetary policies (UMP) in order to fight the severe impact of the crisis. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,424 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2022

This article examines the relationship between the responsibility to rebuild and post-intervention reconstruction. It aims to determine whether the current interpretation of the responsibility to rebuild is the appropriate framework for attaining the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
15,744 Views
14 Pages

The Uses of Coffee in Highly Demanding Work Contexts: Managing Rhythms, Sleep, and Performance

  • Elsa Pegado,
  • Carla Rodrigues,
  • Hélder Raposo and
  • Ana I. Fernandes

17 August 2022

This paper presents a sociological approach to coffee consumption as a performance management strategy in work contexts, particularly in professions with intense work rhythms and highly responsive demands. Focusing on the daily work of three professi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,766 Views
21 Pages

How Has the Gender Earnings Gap in Ireland Changed in Thirty Years?

  • Michelle Barrett,
  • Karina Doorley,
  • Paul Redmond and
  • Barra Roantree

17 August 2022

Since 1987, the wages of women in Ireland have been growing faster than those of men. This, coupled with a decrease in the average hours worked by men, has resulted in a reduction in the gender earnings gap in Ireland, most notably at the bottom of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Gender Income Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,509 Views
15 Pages

17 August 2022

The authors report findings from a 15-month project that focused on the experiences of sex workers who live and work in an Eastern Canadian province. As part of a larger multi-phased study, 15 adults who identified as women, transgender, or non-binar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety & Rights of Sex Workers: Decriminalization and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,379 Views
19 Pages

14 August 2022

This paper deals with the issue of the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Slovak Republic as an attribute that allows the Prosecutor’s Office to actually carry out its mission, regardless of the individual interests of the par...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,469 Views
19 Pages

12 August 2022

This study aims to analyze the relationship between perceived organizational culture (POC) and turnover intentions (TI) and if this relationship is mediated by perceived organizational support (POS) and job insecurity (JI). For this purpose, the foll...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Protocol
  • Open Access
2,791 Views
7 Pages

Rapid Evidence Assessment Protocol for the Meta-Analysis of Initiatives, Interventions and Programmes That Target Rural NEETs

  • Paul Flynn,
  • Veronica McCauley,
  • Alen Mujčinović,
  • Vesela Radović,
  • Stefan Bojnec and
  • Francisco Simões

12 August 2022

The acronym NEET refers to youths aged between 15 and 34 years old who are excluded from employment, education or training. However, historically, the NEET demographic has been depicted as a largely homogenous group. Against this backdrop and given t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,685 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2022

Parties and their leaders are linked programmatically and non-programmatically with citizens, incentivising the latter to vote in elections and seeking to influence their choices. In this paper, we analyse the effects of politician–voter linkag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
19,103 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2022

Graduate employability is a multifaceted concept considering the Sustainable Development Goals. Graduate employability and skills development are also significant determinants for future career success. Graduate employability has seen more sweeping e...

(This article belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,403 Views
16 Pages

Perceptions of Trust in the Context of Social Cohesion in Selected Rural Communities of South Africa

  • Fundiswa T. Khaile,
  • Nicolette V. Roman,
  • Kezia R. October,
  • Maria Van Staden and
  • Tolulope V. Balogun

11 August 2022

Although nuances around the definitions and contextualization of social cohesion subsist, this paper views social cohesion through the lens of social cooperation and togetherness within a collective in geopolitical terms, expressed in the attitudes a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geopolitics, Public Communication and Social Cohesion Facing the Crisis of Democracy: Risks and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,197 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2022

In “Postscript on Societies of Control”, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze proclaimed that “Everywhere surfing has replaced the older sports”. By this, he alluded to Foucault’s thoughts on older societal regimes and powe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Sport and Social Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,056 Views
14 Pages

Narrating Resistant Citizenships through Two Pandemics

  • Corinne Squire and
  • Jamilson Bernardo de Lemos

10 August 2022

Covid has intensified inequalities in the UK, particularly for those already living with structural disadvantage, and despite community and popular resistance to those losses. Covid has also disproportionately affected people with HIV, especially tho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Narratives of Resistance in Everyday Lives and the Covid Crisis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,211 Views
32 Pages

A Literature Review on the Usage of Agent-Based Modelling to Study Policies for Managing International Migration

  • Gabriele De Luca,
  • Thomas J. Lampoltshammer,
  • Shahanaz Parven and
  • Johannes Scholz

9 August 2022

This literature review is dedicated to the subject of agent-based modelling for the system of international migration, and of the modelling of policies that are known to aid in its management. The reason for the selection of agent-based modelling as...

