Sociology topic list of research papers
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Sexualities and accounting: A queer theory perspective
Abstract There is a paucity of research on sexuality within accounting studies in general, and next to nothing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* (LGBT) sexualities in particular. One major problem associated with this neglect is that the...
2015 / Nick Rumens -
Birth-cohort trends in older-age functional disability and their relationship with socio-economic status: Evidence from a pooling of repeated cross-sectional population-based studies for the UK
Abstract We examine birth-cohort trends behind recent changes in the prevalence of functional disability in the older population living in private households in the United Kingdom (UK). By using three different socio-economic indicators available in ...
2015 / Marcello Morciano, Ruth M. Hancock, Stephen E. Pudney -
Credit default swaps and systemic risk2015 / Rama Cont, Andreea Minca
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The relative age effect has no influence on match outcome in youth soccer
Abstract Purpose In age-restricted youth sport, the over-selection of athletes born in the first quarter of the year and under-selection of athletes born in the last quarter of the year has been called the relative age effect...
2014 / Donald T. Kirkendall -
Pride Versus Humility: The Self-Perceived Paradoxical Identities of Ethiopian Journalists2014 / B. O. Dirbaba
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Home is where the heart is: The effect of place of residence on place attachment and community participation
Abstract This study explores the relationships between place of residence, living in a threatened place and the subsets of place attachment: place identity and place dependence. Six hundred participants living in south-west Western Australia in...
2014 / Charis E. Anton, Carmen Lawrence -
Ethnicity as Social Fact and Symbolic Construction
Abstract Ethnicity is today a controversial concept in social sciences. The belonging to an ethnic group or the claims related to collective identity have a strong ideological charge. For many researchers in the social sciences, who practice the...
2014 / Daniel Cojanu -
Comparison of Self-regulation in Children and Adolescents in Children's Home and Protective Educational Facility
Abstract We focus on the process of self-regulation in children and adolescents living in institutional care. Based on a content analysis of transcripts of two focus groups carried out in a children's home and a protective educational facility, we...
2015 / Soňa Vávrová, Peter Gavora -
The Effect of Maternal Healthcare on the Probability of Child Survival in Azerbaijan2014 / Nazim Habibov, Lida Fan
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Efficacy and well-being in rural north India: The role of social identification with a large-scale community identity2014 / Sammyh S. Khan, Nick Hopkins, Shruti Tewari, Narayanan Srinivasan, Stephen David Reicher, et al.
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The Prediction of ADL and IADL Disability Using Six Physical Indicators of Frailty: A Longitudinal Study in the Netherlands2014 / Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Marcel A. L. M. van Assen
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How Adolescents with Diabetes Experience Social Support from Friends: Two Qualitative Studies2014 / Louk W. H. Peters, Laura Nawijn, Nicole M. C. van Kesteren
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Using Structured Observation and Content Analysis to Explore the Presence of Older People in Public Fora in Developing Countries2014 / Geraldine Nosowska, Kevin McKee, Lena Dahlberg
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Health-Related Quality of Life and Quality of Sexual Life in Obese Subjects2014 / Eleonora Poggiogalle, Luca Di Lazzaro, Alessandro Pinto, Silvia Migliaccio, Andrea Lenzi, et al.
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The key actors maintaining elders in functional autonomy in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)2014 / Abdramane Berthé, Lalla Berthé-Sanou, Serge Somda, Blahima Konaté, Hervé Hien, et al.
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Re-entering obesity prevention: a qualitative-empirical inquiry into the subjective aetiology of extreme obese adolescents2014 / Matthias Braun, Johanna Schell, Wolfgang Siegfried, Manfred J Müller, Jens Ried
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An evaluation of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit from a family caregiver's perspective at end of life2008 / Valorie A Crooks, Allison Williams
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Patterns of collaboration in complex networks: the example of a translational research network2014 / Janet C Long, Frances C Cunningham, Peter Carswell, Jeffrey Braithwaite
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Perceived restoration scale method turned into (used as the) evaluation tool for parks and open green spaces, using Tartu city parks as an example2015 / Piret Rennit, Kadri Maikov
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Lifecourse socioeconomic trajectories and C-reactive protein levels in young adults: Findings from a Brazilian birth cohort
Abstract Socioeconomic factors are associated with cardiovascular disease. C-reactive protein (CRP) is increasingly implicated as a candidate linking conventional risk factors and atherosclerosis. The impact of early- and later-life socioeconomic...
2010 / Aydin Nazmi, Isabel O. Oliveira, Bernardo L. Horta, Denise P. Gigante, Cesar G. Victora