Sociology topic list of research papers
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Healthcare needs and access in a sample of Chinese young adults in Vancouver, British Columbia: A qualitative analysis
Abstract Objectives Immigrants of Chinese ethnicity and young people (between 18 and 30 years of age) are known to access health services less frequently and may be at greater risk for experiencing unmet health needs. The purpose...
2017 / Christine H.K. Ou, Sabrina T. Wong, Jean-Fréderic Levesque, Elizabeth Saewyc -
Dialogic Gatherings: Two Experiences that Connect the School with its Environment
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of two dialogic literary gatherings, one in a public primary school in Murcia and the second in a secondary school in the Basque Country. The aim is to highlight and evaluate this participatory methodology...
2017 / Javier Ballesta Pagán, José Francisco Amiama, Irina Sherezade Castillo Reche -
Pathways from school to work in the developing world2017 / Marco Manacorda, Furio Camillo Rosati, Marco Ranzani, Giuseppe Dachille
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Kultur(en) und Sprache(n) der Asylwirklichkeit – Herausforderungen empirischer Forschung im Kontext von Unsicherheit, Verrechtlichung, Interkulturalität und Mehrsprachigkeit2016 / Andrea Fritsche
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ICTs and Teenage Students. Problematic Usage or Dependence
Abstract The objective of this work is to determine the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the reasons for their use among young people aged between 12 and 21, as well as the perception of dependency. An initial study was...
2017 / Raquel de la Fuente Anuncibay -
Acquisition des verbes chez l'enfant de 3 à 6 ans en français et en allemand2014 / Karine Duvignau, Anne Rohr
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Living with HIV, from a Transcultural Perspective. A Comparative Study Between Spanish and Swedish Young
Abstract This study presents some results of a qualitative research about the processes of social exclusion experienced by a sample of Spanish and Swedish young, with HIV through horizontal transmission (sexual relations in all cases). The aim is to ...
2017 / María Inmaculada Iglesias Villarán -
Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary Combining DHS data for 580,000 women from 30 different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, we analyze how both the incidence and the acceptance of intimate partner violence vary across time and space, in a region with record high levels of...
2017 / Sara Cools, Andreas Kotsadam -
A comprehensive analysis of the mortality experience of hispanic subgroups in the United States: Variation by age, country of origin, and nativity
Abstract Although those identifying as “Hispanic or Latino” experience lower adult mortality than the more socioeconomically advantaged non-Hispanic white population, the ethnic category Hispanic conceals variation by country of origin, nativity,...
2017 / Andrew Fenelon, Juanita J. Chinn, Robert N. Anderson -
Data set representativeness during data collection in three UK social surveys: generalizability and the effects of auxiliary covariate choice2016 / Jamie C. Moore, Gabriele B. Durrant, Peter W. F. Smith
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Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–19302017 / Sascha O. Becker, Markus Nagler, Ludger Woessmann
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Increasing the credibility of the twin birth instrument2018 / Helmut Farbmacher, Raphael Guber, Johan Vikström
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What Is Wrong With the Fiscal Social Contract of Taxation in Developing Countries? A Dialogue With Self-Employed Business Owners in Nigeria2017 / Mohammed Abdullahi Umar, Chek Derashid, Idawati Ibrahim
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“Thinking about the future, what’s gonna happen?”—How young people in Sweden who neither work nor study perceive life experiences in relation to health and well-being2018 / Ulrika Lögdberg, Bo Nilsson, Catrine Kostenius
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Family income and young adolescents’ perceived social position: associations with self-esteem and life satisfaction in the UK Millennium Cohort Study2016 / Rienke Bannink, Anna Pearce, Steven Hope
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Can't work or won't work: Quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents
Abstract Increasing the labour market participation of single parents, whether to boost incomes or reduce welfare spending, is a major policy objective in a number of countries. This paper presents causal evidence on the impact of work search...
2017 / Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Andrea Salvatori -
Negative Self Selection into Self-employment among African Americans2015 / Daiji Kawaguchi
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Dressing down to fit in: Analyzing (re)orientation processes through stories about Norwegianization
Abstract This article addresses the relation between gender and social change in the context of east-west migration. Using a feminist phenomenologist and interpretative approach, the analysis shows that Russian female migrants in Northern Norway,...
2018 / Tatiana Wara, Mai Camilla Munkejord -
Emotion management, institutional change, and the spatial arrangement of care at a psychiatric residential treatment facility2018 / Samantha Plummer
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Does collaborative tree planting between nonprofits and neighborhood groups improve neighborhood community capacity?
Abstract In the past decade, urban tree canopy cover goals and tree-planting initiatives have proliferated among local governments and nonprofit organizations across the globe. While research has documented many benefits new trees will provide, less ...
2018 / Shannon Lea Watkins, Jess Vogt, Sarah K. Mincey, Burnell C. Fischer, Rachael A. Bergmann, et al.