Social Sciences

2012 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2015

An Appreciative View of the Brighter Side of Terror Management Processes pp. 1-26

Kenneth E. Vail, III and Jacob Juhl

Objective Structures and Symbolic Violence in the Immigrant Family and School Relationships: Study of Two Cases in Chile pp. 1-26

Rayen Cornejo Torres and Ariel Rosales Ubeda

Suffering Has No Race or Nation: The Psychological Impact of the Refugee Crisis in Hungary and the Occurrence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder pp. 1-8

Szabolcs Kéri

The Effect of Gender on Stress Factors: An Exploratory Study among University Students pp. 1-8

Michelle Calvarese

Finnish Mothers’ Assessments of the Harmfulness of Childcare at Home on Occupational Careers: A Comparison of Twelve European Countries pp. 1-22

Sirpa Weckström

Facing the Gender Gap in Aging: Italian Women’s Pension in the European Context pp. 1-22

Maria Letizia Zanier and Isabella Crespi

Languaging the Borders of Europe pp. 1-22

Olivier Kramsch, Kolar Aparna and Huda Degu

The “Double-Edge Sword” of Human Empathy: A Unifying Neurobehavioral Theory of Compassion Stress Injury pp. 1-31

Mark Russell and Matt Brickell

Cross-National Investigation of Health Indicators among Sexual Minorities in Norway and the United States pp. 1-14

Ryan J. Watson, Christopher W. Wheldon, Lars Wichstrøm and Stephen T. Russell

Internalized Stigma and Psychological Well-Being in Gay Men and Lesbians in Italy and Belgium pp. 1-14

Giorgia Lorenzi, Marina Miscioscia, Lucia Ronconi, Caterina Elisa Pasquali and Alessandra Simonelli

Dead Spaces, Living Architecture and the Functionality of Death in Post-Conflict Settings pp. 1-9

Diana El Richani

Who Wants to Live Forever? Living, Dying and Grieving in Our Digital Society pp. 1-13

Debra J. Bassett

Population Aging: An Emerging Research Agenda for Sustainable Development pp. 1-27

Shogo Kudo, Emmanuel Mutisya and Masafumi Nagao

A Cross-Level Exploratory Analysis of “Neighborhood Effects” on Urban Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective pp. 1-21

Russell Weaver

Reliability and Validity of the Multidimensional Locus of Control IPC Scale in a Sample of 3668 Greek Educators pp. 1-12

Ntina Kourmousi, Vasiliki Xythali and Vasilios Koutras

Assessing Energy Security Using Indicator-Based Analysis: The Case of ASEAN Member Countries pp. 1-47

Kamonphorn Kanchana and Hironobu Unesaki

Analysis of Benefits to Young Rail Enthusiasts of Participating in Extracurricular Academic Activities pp. 1-20

Anna Fraszczyk, Joseph Dungworth and Marin Marinov

Intersectoral Mobilization in Child Development: An Outcome Assessment of the Survey of the School Readiness of Montreal Children pp. 1-19

Isabelle Laurin, Angèle Bilodeau, Nadia Giguère and Louise Potvin

Influencing Factors for Developing Managerial Behaviours That Encourage a Work-Family Culture in the University Context pp. 1-19

María Dolores Álvarez-Pérez and Adolfo Carballo-Penela

Who Benefits from Public Healthcare Subsidies in Egypt? pp. 1-15

Ahmed Rashad and Mesbah Sharaf

Trials and Triumph: Lesbian and Gay Young Adults Raised in a Rural Context pp. 1-15

Angie L. Dahl, Rachel K. Scott and Zachalee Peace

Understanding and Supporting “Families with Complex Needs”: An Editorial pp. 1-5

Nathan Hughes and Carolina Munoz-Guzman

Exploring Student Service Members/Veterans Social Support and Campus Climate in the Context of Recovery pp. 1-16

