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Social Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 2

2020 February - 15 articles

Cover Story: Taking intergroup threat theory as the theoretical framework, “Classical and Modern Prejudice toward Asylum Seekers: The Mediating Role of Intergroup Anxiety in a Sample of Italians” investigates the negative attitudes toward asylum seekers in Italy. It examines whether and to what extent intergroup anxiety mediates the relationship between antecedents and attitudes toward asylum seekers. The current results suggest that intergroup anxiety represents a key variable in increasing prejudice against asylum seekers. This highlights the importance of the emotional aspects of prejudice and confirms the central role that cultural and situational factors which elicit negative emotions (e.g., the images conveyed by traditional and new media) could have on anti-immigrant attitudes. Prejudice represents a reaction to the perception of ingroup threat, which increases the expression of hostility. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,692 Views
15 Pages

A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

  • Kosmas Panagiotidis,
  • Nikolaos Tsipas,
  • Theodora Saridou and
  • Andreas Veglis

22 February 2020

During the last two decades, citizens’ participation in news production process has attracted significant interest from both academia and the media industry. Media production and consumption have been altered considerably and traditional concep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
13,330 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2020

This study examines the cultural immersion experience of 26 students who participated in either a study abroad program (SAP) or global service learning program (GSL). Specifically, the study investigates the transformative learning before, during, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,566 Views
17 Pages

16 February 2020

In Germany, a grave labor shortage in the nursing and elderly care sectors has prompted the response of recruiting skilled nursing staff from abroad in recent years. This article analyzes these recruitment practices as forms of “migration manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,900 Views
16 Pages

Prioritising Family Needs: A Grounded Theory of Acculturation for Sub-Saharan African Migrant Families in Australia

  • Peter Akosah-Twumasi,
  • Faith Alele,
  • Amy M. Smith,
  • Theophilus I. Emeto,
  • Daniel Lindsay,
  • Komla Tsey and
  • Bunmi S. Malau-Aduli

14 February 2020

Pre-existing acculturation models have focused on individual orientation and may not be fully applicable to African migrants due to their strong connection to family. In this study, we utilised qualitative semi-structured interviews to explore how 22...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,561 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2020

Research on religion and its influence on work values is not frequent in Europe, where researchers do not usually consider this relation because of historical reasons. Nonetheless, the number of publications concerning religion’s contribution t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,582 Views
33 Pages

13 February 2020

Past research on the tiny house movement has primarily focused on understanding the individual motivations behind adopting the tiny house lifestyle. While some studies have suggested that tiny housers do entertain an interest in community, no systema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,813 Views
13 Pages

11 February 2020

In the environmental politics literature, cities are commonly framed as key sites for a shift towards greater sustainability and urban grassroots initiatives, such as food co-ops, urban gardening initiatives, repair cafés, and libraries of thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,762 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2020

The authors of the paper deal with the philosophy of the privatization of elements of criminal justice, which in the last decades influenced the development of criminal justice in European countries, including the Slovak Republic. The philosophy of p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,664 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2020

This article examines women’s political empowerment in the Russian Arctic as an example of progress towards gender equality. In contrast to women’s severe underrepresentation in Russian federal politics, a strong trend towards women&rsquo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,967 Views
18 Pages

Cluster Competitiveness Modeling: An Approach with Systems Dynamics

  • Sindy Martínez-Marín,
  • Nataly Puello-Pereira and
  • David Ovallos-Gazabon

7 February 2020

This study makes a systemic review to cluster and create a competitiveness relationship considering a systems dynamics approach. A dynamic hypothesis was constructed to validate what factors increase a cluster’s level of competitiveness, throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,416 Views
13 Pages

4 February 2020

School failure is, at the international level, a problem that affects, most educational systems. In Spain, it is currently a current problem that remains unresolved. Therefore, our research aims to discover and analyze situations of school failure ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,696 Views
13 Pages

2 February 2020

(1) Background: Increasing waves of immigration have not only changed the demographic features of European societies but have also had important implications for intergroup relationships. Based on the theoretical model of intergroup threat theory, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,292 Views
17 Pages

28 January 2020

The principal objective of the present study is to analyze the representations of Primary Education trainee teachers (n = 232) involving the end-purposes of teaching History and, in particular, their views on the didactic treatment and curricular inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,950 Views
21 Pages

Social Responsibility Attitudes and Behaviors’ Influence on University Students’ Satisfaction

  • Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez,
  • José Antonio Folgado-Fernández,
  • Francisco Hipólito-Ojalvo and
  • Luis Enrique Valdez-Juárez

23 January 2020

This study focused on university social responsibility (USR). Corporate social responsibility is currently an extremely common strategy implemented by organizations. Higher education institutions are also introducing this strategy to enhance their pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,195 Views
15 Pages

21 January 2020

Every year online sales represent a higher percentage of the sales total in nearly all sectors of the economy, and the art markets are no exception. However, there are few empirical studies showing how online sales and digital technologies are transf...

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