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Social Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 3

2024 March - 56 articles

Cover Story: The ‘end demand’ approach to prostitution has been materializing in Europe through the anti-trafficking debate and has received increasing attention. It is well recognized that improving workers’ rights and increasing unionization are effective strategies for tackling trafficking. However, with regard to sexual exploitation, the focus is not on these strategies but instead on the abolition of the entire sex industry. Meanwhile, sex workers’ collectives have developed their own strategies on how to address criminalization, discrimination, violence, and exploitation with limited funding and without recognition of their work, experience, and expertise. This article presents findings on how sex workers’ rights organizations have sought to challenge the harmful impacts of the ‘end demand’ discourse and the criminalization of sex work in the name of anti-trafficking in Europe. View this paper
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Articles (56)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,746 Views
12 Pages

Gender-Based Violence and Sexism among Young Couples

  • Inés María Muñoz-Galiano,
  • Gracia González-Gijón,
  • Nazaret Martínez-Heredia and
  • Erika González García

21 March 2024

This study aims to characterise the prevalence of violence in intimate relationships among young university students and the internalisation of ambivalent sexism. The method used was a quantitative, descriptive study of Primary Education and Early Ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,216 Views
24 Pages

Slow Work: The Mainstream Concept

  • Maria João Silvestre,
  • Sónia P. Gonçalves and
  • Maria João Velez

21 March 2024

The global acceleration of the pace of life has led to an increase in working hours, time pressure, and intensification of work tasks in organisations, with consequences for the physical and psychological health of workers. This acceleration and its...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,851 Views
35 Pages

Professional Skills in Family Support: A Systematic Review

  • Rita dos Santos,
  • Anita Burgund Isakov,
  • Cátia Martins,
  • Ana Pereira Antunes,
  • Nevenka Zegarac and
  • Cristina Nunes

20 March 2024

Family support encompasses a wide variety of professionals, sectors, and intervention paradigms that make it difficult to systematize and standardize the skills needed by the family support workforce. The present study aimed to describe the relevant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,029 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2024

Although electoral systems are a traditional focus in political science, limited research exists on the characteristics of overseas constituency representation. This study aims to quantitatively elucidate these characteristics through a comparative a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,065 Views
14 Pages

20 March 2024

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the childcare balancing policy and women’s fertility intention in Japanese corporations. This paper constructed two logistic regression models based on data from the 2010 Japanese Life Co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,326 Views
17 Pages

19 March 2024

This study addresses the pervasive human experience of loneliness, shifting from a traditional unidimensional perspective to a more nuanced, multidimensional understanding. The Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA) was developed ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,508 Views
13 Pages

18 March 2024

The context in which work is distributed, organized, and performed has certainly changed in recent decades. In recent years, shock events such as COVID-19 have contributed to the revision of human resource management (HRM) dynamics, which was previou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,889 Views
12 Pages

Physical Activity and Quality of Life among High School Teachers: A Closer Look

  • Danijela Živković,
  • Ljubica Milanović,
  • Anđela Đošić,
  • Ana-Maria Vulpe,
  • Tijana Purenović-Ivanović,
  • Milan Zelenović,
  • Dragoș Ioan Tohănean,
  • Saša Pantelić,
  • Constantin Sufaru and
  • Cristina Ioana Alexe

18 March 2024

Background: Understanding the relationship between teachers’ physical activity (PA) and quality of life (QoL), which is impacted by work-related stress, could help develop guidelines for improvement. The purpose of this study was to investigate...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,676 Views
13 Pages

18 March 2024

The European Works Council (EWC) Directive provides the establishment of a social partnership forum within Multinational Companies (MNCs). The directive gives employees the right to information and consultation with the supra-national group managemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,304 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2024

Housing and future planning have been key areas of interest in intellectual and development disabilities research for a number of decades. However, the voices of adults with intellectual disabilities are underrepresented in this area of research. Fur...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,708 Views
9 Pages

15 March 2024

The current article reviews the extant literature on technology’s role in service provision and advocacy for young adults who are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). The article looks at preferences and patterns of access and utilizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,452 Views
22 Pages

14 March 2024

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, inflammatory, and often debilitating skin condition that includes painful “flares” in the groin, genital, and underarms. (1) Background: Patients with HS have the highest reported mental health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,019 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2024

