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Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Lars Leszczensky, Tobias Wolbring
Summary: This article discusses the issue of reverse causality in panel data analysis, highlighting the challenges it poses to causal inference based on conventional models. Although alternative solutions have been proposed, they have faced criticisms. Researchers need to find suitable panel models to address reverse causality and the issue of misspecified temporal lags.
SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH
(2022)
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Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Marnie Howlett
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused social science scholars to reconsider their research approaches, with technology playing an increasingly important role in facilitating research activities. While online research methods have their advantages, the question remains whether they can truly replicate the immersive experience of in-person fieldwork.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
(2022)
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Sociology
Peterson Ozili
Summary: This paper examines the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 and the policy response in African countries. The findings reveal that African countries have been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, especially in terms of social interaction and economic activities. The outbreak has also created social anxiety among families and households in the region.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY
(2022)
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Ethnic Studies
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Summary: This article examines the influence of color-blind racism frameworks on various topics during the pandemic and argues that they limit our understanding of racial issues and hinder the development of effective policies.
SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
(2022)
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Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett
Summary: This article examines the use of Facebook targeted advertisements for survey data collection, showcasing the potential for survey sampling and recruitment on the platform through The Shift Project. The workflow process of purchasing survey recruitment advertisements on Facebook is described, addressing sample selectivity concerns. By comparing data from different sources, the relationship between firm-level data and wages is explored.
SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH
(2022)
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Communication
Aleksandra Urman, Stefan Katz
Summary: This paper contributes to the research on the activities of far-right actors on social media by examining the interconnections between them and groups on the Telegram platform using network analysis. The study reveals that the far-right network on Telegram is highly decentralized and divided along ideological and national lines. The analysis also suggests that the migration of these actors to Telegram has allowed them to quickly regain prominence in the network, casting doubts on the effectiveness of deplatforming.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Geography
Hannah Barrett, David Christian Rose
Summary: This article explores the association of technologies with the fourth agricultural revolution and investigates the perception and anticipated impacts of this revolution. The findings reveal that emergent, game-changing technologies are associated with the fourth agricultural revolution in media and policy documents. The benefits to productivity and the environment were prioritized, with less attention given to social consequences. However, the impacts were overwhelmingly presented positively, despite the fact that technologies also bring negative consequences.
SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Carlos Cinelli, Andrew Forney, Judea Pearl
Summary: This paper introduces graphical tools for addressing the problem of bad control and aims to make these tools accessible to a broader community of scientists concerned with the causal interpretation of regression models.
SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Sociology
Yingyi Ma, Ning Zhan
Summary: This study examines the choice and impact of mask wearing among Chinese students in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that the stigma associated with mask wearing is socially constructed by power. The study finds that Chinese students cope with this stigma through various mechanisms, particularly by discrediting the American beliefs about mask usage. However, these thoughts are kept private. The study also concludes that increasing geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China, along with the lack of social integration of Chinese students in America, will continue to alienate them.
CHINESE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2022)
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Sociology
Daniel L. Carlson, Richard J. Petts, Joanna R. Pepin
Summary: The study indicates that the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in domestic responsibilities for US mothers, but fathers also increased their contributions, resulting in a more egalitarian division of household labor. This trend was observed across different demographic groups and types of domestic tasks. However, mothers still report retaining primary responsibility for domestic labor in the majority of families.
SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY
(2022)
Article
Communication
Michael Hameleers
Summary: This paper reports on experiments conducted in the US and the Netherlands, which found that evidence-based misinformation is considered more accurate than fact-free misinformation. The combination of news media literacy interventions and fact-checkers is shown to be the most effective in reducing issue agreement and perceived accuracy of misinformation.
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Sociology
Liz Dean, Brendan Churchill, Leah Ruppanner
Summary: The mental load is a combination of cognitive and emotional labor, characterized by invisibility, boundarylessness, and enduring nature. To address the issues associated with the mental load, standard questions should be included in health and social surveys, employers should adopt better policies for work-life balance, and governments should invest in caregiving infrastructure.
COMMUNITY WORK & FAMILY
(2022)
Article
Sociology
Vanessa Ratten
Summary: This article aims to study the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on social value co-creation, adopting a social entrepreneurship perspective to explore the relationship between crisis management and social policy. The article emphasizes the focus on entrepreneurial approaches in social policy to address the covid-19 crisis, and provides examples of social value co-creation initiatives. Additionally, it analyzes the different responses to the pandemic across countries to understand global societal differences.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY
(2022)
Article
Sociology
Jeroen Oomen, Jesse Hoffman, Maarten A. Hajer
Summary: This article focuses on the politics of the future, exploring how imagined futures become socially performative, with three aims: identifying social-theoretical work on the future, conceptualizing the relationship between future imagination and social practices, and providing a theoretical framework explaining how images of the future become performative.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY
(2022)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Xing (Stella) Liu, Xiao (Shannon) Yi, Lisa C. Wan
Summary: The study reveals that customers/tourists' willingness to use service robots is influenced by the perception of robot appearance and service context. A warm appearance is preferred in hedonic service contexts, while a competent appearance is preferred in utilitarian service contexts, driven mainly by trust.
ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH
(2022)
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Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Marc Oliver Rieger, Mei Wang
Summary: The global COVID-19 pandemic has put countries and their governments in unprecedented situations. Data from a worldwide survey conducted between March 20th and April 22nd, 2020, with over 100,000 participants, shows that media freedom directly reduces government trust and affects perceptions of government reactions. Higher education levels are associated with higher government trust and less extreme judgment of government reactions. Different predictors were found for perceived insufficient government reactions compared to perceived too-extreme reactions. Additionally, conspiracy theory believers tend to view government countermeasures as too strict.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Family Studies
Thomas Lyttelton, Emma Zang, Kelly Musick
Summary: Telecommuting has different impacts on mothers and fathers in paid and unpaid work before and during the pandemic, playing a role in reducing gender gaps and maintaining work hours for mothers but exacerbating inequalities in housework and disruptions to paid work.
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
(2022)
Article
Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods
Christian Welzel, Lennart Brunkert, Stefan Kruse, Ronald F. Inglehart
Summary: Scholars study international surveys to understand cross-cultural differences, but there are issues with interpreting the non-invariance of construct items in different national samples. In fact, the non-invariance mainly comes from the arithmetic of closed-ended scales and does not imply cultural differences in semantic terms. Therefore, non-invariance does not have a practical impact on the cross-cultural validity of multi-item constructs.
SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS & RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Landon Schnabel, Scott Schieman
Summary: This study shows that religion can protect mental health but hinder support for crisis response during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Highly religious individuals and evangelicals experienced less distress and were less likely to perceive the outbreak as a crisis or support public health restrictions. The conservative politicization of religion in the United States may explain why religious Americans, particularly evangelicals, were less distressed and less supportive of efforts to contain the virus.
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Amrita Hari, Luciara Nardon, Hui Zhang
Summary: This study analyzes the experiences of international students living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research found that international students faced increased challenges during the pandemic, relied more on support from transnational families, and experienced anxieties about their future career and mobility.
GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
(2023)
