2026 July - 81 articles
Dominant rationalist and neoliberal frameworks have often privatized love by treating it as an intimate emotion detached from institutions, power, and collective life. This article examines when love becomes publicly consequential as a sociological f...
Adolescence is marked by a heightened need for belonging, peer acceptance, and emotional validation, with disruptions linked to loneliness and psychological distress. This perspective integrates belongingness theory with emerging research on companio...
Women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in higher education institutions (HEIs) across the Gulf region despite sustained policy efforts to advance gender equity. This study examined how stakeholders perceive the relationship between gen...
Many politicians heavily leverage social media platforms to further their interests and professional goals. TikTok, the widely popular social network established in 2016, has amassed a vast user following, especially among the younger demographic kno...
As shelter costs in Canada continue to rise, housing affordability and questions about what housing will be available and accessible in older age are a concern for many marginalized groups, including among LGBTQ+ older adults. This paper shares housi...
Early childhood education (ECE) in Vietnam remains a heavily feminized profession, deeply influenced by traditional gender stereotypes. This study employs an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, involving a survey of 256 male teachers and 12...
Academic stress is a major concern in higher education, but less is known about whether coping strategies mediate the links between specific academic stressors and stress responses in male and female students. This cross-sectional study examined, by...
This paper examines how sequenced cross-border health initiatives may contribute to confidence-building and, ultimately, serve as catalyst toward more coherent cross-border migration-related governance in North Africa. Using a practice-based case stu...
This paper empirically examines the impact of various variables on Perceived Risk of Crime (PRC) for Italian regions in the period of 2004–2022 using data collected in the framework of the Benessere Equo e Sostenibile (BES, Equitable and Sustai...
Community social services play a crucial role as the main gateway to welfare systems. However, increasing demand, organizational complexity, and limited adaptive capacity have generated growing difficulties in ensuring timely and equitable access to...
South Africa has implemented an extensive social grant system to improve the wellbeing of vulnerable households. However, evidence remains limited regarding the pathways through which social grants are associated with household food insecurity and wh...
This study examines alignment between higher education graduate output and observed labor market demand in Saudi Arabia using aggregated quantitative data. Drawing on graduate supply data from Saudi universities for the period 2021–2023 and job...
The contemporary educational system places complex demands on educators, emphasizing the importance of pedagogical-didactical competencies and teacher self-efficacy alongside subject-matter expertise. The purpose of this study was to examine how futu...
Global migration and labour market pressures have increased transnational mobility in social work, as practitioners move across borders to meet workforce demand. This paper examines how professional regulation interacts with workforce shortages and t...
This paper evaluates the impact of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP), a federal classroom-based nutrition program, on elementary schools in Illinois. Using a staggered difference-in-differences framework that accounts for schools moving in...
Despite increasing scholarly attention to short-video platforms as tourism communication tools, the mechanism through which sustainability-oriented persuasive cues shape Sustainable Tourism Intention remains insufficiently theorized. This article int...
Case law illustrates both the complexity of the regimes in England and Wales whereby children may be deprived of their liberty for welfare reasons and the inadequacy of provision to meet complex needs, which has led to a significant use of the power...
This article examines how institutional arrangements shape exploitative labour conditions among highly skilled international professionals, challenging prevailing assumptions that labour exploitation primarily affects low-skilled or irregular workers...
Human trafficking is a complex global problem maintained by a web of interacting individual, community, national and international factors. Its complexity is not always robustly addressed in policy, practice and research, with issues commonly approac...
Sexual violence is one of the most traumatic forms of interpersonal violence [...]
This study examines the moderating role of environmental connectedness in the relationship between environmental attitude and environmental protection intention among Generation Z polytechnic students in Singapore. A cross-sectional survey across fiv...
This article examines how single parents in Norway approach dating apps as they re-enter romantic life, by asking: How do single parents in midlife approach and anticipate intimacy on dating apps in Norway? The analysis draws on interviews with 10 mo...
Large language models (LLMs) have become central to how people access and interact with information, yet their potential to reproduce ableist bias remains underexamined, especially in non-English-language settings. This study examines disability repr...
There is a growing body of research examining the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) teachers in schools. However, limited empirical attention has been given to those in the early stages of their careers, particularly wi...
This article analyses the documentary institutional architecture of community social services in Spain through a comparative study of 15 autonomous communities, with particular attention to the formal conditions of institutional sustainability. Its a...