This article contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of memory and historical justice studies by analyzing one, particularly troublesome kind of competitive comparison that sometimes happens in memory politics in the so-called age of apology. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,978 Views
21 Pages

14 March 2024

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work became the new reality for many fathers. Though time availability theory suggests that this newfound flexibility should lead to more domestic labor on the part of fathers, many were skeptica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,005 Views
27 Pages

13 March 2024

Within the Arab community of Israel, the influence of masculine perceptions, violence, the carrying of weapons, and their subsequent use are growing concerns that significantly impact public safety. The omnipresence of social media further complicate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,043 Views
13 Pages

13 March 2024

(1) Background: Environmental deterioration has increased in recent years and is a worldwide concern. This study aims to analyze the influence of the resources and capacities of countries on their environmental performance. (2) Methods: A cross-secti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,084 Views
12 Pages

Access to Children’s Perspectives?

  • Anna Busk Rasmussen and
  • Christina Haandbæk Schmidt

12 March 2024

Within the field of early childhood education, the Nordic model is characterised as being child-centred and holistic, based on children’s participation, democracy, autonomy, and freedom. Despite a strong tradition of incorporating children&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,510 Views
20 Pages

12 March 2024

Research studies on academic work and the COVID-19 crisis have clearly shown that the pandemic crisis contributed to exacerbating pre-existing gender gaps. Although the research has been extensive in this regard, it has focused more on the widening o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,125 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2024

Numerous research works prove that social relationships and the support they provide have particular importance in maintaining both mental and physical health: they help to deal with stressful life situations, overcome diseases, and maintain health....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,353 Views
24 Pages

8 March 2024

Environmental shock migration is a pressing phenomenon that became prominent with the continuous emergence of natural disasters and climatic shocks worldwide. In order to cope with these various disasters or shocks, people choose to migrate either in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,412 Views
21 Pages

8 March 2024

This paper aims to identify income-poverty risk factors in urban Mexican households. Special emphasis is paid to examine differences between female- and male-headed families. To this, a dataset with 45 theoretical factors at the individual/household,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,669 Views
16 Pages

7 March 2024

The Muslim population is one of the religious groups facing the greatest obstacles to full socio-educational inclusion in the West. These are particularly noticeable among young people in areas such as access to employment. The purpose of this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,184 Views
15 Pages

7 March 2024

Background: Men can struggle with adapting to their new roles as they transition into fatherhood. While social support has been shown to be effective at aiding this transition, little research has focused on the implementation of, and satisfaction wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,626 Views
18 Pages

Studying Disability: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Requesting Accommodation in Higher Education

  • Tone Ristad,
  • Aud Elisabeth Witsø,
  • Sissel Horghagen,
  • Lisbeth Kvam and
  • Jørn Østvik

7 March 2024

Including students with disabilities in higher education is a global political objective and is considered a human right. However, many students do not feel included and hesitate to ask for the help they need to succeed in their education. This study...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,862 Views
9 Pages

7 March 2024

The objective of this article is to analyze how the digital space has become a ground for encounters, comparisons, and sometimes even clashes among individuals who increasingly inhabit the Internet, not just as a gateway to consume products, but as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,625 Views
24 Pages

When Women Ask, Does Curiosity Help?

  • Alexandra Mislin,
  • Ece Tuncel and
  • Lucie Prewitt

7 March 2024

This research examines the potential social benefits of displaying curiosity during a negotiation. Past research has found women who ask directly in distributive agentic settings can suffer negative social consequences and obtain worse objective outc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,839 Views
16 Pages

6 March 2024

The media’s representation of intimate partner femicides has been contributing to addressing gender-based violence as a structural phenomenon. Aiming to understand which crime elements are valued and how they might contribute to victim blaming,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,295 Views
20 Pages

6 March 2024

In 2015, Malta introduced ground-breaking legal reform designed to protect the bodily integrity of intersex infants in Malta. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals, lawyers, policy-makers and advocates, this article cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,446 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Political Marketing on Voting Behaviour of Cypriot Voters

  • Harry P. Sophocleous,
  • Andreas N. Masouras and
  • Sofia D. Anastasiadou

6 March 2024

The present study concentrates predominantly on the statement that the voter is influenced by and consumes the political communication marketing formed through political structures, content which is partially created based on the political matters of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,668 Views
14 Pages

5 March 2024

The ‘end demand’ approach to prostitution has been popping up in Europe through the anti-trafficking debate and receives increasing attention on the international agenda. It is well recognized that improving workers’ rights, increasing unionization a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,726 Views
17 Pages

