Article
Sociology
Wensong Shen, Ruolin Su
Summary: This study examines the relationship between adolescent bullying victimization and educational and psychological outcomes in China using a 15-year longitudinal dataset. The results show that prior academic achievement can protect against subsequent bullying victimization. Adolescent bullying victimization has adverse effects on short-term educational achievement and behavioral problems, but has limited impact on long-term self-esteem and depression in adulthood. Gender differences are also notable, with girls experiencing more negative psychological outcomes and boys experiencing lower educational attainment due to bullying victimization.
CHINESE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Communication
James Brooks, Leah Wingard
Summary: The article analyzes public media talk on climate denial discourse and examines how speakers employ different discourses to justify delaying immediate action on climate change. The analysis indicates an evolving public discussion, where explicit denial of climate science is seen as an extreme view, and a more mainstream discourse, known as ecomodern discourse, aligns with climate science but delays necessary action by using fear scenarios to oppose disruption of the status quo and relying on technology to solve climate change.
DISCOURSE & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Ethnic Studies
Mar Garcia
Summary: This article discusses the presence of Africans in Spanish filmography before 1975, which has been unnoticed. It highlights the fact that Africans were often portrayed by African American and Afro-Latin actors or by actors in blackface, perpetuating racial stereotypes. The article also examines the racial hierarchy and exoticism underlying Spanish cinema and the exceptional conditions that allowed African actors to portray African characters.
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Criminology & Penology
Kashish Pandey, Shruti Narain, Azmat Jahan
Summary: This study aimed to investigate infidelity behavior by developing a new measurement method. The sample consisted of university students and professionals, and factor analysis was used to obtain a one-dimensional scale. The preliminary results confirmed the reliability of the scale.
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Maryanne Alderson Diaz
Summary: This article discusses the impact of collaboration among homeless service workers in Skid Row, Los Angeles on addressing homelessness. The study introduces the concept of collaboration amidst conflicting ideologies and provides a nuanced framework to understand this collaboration.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Natalie Herdoiza, Ernst Worrell, Floris van den Berg
Summary: There is a growing body of literature proposing to include animal welfare in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda to improve the welfare of animals and its potential positive impact on human health and welfare. This study analyzes the practical implications of including animal welfare in the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on animals in agriculture and aquaculture systems. The study highlights the feasibility of incorporating the welfare of farmed animals into the SDGs.
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Vazrick Nazari, Sofia Belardinelli, Andrea Pieroni, Riccardo Motti, Alessandro Chiarucci, Giovanni Destro Bisol, Giorgio Vacchiano, Eugenio Bortolini, Massimo Mezzavilla, Luigi Garaffa, Dietelmo Pievani
Summary: This study aims to explore the links between biological and cultural diversity in present-day Italy. Through a review of previous research, no significant attempts to quantitatively measure biocultural diversity in Italy were found. Although Italy shows a high number of mutual interactions, there is no clear evidence of common drivers and patterns between biological and cultural diversity.
Article
Sociology
Shuyang Dong, Nirmala Rao
Summary: This paper adopts a person-centered approach to examine trends in the prevalence of stunting, overweight, and stuntingoverweight among young Chinese children. Results suggest a decreasing trend in stunting and an increasing-decreasing trend in overweight. A small group of stuntedoverweight children was also identified.
CHINESE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Liang-Kai Yu
Summary: This article discusses the issue of racial marginalisation within two significant museum exhibitions and focuses on the responsive work of two young artists. The article argues that artistic expressions of queer loneliness can contribute to emotional resilience and the recognition of intersectional communities.
Article
Sociology
Rolf van der Velden, Ineke Bijlsma, Marie-Christine Fregin, Mark Levels
Summary: This paper examines the impact of general skills on wages for vocationally educated workers with an upper secondary level qualification. The study finds that general skills have a significant effect on wages for these workers, with the effect being just as important as it is for generally educated workers. For males, the effect is particularly pronounced among older workers (aged 45 and above), while for females, general skills are most important in the early stages of their career (aged 20 to 35) and during prime age (aged 36 to 45).
Article
Law
Domenico Siciliano
Summary: This article explores the theory of law by Rudolf Wietholter, a jurist from Frankfurt, as an ambitious attempt to achieve radical democratization of post-World War II German society through law. It focuses on the conflict/dialogue with philosopher Jürgen Habermas, highlighting the evolution of Wietholter's critical theory of law and 'true jurists'.
JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Irena Pietrzyk, Marita Jacob, Melinda Erdmann
Summary: Research has found that providing counseling services can indeed increase the likelihood of native students enrolling in higher education. By utilizing empirical analysis, we illustrate how expanding this program to more schools would impact the enrollment rates of students from low social backgrounds.
KOLNER ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIOLOGIE UND SOZIALPSYCHOLOGIE
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Markus Bayer, Aurel Croissant, Roya Izadi, Nikitas Scheeder
Summary: This article presents the M3-dataset, a global dataset that combines 30 existing and newly developed indicators to measure material, political, and societal militarization from 1990 to 2020. The dataset is introduced with an explanation of its construction, data-collection process, and measures taken to ensure data validity and reliability. The usefulness of the dataset is illustrated by analyzing the impact of military policing on violence and human rights violations at the global level. The significance of the M3 dataset is discussed, highlighting its potential for researchers in various fields.
ARMED FORCES & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Ethnic Studies
Jessica Falconi
Summary: This article compares the trajectories of different women who were members of the Casa dos Estudantes do Imperio (CEI), a formal institution created by Portuguese colonial students in Lisbon in 1944 and played a significant role in the political and social paths of African national liberation movement leaders. However, historical research has mainly focused on male narratives, leaving the roles and lives of women in relation to CEI largely unexplored. By approaching these trajectories from a transnational and Afro-Iberian perspective and analyzing multiple sources, this article aims to reflect on the diversity of gender, race, class, and political ideology.
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Chris Worden, Anna Gjika
Summary: Despite high-profile cases and the #MeToo movement, the music and stand-up comedy industries have faced obstacles in achieving their "MeToo moment." Unique cultural and structural barriers have hindered interventions by civil sphere actors, leading to inconsistent results.
CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Anna Shadrina
Summary: This article explores how older people in Belarus engage in anti-authoritarian protests by relying on pre-existing patterns of interactions with the state. It reveals that the paternalist regime cultivates dependence in older citizens to promote its legitimacy. Older people claim their equal rights by resisting or performing old-age vulnerability and acquire the collective self-awareness and cultural competence through low-key acts of insubordination.
SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Thea Bertnes Stromme, Jannick Demanet, Rafael Merino
Summary: The role of students' educational pathways in the social gradient of political involvement varies across educational systems.
Article
Sociology
Hakan Jonsson
Summary: The division between rural and urban values and practices is a classic theme that has been renegotiated in the past few decades. Farm shops in urban settings offer local and traditional food and provide an emotional space to slow down and bridge the gap between urban and rural life modes and values.
FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Shen Yang
Summary: This study reevaluates the patterns of mixed identity combinations in Hong Kong using a multidimensional measurement method. The findings suggest that the conventional unidimensional measurement underestimates the prevalence of mixed identities and document the rise of a predominant Hong Kong identity among young people.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Stuart A. Wright
Summary: The research literature on collective religious violence with regard to new or nontraditional religious movements reveals the relative importance of internal and external factors. This article synthesizes several models into a single cultural opposition model to reexamine the case of the Rajneesh movement in Oregon during the 1980s.
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
(2023)
