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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0083.v1

Depression Measurement Instruments: An Overview of the Top Depression Rating Scales

John H. Morgan

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: depression; measurement scale; ratings; literature review

Online: 16 December 2016 (07:57:02 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0108.v1

Society 5.0 and Social Development

Sandro Serpa, Carlos Ferreira

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: society 5.0; industry 4.0; social development; sustainable innovation

Online: 5 November 2018 (11:06:51 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201609.0052.v1

Dialectic Critical Realism: Grounded Values and Reflexivity in Social Science Research

Christopher Bagley, Alice Sawyerr, Mahmoud Abubaker

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Dialectical Critical Realism; Education; Islam; Childhood Studies; Child Abuse; Work-Life-Balance; Roy Bhaskar; Priscilla Alderson; Margaret Archer

Online: 18 September 2016 (06:04:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0321.v1

Sociology and History: Contained Dialogues

Sandro Serpa, Carlos Miguel Ferreira

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: sociology; history; interdisciplinary dialogue

Online: 29 September 2019 (04:40:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0141.v2

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi, Albert A. Arhin, Usman Isyaku

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: REDD+; climate change; forests; Ghana; Nigeria; West Africa; political ecology

Online: 14 December 2016 (08:08:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0122.v1

Revelation of Children and Adult’s Food Allergen in Malaysia

Norrina Din, Basri Rashid, Kamal Izzuwan Ramli, Nur Aliah Mansor, Dahlan Abdullah

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: food allergy, food allergen, fruits, seafood, nut and milk

Online: 8 July 2019 (14:32:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0078.v1

Socio-economic Factors Affecting Fertilization Sustainability in Bangladesh: Effects of Traditional Way of Fertilization and Rental Land Farming

K. M. Atikur Rahman, Dunfu Zhang

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Keywords: excessive fertilization; agro environment; rental land; traditional way; younger farmers; environmental consciousness

Online: 13 November 2017 (16:14:39 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0632.v1

Rebuilding the Academy: Strategies for Supporting Academic Mothers during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic and Beyond

Robinson W. Fulweiler, Sarah W. Davies, Jennifer F. Biddle, Amy J. Burgin, Emily H.G. Cooperdock, Torrance C. Hanley, Carly Kenkel, Amy M. Marcarelli, Catherine M. Matassa, Lory Z. Santiago-Vazquez, Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Maren Ziegler

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: academic; mothers; COVID-19; pandemic; leaky pipeline

Online: 26 September 2020 (13:08:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0579.v1

A Study on Spinsterhood in Morocco: Students’ Attitudes towards Spinsterhood, FLDM, Fez

Sofian Herouach

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: unmarried women; modernity and individuality; education and career priorities; social stigma; social pressure; psychological influences

Online: 30 July 2018 (10:19:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0170.v1

In Their Own Words: The Health and Sexuality of Immigrant Women with Infibulation Living in Switzerland

Michela Villani, Judith, Louise Griffin, Patrick Bodenmann

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: migration; female genital mutilation; sexual health; reproductive health; communication

Online: 18 August 2016 (05:30:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0012.v1

Sexuality and Well-Being of Pakistani-Descent Female Adolescents Living in Canada: Perceptions and Recommendations

Neelam Punjani, Saima Hirani, Zubia Mumtaz, Margot Jackson, Elisavet Papathanassoglou, Kathy Hegadoren

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Adolescent girls; Immigrant; Sexuality; Girls Voices; Well-being; Psychological Health; Pakistani

Online: 4 April 2022 (10:30:02 CEST)

