“I don’t Teach Violence, I Teach Self-Control”; The Framing of Mixed Martial...
This paper draws on conceptual and analytical tools from cultural sociology to analyze media representations of the MMA right after the murder of a twenty-year-old boy, that took place in a small...
View ArticleWhy so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women...
From its earliest beginnings, the university was not designed for women, and certainly not for women of color. Women of color in the United States are disproportionately under-represented in academia...
View ArticleHow has the University Community Been Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic? An...
Objectives: The present study, one of the first to look at COVID-19 and coping in Iran, aimed at mapping, describing and understanding the coping methods academics employ as protective resources to...
View ArticleJuggling Grandchild Care and Labor Force Participation: The Effect on...
Although it is well-known that care responsibilities are strongly gendered also in later life, the consequences for older women of juggling work and care responsibilities are understudied. This study...
View ArticleTaking Pause: A COVID-19 Student Reflection on Global Health Research...
Restrictions to research due to COVID-19 have required global health researchers to factor public health measures into their work and discuss the most ethical means to pursue research under safety...
View ArticleCOVID-19, Social Policy and Care: A Complex Set of Processes and Outcomes
This article looks at the 2020 period of COVID-19 and especially the first months through the lens of public policy support for care in Europe. It covers the policy responses to both care for young...
View ArticleImpacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers
Prison workers occupy a niche role. Balancing the care and welfare of prisoners while simultaneously restricting their freedoms is a stressful job, laced with danger, that occurs entirely within the...
View ArticleCritical Transitions in Ecosystems and Society. The Contribution of...
The theory of critical transitions and the theory of self-referential social systems are two well-established theories in the ecosystem and sociological research respectively. A dialogue between them...
View ArticleSick or Sad? A Qualitative Study on How Dutch GPs Deal With Sadness...
Feelings of sadness among young adults related to a certain phase of life or to societal factors run the risk of being interpreted as an individual medical problem. Therefore, healthcare professionals...
View ArticleHow Young Mothers Rely on Kin Networks and Formal Childcare to Avoid Becoming...
Motherhood is often cited as one of the main reasons for young women to become NEET (not in employment, education, or training). Given the potential long-term negative implications of NEET status, it...
View ArticleProfessors Prioritize Increasing Female Retention in Academic Physics Over...
Decades of initiatives have striven to fix the so-called “leaking pipeline” problem—persistent high attrition of women from the career/educational path toward STEM professorship. Though these...
View ArticleThe Effects of the Socialization of Physical Education Teachers on Their...
This article uses an interactionist perspective to address the socialization of physical education teachers in a teaching setting in Tunisia. The two main objectives of the study are to present the...
View ArticleIncreasing Diversity in Developmental Biology
The demographic profile of the scientific and biomedical workforce in the United States does not reflect the population at large (https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21321/data-tables; www.census.gov),...
View ArticleGender Equity Perceptions Among School-Going Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods...
Introduction: Gender equity is an important social determinant of population health. There are very few studies in the Indian context in this regard, and even less regarding the diversity in...
View ArticleEmotional Atmosphere’s Role on People’s Application of Their Emotional...
Emotional intelligence has been associated not only with young people’s academic achievement but also with their ability to deal with harmful emotional states such as anxiety and stress. Limited...
View ArticleThe Problem of Observing Sociotechnical Entities in Social Science and...
The notion of “sociotechnical” is an important concept for interdisciplinary research on the transformation of the energy supply. Different branches of research agree that the provision, transmission,...
View ArticleLet’s Campaign for a Fairer Society in the Aftermath of COVID-19
In this paper I ground a brief account of the impact of COVID-19 on the United Kingdom in an understanding of a decade of austerity politics from 2010 to 2020, itself a product of the advent and...
View ArticleThe Security Versus Freedom Dilemma. An Empirical Study of the Spanish Case
One of the classic debates in public opinion, now more prevalent due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been the dilemma between freedom and security. Following a theoretical review, this article sets out...
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