(This article belongs to the Section International Migration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,241 Views
19 Pages

8 August 2022

This paper brings together two qualitative studies exploring how domestic violence and abuse (DVA) manifests within UK Muslim communities. Study one was conducted with UK-based Muslim female survivors of DVA (n = 10). Study two was conducted with UK...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender-Related Violence: Social Sciences’ Research & Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,123 Views
11 Pages

8 August 2022

The paper aims to investigate users’ behavior regarding inbound marketing while consuming content, in particular, to reveal the source of the reasons and triggers affecting content need in the case of long-consumption products. In the theoretic...

(This article belongs to the Topic Education and Digital Societies for a Sustainable World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,035 Views
16 Pages

Parental Partnership, Advocacy and Engagement: The Way Forward

  • Simon Haworth,
  • Andy Bilson,
  • Taliah Drayak,
  • Tammy Mayes and
  • Yuval Saar-Heiman

8 August 2022

This article, written with parents as co-authors, has two aims: (1) to provide a critical view of the English child protection system based on parents’ views and to locate these views within contemporary child protection studies and (2) to pres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Child Protection Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,540 Views
16 Pages

8 August 2022

Africa’s security issues have suffered serious attention deficits. This article analyses why a globally accepted health security norm, such as fighting a communicable disease during a pandemic such as the COVID-19 pandemic, was, in Africa, perc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,025 Views
11 Pages

7 August 2022

This paper examines the tension between safeguarding measures and participant agency in conducting feminist interviews with survivors of sexual violence in universities. There is a core contradiction inherent in feminist research of gender-related vi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender-Related Violence: Social Sciences’ Research & Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,884 Views
19 Pages

Teacher Training, Research and Professional Development in a Neoliberal School: A Transformative Experience in Social Sciences

  • Diego Luna,
  • José Antonio Pineda-Alfonso,
  • Francisco F. García-Pérez and
  • Conceição Leal da Costa

7 August 2022

In recent decades, discourse on quality, school effectiveness, autonomy, and accountability, among other topics, has been used to try to transform schools. This paper explores this situation from the teaching perspective of one of its authors. Using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,475 Views
13 Pages

Transgressive Behavior in Dutch Youth Sport

  • Nicolette Schipper-van Veldhoven,
  • Joris Mulder,
  • Boukje Cuelenaere,
  • Robbert Zandvliet,
  • Kimberly Farzan and
  • Miriam Reijnen

7 August 2022

The current article reports on the second large-scale prevalence study on transgressive behavior in sport in the Netherlands, and is a follow up of an earlier, comparable prevalence study in 2015. Using a dedicated and customized online questionnaire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Sport: New Evidence, Perspectives, and Interpretations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,730 Views
10 Pages

Death Threats and Attempted Femicide in the Context of Domestic Violence in Portugal

  • Sofia Neves,
  • Emília Silva,
  • Joana Topa,
  • Janete Borges,
  • Alice Pereira and
  • Estefânia Silva

5 August 2022

Domestic violence is a serious problem in Portugal, affecting mainly women. The significant number of femicides in the context of intimate partner violence has been showing not only the severity of the crime, but also the necessity to reinforce strat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Directions in Gender Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,257 Views
19 Pages

Imagining the Post-COVID-19 Polity: Narratives of Possible Futures

  • James White McAuley and
  • Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

5 August 2022

The COVID-19 crisis is arguably the most important development of the 21st century so far and takes its place alongside the great eruptions of the past century. As with any crisis, the current pandemic has stimulated visions and proposals for post-CO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Narratives of Resistance in Everyday Lives and the Covid Crisis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,876 Views
14 Pages

4 August 2022

Academia is often pointed out as a challenging environment to evolve in, especially for women. Whilst women perform in multidisciplinary settings, studies point out still-existing gender gaps in academia, especially in positions of power. This study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Directions in Gender Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,970 Views
14 Pages

3 August 2022

This paper aimed to explore the impact of Kosovar teachers’ characteristics on the performance of fourth-grade students in TIMSS 2019. The paper addressed the characteristics of teachers, demographic, and academics, which are closely related to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Sciences Teaching in the Face of the Global Challenges of the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,409 Views
14 Pages

Expectations of Cross-Sector Collaboration in Cultural and Arts Education

  • Marie-Therese Arnold,
  • Thi Huyen Trang Le and
  • Nina Kolleck

3 August 2022

The promotion of dialogues between youth and older adults in the field of cultural education remains one of the most important educational policy tasks in Germany. After all, intergenerational, cultural projects can make an important contribution to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intergenerational Research—A Multi-Perspective Collection of Evidence for Theory and Best Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,626 Views
9 Pages

3 August 2022

In social media, there is a prevalence of celebrity-based brand endorsement. How such endorsement works precisely, though, has received scant research. This study is thus designed to examine how consumers’ social media interaction affects paras...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,316 Views
13 Pages

2 August 2022

The struggle for gender equality is based on identifying, understanding, and eradicating the causes of inequality. Digital media are and have always been governed by men and, as a consequence, have become another instrument of patriarchy. This articl...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,148 Views
13 Pages