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The sexual health needs of female immigrant adolescents in Canada have been largely unmet and have increased in magnitude over the last few years. Evidence suggests that immigrant adolescents lack sexual and reproductive health knowledge and use fewer sexual health-related services and sex education resources than do non-immigrant youth. In Pakistani immigrant adolescents, this difference appears to be associated with socio-cultural and religious practices. This paper aims to describe how first-or-second generation Pakistani-descent female adolescents, living in Canada, describe their perspectives on developing sexuality and well-being. In addition, this paper explicates female adolescents’ perceptions of their needs to support their sexuality while going through the adolescence stage. Using a qualitative interpretive descriptive design, individual interviews were conducted in combination with drawing timelines. A purposive sample of 21 female adolescents who were first- or second-generation Pakistani-descent was obtained. A thematic analysis approach was used for data analysis. Findings suggest that immigrant female adolescents encounter mental health concerns as a result of confusing messages they received from their parents related to sexuality. Also, discrimination, exclusion from sex education classes, and lack of knowledge on sexual health can result in social exclusion, avoidance of health care, and poor mental health outcomes such as depression and anxiety. These participants related experiences are potentially contributed by the lack of communication with parents about sexuality and lack of health care providers who can understand and speak to their needs and realities as immigrant individuals. Female adolescents expressed their need to break the silence around the topic of sexuality, to have a non-judgemental and blame-free attitude from adults, and for open, honest, and stigma-free conversations. This study provides preliminary qualitative evidence of the interplay between experiences of developing sexuality and overall well-being, particularly psychological wellbeing in female adolescent immigrants. It is crucial to involve, listen to, and incorporate adolescent girls’ voices when planning and implementing interventions to support healthy sexuality among immigrant adolescents.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0546.v1

Linking Cultural Heritage with Cultural Tourism Development: A Way to Develop Tourism Sustainably

Vu Hong Van

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Sustainable; cultural heritage; cultural tourism development; Vietnam

Online: 25 August 2020 (11:24:23 CEST)

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Preprint CASE REPORT | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0115.v1

Mobbing and Harcèlement Moral in Comparative Perspective. Study of the Phenomenon in Poland and France.

Monika Budnik

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Mobbing, Harcèlement moral, Workplace, Psychosocial risk, Content analysis.

Online: 18 April 2017 (17:32:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0361.v1

Human Resource Management in Environmental Protection in Serbia

Neda Nikolić, Vladimir M. Cvetković, Miodrag Zečević, Rita Mano, Srđan Milašinović

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: human resource; management; environmental protection; Serbia

Online: 27 December 2019 (10:27:44 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v1

Nomenclature: Coronavirus and the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Zhiwen Hu, Zhongliang Yang, Qi Li, Yongfeng Huang

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: human coronaviruses (HCoVs); infodemic; PHEIC; 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2

Online: 25 February 2020 (12:33:45 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0025.v1

Health Situation of Elderly People at Slum Area in Sylhet City

Biback Das

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Health situation, Health care facilities, Elderly people, Slum areas.

Online: 3 September 2018 (11:12:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0006.v1

Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation Farming as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Practice and Its Influence on Household Income in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

Nelson Mango, Clifton Makate, Lulseged Tamene, Powell Mponela, Gift Ndengu

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: climate-smart agriculture; adoption; small-scale irrigation farming; household income; Chinyanja Triangle; Southern Africa

Online: 1 February 2018 (09:33:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0049.v1

Rural Villagers’ Quality of Life Improvement by Economic Self-reliance Practices and Trust in the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy

Piyapong Janmaimool, Chaweewan Denpaiboon

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: community trust; social trust; the philosophy of sufficiency economy; local sustainability

Online: 18 July 2016 (10:44:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0658.v1

Does Financial Inclusion Increase Financial Resilience? Evidence from Bangladesh

A H M Belayeth Hussain, Noraida Endut, Sumonkanti Das, Mohammed Thanvir Ahmed Chowdhury, Nadia Haque, Sumena Sultana, Khandaker Jafor Ahmed

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: financial inclusion; financial resilience; Bangladesh

Online: 29 October 2018 (06:51:35 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0108.v2

Society 5.0 and Social Development: Contributions to a Discussion

Sandro Serpa, Carlos Ferreira

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: society 5.0; industry 4.0; social development; sustainable innovation

Online: 4 December 2018 (15:58:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0043.v1

Female Sufi Leaders in Turkey : Signals of A New Social Pattern Emerging in Seculer Side

Gözde Özelce

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Sufi women, multiple modernity,secularism,muslim women identity

Online: 3 October 2018 (11:55:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0134.v1

Gendered Sources of Distress and Resilience among Afghan Refugees in Northern California: A Cross-Sectional Study

