Contemporary Social Science

2013 - 2024

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2016

Crime and society pp. 283-288

David Canter and Donna Youngs

Fragile masculinity: social inequalities in the narrative frame and discursive construction of a mass shooter’s autobiography/manifesto pp. 289-303

Chrystie Myketiak

Pride and prejudice: the context of reception for Muslims in the United States pp. 304-314

Elif Bulut

Does Islam deter crime in a secular Islamic country? The case of Turkey pp. 315-333

Ozden Ozbay

Is there a natural rate of crime in India? pp. 334-346

Jagadish Prasad Sahu and Chandan Kumar Mohanty

Use of drugs and criminal behaviour among female adolescent prostitutes in Lagos metropolis, Nigeria pp. 347-361

Sogo Angel Olofinbiyi, Babatunde Ajayi Olofinbiyi and John Lekan Oyefara

A reason for reasonable doubt in social justice: the weight of poverty, race and gender in lopsided homicide case clearances outcomes pp. 362-372

Alonzo DeCarlo

A consideration of the social impact of cybercrime: examples from hacking, piracy, and child abuse material online pp. 373-391

Mary Aiken, Ciaran Mc Mahon, Ciaran Haughton, Laura O'Neill and Edward O'Carroll

The impacts of organised crime in the EU: some preliminary thoughts on measurement difficulties pp. 392-402

Michael Levi

Homelessness among formerly incarcerated African American men: contributors and consequences pp. 403-413

Myia C. Egleton, Diari Marcus Banigo, Branden A. McLeod and Halaevalu F.O. Vakalahi

An inside look at Israeli police critical incident first responders pp. 414-431

Brenda Geiger

Tackling sexual violence at UK universities: a case study pp. 432-437

Graham Towl

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 11, issue 2-3, 2016

Corrigendum pp. x-x

The Editors

Social inequality and its consequences in the twenty-first century pp. 103-112

Jennifer Jarman

Rethinking class analysis: some reflections on current issues and possible new forms of empirical research pp. 113-124

Roger Penn

A new international measure of social stratification pp. 125-153

Cinzia Meraviglia, Harry B.G. Ganzeboom and Deborah De Luca

How well can we predict educational outcomes? Examining the roles of cognitive ability and social position in educational attainment pp. 154-168

Tim Morris, Danny Dorling and George Davey Smith

Social stratification, secondary school tracking and university enrolment in Italy pp. 169-182

Gabriele Ballarino and Nazareno Panichella

Parental socioeconomic influences on filial educational outcomes in Scotland: patterns of school-level educational performance using administrative data pp. 183-202

Christopher James Playford, Vernon Gayle, Roxanne Connelly and Susan Murray

Do young people not in education, employment or training experience long-term occupational scarring? A longitudinal analysis over 20 years of follow-up pp. 203-221

Kevin Ralston, Zhiqiang Feng, Dawn Everington and Chris Dibben

Social mobility, social network and subjective well-being in the UK pp. 222-237

Yaojun Li

Understanding gender inequality in employment and retirement pp. 238-252

Robert M. Blackburn, Jennifer Jarman and Girts Racko

Tax policy, social inequality and growth pp. 253-269

Jonathan E. Leightner and Zhang Haiqi

Trends in economic growth and levels of wealth inequality in G20 nations: 2001–2013 pp. 270-281

Jenny Chesters

Spaces, places and states of mind … pp. 282-282

Eric Weissman

Volume 11, issue 1, 2016

Recent trends in civic disengagement pp. 1-17

Robin G. Milne

Entitlement and adherence in schools pp. 18-29

George Head

Absence from work pp. 30-39

Ewan B. Macdonald and Kaveh Asanati

Housing benefit: slow on the take-up? pp. 40-51

Kenneth Gibb

School and local authority characteristics associated with take-up of free school meals in Scottish secondary schools, 2014 pp. 52-63

Stephanie Chambers, Ruth Dundas and Ben Torsney

Using administrative innovation to address missed consultant outpatient appointments pp. 64-78

