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Social Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 7

2019 July - 23 articles

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Articles (23)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,305 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2019

New technologies and services can support sustainable mobility if they are successfully integrated into the given mobility system. Decision-makers play a decisive role as ‘enablers’ for such commodities. To find out how a transformation t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,289 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2019

Gated communities, one of those originally Western developments, have suddenly been found in cities in the Global South. “Gated communities”, often defined on the basis of their physical form, have been criticized for disconnecting reside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
14,155 Views
18 Pages

19 July 2019

It has been projected that the single greatest impact of environmental changes will be on human migration and displacement. Migration has been extensively discussed and documented as an adaptation strategy in response to environmental changes, and mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,234 Views
14 Pages

18 July 2019

This article is an autoethnographic examination of my experiences as a pet owner during a particularly challenging time in my life. Beginning with a summary of a critical incident, it shows the way in which fears for the safety of my pet cat, Lily, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,969 Views
14 Pages

16 July 2019

This study examined perceptions of Greek young football players regarding sport-related developmental experiences using a model of PYD through sport based on results from a qualitative study as a theoretical framework. Twenty one young football athle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
11,085 Views
16 Pages

16 July 2019

This paper is aimed at eliciting, by means of a multi-level perspective, potential drivers and barriers of the tourism industry in order to generate valuable information for policy makers to improve policy strategies for an effective transition towar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,197 Views
19 Pages

15 July 2019

Policy experts play an important role in coping with the climate change–human migration nexus. They offer expert solutions to decision makers, and thus, they contribute to de-politicizing the issue. The aim of this paper is to find out how diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,027 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2019

Although several countries have outlined national and multi-criteria definitions, family farming is not well defined in most countries including Portugal, making it difficult to assess its real importance as well as the reasons underlying the design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,595 Views
17 Pages

Newcastle upon Tyne, a post-industrial city in the North East of England, has long been committed to hosting refugees. Although the city has suffered drastic cuts in government funding and faces high levels of deprivation, Newcastle declared itself a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,175 Views
11 Pages

Formal education of asylum seeker children in Serbia officially started in September 2017, when the consequences of European border regime became more obvious. In spite of the official attitude that Serbia is a transit country, there was a pressure t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,624 Views
18 Pages

This article explores the opportunity that job sharing offers as a way of encouraging more women into senior management roles in the higher education sector. There is a scarcity of female leadership representation in the higher education context, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,520 Views
14 Pages

This article focuses on the integration process of people seeking asylum in non-metropolitan areas in France. It conceptualizes the reception of asylum seekers involving two interrelated approaches: the utilitarian approach and the humanitarian appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,036 Views
20 Pages

Increasing environmental, social and economic problems, born by unceasing economic growth, have transformed our approach to the development concept. The 1980s saw the appearance of the sustainable development term and, during the 1990s, sustainabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,440 Views
13 Pages

In 2000, the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight global development goals to be achieved between 2000 and 2015. We estimated the Lorenz Curve and Gini Index for determining any changes in inequality at the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,655 Views
14 Pages

Following Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology, we encounter feminist documentary cinema as a diffraction apparatus: that is, as technologies that make part of the world intelligible to another part of the world in specific ways, by means of i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,368 Views
17 Pages

Solidarity Economy, Social Enterprise, and Innovation Discourses: Understanding Hybrid Forms in Postcolonial Colombia

  • Sara Calvo Martínez,
  • Andrés Morales Pachón,
  • José María Martín Martín and
  • Valentín Molina Moreno

Dominant conceptions of solidarity economy, social enterprise, and innovation (SSEI) remain poorly positioned for understanding the diverse models emerging across the global South. The purpose of this paper is to examine the power relations between t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,637 Views
14 Pages

Support Needs and Expectations of People Living with Dementia and Their Informal Carers in Everyday Life: A European Study

  • Connie Lethin,
  • Elizabeth Hanson,
  • Eleni Margioti,
  • Carlos Chiatti,
  • Cristina Gagliardi,
  • Carlos Vaz de Carvalho and
  • Agneta Malmgren Fänge

30 June 2019

The aim of this study was to describe the needs and expectations of support within everyday life among community-dwelling people living well with an early stage dementia and their informal carers. The study employed a qualitative design. Data were co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,069 Views
14 Pages

Performing Borders: Queer and Trans Experiences at the Canadian Border

  • Edwin Hodge,
  • Helga Hallgrimsdottir and
  • Marianne Much

28 June 2019

Biometric security and screening systems have revolutionized border crossings. As bodies move across the physical space of the borderland, the border moves through them, scanning and cataloguing and scrutinizing bodies for irregularity. While such te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,858 Views
14 Pages

Simulation of Innovative Systems under Industry 4.0 Conditions

  • Nestor Shpak,
  • Mykola Odrekhivskyi,
  • Kateryna Doroshkevych and
  • Włodzimierz Sroka

28 June 2019

The world is at the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution, which has already begun. It requires enterprises and even sectors to move toward Industry 4.0. Innovative systems (IS) play an important role in this process. In the article, the inno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,893 Views
15 Pages

27 June 2019

The primary purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of South Korean women “doing serious leisure” in what is widely known as a stigmatized activity, pole dance. It seeks to understand the experiences of South Korean women participating in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,887 Views
16 Pages

27 June 2019

The share of Swedish employees eligible for telework, that is, when work tasks and contractual agreement allow, increased from 22% in 2005–2006 to 35% in 2011–2014. This article explores this fast diffusion of telework eligibility. Micro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,615 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2019

Climate change impacts natural and human systems, including migration patterns. But isolating climate change as the driver of migration oversimplifies a complex and multicausal phenomenon. This article brings together the literature on global migrati...

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