Carl Stempel, Nilofar Sami, Patrick Marius Koga, Qais Alemi, Valerie Smith, Aida Shirazi

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: refugee mental health; gender and mental health; Afghan; resettlement stressors; dissonant acculturation; gender ideology

Online: 28 December 2016 (11:04:54 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0337.v1

Drought Adaptation and Coping Strategies among Coffee Farmers in the Central Highlands of Vietnam

Phuong Le Nguyen, Mau Dung Nguyen

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: drought; coffee farmers; adaptation; coping strategies; central highlands

Online: 28 December 2018 (07:00:52 CET)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0065.v1

Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation—A Sustainable Development Systems Perspective

Tom R. Burns, Nora Machado

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Systems Theory; multi-factor model; sustainable development; DRR; CCA

Online: 17 February 2017 (07:22:56 CET)

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This article considers the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development in relation to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. We conceptualize sustainability from a social systemic perspective, that is, from a perspective that encompasses the multiple functionalities of a social system and their interrelationships in particular environmental contexts. The systems perspective is applied in our consideration and analysis of disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA), and sustainable development (SD). Section 1 introduces briefly sustainability and sustainable development, followed by a brief presentation of the theory of complex social systems (Section 2). The theory conceptualizes interdependent subsystems, their multiple functionalities, and the agential and systemic responses to internal and external stressors on a social system. Section 3 considers disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), emerging in response to one or more systemic stressors. It illustrates these with disaster risk reduction in the cases of food and chemical security regulation in the EU. CCA is illustrated by initiatives and developments on the island of Gotland, Sweden and in the Gothenburg Metropolitan area, which go beyond a limited CCA perspective, taking into account long-term sustainability issues. Section 4 discusses the limitations of DRR and CCA, not only their technical limitations but economic, socio-cultural, and political limitations, as informed from a sustainability perspective. It is argued that DRRs are only partial subsystems and must be considered and assessed in the context of a more encompassing systemic perspective. Part of the discussion is focused on the distinction between sustainable and non-sustainable DRRs and CCAs. Section 5 presents a few concluding remarks about the importance of a systemic perspective in analyzing DRR and CCA as well as other similar subsystems in terms of sustainable development.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0531.v1

Tulsi - An Alternative Livelihood for the Poor and Smallholder Farmers

Ghulam-Muhammad Shah, Farid Ahmad, Shailesh Panwar, Manber Khadka, Ajaz Ali, Suman Bisht

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: ocimum sanctum; alternative livelihoods; crop depredation; out-scaling; tulsi; value chain development

Online: 23 October 2018 (09:51:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0048.v1

Public Understanding and Attitudes towards Meat Chicken Production and Relations to Consumption

Ihab Erian, Clive J. C. Phillips

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: animal welfare; attitudes; chicken; knowledge; consumption; poultry

Online: 8 March 2017 (07:35:54 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0141.v1

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi, Albert A. Arhin, Usman Isyaku

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: REDD+; climate change; forests; Ghana; Nigeria; West Africa; political ecology

Online: 28 November 2016 (04:44:40 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0042.v1

Reconnoitering the Nexus between Development and Sustainable Development

Oludele Solaja, Bright Obatunde

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: improvement; opportunity; people; perspectives; society; sustainability

Online: 8 June 2017 (12:47:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0164.v1

The Impact of Social Isolation on Subjective Health: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Emiliano Sironi, Amelie Nadine Wolff

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: social isolation; subjective health; instrumental variables

Online: 26 February 2018 (11:32:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0614.v1

Exploring Sociology of Education in the Promotion of Sustainability Literacy in Higher Education

Sandro Serpa, Maria José Sá

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: sustainability; sustainable development; education for sustainable development; sociology of education; sustainability literacy; higher education; sustainable development goals

Online: 25 October 2018 (16:31:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0329.v1

Intersectional Stigma, Identity, and Culture: A Grounded Theory of Female Escort Perspectives from Brazil and Pakistan

Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Nasra Poli

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: sex work; stigma; intersectionality; migrant; culture

Online: 15 September 2020 (04:41:50 CEST)

