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Is Mass Society a Threat to Representative Democracy? Revisiting David Riesman’s “Other-Directed Character”
Sulkunen, Pekka
Representative democracy has been based on the idea that interest groups form parliaments through competitive elections, and legislate in favour of their supporters. Declining electoral participation, rise of populist right-wing parties, contingent coalitions, personalized electoral success and scandal-driven politics indicate a crisis in representative democracy. Mass society theories after the Second World War predicted a decline of democracy on the basis of homogenisation of mass consumption societies. The threat was seen to involve totalitarian rule, combined with bureaucracy serving the interests of elites. This paper examines the underlying presuppositions of mass society theory, and argues that the homogeneity argument is insufficient to fit the realities. Following David Riesman, it is argued that the other-directed character grows from unstable interest group identities, but its determinant is not sameness but agency and therefore difference. To have agency is to orient oneself to others as a self, as unique, separate and autonomous subject. This is vindicated by trends in public administration since the 1980s, which stress citizens’ self-control, autonomy and partnership rather than conformity. Political disputes arise around contradictions between difference and autonomy in societies where agency is a principle of justification. Universal autonomy requires homogeneity but agency stresses difference and uniqueness.
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Review. El Dios personal
Burgués, Ana
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2012-07-30 07:01:03
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012): July
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A Mysterious European Threesome: Work-care Regimes, Policies and Gender
Torres, Anália
http://www.analiatorres.net
Coelho, Bernardo
Cardoso, Inês
Brites, Rui
Arguing that European family lives are affected by many societal factors, this article discusses the interplay between three sets of phenomena: the management of work and care responsibilities, work-care policies and regimes, and gender order within the family context.
Based on discussions about orientations to work and care, we compare European countries and analyze regularities and singularities among them. Identifying and assessing the interplay between structural, institutional and cultural determinants of orientations we try to explain country diversity mobilizing data from the European Social Survey (rounds 2002, 2004 and 2006) and data from Eurobarometer 2003.
The paper is organized around three analytical axes. First, we analyze how work and family orientations are perceived by the Europeans. Secondly, we assess different European political policies regarding work and care arrangements, the outcome being a proposal for a work-care political typology. And finally we discuss the connections between those policies and the production or reproduction of gender order within the family.
We conclude that in countries with more egalitarian gender values and policies targeted at work-care arrangements, individuals experience less work-family conflict. Conversely, in countries with more traditional gender values and restricted or disadvantaged policies we found more family-work conflict. But institutional constraints don’t act alone: orientations to work and care differ according to age, education, family forms and employment status.
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Addressing Inequality
Sosa Elízaga, Raquel
The global sociology currently faces one of its greatest challenges: to contribute to the debate about the most serious problem which all societies have faced in recent years. The rising inequality has led to many initiatives for reflection, discussion and evaluation of public policies in order to combat poverty. Particularly, the fact that the Millennium Goals are supposed to accomplish their significance by 2015 provides the International Sociological Association (ISA) the unique opportunity to contribute to those Goals through their own analyses and proposals. Over many years, the Association has promoted for many years the integrated debate of its members on issues related to inequalities: from different perspectives such as education, health, social movements, public policies, gender problems and violence, among others. The overlapping and accumulation of inequalities has been, so to speak, the natural environment from which the ISA can take part in this international debate. This article identifies the work lines approved in the Association Program Committee Meeting held in Mexico in 2011, in the process of the Association’s Congress in Yokohama in 2014.
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012): July
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From Values to Religion
Cipriani, Roberto
Each individual is guided by values that determine his behaviour. A recurrent distinction concerns the difference between applied values and final values, therefore between values concerning individual practices and values which represent real goals to achieve. The discussion tends to slip onto a juxtaposition of universal values and universal rights, which is to say between human values and human rights. It is not always easy to discern secular values from religious values. The main issue regards those who hold religious and secular values. If religious values are presumably conserved by churches, denominations, confessional organizations, for secular values the State is usually considered to be the main holder. Global values and local values can be in conflict, especially when the same individual has to play a number of different rules. And it must be considered that today migration context in Europe presents different communities with different values.
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2012-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012): November
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The Dialogic Turn: Dialogue or Violence?
Puigvert, Lidia
University of Barcelona
Individuals and social groups are increasingly using dialogue to take decisions, perform actions and solve conflicts in diverse social relationships, from international policies or globalization processes to personal friendships, labor relations or the intimacy of bedroom. When they do not use dialogue, they use violence or imposition: there are only two ways to proceed. The increase of dialogue does not imply that there is no violence in human and social relationships, obviously there is; but this phenomenon confirms that there exist many dialogic interactions and procedures in society which shed light to the process of radicalization of democracy, and thus need to be further analyzed from the social sciences. This article does so; it discusses the “dialogic turn” in the social sciences and illustrates it with the case of feminist theory and practice. Whereas in the past feminism had been a movement for few academic women often speaking for “others”, current dialogic feminism brings into egalitarian dialogue the voices of very diverse women who reach agreements regarding vision and action.
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2012-07-30 07:01:03
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Editorial. Our Contribution to Overcome the Current Threat to the Social Sciences
Soler, Marta
University of Barcelona
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2012-07-30 07:01:03
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Vol. 1, Num. 1 - Full Issue
Soler, Marta
University of Barcelona
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2012-07-30 07:01:03
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State Capacity: Utilization, Durability, and the Role of Wealth vs. History
Enriquez, Elaine
Princeton University
Centeno, Miguel Angel
Princeton University
The concept of state capacity has been in development literature for decades. Nevertheless the concept, its operationalization, and its measurement are still highly contested. This paper seeks to briefly review the literature on state capacity and provide an empirical analysis of recent data in order to reassess the state of capacity theory and testing. We argue that very little, if any, attention has been paid to critical variations in national regional and subnational levels in state service provision, both statically and over time. We also argue that existing theoretical research in capacity utilization can provide insights to state building and development scholars regarding who is “doing more with less”. Finally, we offer the concept of durable capacity as a way of understanding how states can provide longstanding development outcomes despite income variations.
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2012-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012): November
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Trust Building in the Promotion of Peace and Intercultural Dialogue among Adolescents in International Summer Camps
Farini, Federico
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
This article aims to offer both a theoretical contribution and examples of practices of trust building in peace education. The analysis regards international summer camps established in Italy. Each camp is attended by four delegations of ten adolescents coming from different countries; aiming to promote adolescents’ ability in conflict resolution, peaceful relationships and intercultural dialogue.
In analysing interactions, we follow the basic methodology of Conversation Analysis, which consists in working on naturally occurring interactions and more specifically on the contribution of single turns or actions to the ongoing sequence, with reference to the context. The analysis concerns the design of turns (actions) produced in the interaction and the organization of the sequences in which educators’ and adolescents’ turns are intertwined. We aim to understand if and in which ways education is effective in enabling adolescents to communicate, creating conditions of trust and trusting commitment, mutual humanization, and mutual recognition of needs.
Our data exemplifies two different ways of promoting trust and communication: 1) the educator coordinates the direct interactions between adolescents, who cooperate in constructing a joint narrative; 2) the educator acts as a mediator of contacts among adolescents, promoting their alternate participation in the interaction in triadic exchanges.
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2012-11-30 00:00:00
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Accidentology: Towards a Sociology of Accidents and Disasters
Matthewman, Steve
The University of Auckland
While the unintended consequences of social action have exercised the sociological imagination since the discipline’s inception, sociology is yet to fully develop a systematic study of accidents and disasters. Leading figures in the field criticise current work on accidents for being piecemeal and isolated from mainstream sociology, for lacking theoretical innovation, for being blind to differential suffering and for being largely silent on questions of power. This article advances a case for an accidentology which will rectify these perceived flaws. It also advocates accidentology on the basis that accidents are socially patterned, that they are understudied compared to other social problems, and that they are increasing in scale, frequency and severity. In making these arguments we also consider what the examination of accidents and disasters will reveal.
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2012-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012): November
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Aspire or Expire: Super-Adaptable Agents and Problematic Innovation
McGettigan, Timothy
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Humans are unique as a species because, with the help of well-defined problematics, humans alone are capable of redefining reality. A problematic can be understood as an exceptionally-challenging intellectual objective (e.g., heavier-than-air flight, building the first atomic bomb, curing disease, landing humans on the moon, developing artificially-intelligent computers, constructing faster-than-light speed spacecraft, etc.) that requires knowledge-seekers to invent new facts and redefine reality in order to achieve the hoped-for objective. Although scientists prefer to think that scientific inquiry is constrained to an exploration of empirical facts, in truth, scientific progress is often instigated more effectively by the pursuit of a compelling problematic—in many cases, even by science fiction fantasies (Shatner, 2002)—rather than by an examination of established empirical facts (McGettigan, 2011). As such, science has proven to be the most effective means ever invented by humans to transform fantasies into reality.
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2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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Catering to Cleantech’s Resource Needs: The Strategic Importance of Board Networks in an Emerging Green Industry
Heemskerk, Eelke M.
