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Social Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 3

March 2018 - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,299 Views
15 Pages

20 March 2018

In both Northern Ireland and Korea, the euphoria following significant breakthroughs towards peace in the late 1990s and early 2000s turned into deep frustration when confronted by continuous stalemates in implementing the agreements. I explore the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,230 Views
11 Pages

20 March 2018

This article argues that nonviolence is a valid framework for religions to build up a post-secular narrative. Drawing from the approach of Aldo Capitini, I claim that religions can choose nonviolence as a religious path to integrate the different nar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,613 Views
14 Pages

The PILAR Model as a Measure of Peer Ratings of Collaboration Viability in Small Groups

  • Benjamin Heslop,
  • Kylie Bailey,
  • Jonathan Paul and
  • Elizabeth Stojanovski

20 March 2018

The PILAR (prospects, involved, liked, agency, respect) model provides a dynamical systems perspective on collaboration. Two studies are performed using peer assessment data, both testing empirical support for the five Pillars that constitute members...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
32,608 Views
16 Pages

The Portrayal of Families across Generations in Disney Animated Films

  • Jessica D. Zurcher,
  • Sarah M. Webb and
  • Tom Robinson

18 March 2018

Disney animated films continue to serve as an influential form of media that shapes children’s development of beliefs about the world surrounding them, including the construct of the family. However, a census analysis as to how Disney animated films...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,799 Views
18 Pages

16 March 2018

The article seeks to develop and apply new quantitative measurement instruments capable of significantly improving understanding of the relationship between the transnational mobility and transnational social ties of students, along with their reflex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,567 Views
25 Pages

13 March 2018

Women’s participation in engineering remains well below that of men at all degree levels. However, despite the low enrollment of women in engineering as a whole, some engineering disciplines report above average female enrollment. We used multiple li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,077 Views
23 Pages

12 March 2018

This paper asked a paradoxical question: why have immigrants to Sweden (particularly refugees) become geographically, economically, and symbolically segregated despite the putatively generous provisions of Sweden’s welfare state? I sought to understa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,439 Views
20 Pages

Acts of civilian violence have long plagued parts of the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. Extant research debates whether countries that rely on natural resource revenue for economic solvency are more or less likely to experience such violent...

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Soc. Sci. - ISSN 2076-0760