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Intersectional experiences, socio-cultural meanings, ethnic traditions and morals compound stigma-related stress (Jackson et al., 2020; Schmitz 2019). Sex workers are subject to various stigmatizing forces which can lead to secrecy, isolation and lack of social and cultural support (Koken 2012). Stigmatizing forces include structural humanitarian governance and aid interventions that conflate migration and sex work with insidious constraints and coercion. This study explored how migrant female sex workers from distinctive ethnic cultures manage their identity on a day to day basis in relation to the separation of work and home life. Methods: The perspectives of female sex workers were collected via a series of in-depth semi-structured interviews. The inclusion criteria were that the women had worked in sex work for over 18months, defined their involvement in sex work as voluntary, and were over 18yrs of age. The perspectives of seven women from South Asian (Pakistani), Brazilian, and British backgrounds were analyzed using Grounded Theory (Glaser and Strauss, 1967). Ethnicity was considered to explore how the women experienced stigma, how it impacted on the management of their identity, and how the process of change occurred. Results: The women used a variety of methods to maintain work and home life boundaries, processes they used switch into a role and all experienced stigma and tried to deal with it in ways such as concealment from friends and family. Two core categories and properties emerged from the data as participants felt guilt and/or shame but only the South Asian participants spoke of this with reference to their culture and religion. Conclusion: It was not migration per se but rather the relationship of migration to culture that was key to identity management. Participants reflected that as their country was considered collectivist country with interdependent thought, that any negativity felt could not only be reflected on the individual, but also the entire family. For these reasons Pakistani sex workers were subject to more complex stigmatizing forces, shame and guilt as regards risk and exposure. Discussion focusses on the processes and management strategies used to extend social and cultural support.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201707.0075.v1

Why being a social worker in pediatric oncology is stressful and exhausting? A qualitative study in Iranian context

Leila Ostadhashemi, Mostafa Eghlima, Maliheh Arshi, Maliheh Khalvati, Hamid Reza Khankeh

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: pediatric oncology; cancer; social worker; burn out; stress

Online: 26 July 2017 (08:41:09 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0303.v1

Utilizing a Social Ecological Health Promotion and Community Based Participatory Research Frameworks to Engage Highly Diverse Populations for Recruitment in the All of Us Precision Medicine Program

Bibiana M. Mancera, Angela U. Sy, Cynthia D. Williams, Margaret K. Hargreaves

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: community engagement; health disparities; precision medicine; participant recruitment

Online: 17 July 2018 (10:21:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0623.v1

Precarious or Decent Work? Perceived Working Conditions and Life Satisfaction of SME Workers in Sylhet, Bangladesh

A H M Belayeth Hussain, Noraida Endut, Sumena Sultana

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: precarity; decent works; life satisfaction; SMEs; PLS-SEM

Online: 26 October 2018 (09:36:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0132.v1

Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

Christopher W. Mullins, Daniel R. Kavish

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: minority threat; conceal carry laws; Missouri; race and ethnicity

Online: 27 September 2017 (02:03:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0008.v1

Construct Validity of Korean Leisure Sports Instructor Job Crafting Questionnaire Scale (KSIJCQ: Korean Sports Instructor JCQ)

Wook Kyung Kim, Won Chung Chung, Hyu Kyoung Park

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: JCQ; job crafting; construct validity; leisure sports instructor; valid scale

Online: 1 May 2018 (11:36:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0022.v1

Roma Housing and Eating in 1775 and 2013: A Comparison

Michal Kozubik, Jitse P van Dijk, Barbora Odraskova

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Roma; housing; eating habits; comparison; 18th century; 21st century; Slovakia

Online: 7 September 2017 (04:46:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0044.v1

Social Systems: Resources and Strategies

Pavel Brazhnikov

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: systems theory; economic systems; social structure; competition; strategy; culture

Online: 9 October 2017 (05:27:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0243.v1

Validation of the SM-GIBED Scale: Attitudes of Emergency and Mental Health Nurses about Alcoholics and other Drug-Dependent Patients

Jesús Molina-Mula, Antonio González-Trujillo

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: alcoholism; health professionals’ attitudes; social perception; Seaman-Mannello scale; validation

Online: 14 August 2018 (05:42:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0323.v1

