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Social Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 10

2020 October - 19 articles

Cover Story: Domestic violence agencies in refugee resettlement cities in the U.S. are, theoretically, critical helpers for refugee community members who have experienced domestic violence. However, when these agencies are not prepared to serve refugee communities in culturally responsive ways, refugee survivors suffer. This study surveyed 70 executive directors of domestic violence agencies in U.S. resettlement cities about the extent to which their organization’s practices reflected cultural responsiveness in serving refugee populations. The article “Assessing Organizational Cultural Responsiveness among Refugee-Servicing Domestic Violence Agencies” provides a baseline understanding of organizational practices and underscores the need for organizations to improve their language supports and take active steps to reach out to, hire, and engage refugee communities in order to better serve them. View this paper.
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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,537 Views
12 Pages

16 October 2020

The aim of this study was to analyze the perception of families and concerned social workers. The research was conducted in an underprivileged and disadvantaged microregion in North Hungary. The main focus was on the available health, educational, ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Childhood and Youth Studies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
102,073 Views
22 Pages

Understanding Fake News Consumption: A Review

  • João Pedro Baptista and
  • Anabela Gradim

16 October 2020

Combating the spread of fake news remains a difficult problem. For this reason, it is increasingly urgent to understand the phenomenon of fake news. This review aims to see why fake news is widely shared on social media and why some people believe it...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Journalism and Politics: New Influences and Dynamics in the Social Media Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,334 Views
12 Pages

15 October 2020

Over the past decade there has been a concerted attempt among a growing group of authors to bring together the political science subfields of urban politics and American political development (APD). In this paper, I look at specifically how the compa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,795 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2020

Historically, the primary agents performing key roles in disaster preparedness, as well as risk mitigation and vulnerability reduction, in Korea have been the central government, local government, and regional government. Recently, and without contro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
16,630 Views
15 Pages

13 October 2020

In-person sex work is one of the industries most directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to connect with clients, most independent sex workers use adult service websites (ASWs), whose services range from simple advertising websites to pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sociological Perspectives on (Sexual) Humanitarian Governance of Migrant Sex Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,751 Views
20 Pages

Protecting Canyonlands: Anatomy of a National Park Struggle in Southeastern Utah, USA

  • Natalie S. Mumich,
  • Geoffrey L. Buckley,
  • Yolonda Youngs and
  • Tatyana Martello

7 October 2020

National parks have been called “America’s best idea”, but their creation and management never fail to stir controversy. On September 12, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating Canyonlands National Park (CANY). I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,156 Views
13 Pages

7 October 2020

This study considers the spillover effect of work-family enrichment in parents on the behaviour of their children. Using a mediation model with parental well-being and parenting styles, the study unravels the associations between a positive perspecti...

(This article belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,197 Views
15 Pages

Family Social Capital and Delinquent Behavior in the United Kingdom

  • John P. Hoffmann,
  • Jared D. Thorpe and
  • Mikaela J. Dufur

6 October 2020

Research suggests that juvenile delinquency has a number of deleterious effects on adolescents’ lives. A promising way to discourage delinquent behavior is by increasing social capital, which involves social connections adolescents have to othe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Social Capital)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8,912 Views
26 Pages

African American Experiences in the Historic Dunbar Neighborhood in San Marcos, Texas: A Case Study of Counter-Life Stories

  • Shetay Ashford-Hanserd,
  • Eric Sarmiento,
  • Colleen C. Myles,
  • Steven W. Rayburn,
  • Aimee Kendall Roundtree,
  • Mary-Patricia Hayton,
  • Edward Ybarra,
  • Sarai Benitez,
  • Theresa M. Clifford and
  • Shadi Maleki
  • + 2 authors

3 October 2020

The purpose of this participatory research project is to examine the lived experiences (counter-life stories) of current and former Dunbar residents and congregants of Dunbar churches to demonstrate how local stories counter the dominant perspective...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,822 Views
15 Pages

2 October 2020

Refugee community members who have experienced domestic violence in the U.S. face complex challenges in seeking help which may ultimately impact their ability to leave violent relationships. When domestic violence organizations are not prepared to se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leaving a Violent Relationship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
14,693 Views
13 Pages

1 October 2020

This paper presents a qualitative study to understand the reasons for leaving or staying in an abusive relationship and how this informs planning for psychosocial interventions with victims. We present a study of 15 Portuguese women with children who...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leaving a Violent Relationship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,230 Views
17 Pages

1 October 2020

Perceived discrimination, the perception of systematic exclusion due to background characteristics, has been studied extensively in general. The political consequences of this perception remain underexplored for adolescents. Discrimination may engend...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Programmes to Support Disadvantaged Youth)
  • Project Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,703 Views
12 Pages

30 September 2020

So-called “hard-to-reach” learners with a lower level of formal education have been identified as a “challenge” for civic education and have been neglected with regard to civic education in the past. However, these young peopl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Programmes to Support Disadvantaged Youth)
  • Project Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,525 Views
28 Pages

Co-Creative Action Research Experiments—A Careful Method for Causal Inference and Societal Impact

  • Arjen van Witteloostuijn,
  • Nele Cannaerts,
  • Wim Coreynen,
  • Zainab Noor el Hejazi,
  • Joeri van Hugten,
  • Ellen Loots,
  • Hendrik Slabbinck and
  • Johanna Vanderstraeten

29 September 2020

The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that does not seem to go away so easily. The grassroots movement Responsible Research in Business and Management, for instance, is a very active and prominent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,434 Views
18 Pages

Leaving a Violent Child Marriage: Experiences of Adult Survivors in Uganda

  • Esther Nanfuka,
  • Florence Turyomurugyendo,
  • Eric Ochen and
  • Graham Gibbs

29 September 2020

Violence against women and girls remains a major public health threat the world over. A significant amount of violence experienced by women is perpetrated by their intimate partners. Moreover, the risk of experiencing intimate partner violence is amp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leaving a Violent Relationship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,050 Views
23 Pages

Sports Influencers on Twitter. Analysis and Comparative Study of Track Cycling World Cups 2016 and 2018

  • José María Lamirán-Palomares,
  • Tomás Baviera and
  • Amparo Baviera-Puig

25 September 2020

Social media has driven a sea change in the way users view and participate in sporting events through the media. In the digital medium, identifying the profiles with the greatest influential capacity is a key issue. Using the analytical hierarchy pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,617 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic was the first universal health crisis since China entered the era of mobile social media. When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) broke out in 2003, it was not until almost six years later that Weibo was born, marking Chin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Social Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,155 Views
22 Pages

Marketing in the Public Sector—Benefits and Barriers: A Bibliometric Study from 1931 to 2020

  • Nelson de Matos,
  • Marisol B. Correia,
  • José Ramón Saura,
  • Ana Reyes-Menendez and
  • Nuno Baptista

24 September 2020

The global economy has brought economic and social changes that have led organizations to extend their vision beyond consumer and business markets. Particularly, in the marketing of public sector (MPS), the extant theoretical foundations require more...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Economics)
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