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
Mans, Ulrich
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
This paper explores the role of elite networks in shaping business strategies in the cleantech industry. In order to do so, we investigate whether and if so how boards of directors cater to the resource needs of the innovative and expanding cleantech industry. We create a new dataset of the board network of leading cleantech firms that allows us to show how cleantech directors are integrated into the worlds of government, banking, and research. The strategic merits of board networks considered are 1/ the need for operational resources 2/ the need for conducive policies; and 3/ the need for market access. We find that Finance and Innovation are most sought after, and domestic networks remain dominant. While larger firms are well embedded in big business and finance, smaller corporations seek ties with innovation and policy networks. Cleantech firms currently show no significant capacity to reduce dependencies in terms of access to future cleantech markets. The findings suggest that the ‘classic’ resource needs, such as finance, are much better ‘covered’ through the board’s network structures than those resources that would enable a firm to improve its long-standing needs, such as a favourable policy environment and access to future markets.
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2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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Profit People Planet: The Environmental Implications of Development in Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRIC Economies)
Ciochetto, Lynne
Massey University
This paper explores environmental implications of the BRIC thesis that Brazil, Russia, India and China, along with the United States and Japan, will be the dominant economies by 2050 (O’Neill, 2001). The criteria for assessment are those common in economic analysis, the triple bottom line: profit, people, planet. The BRIC economies encompass over 25 percent of the world’s land area, 40 percent of the world’s population and a combined GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) of $US20 trillion dollars. What happens in these economies in the next 40 years will significantly impact on the rest of the world. This paper focuses on the implications of contemporary patterns of industrial growth, energy consumption, rising standards of living and the continued expansion of consumerism in the BRIC economies, and assesses them against the dual imperatives of the 21st century: achieving global environmental sustainability and delivering social justice for the people who constitute the ‘bottom billion’.
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2013-07-30 08:00:08
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): July
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After the crisis. For a future without marginalization by Alain Touraine
Schubert, Tinka Tabea
University of Barcelona
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2012-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012): November
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Social Ties, Disorder and Distress: A Qualitative Examination of the Protective Effects of Social Capital in Neighborhoods
Packard, Josh
University of Northern Colorado
Callaway, Lindsey
Midwestern State University
Dorris, Chris
Midwestern State University
Suhr, Emily
Midwestern State University
This paper is examines how social ties mediate the negative impact of neighborhood disorder by changing people’s perceptions of their neighborhood. It draws on and helps to advance an understanding of social capital as a protective cognitive resource that people use to frame their understandings of their local environments. This paper extends current research about the importance of social capital as a protective factor at the neighborhood level while taking advantage of a unique research setting, a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood, to begin to uncover how social capital operates at the micro-level to produce positive effects. We find that social networks operate as a resource which impacts the way people perceive and interpret agreed upon problems.
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2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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Tools of State: Using Research to Inform Policy Decisions in Higher Education
St. John, Edward P.
University of Michigan
For many decades, states and the federal government have used both qualitative and quantitative studies to inform policy decisions, yet there have been longstanding concerns among qualitative researchers that their work is treated as second class. This paper examines an alternative construction of the problem. Policymakers in states and federal agencies treat policy research as tools of state—instruments to be used by policy makers—a practice in conflict with the moral stance of many qualitative researchers. Recognizing this problem, I provide guidance for constructing quantitative and qualitative research to inform decisions on policies on equity in preparation for, access to, and academic success in higher education without undermining the researchers’ quest for truth.
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2013-07-30 08:00:08
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): July
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Vol. 1, Num. 2 - Full Issue
Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
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2012-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012): November
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Women, Gender, Feminism: Marginalization at the Inception of the World Social Forum
Karides, Marina
Florida Atlantic University
The World Social Forum (WSF) is a biannualmeeting space for the globaljustice movement that facilitates the coordination of worldwide events andprotests around a variety of social justice issues. I argue that although theprinciples of the WSF are based on feminist methods of participation, theresearch presented here demonstrates that women, gender, and feminism weremarginalized in the program and content at the forum’s inception. Empiricallythe paper presents the structure of programming and a quantitative examinationof women’s and feminist groups’ participation of the first years of the WSFprocess. I consider the thematic development of the WSF and role ofinformation sharing and intersectionality as feminist principles wereincorporated into the WSF. I refer to various theoretical perspectives on genderincluding feminist political economy, postcolonialism,and queer theory tomake sense of feminist participation and marginalization at the World SocialForum.
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Integrating the Best of Both Worlds: Details from Mexican- Origin College Students about Their Bicultural Identities and Adjustment Experiences
Nelson, Kyle Anne
University of Northern Colorado
Infante, Michel
Family and Intercultural Resource Center
What influences the successful bicultural adjustment of ethnic minority adolescentsinto the mainstream American culture? While previous research has indicated thatthe most successful adjustment process involves the forging of new identitiescombining characteristics from both the culture of origin and the new culture, thereis little exploration into the details of this process from the perspective of minoritieswho have successfully achieved bicultural adjustment. In order to determine whetherbicultural adjustment is an evident as well as a consciously valued process amongminority adolescents, we conducted in-depth written surveys with open-endedquestions of 20 Mexican-origin college students. By focusing on high-achievers asmeasured by college attendance, we aim to highlight key elements of the culturaladjustment process that lead to positive outcomes for ethnic minority adolescents.The survey results provide rich evidence in the participants’ own words about thecomplex nature and value of bicultural adjustment. These findings can informadjustment efforts of ethnic minority adolescents as well as the institutions andcommunity organizations who serve them.
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2014-03-30 11:00:16
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): March
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Un Ejemplo de Sociología del Desprecio y Exclusión Discursiva: La Metamorfosis de la Familia según Kafka
Herzog, Benno
Hernà ndez i Dobon, Francesc
La teoría de reconocimiento de Axel Honneth, como marco conceptual capazde aprehender el sufrimiento humano, afirma que existen mecanismos deexclusión del espacio social que producen sus efectos antes de que losindividuos ingresen en la esfera discursiva. Hemos denominado «exclusióndiscursiva» a la combinación de esta forma de exclusión de los discursos con laexclusión producido en y mediante los discursos. El objetivo del presenteartículo es mostrar la utilidad del análisis de la exclusión discursiva paraentender procesos de desprecio social. Explicamos en la primera parte del textola teoría del reconocimiento y del desprecio de Axel Honneth y mostraremos elvínculo de su teoría con la noción de exclusión discursiva. A continuaciónintroducimos en la interpretación la obra de Kafka La metamorfosis para,posteriormente, definir tres momentos de la negación del reconocimientorelacionado con el amor que tienen índole discursiva, y que denominaremos,por analogía a los procedimientos matemáticos, «sustitución», «igualación» y«reducción». Entendemos que una tipología de las formas de exclusióndiscursiva permite proseguir la teoría comunicativa de la teoría delreconocimiento, lo que permite solucionar algunas de sus dificultades y avanzarhacia una sociología del desprecio.
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2013-07-30 08:00:08
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El Precio de la Desigualdad
Peña Axt, Juan Carlos
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2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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The New Alternative Masculinities and the Overcoming of Gender Violence
Flecha, Ramon
University of Barcelona
Puigvert, Lidia
University of Barcelona
Rios, Oriol
University of Barcelona
Research about masculinities gathers different topics from diverse disciplinary perspectives. One of the topics has been the analysis of the perpetuation’s effect of the traditional heterosexual model of masculinity in the violence against women. Recent scientific evidences about the reproduction of this social problem have evidenced the existence of three different types of masculinities (in the sense of the weberian ideal types): dominant traditional masculinity (DTM), oppressed traditional masculinity (OTM), and new alternative masculinities (NAM). The first two types contribute to perpetuate gender violence, while the latter allows preventing it and, consequently, it leads to its overcoming. This article approach the existence of these three types of masculinities and analyzes both, theirs characteristics and their consequences for violence against women. It presents evidences that what makes NAM providing a preventive effect is its linkage between the language of ethics and the language of desire.
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2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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List of 2012 RIMCIS Reviewers
Soler, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
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2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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Vol. 2, Num. 1 - Full Issue
Soler, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
Hipatia Press
2013-03-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2013): March
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The Power of the Religion in the Public Sphere
Carrillo, Anna
University of Barcelona
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2013-07-30 08:00:08
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): July
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Vol. 2, Num. 2 - Full Issue
Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
Hipatia Press
2013-07-30 08:00:08
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): July
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Mixed Methods? Do They Really Work? A Commentary
Cheng, Shu-Ju Ada
DePaul University
In this short commentary, I comment on the state and popularity of mixed methods in social sciences in recent decades. While quantitative and qualitative methods are considered complementary, I question the use of mixed methods by scholars without deeper reflections on the epistemological and methodological foundations of these two methods. My contention is that researchers cannot simply combine qualitative and quantitative methods without explicating how they reconcile and negotiate their different foundations. These two methods are not just tools. The act of mixing them without reflections is simply not sufficient. Reconciling and reflecting upon the foundational differences between these two methods would be an essential step.