5 March 2024

Violence is recognised as a cause of health harm, but it is not consistently or adequately captured in healthcare data systems. While administrative health records could be valuable sources of information for measuring violence, they remain underutil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,740 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2024

This paper discusses the relationship between morality and engagement focused on the narratives about climate change. The goal of our research is to understand whether moral grounds identified in individuals and in narratives can influence youth&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,500 Views
12 Pages

5 March 2024

In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the public generally expressed high pandemic-specific support for their governments. Analysis based on ESS Round 10 COVID-19 module data from 20 countries shows, however, that there was a gap between pandemic-specif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,217 Views
21 Pages

4 March 2024

Under the influence of international trade, labor flow not only exists in the waves of international labor migration but is also embodied in international products and services. This paper focused on members of the China–Africa Cooperation Foru...

  • Retraction
  • Open Access
1,613 Views
1 Page

4 March 2024

The Social Science Editorial Office retracts the article, “Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing Gas Flaring in Nigeria’s Upstream Petroleum Sector and the Need for Overhauling” (Olujobi 2020), cited above [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,664 Views
17 Pages

Assessing Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Case Study of Nakhon Si Thammarat and Krabi

  • Pannee Cheewinsiriwat,
  • Uma Langkulsen,
  • Vanida Lertwattanamongkol,
  • Wanlee Poompongthai,
  • Augustine Lambonmung,
  • Chalermpol Chamchan,
  • Suparee Boonmanunt,
  • Kanchana Nakhapakorn and
  • Cherith Moses

3 March 2024

Climate change is increasingly impacting both environments and human communities. Coastal regions in Thailand are experiencing more severe impacts, which vary based on the unique physical and socio-economic characteristics of each area. To assess the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,469 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2024

Social inclusion of children and young people and the curbing of school failure, dropout, and early school leaving is are central concerns of the European educational policy and are seen as means to prevent unemployment, poverty, and social exclusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,378 Views
9 Pages

1 March 2024

This paper contributes to the dialogue around how to increase inclusion in higher education, taking the lecturer perspective as the point of departure. Theoretically, disability is understood as an interaction, which means that lecturers partake in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
17,166 Views
16 Pages

29 February 2024

This study investigates how assimilation and integration, two commonly studied acculturation forms, help immigrant Latinas cope with acculturative stress and related psychological distress. It employs the Ecological Framework for Understanding Immigr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,521 Views
17 Pages

29 February 2024

The crafts sector, traditionally characterized by its adherence to heritage and small-scale familial enterprises, confronts an array of unprecedented challenges stemming from rapid technological advancement, globalization, climate change, and shiftin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,595 Views
18 Pages

29 February 2024

Traditionally, persons with intellectual disabilities in Poland have been researched on and treated as not competent enough to research with. Despite its scientific merit and practical usefulness, inclusive research involving persons with intellectua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,946 Views
14 Pages

28 February 2024

Central Americans living in Mexico remain a small group (100 thousand) relative to the size of the Mexican population. However, they experienced accelerated growth between 2000 and 2020, with Guatemalans as the largest group and Hondurans as the most...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,742 Views
30 Pages

Self-Advocacy in Inclusive Research

  • Courtney Krueger,
  • Lieke van Heumen and
  • Claire van den Helder

28 February 2024

The literature on inclusive research has established its relationship with self-advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities. Self-advocacy has been described as both a requirement and a result of inclusive research. Additionally, the process o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,994 Views
12 Pages

27 February 2024

Building on critical childhood studies and childism, this paper analyses children’s participation in family law cases in Denmark. Spurred particularly by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, together with a general shift in the view on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
13,718 Views
23 Pages

27 February 2024

This article presents the results of broad research developed by a group of Brazilian scholars to make an assessment of affirmative action policies in admissions to higher education in Brazil, namely the quota legislation in place since 2012, which r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,553 Views
12 Pages

27 February 2024

Although the study of migration has shifted its focus from an individual perspective (on those who emigrate) to also include their integration networks in the country of destination, it is also necessary to consider the dynamics with their families i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,474 Views
25 Pages

27 February 2024

Background: The present research relied on the affective events theory to develop a framework explaining how daily micro-events trigger affective reactions that, in turn, influence quality-of-life indicators (i.e., psychological well-being and COVID-...

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