Robin G. Milne

Using economic analysis to increase civic engagement pp. 79-91

Robin G. Milne and Kenneth Gibb

(Dis)appointment: conspicuous absence in contemporary society pp. 92-101

Harvie Ferguson

Volume 10, issue 4, 2015

Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century pp. 337-348

Thomas O’Brien

The origins of labour autonomy in authoritarian Tunisia pp. 349-363

Keenan Wilder

Context, image and the case of the Shahbag movement pp. 364-374

Sanchari De

Social movements and constitutional politics in Latin America: reconfiguring alliances, framings and legal opportunities in the judicialisation of abortion rights in Brazil pp. 375-385

Alba Ruibal

Political activists' frames in times of post-politics: evidence from Kirchnerism in Argentina and Podemos in Spain pp. 386-400

Iban Diaz-Parra, Beltran Roca and Silvina Romano

Intellectual radicals challenging the state: the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the west pp. 401-412

Elisa Orofino

Political religion and the rise of transnational right and left-wing social movements since 9/11 pp. 413-426

David Martin Jones

Editorial board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 10, issue 3, 2015

What is social death? pp. 235-248

Jana Králová

Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home pp. 249-261

Glenys Caswell and Mórna O'Connor

Social death and the moral identity of the fourth age pp. 262-271

Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs

Social death in end-of-life care policy pp. 272-283

Erica Borgstrom

Post-mortem social death - exploring the absence of the deceased pp. 284-295

Annika Jonsson

To resist or to embrace social death? Photographs of couples on Romanian gravestones pp. 296-309

Adela Toplean

(Social) Death is not the end: resisting social exclusion due to suicide pp. 310-322

Zohar Gazit

The agency of dead musicians pp. 323-335

Lisa McCormick

Volume 10, issue 2, 2015

Evidence-based policy: exploring international and interdisciplinary insights pp. 101-113

Linda Hantrais, Ashley Thomas Lenihan and Susanne MacGregor

Institutionalising evidence-based policy: international insights into knowledge brokerage pp. 114-125

Ashley Thomas Lenihan

Using evidence to improve policy and practice: the UK What Works Centres pp. 126-137

Dan Bristow, Lauren Carter and Steve Martin

Evidence-based policy as iterative learning: the case of EU biofuels targets pp. 138-147

Karen Anderton and James R. Palmer

Creating and using the evidence base: the case of the Active Ageing Index pp. 148-159

Asghar Zaidi

Media and evidence-informed policy development: the case of mental health in Australia pp. 160-170

Carla Meurk, Harvey Whiteford, Brian Head, Wayne Hall and Nicholas Carah

Using evidence to reconstruct second-language learning policies in Estonia pp. 171-181

Tatjana Kiilo and Dagmar Kutsar

CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis: Dutch (economic) policy-making pp. 182-190

Edwin van de Haar

Evidence and the policy process from an Indian perspective pp. 191-201

Ruth Kattumuri

(Mis)use of evidence in microfinance programming in the global south: a critique pp. 202-211

Maren Duvendack and Kate Maclean

Evidence and alcohol policy: lessons from the Italian case pp. 212-220

Franca Beccaria

Evidence-based research, epidemiology and alcohol policy: a critique pp. 221-231

Alfred Uhl

Volume 10, issue 1, 2015

Contextualising the self in contemporary social science pp. 1-14

Charalambos Tsekeris

Self-construction and multiple modernities pp. 15-25

Vulca Fidolini

Selfhood and its pragmatic coherence in the context of social entropy: towards a new framework of the social self pp. 26-38

Jeff Vass

The dilemma of 'the capable actor' and the case of disrupted lives pp. 39-51

Kaisa Ketokivi and Mianna Meskus

The self in family coexistence: developing youth's agency and prosociality pp. 52-69

Melissa Lopez Reyes and Katrina F. Resurreccion

Portraying the self in online contexts: context-driven and user-driven online identity profiles pp. 70-85

Mónica Aresta, Luis Pedro, Carlos Santos and António Moreira

'I have never cared for particular disciplines' - negotiating an interdisciplinary self in biographical narrative pp. 86-98

Carlos Adrian Cuevas-Garcia