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2013-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): November
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God and the Problem of Order: The Role of Perfect Information and Absolute Power in Economics, Religion and Law
Gould, Mark
Haverford College
The “problem of order” is resolved idyllically in Arrow-Debreu general-equilibrium models through the assumption of perfect information, where each actor is god-like, omniscient, and where this omniscience results in the veracity of the first theorem of welfare economics, where an equilibrium is Pareto efficient, where no actor, given her original endowments of alienable and inalienable capital, can improve her position. Analogously, in many religions, God is understood to be omniscient; order emerges through God’s ability to sanction malfeasance costlessly. Ideally, a comparable order would likewise be the consequence of the assumption in both economics and religion of an omnipotent principal. In both economics and religion, equilibria serve as idealized, transcendent, critical standards. In the real, immanent, world, where information is imperfect and no power is absolute, the institutionalization of law is necessary to maintain order. Religion has bequeathed to the legal order moral principles that may legitimate the law and make it binding, while economics, as a theory of incentives in the immanent world, models the imposition of legal sanctions, which penalize actors who approach and violate the law strategically. The law is an institutional order, where both constitutive norms and legal rules are legitimated through “religious” values and supported by “economic,” situational sanctions.
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2013-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): November
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Une Nouvelle Laïcité Multiculturelle
De Botton Fernández, Lena
Pulido Rodriguez, Miguel Angel
L’apport de cet article réside dans le concept de «laïcité multiculturelle». Dans les sociétés du XXIe siècle, ce concept représente un progrès vers une égalité de différences où toutes les croyances et religions seraient traitées de façon égalitaire. Le principe de laïcité a constitué un pas en avant vers une plus grande égalité des droits, en Europe la démarche a été au début du XXe siècle. Un siècle plus tard, l’impact sans précédents du phénomène international des migrations a rendu les sociétés européennes multiculturelles de nouveau. Dans ce nouveau cadre, la conception traditionnelle de la laïcité, au lieu d’assurer l’égalité des droits, est devenu un principe arbitraire nuisant, plus particulièrement à la communauté musulmane. Pour surmonter le trait discriminatoire de la conception traditionnelle de laïcité envers certaines confessions, un nouveau concept s’avère nécessaire, celui d’une «laïcité multiculturelle» fondée sur l’égalité de différences et le dialogue égalitaire entre les différentes cultures.
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2013-11-30 00:00:00
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New social movements in Spanish State: a view from the principles of dialogic learning.
Rivero Jiménez, Borja
Universidad de Extremadura
En los últimos años han aparecido diferentes movilizaciones sociales dentro del Estado español que han adquirido una importante relevancia en el espacio político, como el movimiento 15M o la Plataforma de Afectados por las Hipotecas. Estas movilizaciones tienen unas nuevas formas de acción y organización que guardan relación con algunos principios del aprendizaje dialógico. A través de la observación y participación en estos colectivos en la ciudad de Cáceres, además de la revisión documental de artículos realizados sobre estas movilizaciones, hemos querido mostrar algunas evidencias de esta relación. Nuestra conclusión es que estas nuevas formas de organización contribuyen a caminar hacia una democracia más asentada sobre el diálogo igualitario que sobre las imposiciones de poder desde las esferas políticas.
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2013-11-30 00:00:00
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Ocupar Wall Street. Indignados. En el epicentro del capitalismo mundial
Lopez, Laura
Universitat de Barcelona
Hipatia Press
2013-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): November
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Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
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2013-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): November
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Performance of Banking Sectors Due to Adoption of Information Technology (IT)
Behera, Ajay Kumar
Siksha O Anusandhan University
Nayak, Narayan C.
Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology
Das, Harish C.
Siksha O Anusandhan University
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis on the relationship between InformationTechnology (IT) usage, CRM and performance of bank (state bank group) in Bhubaneswar,Odisha, India. Most of the banks in INDIA are geared for comprehensive banking solutionswith extensive branch networks. Empirical data collection was done in the year 2012 andanalyzed with the theoretical data. A sample of 18 branches was selected using the nonprobabilitysampling technique. Perceptions of branch managers, staff members andcustomers were collected using a survey method. All 18 branches selected are of anequivalent grade according to the grading set by the bank. Three different types ofquestionnaires were designed for branch managers, branch staff and customers. Bothstructured and semi structured questions were included in the questionnaires with 7 pointlikert scale. Using bivariate correlation and linear regression, data analysis was done. Thelinear relationship between variables was measured by using Pearson’s correlation coefficient.The analysis suggested that IT usage has a positive linear relationship with financialperformance and quality performance of bank branches. Bank performance was found to havea correlation with factors such as staff attitude towards IT usage, IT literacy level of bankstaff and scope and complexity of the IT applications.
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2014-03-30 11:00:16
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): March
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Public Intellectuals, Scholars, Journalists, & Activism: Wearing Different Hats and Juggling Different Ethical Mandates
Berlet, Chip
Research for Progress http://www.researchforprogress.org
In democratic civil society a public intellectual can spark deep conversations aboutdisparities of privilege and power. This brings with it the need to be intentionalabout ethics. The author reviews different roles in which he has been cast where hehas played the role of a “public intellectual”. The different hats he has worn includescholar, journalist, paralegal investigator, and leftwing movement activist. In eachcase, there were normative or at least expected ethical boundaries which usuallyvaried by project and sometimes conflicted with other roles. After exploring thedifferent roles and related ethical issues, there is a discussion from a progressiveperspective of basic ethical mandates and tools for building human rights. Anextensive set of references is provided to assist researchers.
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2014-03-30 11:00:16
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): March
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Violence in the Arab Revolutions: The Paradigmatic Case of Egypt
Khosrokhavar, Farhad
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Arab Revolutions promoted non-violence (selmiyah) at their outset, in conjunction with thedignity of the citizen (karama). These mottoes did not resist for a long time against theviolence of the Deep State, the intolerance of the revolutionary actors, and the geopolitics ofthe region, with the notable exception of Tunisia, where geopolitics were not paramount. Thisarticle aims at analyzing the manifold features of violence during the transitional period, fromthe ousting of the President Mubarak in February 2011 up to the third anniversary of theRevolution in January 25, 2014. It purports to show that grass root level actors (the BlackBloc made of Football fans, the secular youth building up the social movement Tamarrod...)and institutional ones (the Judiciary, the security forces representing the Interior Ministry, andthe military at the highest level) rejected the new President from the Muslim Brotherhood.The latter acted in an inept and partisan manner, dialogue becoming impossible and violentrupture becoming unavoidable. The two types of violence (from below and from the DeepState) made democratization impossible. The door was opened for a new period ofauthoritarianism under the aegis of the army.The article does not deal with the geopolitics andtheir role in the radicalization within the Egyptian society.
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2014-03-30 11:00:16
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): March
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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class
Taberner Guasp, José
Universidad de Córdoba
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2014-07-30 08:57:50
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): July
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Sociología económica de las migraciones internacionales
Martín Casabona, Noemí
Hipatia Press
2014-03-30 11:00:16
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Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
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2014-03-30 11:00:16
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): March
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List of 2013 RIMCIS Reviewers
Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
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2014-03-30 11:00:16
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014): March
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Transformative Learning: Suggestive Assumptions and Practices
Gitlin, Andrew David
The University of Georgia
This essay argues that most proposed forms for schooling learning are founded on assumptions associated with Normal Science. While most of these forms of school learning are inherently conservative, even the most well know approaches to transformative learning, such as critical pedagogy, are also beholden to the dictates of Normal Science. The limitations of Normal Science suggest a need for learning approaches that push against the limits of this paradigm. Such a push is suggested by looking at the assumptive framework and practices associated with a newly developed technology platform—UnEarth. UnEarth moves between Normal Science and Experimental Art is an attempt to create communities of difference, share knowledge across those differences, store knowledge in personal and community libraries that show gaps and strengths in learning as well as interests that can be used for curriculum planning and future job recruitment and do so within an “open text” that creates possibilities as opposed to directing participants to do this or that. By doing so communication patterns, the nature of schoolwork and the stop-go-stop nature of education were transformed. These findings suggest that technology can stand side by side with transformative ambitions, a stance not possible with platforms like UnEarth.
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2014-07-30 08:57:50
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): July
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Public Sociology and the Rights of Citizenship in Brazil: Critical Assessment and Historical Perspectives
Braga, Ruy
Universidade de São Paulo
Public sociology is at the origin of the formation of the modern Brazilian sociological field. Between 1960 and 1970, at least two important institutions of sociological research (the Center for Labor and Industrial Sociology at the University of São Paulo, CESIT, and the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, CEBRAP) developed the praxis characteristic of public sociology building up links with extra-academic audiences, in particular, radical trade unions and progressive social movements. The purpose of this presentation will be to reconstruct the theoretical and political links between theseexperiences in public sociology and the current engagement of the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic), public sociology institute founded at the University of São Paulo in the 1990s by sociologist Francisco de Oliveira. Thus, we intend to debate some tensions between the academic research and social movements fighting for the rights of citizenship which resurfaced with unprecedented strength in Brazil in June 2013.
