Contemporary Social Science

2013 - 2024

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Volume 15, issue 5, 2020

Introduction pp. 503-503

Jacqueline Barnes and John Connolly

Mistrust, uncertainty and health risks pp. 504-516

Glynis M. Breakwell

Brexit, Europe and othering pp. 517-532

Arno Van Der Zwet, Murray Stewart Leith, Duncan Sim and Elizabeth Boyle

The facilitators of interagency working in the context of European public service reform pp. 533-547

John Connolly, Jacqueline Barnes, Joana Guerra and Robert Pyper

De-constructing the other: an integrated pedagogy of inclusive learning and teaching approaches in and beyond Prison pp. 548-560

Eric Baumgartner

From agency to root causes: addressing structural Barriers to transformative justice in transitional and post-conflict settings pp. 561-576

Eric T. Hoddy and Paul Gready

Hedgehogs, foxes and other embodiments of academics’ research career trajectories pp. 577-594

Graham Crow

Volume 15, issue 4, 2020

Changing world, changing work pp. 407-415

Polly Lord

Feeling secure vs. being secure? Qualitative evidence on the relationship between labour market institutions and employees’ perceived job security from Germany and the U.S pp. 416-429

Lena Hipp

Examining employees’ behavioural outcomes within the context of organisational justice pp. 430-445

Young Waribo, Dayo I. Akintayo, Adewale Omotayo Osibanjo, David Imhonopi, Ayodotun Ibidunni and Olatunji Idowu Fadeyi

Factors influencing the choice of teaching as a career: an empirical study of students in colleges of education in Ghana pp. 446-460

Anselm Komla Abotsi, Cynthia Fofo Dsane, Pearl Adiza Babah and Patrick Kwarteng

‘Esusu cooperative’ as a means of extending social protection to the Nigerian informal economy pp. 461-475

Abigail Osiki

Digitalisation and work: challenges from the platform-economy pp. 476-488

Elena Gramano

The rise of artificial intelligence and robots in the 4th Industrial Revolution: implications for future South African job creation pp. 489-501

M. B. Rapanyane and F. R. Sethole

Volume 15, issue 3, 2020

Family change, intergenerational relations and policy implications pp. 275-290

Linda Hantrais, Julia Brannen and Fran Bennett

Generations, age and life course: towards an integral social policy framework of analysis pp. 291-301

Mary Daly

Family change, intergenerational relations and policy development in contemporary France pp. 302-315

Marie-Thérèse Letablier

Changing family values across the generations in twentieth-century Lithuania pp. 316-329

Laima Žilinskienė and Melanie Ilic

Social policies and intergenerational support in Italy and South Korea pp. 330-345

Ginevra Floridi

Reconceptualising co-residence in post-growth Japanese society pp. 346-359

Misa Izuhara

The impact of China’s one-child policy on intergenerational and gender relations pp. 360-377

Yang Hu and Xuezhu Shi

Ageing and intergenerational care in rural China: a qualitative study of policy development pp. 378-391

Jieyu Liu and Joanne Cook

The implications of changing living arrangements for intergenerational relations in Chile pp. 392-405

Julieta Palma and Jacqueline Scott

Volume 15, issue 2, 2020

The ethics of researching ‘terrorism’ and political violence: a sociological approach pp. 119-133

Tom Mills, Narzanin Massoumi and David Miller

Secrecy, coercion and deception in research on ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’ pp. 134-152

Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller

Terrorism discourses, public and secret pp. 153-174

Remi Brulin

The ESRC university project on ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism: some reflections on the relationship between research, academia, and the security state pp. 175-195

Mark Hayes

Conducting effective research into state complicity in human rights abuses pp. 196-210

Ruth Blakeley and Sam Raphael

Questioning our agency inside agencies: rethinking the possibility of scholars’ critical contributions to security agencies pp. 211-226

David H. Price

Beyond the Human Terrain System: a brief critical history (and a look ahead) pp. 227-240

Roberto J. González

Too dangerous for fieldwork? The challenge of institutional risk-management in primary research on conflict, violence and ‘Terrorism’ pp. 241-257

Jeffrey Alan Sluka

Interviewing combatants: lessons from the Boston College Case pp. 258-274

Marie Breen-Smyth

Volume 15, issue 1, 2020

Building knowledge economies in Africa: an introduction pp. 1-6

Simplice Asongu and John Kuada

Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access: evidence from African countries pp. 7-25

Vanessa Tchamyou

Human capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives: South Korea versus Africa pp. 26-47

Simplice Asongu and Vanessa Tchamyou

Investigating the relevance of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in West Africa pp. 48-61

Jeremiah O. Ejemeyovwi and Evans Osabuohien

Knowledge-driven economic growth: the case of Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 62-81

Stephen Oluwatobi, Isaiah Olurinola, Philip Alege and Adeyemi Ogundipe

Knowledge transfer in the emerging solar energy sector in Ghana pp. 82-97

John Kuada and Esther Mensah

Remittances, the diffusion of information and industrialisation in Africa pp. 98-117