1 August 2022

Political leaders have commonly used the phrase ‘learn to live with the virus’ to explain to citizens how they should respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider how the ‘live with the virus’ narrative perpetrates pandemic am...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Narratives of Resistance in Everyday Lives and the Covid Crisis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,066 Views
23 Pages

1 August 2022

The COVID-19 health crisis and its consequences have exacerbated existing issues in the political, economic, and cultural spheres of societies. An exploratory, descriptive, mixed-method study using a phenomenological interpretative approach was condu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,019 Views
15 Pages

31 July 2022

Sustainable development in mountain areas faces numerous socioenvironmental and economic challenges that public institutions have sought to address for decades. The EU is increasingly demanding Higher Education Institutions be more socially relevant...

(This article belongs to the Topic Research and Innovation Practices: Cooperation and Collaborations in Scientific and Entrepreneurial Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,863 Views
10 Pages

Determinants of Sexual Abuse Prevention Knowledge among Children’s Schools in West Java Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Tetti Solehati,
  • Iqbal Pramukti,
  • Cecep Eli Kosasih,
  • Yanti Hermayanti and
  • Henny Suzana Mediani

29 July 2022

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a severe problem in Indonesia. Adequate knowledge in children about CSA prevention is essential so that children do not become victims. Lack of adequate children’s knowledge of the prevention of CSA may put them at r...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
15,125 Views
22 Pages

28 July 2022

Social work’s response to global climate change has dramatically increased over the last several years. Similarly, growing attention has been paid to rural social work; less clear, however, is how social work, responsive to global climate chang...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Resilience for Future Extreme Events: Focusing on Vulnerable and Marginalized Inhabitants and Co-Inhabitants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,000 Views
19 Pages

The Invisible Suffering of Young People during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain and the Collateral Impact of Social Harm

  • Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo,
  • Antonio Silva Esquinas and
  • Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez

28 July 2022

This article seeks to demonstrate how the lack of institutional involvement with young people during the pandemic had negative effects, stemming from a lack of clear and precise rules for the adolescent population. The consequences manifested themsel...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,259 Views
18 Pages

Inequalities and Asymmetries in the Development of Angola’s Provinces: The Impact of Colonialism and Civil War

  • João Adolfo Catoto Capitango,
  • Mirtha Silvana Garat de Marin,
  • Emmanuel Soriano Flores,
  • Marco Antonio Rojo Gutiérrez,
  • Mónica Gracia Villar and
  • Frigdiano Álvaro Durántez Prados

28 July 2022

Angola, as with many countries on the African continent, has great inequalities or asymmetries between its provinces. At the economic, financial, and technological level, there is a great disparity between them, where it is observed that the province...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,416 Views
22 Pages

28 July 2022

Background: Waste work in India is an undervalued role relegated to historically marginalised communities. The informal nature of their work coupled with lack of state regulation keeps waste workers trapped in poverty. This study aims to understand h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Science Perspectives in Global Health: Insights and Analysis of Issues at the Margins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,574 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2022

Child protection is a field characterized by intrinsic tensions and ambivalence, related to the state’s intervention in the family sphere and to a double mandate of care and control. This article focuses on the participation of parents in statu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Child Protection Studies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,718 Views
21 Pages

Barriers and Enablers to Health-Seeking for People Affected by Severe Stigmatising Skin Diseases (SSSDs): A Scoping Review

  • Rosalind McCollum,
  • Hannah Berrian,
  • Sally Theobald,
  • Zeela Zaizay,
  • Karsor Kollie and
  • Laura Dean

27 July 2022

People affected by severe stigmatising skin diseases (SSSDs) often live in the poorest communities, within the poorest countries, and experience a range of barriers to seeking timely, quality care. This scoping review analyses the available literatur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Science Perspectives in Global Health: Insights and Analysis of Issues at the Margins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,467 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2022

The introduction of the Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 concepts has been undoubtedly challenging, and the readiness towards them could be fundamentally enhanced by strategic management and entrepreneurial governance. Bureaucracy in the majority of deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,630 Views
13 Pages

An Empowering Climate as a Protective Factor against Sexual Violence in Sport?

  • Jeannine Ohlert,
  • Helena Schmitz,
  • Alina Schäfer-Pels and
  • Marc Allroggen

27 July 2022

Background: From qualitative studies with survivors of sexual violence, it is known that two important risk factors for sexual violence are unequal power relations and strong hierarchies; the concept of an empowering climate works against these risk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Sport: New Evidence, Perspectives, and Interpretations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,798 Views
16 Pages

26 July 2022

As a form of scientific enquiry, feminist research aims to produce knowledge that is decentred from, as well as decentres, androcentrism. It also establishes challenges that send us back to methodology and how we produce knowledge. Feminist research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender-Related Violence: Social Sciences’ Research & Methods)

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