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): July
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In the Path to Regaining Social Sciences Legitimacy through Public Sociology
Elboj Saso, Carmen
In the process of approval of the European Commission Horizon 2020, research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) has been under threat. Not only new liberals, but also migrant movements, Roma organizations, feminists, and other citizens have questioned social sciences as a valid instrument to contribute to overcome the crisis and its related inequalities, especially in Europe. In this framework, this article discusses the role that public sociology plays for social sciences to regain legitimacy in current times. Particularly, the article defends that this regaining of prestige can be done through the study of Successful Actions, which have proven effective in reducing inequalities wherever they have been implemented. Drawing on the INCLUD-ED research, a large-scale project of the EU Framework Programme of Research (2006-2011), the article analyses the impact of implementing Successful Actions in the improvement of quality of life in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Spain
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): July
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The Social Nature of Attractiveness: How to Shift Attraction from the Dominant Traditional to Alternative Masculinities
Castro, Marcos
Universitat de Vic
Mara, Liviu Catalin
Universitat de Barcelona
This article explores the paradox that while muchemphasis has been put into educating boys in the alternative masculinities, the boys who hold these values are not the ones who are considered attractive in the social imaginary of a large part of the population. Attractiveness to different masculinity models is the result of the process of socialization. The authors argue that there is a mainstream process of socialization - which is not the only one - that promotes the attraction to the dominant traditional model of masculinities, while the opposite process is found with alternatives ones. Drawing from previous studies in the area of preventive socialization of gender-based violence and men’s studies, different aspects are highlighted showing how transformation is built in regards to provide new alternative models of masculinity.
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2014-07-30 08:57:50
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): July
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Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona
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2014-07-30 08:57:50
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014): July
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When Religion Cannot Stop Political Crisis in the Old Western Region of Nigeria: Ikire under Historical Review.
Ojo, Matthias Olufemi Dada
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY,CRAWFORD UNIVERSITY,IGBESA,OGUN STATE,NIGERIA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4593-630X
Using historical events research approach and qualitative key informant interview, this study examined how religion failed to stop political crisis that happened in the old Western region of Nigeria. Ikire, in the present Osun State of Nigeria was used as a case study. The study investigated the incidences of killing, arson and exile that characterized the crisis in the town which served as the case study. It argued that the two prominent political figures which started the crisis failed to apply the religious doctrines of love, peace and brotherhood which would have solved the crisis before it spread to all parts of the Old Western Region of Nigeria and the entire nation. Moreover, it was also argued somewhere else in this paper that the supporters of the two prominent political figures also failed to apply the doctrines of love, peace and brotherhood as rightly preached in their individual religions which they professed. The study recommended that doctrines of love, peace and brotherhood should be allowed to prevail in solving any political crisis in the future. It considered religion as the spiritual thing which leads to the eternal, but other things as temporary that would soon give way for things eternal. Furthermore, the study also challenged the religious leaders to always wake up to their spiritual responsibility of building peace in the society, knowing surely that they are God’s ambassadors in the human society.
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2014-11-30 07:56:28
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014): November
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Dissonant Harmonies: Modelling and Conceptualising Improvising Social Groups
Sutherland, Allan
Kyushu University of Nursing and Social Welfare http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1599-0735
Improvisation has attracted increasing attention within organisational and managerial studies as a method to improve efficiency and innovation without adequately understanding the conditions prerequisite for improvisation’s operation. This paper examines how the jazz repertoire theory, and New Cultural studies of jazz address improvisation within jazz ensembles, showing neither adequately explaining improvisation. The paper draws on Bourdieu’s concepts, fleshed out in Wacquant’s ethnography research of habitus acquisition among pugilists to propose a model of the symbiotic ensemble providing the conditions essential for improvisation. Symbiotic ensembles are composed of synergetic musicians, all of relatively equal musical and social status, who have commonly accrued an embodied musical improvising habitus through their musical and life trajectories, from first learning an instrument, transitioning to improvisation, performing in various ensemble settings whereby they acquire influences and become vectors transmitting musical concepts among disparate musical ensembles.
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2014-11-30 07:56:28
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014): November
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La Configuración Espacial de la Ciudad como Factor de Definición de la Realidad Socio-demográfica. Análisis Electoral de un Entorno Urbano
Roblizo-Colmenero, Manuel Jacinto
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7830-204X
El artículo lleva a cabo un análisis interdisciplinar del comportamiento electoral de un entorno urbano específico, como fundamento para observar como la configuración espacial urbana aparece recogida en la estructura sociodemográfica del cuerpo electoral. Recogiendo categorías analíticas procedentes de la geografía urbana y la sociología, y partiendo de la realidad social de las distintas zonas urbanas de una ciudad, se aporta un estudio de caso que muestra el vínculo existente entre determinados rasgos sociodemográficos especialmente relevantes y la actitud ante las urnas de los ciudadanos definidos por ellos. Observamos, por lo tanto, el calado sociopolítico de la configuración espacial urbana, a la vez que percibimos una vertiente interpretativa del comportamiento electoral en base a conceptualizaciones sociológicas esenciales que recogen tanto a aquellos elementos estructurales que ponen el énfasis en el condicionamiento social del individuo como a aquellos otros que, basados en modelos de elección y elección racional, priman al individuo sobre la estructura.
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2015-03-30 09:55:23
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): March
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Do-It-Together Finance! A participatory action research on community-based finance systems in the Netherlands
Lehmann, Julie-Marthe
VU University Amsterdam; The Hague University of Applied Sciences http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-6949
Smets, Peer
VU University Amsterdam http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-4592
This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms like CAF groups. CAF groups are self-financed communities where people save and lend money to each other. The implementation of such self- financed communities in the Netherlands is supported by participatory action research. This paper discusses the first results of this research by exploring whether and how participation of group members can improve their well-being in regard to social networks, financial household management and entrepreneurial positioning based on the capability approach of Sen. For this participatory action research, three groups have been set up, guided, observed, analysed and compared. This paper demonstrates how solidarity economy processes at the grassroots can contribute to the general well-being of vulnerable people in The Netherlands. Sen’s notion of freedom has to be reconsidered when discussed in a context. For this context of overconsumption, inequality and overindebtedness, Sen’s notion of freedom will be reconsidered and adjusted.
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2014-11-30 07:56:28
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014): November
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Book Review: Securities against Misrule. Juries, Assemblies, Elections, by Jon Elster
Oliver Pérez, Esther
University of Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4801-0131
Hipatia Press
2014-11-30 07:56:28
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Social Creation. A New Concept for Social Sciences and Humanities
Aiello, Emilia
Autonomous University of Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0005-6501
Joanpere, Mar
University of Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6006-0190
Social impact assessment in Social Sciences builds a base of knowledge transparency and direct involvement in social inequality, creating an alternative to the stagnation of scientific results and allowing them to become a real impact through society improvements. Four parameters inform and measure the degree of researchers' involvement in a scientific project and the improvements that this generates in society. These parameters are: Dissemination, Transfer, Impact and Social Creation. Social improvement does not come until impact is achieved, since dissemination does not ensure knowledge application, and transfer does not ensure that its application generates improvement as even sometimes its generates deterioration. However, we can achieve social impact by writing scientific publications about successful social realities that others have done. The new concept of social creation is a step beyond, and defines the process when from social research itself new successful social realities that improve society in ways that hitherto had not existed emerge.
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2014-11-30 07:56:28
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Full Issue
Soler i Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-4508
Hipatia Press
2014-11-30 07:56:28
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 3 No. 3 (2014): November
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Trans-disciplinary Research: An Academic-Practitioner Partnership Effort on Investigating the Relationship between the Cooperative Model and Sustainability
Newell, Robert
University of Victoria,
Royal Roads University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4108-1727
Dale, Ann
Royal Roads University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3978-3458
Herbert, Yuill
Sustainability Solutions Group http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-5495
Duguid, Fiona
Sustainability Solutions Group http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-2636
Foon, Rebecca
Sustainability Solutions Group http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5173-1423
Hough, Peter
Sustainability Solutions Group http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3787-4847
This article details novel research methodology developed through a researcher-practitioner partnership and employed in a three-phase research effort that explored relationships between the co-operative model and sustainable development. Firstly, a basic understanding of the characteristics of the co-operative model was established using the co-operative principles as a framework, and their complementarity to sustainable development was examined by comparing them with sustainability theory, principles and best practices (defined through seminal journal articles on the topic). Secondly, relationships between sustainability theory and the ideas and operations of currently functioning co-operatives were investigated, namely, whether co-operatives had integrated sustainability into their organizations. Thirdly, an integrated analysis that examined the relationship between co-operatives, the co-operative principles and sustainability concepts was conducted, and output from this work was used to build a visualization (referred to as the ‘Co-operative Star’), specifically designed to communicate a synthesis of research findings to diverse audiences. This study specifically focused on co-operatives and sustainability; however, the analytical techniques developed and employed have applications for other research involving comparisons between concepts and large bodies of literature, and it is particularly useful for comparing theoretical works (such as academic literature) with texts that discuss operations and practices (such as website and reports).