Simplice Asongu and Nicholas Odhiambo

Volume 14, issue 3-4, 2019

Forever young: creative responses to challenging issues in biographical research pp. 361-378

Ana Caetano and Magda Nico

Sociological biography and socialisation process: a dispositionalist-contextualist conception pp. 379-393

Bernard Lahire

Tapping and assessing the concept of educational regret: methodological techniques for opening up biographical reflection pp. 394-406

Pamela Aronson and Matthew Fleming

Using reflexive lifelines in biographical interviews to aid the collection, visualisation and analysis of resilience pp. 407-422

Jane Gray and Jennifer Dagg

Self-administered event history calendars: a possibility for surveys? pp. 423-446

Davide Morselli, Jean-Marie Le Goff and Jacques-Antoine Gauthier

There is more than one way – a study of mixed analytical methods in biographical narrative research pp. 447-462

Marta Eichsteller

Subjects analysing subjects in the biographical approach: a generational study of Chilean musicians pp. 463-474

Camila Moyano Dávila and Francisca Ortiz Ruiz

Creative biographical responses to epistemological and methodological challenges in generating a deaf life story telling instrument pp. 475-499

Goedele A. M. De Clerck

Migrants’ lives matter: biographical research, recognition and social participation pp. 500-514

Elsa Lechner

Facilitating the voice of disabled women: the biographic narrative interpretive method (BNIM) in action pp. 515-527

Christine Peta, Tom Wengraf and Judith McKenzie

Searching for pearls: ‘Doing’ biographical research on Pearl Jephcott pp. 528-541

John Goodwin

A moment of biographical analysis under the microscope: reading Felipe’s autobiographical narrative pp. 542-559

Me-Linh Hannah Riemann

Volume 14, issue 2, 2019

Brexit and beyond: a Pandora’s Box? pp. 157-173

David Bailey and Leslie Budd

Brexit, foreign investment and employment: some implications for industrial policy? pp. 174-188

David Bailey, Nigel Driffield and Erika Kispeter

The product and sector level impact of a hard Brexit across the EU pp. 189-207

Martina Lawless and Edgar Morgenroth

The economic impact of potential migration policies in the UK after Brexit pp. 208-225

Gabriela Ortiz Valverde and María Latorre

Negotiating as One Europe or several? The variable geometry of the EU’s approach to Brexit pp. 226-241

Ed Turner, Andrew Glencross, Vladimir Bilcik and Simon Green

Making sense of the social policy impacts of Brexit pp. 242-255

Linda Hantrais, Kitty Stewart and Kerris Cooper

Neither Brexit nor remain: disruptive solidarity initiatives in a time of false promises and anti-democracy pp. 256-275

David J. Bailey

Brexit and the territorial governance of the United Kingdom pp. 276-293

Tom Mullen

Sense making of Brexit for economic citizenship in Northern Ireland pp. 294-311

Graham Brownlow and Leslie Budd

Rural policy after Brexit pp. 312-326

Mark Shucksmith

Brexit and the future of UK fisheries governance: learning lessons from Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands pp. 327-340

Christopher Huggins, John Connolly, Craig McAngus and Arno van der Zwet

The Commonwealth: a panacea for the UK’s post-Brexit trade ills? pp. 341-360

David Hearne, Alex De Ruyter and Haydn Davies

Volume 14, issue 1, 2019

Political communication in election processes: an overview pp. 1-13

Guillermo López-García and José M. Pavía

Mediatisation, neoliberalism and populisms: the case of Trump pp. 14-25

Daniel C. Hallin

The tandem of populism and Euroscepticism: a comparative perspective in the light of the European crises pp. 26-42

Marianne Kneuer

Exploring the accuracy of electoral polls during campaigns in 2016: only bad press? pp. 43-53

Óscar G. Luengo and Jaime Peláez-Berbell

Preaching to the choir: ideology and following behaviour in social media pp. 54-70

Gonzalo Rivero

Negative campaign in the Brazilian presidential race: an analysis of the attacks posted on Facebook by the main candidates pp. 71-88

Ícaro Joathan

Social media election campaigning: who is working for whom? A conceptual exploration of digital political labour pp. 89-101

Kajsa Falasca, Mikolaj Dymek and Christina Grandien

Engagement of politicians and citizens in the cyber campaign on Facebook: a comparative analysis between Mexico and Spain pp. 102-113

Carlos Muñiz, Eva Campos-Domínguez, Alma Rosa Saldierna and José Luis Dader

Frame building and frame sponsorship in the 2011 Spanish election: the practices of polarised pluralism pp. 114-131

Lidia Valera-Ordaz

The formation of aggregate expectations: wisdom of the crowds or media influence? pp. 132-143

Jose M. Pavía, Itziar Gil-Carceller, Alfredo Rubio-Mataix, Vicente Coll, Jose A. Alvarez-Jareño, Cristina Aybar and Salvador Carrasco-Arroyo

Political candidates in infotainment programmes and their emotional effects on Twitter: an analysis of the 2015 Spanish general elections pre-campaign season pp. 144-156

Tomás Baviera, Àlvar Peris and Lorena Cano-Orón