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Social Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 11

November 2024 - 68 articles

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Cover Story: Lifetime’s “Married at First Sight” (MAFS) aired its seventeenth season in 2024, averaging 2.58 million viewers per weekly episode. Our article asks how MAFS reflects and intervenes in contemporary marriage politics in the U.S. To answer this question, we draw on scholarship about marriage as a political institution, and on reality TV as a window into contemporary socio-economic issues. Using interpretive, feminist methods of analysis, we find that MAFS attempts to provide a very traditional and exclusionary version of the institution at a time of socio-political tumult. However, the show’s “experimental results” offer something more complex, which both reflects the contemporary realities of marriage and attracts viewers. View this paper

Articles (68)

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,868 Views
18 Pages

20 November 2024

Virtual reality provides students with the opportunity to have simulated experiences in a safe setting and is mostly used to teach direct practice skills. One of the most advanced ways of using virtual simulation in social work education is to intera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,917 Views
22 Pages

20 November 2024

This study examines the role of humanitarian diplomacy during the Tigray humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, a humanitarian disaster marked by severe shortages in food, healthcare, and essential services that deeply affect civilians. A qualitative appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,652 Views
18 Pages

Discovering the Hidden Work of Commodified Care: The Case of Early Childhood Educators

  • Frances Press,
  • Michael Bittman,
  • Linda Joan Harrison,
  • Judith E. Brown,
  • Sandie Wong and
  • Megan Gibson

19 November 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the care economy, including commodified early childhood education and care (ECEC). While there is some literature about the low paid, invisible, and undervalued skills among the predominantly female workfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,480 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2024

Owning a home has become a distant, often unattainable dream for many Americans since the 2007–2009 recession. The shortage of homes has decreased affordability, forcing 43 million U.S. households to become renters rather than owners. Racially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,513 Views
14 Pages

17 November 2024

Anxiety in older adults is a prevalent yet under-recognized condition associated with significant societal and individual burdens. This study used a machine learning approach to compare the relative importance of 57 risk and protective factors for an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,778 Views
16 Pages

16 November 2024

A critical shortage of special education teachers persists nationwide, challenging the realization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) mandate of providing Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for students with disabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,599 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2024

This article examines the impact of income level on family care organizations in Mexico to elucidate how families apportion care responsibilities according to their economic standing. The study design employed a quantitative approach, utilizing two d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,322 Views
20 Pages

14 November 2024

The latest data from the Gender Equality Index ranks Portugal 10th in female political power. Despite a larger female resident population, parity in access to power and decision-making remains limited. Research on local political power reveals low fe...

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