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2015-03-30 09:55:23
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): March
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2021-02-28T17:40:40Z
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Transversality in Diversity: Experiencing Networks of Confusion and Convergence in the World Social Forum
Hosseini, S A Hamed
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8674-4569
Drawing on the World Social Forum as an exemplary case study, this article shows how an emerging mode of cosmopolitanist vision (‘transversalism’) can be explained in terms of activists’ experiences of both complexity and contradiction in their networks. The paper questions the idea that the transnationalization of networks of solidarity and interconnection can uncomplicatedly encourage the growth of cosmopolitanism among global justice activists. Activists’ experiences of dissonances between their ideals, the complexity of power relations and the structural uncertainties in their global justice networks can provide them with a base for self-reflexive ideation and deliberation, and thereby encourage agendas for accommodating differences. Underpinning the accommodating measures which arise for dealing with such a cognitive-practical dissonance is a new mode of cosmopolitanism, coined here as ‘transversalism’. The article proposes a new conceptual framework and an analytical model to investigate the complexity of this process more inclusively and systematically.
Hipatia Press
2015-03-30 09:55:23
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): March
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De la Escuela Gueto a una Comunidad de Aprendizaje: Un Estudio de Caso sobre la Superación de la Pobreza a Través de una Educación de Éxito
Girbés-Peco, Sandra
Universidad de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7503-7604
Macías-Aranda, Fernando
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1569-6659
Álvarez-Cifuentes, Pilar
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5776-6213
El incremento de la pobreza en muchos y barrios europeos en los últimos años ha conducido a que las agendas políticas y las investigaciones internacionales concentren sus esfuerzos en identificar actuaciones efectivas que conduzcan a detener el avance de esta grave problemática. En este contexto, el presente artículo presenta algunas de las contribuciones del proyecto del Plan Nacional I+D “Actuaciones Socioeducativas de éxito para la superación de la pobreza” (Valls, 2012-2014) en relación a la lucha contra la pobreza a través de la educación. Concretamente, nos centramos en los resultados obtenidos durante el estudio de caso realizado en una de las áreas más desfavorecidas de Europa, el barrio de La Milagrosa (Albacete, España), y en el impacto generado por la transformación de la escuela situada en este contexto en una Comunidad de Aprendizaje. Los resultados de este estudio apuntan a que las actuaciones educativas de éxito aplicadas están posibilitando la superación de la exclusión educativa que sufrían los vecinos y vecinas. Transformar la escuela en una Comunidad de Aprendizaje ha supuesto generar nuevas oportunidades educativas desde edades tempranas hasta la educación postobligatoria, elemento que está contribuyendo a la ruptura de los círculos de pobreza que se habían cronificado en el barrio.
Hipatia Press
2015-03-30 09:55:23
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List of 2014 RIMCIS Reviewers
Soler-Gallart, Marta
Universitat de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-4508
Serradell-Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
Hipatia Press
2015-03-30 09:55:23
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): March
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2016-12-04T04:22:07Z
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Book Review: Radical Love: A Revolution for the 21st Century, by Jesús Gómez
Serrano Alfonso, Maria Ángeles
Universitat de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-341X
Hipatia Press
2015-03-30 09:55:23
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2015-08-20T17:47:12Z
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Serradell-Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
Hipatia Press
2015-03-30 09:55:23
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015): March
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2021-02-28T17:28:36Z
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Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?
Khattab, Nabil
University of Bristol, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7972-9229
This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.
Hipatia Press
2015-07-30 06:32:41
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015): July
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Rural Depopulation in China: A Comparative Perspective
Li, Xingan
Tallinn University Law School, Estonia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5409-8988
Modernization of Chinese society witnessed significant retreat of primary and growth of secondary and tertiary industries. The result of rapid urbanization has been accompanied with rapid rural depopulation, context of which is currently labeled by intertwining of many correlation factors. Rural depopulation can be perceived as a social problem and as a reason or other social problems, affecting sustainable socio-economic development. In turn, rural depopulation and relevant policy-making are also interplaying, making the issue more irreversible.
Hipatia Press
2015-07-30 06:32:41
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015): July
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2021-02-28T17:53:03Z
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The Impact of New Technologies on Leisure in Developed and Emerging Economies
Ciochetto, Lynne
Massey University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3916-9658
In the last two decades there has been an exponential increase in worldwide computer use, followed by a similar expansion in mobile phone usage. There are a number of factors caused this increase: technological advances in functionality, the migration of computer use from work to the home environment, increased accessibility of data through the increased capacity of search engines and the rapid growth in popularity of social media websites after 2004. The exponential growth of mobile phone use followed a similar but more rapid trajectory and the user base expanded in emerging economies when 3G mobile phone technologies provided internet access. There has been a major shift in the way people communicate particularly the exponential increase in the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Skype and Baibu. Sites such as iTunes and YouTube have changed the way music and video are accessed, listened to and used. Changing patterns of technology use have had a major impact on the way people conduct their lives and have impacted significantly on leisure activities in both developed and emerging economies: the types of activities and the way those activities are pursued in both at home and when people travel.
Hipatia Press
2015-07-30 06:32:41
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015): July
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Redes Sociales y Marcos Cognitivos. El Caso #YaMeCansé y el Conflicto de Ayotzinapa en México, 2014.
Torres-Nabel, Luis César
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5845-9290
El artículo analiza los marcos cognitivos que subyacen al comportamiento político en las redes sociales. Para tal efecto se estudia el fenómeno ocurrido en la twitósfera mexicana tras el conflicto de 43 estudiantes normalistas desaparecidos en el sur de México, a saber el caso del hashtag #YaMeCansé, mismo que es el más extenso (35 días) en la historia de las redes sociales en México. Los resultados del análisis dan cuenta de una predisposición socio-cognitiva en los usuarios para incrementar este tipo de tendencias que se suscitan cotidianamente en las aplicaciones de red social.
Hipatia Press
2015-07-30 06:32:41
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015): July
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2021-02-28T17:11:29Z
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Characteristics of Youth Dating Violence and Risk Factors in Mexico: An Analysis From a National Sample
Acharya, Arun Kumar
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2696-3038
Dating violence is a significant issue affecting today’s youth and can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic, racial, and religious backgrounds, and it occurs in heterosexual, gay, and lesbian relationships. This study examines and identifies the different types of dating violence, and their associated risk factors in Mexico considering the data from a national sample. In 2007, the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information (INEGI) conducted a nationwide survey of youth (15-24 years old), to address the problem of dating violence among these demographic group. The survey was conducted in all 32 states of Mexico, which included 4,147 males and 3,807 females. Results indicate that young females in Mexico suffered different types of dating violence from their counterpart. It also found that dating violence has a greater impact on the health status of girls. In addition, this study shows that dating violence has led many young females toward substance abuse.
Hipatia Press
2015-11-30 07:07:18
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015): November
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2021-02-28T17:57:43Z
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Precariado. Una Carta de Derechos. Guy Standing
Taberner, José
Universidad de Córdoba http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2211-6667
Hipatia Press
2015-07-30 06:32:41
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015): July
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oai:oai.hipatiapress.com:article/1664
2015-08-20T17:48:39Z
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Serradell i Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
Hipatia Press
2015-07-30 06:32:41
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015): July
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2021-02-28T17:56:47Z
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Child Accident/Injury Prevention in Risk Society: A Critical Analysis
Campbell, Maxine Mary
University of Waikato http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5937-0773
Cowley, Natalie
University of Waikato
Unintentional injury is now the principle cause of child death in developed nations, and the prevention of it has become a key focus of health professionals. This paper presents a sociological/philosophical enquiry into child accident prevention discourse and its implications for practice. With a critical distillation of major child accident prevention literature spanning the last two decades, significant findings, recommendations and themes are identified. It is observed which preventative measures have been deemed successful, with the placement of strategies into the appropriate ‘E’ category - education, engineering, enforcement, and environment. This process demonstrates the difficulties with and paradoxes inherent in the notion of accident prevention and buttresses a central hypothesis: that the child accident or injury in risk society is simultaneously predictable and random; knowable at a statistical level but enigmatic at an individual one. The accident, previously configured as unpredictable and inexplicable, has become wholly subject to risk society’s raison d’etre, the laws of probability, and is thus rendered predictable and preventable on a magnified scale.