The rapid growth of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) has intensified information disorder, highlighting the need for comprehensive Media and Information Literacy (MIL) education. While game-based approaches are increasingly explored in M...
Climate change risks deepening social inequalities and poses new challenges for social policy. Drawing on climate justice, this article examines how climate impacts and policies are experienced by people living in poverty situations and by social wor...
In this study, we conduct an exploratory and econometric assessment of the multidimensional impact of recent immigration, predominantly Venezuelan, on Peru (2000–2022). Utilizing 4565 time-series indicators, we apply a two-stage methodology: Pe...
In forced displacement contexts, refugee education is often governed through hybrid arrangements that blend national education systems with humanitarian financing and bordering regimes. While scholarship typically focuses on student enrollment and le...
Colombian public policy directed at women as mothers and workers between 1960 and 2025 does not constitute a cumulative expansion of rights but a dialectic of recognition that operates against effective emancipation. This article develops a phenomeno...
By 2030, older workers (55–64) will comprise a quarter of the global labour force, making their retirement a critical policy concern. Yet, a gap remains regarding how informal caregiving shapes early retirement for economically vulnerable &ldqu...
In what ways can social love be characterized within both micro and macro contexts? This study addresses this question by exploring social love using the World Love Index (WLI) as an analytical tool. The index is articulated into two levels, the Citi...
This article examines the persistent gap between the formal recognition of work–life balance (WLB) policies and their effective implementation in Italy, within the broader European framework of gender equality. It adopts a multi-level approach...
This study examines how Indonesian university students negotiate the meanings of extremism and tolerance across digital and campus environments. Using phenomenology, the research examines the lived experiences of 35 students from Yogyakarta, Jakarta,...
Men’s incarceration disrupts their intimate relationships by destabilising their masculine identity built on autonomy, virility, and the role of the provider. This article examines how incarcerated men respond to this destabilisation within the...
The refugee rentier state seeks to manipulate mass population movements to obtain economic and political/strategic ‘rents’, asserting itself in a way that challenges the premises of Global South marginality, disempowerment and exclusion w...
This article develops a conceptual framework for applied social-scientific research and advisory practice on safety culture in complex socio-technical systems. It starts with the observation that contemporary safety problems increasingly require form...
Latin America has experienced rapid evangelical growth, yet this expansion has not produced a stable religious cleavage comparable to those observed in Europe or the United States. This article examines Jair Bolsonaro’s relationship with evange...
This article examines how media discourse in South Korea constructed Filipino caregivers as a legitimate yet conditional solution to the country’s care crisis. Moving beyond approaches that treat media coverage as a neutral reflection of policy...
Despite the broad scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, the rejection or contestation of this consensus remains socially relevant. This study adopts a qualitative approach to understand climate denial as a process by analyzing individ...
This study examines how community-based organizations (CBOs) engaged in education organizing develop and sustain strategic alliances within complex education policy environments. It explores how alliances are deliberately constructed, maintained, and...
Political identity permeates people’s everyday experiences and begins to develop early in adolescence. Understanding which variables may influence this development, and in what direction, can provide valuable insight into underlying differences...
This study examines the processes of technology adoption and appropriation among older adults participating in two community-based digital inclusion workshops (LAB65+) in Madrid, exploring how digital technologies are appropriated within community le...
This study analyses the professional development provision in artificial intelligence (AI) offered to non-university teachers in Andalusia during the 2023–2024 academic year. The research follows a descriptive documentary design based on the sy...
This article uses Jacob Gorender’s theory of colonial slavery to challenge a core premise of modern social theory—that labor inherently generates freedom. In Hegel and Marx, productive activity enables recognition, consciousness, and ulti...
The paper features a textual analysis of the UN speeches made by the US President Donald Trump and by France’s President Macron. President Trump’s speech was made in the absence of a teleprompter and lasted almost an hour. President Macro...
There was an error in the original publication (Kreysa 2026) [...]
Results from 17 studies published between 1929 and 1950 with 36 effect sizes for marital adjustment, happiness, or satisfaction were subjected to a meta-analysis to test Jessie Bernard’s thesis about “his” and “hers” mar...
Social media platforms play a central role in shaping whose voices gain visibility during moments of crisis. This study examines how platform-mediated dynamics influence the distribution of voice in online discourse, focusing on racialized and migran...
Background: LGBTQI+ refugees and asylees often face unique challenges of exclusion and the threat of persecution across multiple stages of migration and resettlement. In this study, we investigated the current refugee resettlement policies in the Uni...
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