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Social Sciences, Volume 4, Issue 3

September 2015 - 24 articles

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Articles (24)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,742 Views
30 Pages

23 September 2015

The transnational ex-gay movement is an important context affecting lesbians and sexual minority women around the world. In 2015, the UN Human Rights Commissioner called for all nations to ban conversion therapies. This research investigates a neglec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,290 Views
20 Pages

Reconciling LGB and Christian Identities in the Rural South

  • Brandi Woodell,
  • Emily Kazyak and
  • D’Lane Compton

21 September 2015

Drawing on in-depth interviews with rural Christians living in the South who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB), this study analyzes how they negotiate their religious, geographic, and sexual identities. We find that most interviewees emplo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,290 Views
16 Pages

17 September 2015

This article analyzes what can happen to forced returnees upon arrival in their country of nationality. Subjective configurations of state agents in the Global South have created return risks, which in turn transform subjectivities of post-colonial c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,765 Views
42 Pages

17 September 2015

A few literary scholars have long claimed that Shakespeare did not write some of his best plays (history plays and tragedies) and proposed at one time or another various suspect authorship candidates. Most modern-day scholars of Shakespeare have reje...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,260 Views
6 Pages

17 September 2015

Outlined below are selected results of a 5-year long national survey which investigated the knowledge, values and attitudes of 430 Year 11 and 12 Muslim students in eight Muslim High schools towards the mainstream Australia and Australians society. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,590 Views
14 Pages

The Resurgence of Education in Railway and Metro Engineering in Brazil

  • Yesid Asaff,
  • Viviane V. F. Grubisic,
  • Regis K. Scalice and
  • Acires Dias

17 September 2015

In this paper, an overview of the history of education in railway and metro engineering in Brazil is presented, including its beginnings, its apogee, its near extinction, and its return at the beginning of the 21st century. The trajectory of the Braz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,477 Views
18 Pages

17 September 2015

During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly every state revised its laws or adopted new legislation facilitating the transfer of juvenile offenders from juvenile court to criminal court. Previously, transfer was reserved for the “worst juveniles”, or those yo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,446 Views
18 Pages

15 September 2015

Among the most significant issues facing welfare states are the implications of economic globalization for employment policies. This issue is confronted from the viewpoint of workfarism, the incentives created by social policies for increasing partic...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,428 Views
24 Pages

15 September 2015

This paper discusses the importance of leadership talent in the rail industry in Australia. Like many other countries around the world, rail is troubled by its ability to attract new talent as older leaders with specialized knowledge retire. This stu...

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