Hipatia Press
2015-11-30 07:07:18
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015): November
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Natural Resource Conflicts as a Struggle for Space: The Case of Mining in Tanzania
Poncian, Japhace
Mkwawa University College of Education & University of Newcastle http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1578-6766
Kigodi, Henry Michael
Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial University http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7933-4000
Natural resource extraction in Africa has been characterised by conflicts between large scale and small scale miners on the one hand and large scale miners and the communities on the other. In some countries such as Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Liberia, natural resources have bred political instability and civil wars. A great deal of academic discourse on resource conflicts in Africa focuses on greed, corruption, political struggles for state capture and control over resources, economic liberalisation policies for attracting foreign investors and creating conducive climate for them to invest their capital in natural resource extraction, and foreign forces. While recognising the significance of the above approaches in explaining resource conflicts in Africa, this paper aims at explaining resource conflicts as a struggle for space between the communities, artisanal and small scale miners and large scale foreign mining corporations. The paper, therefore, argues that natural resource extraction conflicts in Africa can well be understood if we approach them as a struggle for space. Data for this paper are drawn from secondary sources including academic literature, government reports, media reports and internet sources.
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2015-11-30 07:07:18
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015): November
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2021-02-28T18:04:56Z
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La producción socio-institucional de sufrimiento social
Abad Miguélez, Begoña
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5187-4387
Los clásicos de la sociología -pensemos en Marx y su concepto de alienación, en Durkheim y la anomía o en Weber y el desencantamiento del mundo- fueron conscientes del potencial que se podía esperar del sufrimiento como analizador social. Sin embargo, el interés por el significado existencial y las implicaciones éticas y sociopolíticas del sufrimiento en la vida social decayó hasta desaparecer durante los años “gloriosos” de la modernidad funcionalista ocupada en tratar las relaciones humanas desde la pura racionalidad de una abstracción cuantificable capaz de exorcizar la dimensión existencial de las relaciones sociales, la auténtica maldición del sociólogo. El propósito de este artículo es reflexionar sobre el sufrimiento como marco conceptual para la comprensión de una amplia gama de problemas sociales actuales. Partimos, para ello, de una proposición teórica básica: que el sufrimiento no es sólo una categoría que permite, trascendiendo la esfera de lo individual psicológico, observar bajo un mismo prisma problemas humanos que, aunque diversos, tienen un origen común en el daño que las fuerzas sociales infringen en la experiencia humana, sino también un elemento estructurante de la sociodicea actual, de sus formas de subjetivación e intervención social e institucional.
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2016-03-30 08:28:44
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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2021-02-28T18:05:23Z
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The Refugee in Europe
Mautz, Christoph
Institut für Soziologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster http://ifs.wwu.de/mautz
This paper suggests a theoretical and methodological heuristics for the analysis of the specific situation of asylum seekers in Europe with the focus on reception centers in Germany. It should be shown that the situation of asylum seekers in Europe can be conceived as a result from translation relations between global and local political and juridical targets of the European refugee regime, the organization reception centers and formations of groups between the asylum seekers.
Hipatia Press
2015-11-30 07:07:18
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015): November
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2018-06-14T08:42:18Z
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Child Migration & Human Rights in a Global Age, by Jaqueline Bhabha
Merodio Alonso, Guiomar
Universitat de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8666-4320
Hipatia Press
2015-11-30 07:07:18
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015): November
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2021-02-28T18:06:28Z
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Acquiring Human Capital skills through Labour Migrancy: The case of Colonial Njombe District; 1900-1960s
Mgaya, Edward
Mkwawa University College of Education http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2680-3464
The migration of labourers to centres of mining, plantations and industrial production has been one of the most important demographic features of the African continent since its incorporation into the capitalist money economy. It is, however, surprisingly that the influence of this phenomenon on rural transformations remains largely unexplored as most of studies have mostly addressed the negative consequences of labour migration pointing at the destructive nature of labour migration to the local communities. While not denying the detrimental impacts of labour migration, the paper integrates written and oral information to establish that such exclusive attribution of rural underdevelopment to labour migration was indeed a traditional way of viewing labour migration. Such views were mainly a result of over emphasis on just macro-economic cost-benefit analysis that economists have always considered and emphasized upon. This article, therefore, is an effort to go beyond such economic arena by considering the acquisition of human capital particularly linking labour migration with western education and the spread of the Swahili language. Drawing from transformational approaches, this article argues that knowledge and skills that Njombe migrant labourers got from different work places, imbued them with elements which knowingly or unknowingly became part of the instruments for the wider rural transformation.
Hipatia Press
2016-03-30 08:28:44
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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Vol. 4, Num. 3 - Full Issue
Serradell i Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
Hipatia Press
2015-11-30 07:07:18
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 4 No. 3 (2015): November
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Is Affordable Housing an Issue? A Case Study of Housing Stress among Middle-Income Group In Malaysia
Baqutayan, Shadiya
senior lecturer
and senior researcher http://perdanaschool.utm.my/shadiya/
Dwellers facing one housing problem typically face multiple risky housing circumstances that threaten an array of their outcomes. Experiencing multiple unfavourable housing issues can intensify the negative effects that such conditions have on the whole person’s physical, psychological, emotional, and cognitive development. This paper is a survey study, and it discusses the effect of some housing issues and conditions on dwellers’ psychological and emotional well-being. The purpose is to understand the effect of such problems, such as housing price, safety and security, housing quality, transportation, schools and economic development on dwellers’ stress level and emotional well-being. Simple random sampling was assigned to a large number of middle-income residents in Malaysia. The accumulated data were then analysed, and descriptive statistics were used to interpret and evaluate the prevalence of housing issues and housing stress. The findings of this study indicated that there is housing stress among middle-income groups caused by transportation, housing quality, and economic development that force dwellers to stay far from their workplace and to be unable to afford the moving cost. Hence, it is highly advisable for the governments and stakeholders to look comprehensively at these issues and tackle their consequences by emphasizing people’s need for affordable, liveable home standard.
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2016-03-30 08:28:44
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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The Impact of Road Accidents to the Community of Iringa Municipality: Challenges in Reducing Risks
Haulle, Evaristo
Mkwawa University College of Education http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7490-2838
Kisiri, Marwa
Mkwawa University College of Education http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2563-5224
This paper examines impact of Road Accidents on community socio-economic activities in Iringa municipality. It assumes that accident as any disaster adversely affects people, property and environment. The paper employed questionnaire, interview, observation and documentary search for data collection. The study found that road accidents on-site conditions were caused by poor infrastructure, overloading of vehicles, law impunity, inadequacy of relevant laws, corruption, negligence of drivers, lack of road safety education and road traffic signs. Road accidents caused loss of lives, increase of dependence, destruction of property, increase of poverty, injuries and permanent disabilities. Provision of training to drivers, serious enforcement of the laws, provision of education to road users through public agitations, posters and television broadcasts, introduction of ad hoc inspection of road quality and transport facilities were some of the techniques used to curb the risk. Generally, road accidents caused a great loss of human, physical and natural resources. The intervention is on on-site conditions while very little attention is put on the root causes. It is recommended that, in addressing this human induced disaster the government in collaborations with other stakeholders should focus on the root causes in a participatory manner to bring community equity hence sustainable development.
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2016-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 3 (2016): November
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2021-02-28T18:07:41Z
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Politics, Law & Complexity: The Case of the Academic Policies in the European Union
Pitasi, Andrea
Gabriele d'Annunzio University of Chieti and Pescara http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3195-7502
The theoretical goal of this paper is the development of the connection between politics and law within the model of the complex system especially in the perspective of Niklas Luhmann, in a viewpoint linked with the economic analysis of law. The aim is to describe the differences that truly make the difference in the setting problem of policy or legal decisions more formalized by the subject with their values instead of in a system. Therefore, the vision of Joseph A. Schumpeter about the politics as a kind of market, a sub-kind market where votes are sold and bought it is very important and strategic as a bridge between the macro-systemic and the economic analysis of law becomes even more positive, artificial and global: the more is the scenario, the weaker is the function of the human subject in the decisional process, this also provides a report of the changes in the very idea of citizen in global scenarios, which is the Hypercitizenship.
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2016-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 3 (2016): November
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Contextualization-Emotionalization Interface: A Case of Teacher Effectiveness
Pishghadam, Reza
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Shayesteh, Shaghayegh
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Rahmani, Simindokht
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Given the prominence of cognitive and affective factors in teacher effectiveness, this study intends to look at the issue from a different perspective and examine the roles of contextualization and emotionalization in teacher success. In so doing, 305 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners rated their English teachers to determine the extent to which they contextualize and emotionalize their instructions. During the first phase of the study, a pair of scales were constructed and substantiated via Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to serve the abovementioned purpose. As for the second phase, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to shed light on any probable relationships among the independent variables and teacher success. The results indicated that, teachers who contextualize and emotionalize their instructional practices, enjoy an enhanced level of success. Moreover, it was revealed that, in the close competition between contextualization and emotionalization, contextualization was identified as a slightly better predictor of teacher success. Building upon the rather strong links between the sub-construct of contextualization and emotionalization, it was further inferred that, mutual juxtaposition of the two concepts contribute to teacher success. In the end, the results were discussed in the realm of English language education.
