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Social Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 8

August 2025 - 59 articles

Cover Story: Gender-neutral terms such as “sex work” and “sex worker” are often met with silence, coded language, or secrecy, particularly among transient sex workers, including cisgender and transgender women in India. Written by researchers possessing two decades of ethnographic experience, with 46 cisgender and 37 transgender women engaged in sex work in Kolkata and eastern India as its focus, this paper shows how silences are used as strategic, willful acts of agency or resistance by sex workers.  These practices enable sex workers situated in different contexts to navigate unequal power dynamics within NGOs, manage respectability, mitigate structural violence and foster communal identity. View this paper
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Articles (59)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,614 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2025

The objective of this paper is to analyze the European Union’s response to school bullying and cyberbullying through its educational policies. For this purpose, a search of European policies was carried out in EUR-Lex, including all dates, to g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
16 Pages

21 August 2025

Values remain notoriously difficult to “capture” because they cannot be directly observed. Attitudes and opinions are the only known indicators of their presence. The relationship between values and attitudes or opinions is that between l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
912 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2025

In water-stressed regions of South Africa, the expansion of extractive industries is compounding the effects of climate change and poor governance, threatening local water security and socio-ecological resilience for hydrosocial justice. This chapter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,653 Views
25 Pages

20 August 2025

This paper examines a prospect scenario of adopting Child Development Accounts (CDAs) as a social welfare innovation in Jordan. CDAs are considered as an asset-building policy aimed at enhancing financial inclusion and socio-economic well-being. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
624 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2025

Genealogy is the study of family history and ancestral lineage, tracing relationships across generations through records and narratives. The digital revolution has shifted genealogical research from traditional archives to online platforms. Grounded...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
898 Views
26 Pages

19 August 2025

Quasi-experimental methods are a cornerstone of applied social science, answering causal questions to inform policy and practice. Although open science principles have influenced experimental research norms across the social sciences, related practic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
801 Views
36 Pages

19 August 2025

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic recovery in urban communities in the Arctic have been substantial, but their gendered aspects remain largely unknown. The goal of this study was to enhance the understanding of the gender-based i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
828 Views
18 Pages

The Portuguese Prison Population: The Relation Between Childhood Trauma, Mental Health, and Emotional Dysregulation

  • Mariana Salafranca-Alves,
  • Gabriela Martinho,
  • Patrícia Correia-Santos,
  • Sofia Barros,
  • Cláudia Oliveira,
  • Raquel Flor and
  • Anita Santos

19 August 2025

Childhood trauma has been associated with criminal behaviour and a variety of psychopathologies. Furthermore, it is known that emotional dysregulation (ED) predicts anxiety and depression and can be a product of traumatic experiences. In order to dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,021 Views
14 Pages

16 August 2025

The aim of this work was to assess the developments in the Greek collective bargaining system and the wage policy after the period of the Memoranda of Understanding with the lenders. Moreover, it discusses the critical role of collective bargaining (...

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