Quantcast
Channel: Frontiers in Sociology | New and Recent Articles
Browsing all 1173 articles
Browse latest View live

Diagnosis Between Chaos and Control: Affect and Hospital Clinicians' and...

Research has observed that older adults are frequently overdiagnosed with urinary tract infection (UTI) and unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics in hospitals. In this article we explore the overlooked...

View Article



Pathopolitics: Pathologies and Biopolitics of PrEP

This paper unveils the pathologies that are produced and sustained by the pharmaceutical industry, specifically by Gilead Sciences, Inc. Broadly defined, pathopolitics is the politics of treating...

View Article

Access to Medicines, Access to Markets

This article explores some uses by the pharmaceutical industry of language from the “access to medicines” movement in global health, sometimes for goals almost completely opposite to those of the...

View Article

The Long Shadow of Job Loss: Britain's Older Industrial Towns in the 21st...

This article takes a long view of economic change in Britain's older industrial towns, drawing on the authors' accumulated research into labor market trends in the places and communities most affected...

View Article

What Makes Young People Think Positively About Social Distancing During the...

In a survey among 250 subjects recruited at a German university and predominantly university students, we elicit opinions about social distancing, i. e., the necessity to keep away from other people to...

View Article


Contact to Natives Among Recent Turkish Migrants in Germany: Gender...

Migrant men and women still differ extensively in their integration chances within receiving societies. Research suggests that next to educational discrepancies and traditional gender roles, migrant...

View Article

The Past, the Present, and the Future: A Qualitative Study Exploring How...

The experience of time has a decisive influence on refugees' well-being and suffering in all phases of their flight experiences. Basic safety is connected both developmentally and in present life with...

View Article

A Call for Culturally Responsive Transformational Leadership in College...

A longstanding fact in college sports in the United States (U.S.) is the reality that inequities, inequalities, and discrimination have been major issues preventing institutions from fostering...

View Article


Transgender and Non-binary Swimming in the UK: Indoor Public Pool Spaces and...

This paper draws from the findings of research that was initiated as a consequence of previous research activities related to University-LGBT community physical activity projects (2012–2018)....

View Article


Gendered Discrimination Against Immigrants: Experimental Evidence

Recent migration from Muslim-majority countries has sparked discussions across Europe about the supposed threat posed by new immigrants. Young men make up the largest share of newly arrived immigrants...

View Article

Unequal Occupational Mobilities Between Rural Migrant and Urban Resident...

The current scholarship on inequality of occupational attainment between rural migrant workers (RMW) and urban resident workers (URW) is largely dominated by evidence suggesting a landscape of...

View Article

Prescribing Antibiotics in Rural China: The Influence of Capital on Clinical...

Primary care clinicians in rural China are required to balance their immediate duty of care to their patients with patient expectations for antibiotics, financial pressures, and their wider...

View Article

Work, Identity, Place, and Population. A Changing Landscape

Taking a biographical approach, this paper uses life history narratives across four generations of families living and working in Wigan, Lancashire to analyse social and cultural changes in working...

View Article


Perceived Job Insecurity and Anxiety. A Multilevel Analysis on Male and...

A growing body of evidence has been produced on the adverse effects of job insecurity on health and well-being. Current research in the field conveys a few concerns, some of which are related to gender...

View Article

Why LGBT Teachers May Make Exceptional School Leaders

The recent school gate protests about the inclusion of LGBT identities in the curriculum suggest that sexual identity remains an issue of moral panic in UK schools. Given this current climate, and the...

View Article


Perceived Job Insecurity and Anxiety. A Multilevel Analysis on Male and...

A growing body of evidence has been produced on the adverse effects of job insecurity on health and well-being. Current research in the field conveys a few concerns, some of which are related to gender...

View Article

Global Mental Health and Pharmacology: The Case of Attention Deficit and...

Global Mental Health (GMH) is the field of study, research, and intervention, which aims at improving access to mental health worldwide. It is based on the global burden of disease research program and...

View Article


Miner Artist/Minor Artist? Class, Politics, and the Post-industrial...

This article uses the recently discovered art work of a County Durham coal miner, Jimmy Kays (1886–1951) to highlight the terms in which coal mining art has achieved popularity and value in the...

View Article

Differentiations in Visibility-Male Advantages and Female Disadvantages in...

This article stresses the importance of understanding that women and men in gender-segregated programmes experience their gender minority positions very differently. It stems from an interest in the...

View Article

Race and Employment: The Historical Case of Head Coaches in College Basketball

This study analyzes how the number of Black coaches in college basketball has evolved since 1947. The analysis puts a focus on the time period after 1973 when regulatory requirements changed and a new...

View Article
Browsing all 1173 articles
Browse latest View live


Latest Images