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2016-07-30 06:55:40
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): July
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Women Vulnerability in Informal Entertainment Sectors in Kathmandu: A Human Rights Perspectives
Niroula, Ghanashyam
USAID Funded FPSS Project http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3628-9075
The objective of the research was to explore the vulnerability of women working in the entertainment sectors towards prostitution and their social problems. Natural calamities, armed conflict or any other social and economic problems make women and girls more vulnerable in Nepal. There is no fixed data on the number of women working in these sectors. Research methods such as key informant interviews and participation in the interaction programs were employed to gather information. It was found that female sex workers on the street in Kathmandu sit in the crowd area of the city. Unemployment and poverty in the urban area have made especially the migrant young women involve in sex profession. Participants in the interview said that domestic violence has made women do anything for their sustenance. The sex worker women suffer from social stigma and reproductive health problems. However, they have hidden their health problems. Finally, due to the orientation and assistance of non-government organizations, the sex-workers have started to organize in groups and are more empowered than before.
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2017-03-30 08:20:55
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): March
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2021-02-28T18:03:35Z
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Challenges and Ways to Develop Insurance Industry in KSA Market
Toukabri, Maher Taib
Assistant Professor - College of Business Administration, Northern Borders University, Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim, Hafedh Hedi
Assistant Professor - College of Business Administration, Northern Borders University, Saudi Arabia.
Psychology and ethnic play a central role within Saudi Arabia market. Thus, this editorial argues the cultural and emotion effects on the Saudi consumption of life insurance. Even thought, the present paper intend to understand the reasons of the slowly growth of the purchase of this product and how to increase its rate in the insurance portfolio? Subsequently, this study target to confirm the significant effects of religiosity, optimism, opinion leadership, emotional regulation on Saudi behavior to subscribe in life insurance. Data was collected from two samples. The first sample, count 210 respondents, worn to purify the measurement scales of the variables studied in the exploratory phase. The second sample was administered from belonging 654 policyholders in order to confirm the measures instruments, to verify the hypotheses, validate and re-specify the model. Thus, this study bears a theoretical interest for researchers and it is useful for practitioners in this sector.
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2016-07-30 06:55:40
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): July
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2021-02-28T18:04:07Z
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Neo-liberalism: Employability, and the Labor Market Mobility among Racialized Migrants- Canada's Study
Madut, Kon K
University of Ottawa
The paper discusses the effect of political paradigm on the path of career development and the predicament of employment outcomes among racialized migrants in Canada. The study highlights challenge of retraining, skills development and access to Canadian work experience that meets neo-labor market demands. The study also examines how neoliberals’ interventions in market place, elimination of social services, and employment support programs have deterred labor force integration of the racialized migrants’ job seekers. In this Grounded Theory study (GT), participants have shared their experiences and challenges they have encountered form own perspectives. They shared stories about difficulties of finding suitable training and employment support programs within the current neo-liberalized labor market in Canada. The outcomes suggested that the rise of neoliberalism as noted in policies of social and employment services cuts, coupled with employment standard Acts reforms (ESA), have given employers more powers over hiring process which in many cases has nothing to do with candidate’s skills or qualifications. In this neo-political paradigm, the racialized migrants felt they have wasted most of their productive years searching for (1) training, mentorship or employment support programs that can facilitate effective transition to the labor force, and (2) dealing with challenges of improving unrecognized skills and qualification attained from countries of origin.
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2016-07-30 06:55:40
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): July
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2016-12-04T04:22:08Z
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Una gloria incierta: India y sus contradicciones, de Jean Drèze y Amartya Sen
Alonso, Eva
Universitat de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1231-064X
El presente documento es unareseña del Libro de Jean Drèze y Amartya Sen, Una gloria incierta: India y sus contradicciones, publicado por Taurus en 2014. Un libro que analiza las contradicciones que caracterizan a la India actual, como país con niveles elevados de desarrollo económico, pero que simultáneamente se mantiene en niveles muy ineficientes de prestaciones de servicios necesarios como la educación o la sanidad para toda su población.
Hipatia Press
2016-03-30 08:28:44
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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Leadership and community participation: a literature review
Redondo, Gisela
Cambridge University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2240-7795
This article presents a literature review of the relationship between leadership and community participation to identify the research topics underpinning the studies and theoretical works in this domain. A systematic review of electronic sources was conducted, covering the period from 1990 to 2015. A total of 1.890 articles in the social sciences were identified, and the full texts of 17 articles were reviewed in detail. The criteria used in selecting articles with key theoretical and empirical contributions were the number of times an article was cited and the relevance of the topic. The results were exploited through a comprehensive review. The articles discuss different modes of community participation that have been divided into the categories of leadership in professional communities, leadership in relation to family participation, and leadership in relation to other community members. It has been identified that there are fewer works that include integrative approaches in terms of dialogical leadership among all community members. This review suggests a need to further investigate the leadership dynamics that, through community participation, may result in improvements for society.
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2016-03-30 08:28:44
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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2016-12-21T13:21:08Z
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List of 2015 RIMCIS Reviewers
Serradell, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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2016-12-21T13:21:08Z
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Vol. 5, Num. 1 - Full Issue
Serradell, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
Hipatia Press
2016-03-30 08:28:44
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016): March
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2016-12-04T04:22:08Z
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War & Society, by Miguel A. Centeno & Elaine Enríquez
Baqués, Josep
Universitat de Barcelona
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2016-07-30 06:55:40
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): July
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Evaluation of “Ready for First Certificate of English”: Microstructural Approach
Khodadady, Ebrahim
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3691-6251
Attaran, Atena
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-4807
Despite much research done on language learning textbooks, there still exist several questions unanswered about what these textbooks’ contents are about. This study is thus an attempt to investigate the 15 reading passages of Ready for First Certificate of English (FCE) in the light of schema theory. In doing so, the microstructural approach to schema theory was taken into the account which led to the classification of 8617 schema tokens into the three main categories of syntactic, semantic, and parasyntactic domains. Running the chi-square test revealed that the domains differ significantly from each other regarding both their types (X2= 2869.9, p< 0.05) and tokens (X2= 1704, p< 0.05) which lent support to their psychological reality. In addition, the descriptive analysis of the schemata demonstrated that reading passages are heavily outweighed by semantic types (80.7%), whereas syntactic ad parasyntactic types were only about 6% and 12.4 % respectively. The pedagogical implication of the study is discussed and further suggestions are put forward.
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2017-03-30 08:20:55
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): March
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Inter-institutional Framework towards Ensuring SDGs in Somaliland, Transformative Paradigm
Madar, Mohamed
Amoud University, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, IDB https://www.amouduniversity.org
Subari, Mustafa Din
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia https://www.utm.my
Baqutayan, Shadiya M.S.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
The United Nations (UN) Rio+20 summit obligated nations to develop set of universal development goals as indicated in the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). These goals were designated to enhance and further improve strategies cope with failures of the expired millennium development goals (MDGs) (Under-Secretary-General, 2013). Researches and other official reports at present indicate that SDGs are the extension or the continuation of the expired MDGs. The MDGs were mostly relief projects toward improving human life through aid based approach. The MDGs projects did not thus so far remarkably improve the target sectors but alleviated hunger and reduced extreme poverty in some countries while countries like Somaliland, hunger and poverty are on the increase. This doesn’t mean that MDGs were totally failed projects, but to indicate that the set targets were not improved as supposed to be due to lack of context based national strategic framework. Additional monitoring and evaluation of MDGs was haphazard since there had not been specific indicators adopted to report the progress. The SDGs signed up by the Somaliland government this year (2017) would inherit challenges hindered MDGs to produce the anticipated outcomes if they are not strategically avoided. Socioeconomic development and national sustainability are often posed as being in conflict because of tradeoffs between the growing demands of least developed counties like Somaliland as well as lower standards of living and poor capacity of the national institutions. This review paper suggests a need to adopt an indigenous integrated framework, which ensures that synergy is exploited and collaborative strategies are put in place towards achieving SDG targets. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework and key recommendations focusing on filling the gaps left in the MDGs and accelerate in achieving the new goals and targets of SDGs.
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2017-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 3 (2017): November
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Female University Students Respond to Gender Violence through Dialogic Feminist Gatherings
Puigvert, Lidia
University of Cambridge http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-615X
Within the framework of the "Free_Teen_Desire" research project led by the University of Cambridge and funded by the programme Marie Curie Actions[i], a survey was conducted. Vignette-Test data for 127 female university students (ages 18-27 years) in Spain reveals that the wish to hook up with a violent young man significantly decreases after a gathering on the topic of the Mirage of Upward Mobility, a successful programme elaborated in Dialogic Feminism (Butler, Beck & Puigvert, 2003). In the pre-test,78.4%of the respondents stated that their female friends wouldliketo hook up with a violent man at a party, while this percentage decreased to 38.5% when they responded concerning themselves. After the pre-test, there was a one-hour gathering and debate. The subsequent post-test revealed that only 48.8%of the respondents stated that their female friends wouldliketo hook up with a violent man at a party, and 14.9% of the respondents made the same statement concerning themselves. The survey presented pictures of four men accompanied by a short explanation of their characters. The explanations of man 1 and man 3 included sentences that describe behaviours characterized as gender violence in previous international surveys (Banyard et al., 2005; Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 1999; Gross et al., 2006; Kalof et al., 2001). The descriptions of man 2 and man 4 only included non-sexist behaviours. The data did not significantly change when we exchanged the pictures of man 2 and man 4 in the instrument with the pictures of the men with violent profiles and then administered the post-test. For different groups of respondents, the period between the pre-test and the gathering as well as between the gathering and the post-test were changed from fifteen minutes to one and two weeks. In all cases, we obtained similar results for the pre- and post-tests. However, additional research is required to demonstrate how long the effect of the gathering endures and to identify the processes that can increase or decrease the effect over time.