Understanding Inclusion within Diversity: Meaning, Model, and Practice

Kaja Brix, Olivia Lee, Sorina Stalla

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: diversity and inclusion; science; social pain; theory of inclusion; framework model of inclusion; practice of inclusion; meaning of inclusion

Online: 28 June 2020 (08:50:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0110.v1

Concordant and Discordant Construct-Context Dualities as a Framework for Understanding the Choice of Vocational Educational Philosophy of Booker T. Washington

La Shun L. Carroll

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Philosophy, Education, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Vocationalism

Online: 10 December 2018 (15:38:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0279.v1

Willingness to Pay for Urban Water Body Recreational Facilities: A Case Study at Diyatha Uyana

Rangajeewa Ratnayake, Prem Wattege, Naduni Wickramaarachchi

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: contingent valuation method; open water body development; valuation of ecosystem; willingness to pay

Online: 30 January 2018 (06:53:16 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0485.v1

Child Protection and Social Inequality: Understanding Child Prostitution in Malawi

Pearson Nkhoma, Helen Charnley

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: child prostitution, global inequality, gender inequality, participatory research, capability approach.

Online: 25 July 2018 (13:08:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0089.v1

The Impact of Religiosity on Individual Perception of Wellbeing and Living Standards: A Cross-Cultural Study on the Selected Developing Economies

Mihaela Simionescu, Yuriy Bilan, Sergej Vojtovič, Sergii Zapototskyi

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: religion; atheist; standard of living; financial situation

Online: 14 November 2017 (06:51:22 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0452.v1

Optimising ‘Positive’ Findings from Judgement Bias Tests: A Consideration of Inherent Confounding Factors Associated with Test Design and Biology

Alexandra Whittaker, Timothy Barker

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Judgement Bias; Personality; Social Status; Test Design

Online: 27 May 2020 (12:10:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0226.v1

New Frontiers and Relations between Religion, Culture and Politics in Western Europe

Alfonso Pérez-Agote

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: religion; culture; politics; differentiation; historical process; Western European countries

Online: 24 January 2018 (10:27:11 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0377.v1

Linking Poverty and Environment as Causes of Conflict: A Case Study of Pakistan

Masood ur Rehman Azhar, Saima Masood, Nor Malina Malek, Khaliqul Rehman

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Poverty and environment, poverty and conflict, conflict and development, conflict and environment, unequal development

Online: 21 August 2018 (10:51:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0193.v1

Pastoral Resilience among the Maasai Pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya

Edwin Ambani Ameso, Salome Atieno Bukachi, Charles Owuor Olungah, Tobias Haller, Simiyu Wandibba, Steve Nangendo

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: pastoral resilience; co-management concept; decentralization; holistic management; water-shed management plan; commercialization of herding; Common Pool Resources

Online: 14 May 2018 (12:10:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0253.v1

Scshool in Earthquake Threat: School Based Disaster Preparedness Model in Indonesia

Avid Leonardo Sari

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Disasters, Preparedness, Lembang Fault, Community Base, School

Online: 27 February 2019 (11:55:21 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0024.v1

Balancing Work and Life When Self-Employed: The Role of Business Characteristics, Time Demands and Gender Contexts

Emma Hagqvist, Susanna Toivanen, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: contextual risk factors; gender; individual risk factors; life-work interference; self-employed; wellbeing; work-life interference

Online: 3 July 2018 (05:56:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0231.v1

Sustainable Development of Post-disaster Community: Comparative Study of Reconstruction Mode under Social Network Measure

Yanqun Li, Ningxing Lv

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: post-disaster community; sustainable development; social network; government management

Online: 16 May 2018 (11:04:53 CEST)