Susan M. Love, Amy Levin and Hyun-Sun Park

Volume 4, issue 3, 2015

Collaborative Resilience to Episodic Shocks and Surprises: A Very Long-Term Case Study of Zanjera Irrigation in the Philippines 1979–2010 pp. 1-30

Ruth Yabes and Bruce Evan Goldstein

Putting Lesbians in Their Place: Deconstructing Ex-Gay Discourses of Female Homosexuality in a Global Context pp. 1-30

Christine M. Robinson and Sue E. Spivey

Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Linear and Non-Linear Clustering Methods to “Shakespeare Authorship Question” pp. 1-42

Refat Aljumily

How Muslim Students’ Knowledge of Christianity Is Related to Their Attitudes to Mainstream Australia and Australians: A National Survey pp. 1-6

Abe W. Ata

Reconceptualising the Gender of Fitness Doping: Performing and Negotiating Masculinity through Drug-Use Practices pp. 1-17

Jesper Andreasson

Community and the Long Shadow of the Analytic: Rieffian Pessimism in Social Thought pp. 1-18

Peter McMylor

The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Employment Policies in 19 Western Democracies from 1985 to 2010. Limited Change or Radical Shift towards Workfare? pp. 1-18

Ari-Matti Näätänen

Trends of the Time: An Examination of Judicial Waiver in One State pp. 1-18

Alison S. Burke

Leadership Talent: A Study of the Potential of People in the Australian Rail Industry pp. 1-24

Janene Piip

A Successful Cooperation between Academia and Industry in Higher Rail Education: The Postgraduate Course in “Railway Infrastructure and Systems Engineering” at Sapienza pp. 1-9

Luca Rizzetto, Gabriele Malavasi, Stefano Ricci, Noemi Montaruli, Nicoletta Abbascià, Riccardo Risica, Giovanni Bocchetti, Federico Gherardi and Alessandra Raffone

The “A Graceful Death Exhibition”: Portraits and Words from the End of Life pp. 1-14

Antonia Rolls

The Resurgence of Education in Railway and Metro Engineering in Brazil pp. 1-14

Yesid Asaff, Viviane V. F. Grubisic, Regis K. Scalice and Acires Dias

Forgiveness Postvention with a Survivor of Suicide Following a Loved One Suicide: A Case Study pp. 1-12

Eunjin Lee, Robert Enright and Jichan Kim

The Struggles of Solidarity: Chicana/o-Mexican Networks, 1960s–1970s pp. 1-13

Nydia A. Martinez

The Social Constructedness of Resilience pp. 1-13

Martin Endress

Death, Entropy, Creativity and Perpetual Perishing: Some Thoughts from Whitehead and Stengers pp. 1-13

Michael Halewood

Cross-Border Governance: Balancing Formalized and Less Formalized Co-Operations pp. 1-21

Kristina Zumbusch and Roland Scherer

LGBT in Turkey: Policies and Experiences pp. 1-21

Ceylan Engin

Deviant Citizenship: DREAMer Activism in the United States and Transnational Belonging pp. 1-16

Joaquina Weber-Shirk

Reconceptualizing Cultural Globalization: Connecting the “Cultural Global” and the “Cultural Local” pp. 1-16

Stephen Magu

Airport Casualties: Non-Admission and Return Risks at Times of Internalized/Externalized Border Controls pp. 1-16

Maybritt Jill Alpes

Re-Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence through Post-Structural Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Sociology of Gender pp. 1-20

Clare Cannon, Katie Lauve-Moon and Fred Buttell

Reconciling LGB and Christian Identities in the Rural South pp. 1-20

Brandi Woodell, Emily Kazyak and D’Lane Compton

The GSA Difference: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences in High Schools with and without Gay-Straight Alliances pp. 1-19

Tina Fetner and Athena Elafros

Volume 4, issue 2, 2015

Persistent Confusions about Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences pp. 1-12

Christopher Thron and Vincent Miller

The Need for Participative Interventions in Child Protection: Perspectives from Nuevo León State pp. 1-28