[i]This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 659299.
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): July
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The Interface between Motivational and Emotional Facets of Organizational Commitment among Instructors at Higher Education
Royaei, Nahid
Imam Reza International University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4715-726X
Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh
Imam Reza International University http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-1556
Teachers in higher education domain play a decisive role in advancing economic developments as well as nurturing the well-being of the societies. Thus, the issue of university instructors’ commitment and the factors influencing its development should be a compelling priority for higher education administrations. The present study aims to extend the research on teacher organizational commitment by investigating the contribution of job motivation and emotion regulation to teacher commitment at higher education. To this purpose, 135 English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors from different higher education institutes and universities took part in this study. They were requested to complete a battery of three questionnaires: Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ), Work Tasks Motivation Scale for Teachers (WTMST), and Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). Findings demonstrated that both emotion regulation and motivation had a positive significant correlation with teacher organizational commitment. Moreover, findings obtained via regression analysis showed that among job motivation components, identified regulation was the best contributor of teacher organizational commitment. Also, among the subscales of emotion regulation, reappraisal strategy was a better predictor of teacher organizational commitment. Findings are discussed in details with respect to the implications for both theory and practice in higher education.
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2016-11-30 00:00:00
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 3 (2016): November
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Sustaining Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme Through Preventive Healthcare Strategies and Legislation
Adu-Gyamfi, Samuel
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0193-867X
Dramani, Aminu
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8366-0861
This article focuses primarily on secondary literature to highlight some of the key issues that has affected the effectiveness and the efficiency of the National Health Insurance in Ghana. The article proposes the need to use legislation and additional preventive healthcare strategies to lessen or reduce the pressure that comes upon the National Health Insurance Authority. Finally, it postulates that the people of a community, their institution, that is health institutions and Para-health institutions that ensure public safety, environmental protection, and sanitation among others are enjoined to reduce the occurrence of disease and injury or harm. This could ensure a healthy work force and a healthy population that has the tendency or proclivity to increase productivity and lessen disease burden with its associated harm and cost on the state, especially in countries where social insurance is practiced.
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2017-03-30 08:20:55
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): March
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Vol. 5, Num. 2 - Full Issue
Serradell, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
Hipatia Press
2016-07-30 06:55:40
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016): July
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Funcionalidades TIC Dirigidas a Personas Mayores, ¿Cómo son Valoradas en el Medio Rural?
Rubio Pastor, María Ángeles
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0171-5417
Plaza García, Inmaculada
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7550-6688
Orive Serrano, Víctor
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6467-7414
La despoblación del medio rural del interior de España representa un serio problema a la hora de ofrecer atención personalizada a las personas mayores, que ahora representan un elevado porcentaje de su población. Se considera que el avance en la investigación y desarrollo de nuevas funciones de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) puede ayudar en la labor que tradicionalmente han realizado familiares o vecinos. Sin embargo, es necesario conocer cómo estas funcionalidades son valoradas por las personas mayores y para ello se les ha convocado a través de diversos talleres, donde se les han mostrado mediante dinámicas de grupo y se les ha pedido que las evaluaran. Los resultados han sido muy positivos, pues tras su conocimiento y prueba los mayores se han manifestado muy receptivos a su uso, apreciando cómo podían contribuir a mejorar su calidad de vida.
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2017-07-30 08:03:15
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 2 (2017): July
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Refugee Quota: is Estonia Ready to Receive Refugees? A Review of the Literature on Migration and Ethnic Minorities in Estonia
Islam, Aminul
Tallinn University, Estonia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2625-8857
This study analyzes literature about migration and ethnic minorities in Estonia. Following initial identification and using content analysis process, existing literature were characterized into four major patterns: definition of immigrant population in Estonia, emigration and ethnic return migration in Estonia, formation of ethnic minorities and their structure, and ethnic minorities and integration. Despite of having long historical background of emigration, return migration and ethnic minorities in Estonia; existing literature lacks focusing on refugees and ethnic minorities having background from outside Europe. New question emerged from the reviewed literature, whether Estonia is ready to accept quota refugees under EU quota system?
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2016-11-30 00:00:00
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Teoría sociológica aplicada de Félix Requena y Luís Ayuso
Elboj Saso, Carmen
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0937-4861
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El Perfil del Votante del Cambio en España: de las Elecciones Europeas a las Generales del 20D
Valero-Oteo, Irene
La crisis financiera mundial que se hizo visible en 2008 ha tenido consecuencias devastadoras para el bienestar social de las economías desarrolladas, entre ellas España. Esta situación sumada a otra serie de crisis, entre ellas institucional, que llevaban latentes en la sociedad española desde hace décadas, ha puesto en tela de juicio la capacidad de la política tradicional para dar solución a los problemas de la población. En este contexto, España ha visto transformado su escenario político con la irrupción en él de dos nuevas formaciones políticas, quienes han entrado con fuerza en el territorio político y cuyo objetivo es regenerar la política del país. En este trabajo lo que se intenta es analizar cuál ha sido el perfil de votante que ha apostado por las nuevas formaciones en comparación con los partidos tradicionales, con objeto de observar las diferencias y similitudes que existen entre los votantes de nuevos y viejos partidos políticos.
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2017-07-30 08:03:15
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 2 (2017): July
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Serradell i Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
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2016-11-30 00:00:00
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List of 2016 RIMCIS Reviewers
Serradell i Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
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2017-03-30 08:20:55
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): March
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Alternatives to Capitalism. Proposals for a Democratic Economy, by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright
Rodríguez, Alfonso
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7913-0929
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2017-03-30 08:20:55
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 1 (2017): March
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Identifying the Relevance of Research Goals through Collecting Citizens’ Voices on Social Media
Cabré-Olivé, Joan
University of Rovira i Virgili https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1704-9364
Flecha-García, Ramon
University of Barcelona http://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-516X
Ionescu, Vladia
University of Rovira and Virgili http://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-8971-252X
Pulido, Cristina
University of Barcelona http://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-8630-7529
Sordé-Martí, Teresa
Autonomous University of Barcelona http://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-0336-3061
Recent debates on the meaning and use of science are focused on addressing citizens’ needs or concerns of society in different fields. Researchers have developed different methodologies for capturing the relevance of topics to be addressed by research in order to map them. This article proposes a new methodology for identifying the relevance of research goals through collecting citizen’s voices on Twitter and Facebook combing two approaches: top down, starting with already defined research goals priorities, and bottom up, departing from the social media. The article presents the results of the application of this methodology through the research goals of Sustainable Development Goals to identify their relevance and if there are some topics not covered by them. Thus, researchers could integrate this methodology in their daily work and be more in line with the needs expressed by citizens in social media.
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Vol. 6, Num. 1 - Full Issue
Serradell i Pumareda, Olga
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-1400
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The Growth of E-Marketing in Business-to-Business Industry and its effect on the Performance of Businesses in Pakistan: Marketing Success
Sheikh, Adnan Ahmed
Universiti Utara Malaysia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3546-5284
Shahzad, Arfan
Universiti Utara Malaysia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2218-4619
Ku Ishaq, Awanis
Universiti Utara Malaysia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5990-5021
E-marketing has emerged as one of the significant drivers in sustaining the firms competitive advantage. So far, there is a lack of systematic empirical evidence regarding the marketing activities which are drastically affected by the use of e-marketing in small and large firms of Pakistan and their consequent performance outcomes. However, the objective of this study is to examine the technological, organizational and environmental factors on the performance of small and large firms in Pakistan with mediating role of E-Marketing uses and its generlizibality on countries with similar economic situation. Cross sectional data were collected from 257 manufacturing companies in Pakistan; general manager marketing were selected as the data collection sources. Additionally, SmartPLS 3.0, two step path-modeling has been used to examine the direct as well as indirect hypothesis of the current study. However, the results generated from SmartPLS (SEM) path-modeling found that, with regard to direct relationships, three variables (technology orientation, top management support, use of e-marketing) out of five including mediation variable have found significant positively associated with firm performance, however, only one (competitive pressure) has found negatively significant with firm performance. Finally, in terms of use of e-marketing as mediating variable between the relationships of technological, organizational, environmental factors and firm performance, three out of four (independent variables) indicate partial mediation including technological factors (technology orientation), organizational factors (top management support) and environmental factors (competitive pressure). However, market orientation had shown insignificant results both in the direct relationship as well as by including E-Marketing uses.
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International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 6 No. 2 (2017): July
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