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The current urban environment is faced with the potential threat of frequent natural disasters, and the sustainable development of post-disaster community has become a global issue. As an intrinsic motivation influencing the social interaction and capital operation of community, social network is an important mechanism promoting such sustainable development. However, the difference in social network caused by different member structure, spatial arrangement and management mechanism of post-disaster communities in different reconstruction modes has influenced such sustainable development process. Therefore, reasonable selection of reconstruction mode is crucial. This paper applied analytic hierarchy process to comprehensively measure and compare the social network strength in post-disaster communities in the four reconstruction modes adopted by the government of China, i.e. unified planning and unified construction, unified planning and independent construction, in situ reconstruction and relocation resettlement, with communities after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in Chengdu, China as study objects from the perspective of three social relations (the relations between residents and residents, residents and managers, and residents and servers). The results showed that strong connections are generally presented in the social network of post-disaster communities in unified planning modes, that the strength is significantly higher than that of those in non-unified planning modes, and that the strength of UPIC communities is the highest. Meanwhile, government intervention, residents’ free participation and market operation are positively correlated to government trust, community interaction and community service respectively. The positive impact of government intervention is the most significant, but it has a peak value. No government management and excessive government intervention will exert negative impacts. The coordination of government, society and market is the key contents of post-disaster community reconstruction. The reconstruction modes based on “government leadership, resident participation and market operation” may become a feasible path for such sustainable development.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0104.v1

Managing the Planet: The Anthropocene, Good Stewardship, and the Empty Promise of a Solution to Ecological Crisis

Charles Stubblefield

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Anthropocene; nature; capitalism; ecological crisis; geoengineering; planetary boundaries; climate change; extinction; environmental crisis

Online: 7 May 2018 (07:39:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0358.v1

The Dynamics of Online Activities and Its Impact on Well-Being in Urban China

Yinxuan Huang

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: China; Internet; well-being; hukou; migrant

Online: 25 May 2018 (10:25:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0166.v1

Development and Implementation of Reasonable Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Chronic Health Issues: An Exploratory Study in Slovenia

Aleksandra Tabaj, Dare S. Kovačič, Črtomir Bitenc, Valentina Brecelj

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: reasonable accommodation; employment; vocational/employment rehabilitation; persons with health issues; persons with disabilities; persons with chronic diseases

Online: 12 April 2018 (13:49:13 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0447.v2

China Neighborhood and Village Committee confront the COVID-19 Pandemic；Cultural History and Tracking back Review of Relevant Public Health Events in Last Century

Huibing Tan, Yunge Jia, Yinhua Li, Wei Hou

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: neighborhood committee; collective responsibility; Baojia system; COVID-19 pandemic; Wu Lien-teh; China

Online: 27 April 2020 (03:07:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0119.v1

The Effects of Provincial and Individual Religiosity on Deviance in China: A Multilevel Modeling Test of the Moral Community Thesis

Xiuhua Wang, Sung Joon Jang

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: religion; law and rule violations; moral community; China

Online: 8 May 2018 (04:33:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0299.v4

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

Aleksander Aristovnik, Dejan Ravšelj, Lan Umek

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: COVID-19; coronavirus; pandemic; science; social science; bibliometric analysis

Online: 12 September 2020 (09:49:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0208.v1

Beyond the Disease: Contextualized Implications of COVID-19 for Children and Young People Living in Eastern and Southern Africa

Kaymarlin Govender, Richard G. Cowden, Patrick Nyamaruze, Russell Armstrong, Luann Hatane

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: children; young people; COVID-19; Eastern and Southern Africa; health systems

Online: 17 June 2020 (07:58:53 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0072.v1

Public Green Space and Mental Health building Self-Esteem for Elderly Population in Dhaka

K M Atikur Rahman, Pan Meiyu, Md Abu Naim Shorkar

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: green space; elderly population; mental health; self-esteem; social services; safety; Dhaka

Online: 5 February 2020 (15:36:01 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0243.v1

Analysis of Fake News In Social Medias for Four Months during Lockdown in COVID-19

Samir Bandyopadhyay, SHAWNI DUTTA

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: KNN; fake news; social media; precision; COVID-19

Online: 19 June 2020 (12:15:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202303.0486.v1

A Critical Analysis of Vulgar Language on OTT Platforms: A Systematic Review

Dr. Bharat Dhiman

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: OTT; Vulgar Language; Vulgar Expletives; Profane Language; Web Series

Online: 28 March 2023 (10:54:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0209.v2

Disciplinary Technologies of Microfinance: Fictitious Proximity, Visibility and Surveillance in Rural Microfinance in Bangladesh

A H M Belayeth Hussain

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Microfinance, disciplinary power, governmental power, neoliberalism, Bangladesh

Online: 10 April 2019 (10:41:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0430.v1

Social Worker Role in Times of Austerity

Paula Sousa, Luís Almeida

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: neoliberalism; social welfare; crisis; maintenance role; critical activity.