Elena Cabiati

Citations and Convictions: One Community’s Coordinated Response to Intimate Partner Violence & Efforts toward Offender Accountability pp. 1-13

Kerry Beldin, Allison Lauritsen, Henry D'Souza and Bob Moyer

“Providing a Roof That Allows One to Dream of a Better Life”: A Case Study of Working with Families in Extreme Poverty pp. 1-16

Maria Tsekoura

Fiscal Challenges in Multilayered Unions: An Overview and Case Study pp. 1-20

Joshua Aizenman and Gunnar Gunnarsson

“Como Arrancar una Planta”: Women’s Reflections about Influences of Im/Migration on Their Everyday Lives and Health in Mexico pp. 1-19

Eva K. Robertson

Imagined Borders: (Un)Bounded Spaces of Oil Extraction and Indigenous Sociality in “Post-Neoliberal” Ecuador pp. 1-25

Flora E. Lu and Néstor L. Silva

Applying the Behavioural Family Therapy Model in Complex Family Situations pp. 1-10

Rubina Jhadray, Gráinne Fadden, Martin Atchison, Paula Conneely, Julia Danks, Alison Lee and Chris Mansell

Awareness of Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS) Research Is Related to Patterns of Citizens’ Community and Cultural Engagement pp. 1-26

Murray Rudd

Understanding the Effects of Crime on Women: Fear and Well-Being in the Context of Diverse Relationships pp. 1-18

Natalia Hanley and Leah Ruppanner

Migrant and Non-Migrant Families in Chengdu, China: Segregated Lives, Segregated Schools pp. 1-22

Nan Li and Peggy Placier

Volume 4, issue 1, 2014

Child Welfare in Chile: Learning from International Experiences to Improve Family Interventions pp. 1-20

Carolina Muñoz-Guzmán, Candice Fischer, Enrique Chia and Catherine LaBrenz

A Critical Analysis of Britain’s Living, Dead and Zombie Multiculturalism: From 7/7 to the London 2012 Olympic Games pp. 1-16

Chris Allen

Negative Emotional Energy: A Theory of the “Dark-Side” of Interaction Ritual Chains pp. 1-23

David Boyns and Sarah Luery

Assessment in Kinship Foster Care: A New Tool to Evaluate the Strengths and Weaknesses pp. 1-17

Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Pere Amorós, Crescencia Pastor, María Cruz Molina and Maribel Mateo

Contagion in the Euro Area Sovereign Bond Market pp. 1-17

Umberto Muratori

Bringing the Family Back in: On Role Assignment and Clientification in the Swedish Social Services pp. 1-17

Ahmet Gümüscü, Lennart Nygren and Evelyn Khoo

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Social Sciences in 2014 pp. 1-2

Social Sciences Editorial Office

What Is a Friend? An Exploratory Typology of the Meanings of Friendship pp. 1-21

Verónica Policarpo

Different Welfare System—Same Values? How Social Work Educators in Norway, Chile and Argentina Comprehend Core Social Work and Social Policy Issues pp. 1-21

Rolv Lyngstad

Improving Pathways to Assessment and Care for Infants of Substance Abusing Mothers: Are We Getting It Right? pp. 1-13

Joanna Alexander, Shanti Raman, Terence Yoong and Belinda Mawhinney

Forty Years of Forensic Interviewing of Children Suspected of Sexual Abuse, 1974–2014: Historical Benchmarks pp. 1-32

Kathleen Coulborn Faller

EU Development Aid towards Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Normative Principle pp. 1-32

Georgios K. Bountagkidis, Konstantinos Fragkos and Christos Frangos

Social Policies in Contemporary Latin America: Families and Poverty in the Social Protection Systems pp. 1-14

Cristina González

The Influence of Interethnic Ideologies on Intention to Discriminate through In-Group Favoritism pp. 1-14

Marie Courtois and Ginette Herman