Online: 18 October 2018 (17:14:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0271.v1

Rural Development Dimension of Agriculture Policy: A Case of Nepal

Ganesh Prasad Chalise, Kiran Ghimire, Sujan Dhungel, Arun GC

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Rural Development, Nepal, Agriculture, Policy

Online: 28 February 2019 (12:49:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0480.v1

Stakeholders Interaction and Social Learning: The Case of Push-Pull Technology Implementation for Stemborer Pest Control in Ethiopia

Isaac Mbeche Nyang'au, Girma Kelboro, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Charles A.O. Midega, Christian Borgemeister

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: push-pull technology; stemborers; stakeholder interaction; social learning; Ethiopia

Online: 22 October 2018 (08:18:22 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Discussing Key Success Factors in the Sustainable Development of Healthy Cities

Yuzhou Luo, Yi Lian, Kaijun Yu, Longjie Sun

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: healthy city, sustainable development, environmental sustainability, key success factor

Online: 31 May 2019 (13:07:49 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0002.v1

Targeted Population, Strategy, Issues and Progress to Combat COVID-19

Dheeraj saini, Nikhil Rai, Prashant Jha, Manikant Jha

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: cardiovascular disease; human reproduction system; meteorological factor; SARS-COV-2; antigen testing

Online: 1 September 2020 (09:46:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0342.v1

Sustainability and New Advances from a Post-Marxist Approach: The Mexican Case

J. Agustín Franco Martínez, Manuel Pulido Fernández

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: environment; Mexico; responsibility; footprint; gender

Online: 19 July 2018 (05:01:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0115.v1

Southern African Social Work Students’ Acceptance of Rape Myths: Results from an Exploratory Study

John Matthews, Lisa Avery, Johanna Nashandi

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Rape Myths; Africa; Social Work; Students; Attitudes

Online: 6 August 2018 (10:59:49 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0439.v1

Adaptation of Human Resources—The Only Viable Solution to a Future Structural Crisis in Romania

Eduard Edelhauser, Roxana Pleșa

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: graduate; employer; competencies; employment; labour market; emigration; economic development; educational policies

Online: 27 June 2018 (10:08:33 CEST)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0087.v2

Back to School after COVID-19 Lockdown in Brazil

Alberto Abad, Thaís Marques Abad

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Covid-19; bioecological perspective; back to school

Online: 27 July 2020 (08:38:04 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0197.v1

Effects of Multiple Behavioral Drivers on Collective Conservation Outcomes

Johanna Yletyinen, George L.W. Perry, Philip Brown, Roger Pech, Jason M. Tylianakis

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: pro-environmental behavior, social-ecological systems, conservation, social networks, landscape structure

Online: 15 May 2019 (12:24:16 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Trauma Exposure and Mental Health of Central American Immigrant Youth

Ernesto Castañeda, Daniel Jenks, Jessica Chaikof, Carina Cione, SteVon Felton, Isabella Goris, Eric Hershberg

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: PTSD; acculturation stress; transnational families; caregiving; generational trauma; immigrant integration

Online: 31 May 2021 (09:21:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0239.v1

Sustainability of Chinese Culture in Moslems Society

Saiful Anwar Matondang, Febry I Butsi

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Sustainability; Chinese culture; Moslem society; Malaysia; Indonesia

Online: 23 January 2019 (10:25:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0238.v1

Victimization and Social Structure: The Case of Spain in 1999 and 2016

Gonzalo Herranz de Rafael, Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: victimization; lifestyles; crime; social structure; Spain

Online: 9 November 2018 (04:11:19 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0148.v1

INSTITUTIONAL LAND PASSES MASTERY INHERITANCE PATTERN, ON A FARM IN THE HIGHLANDS OF INDONESIA

Nurdin Mappa, Darmawan Salman, Ahmad Ramadhan Siregar, Muhammad Arsyad

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: institutional, land, alternate, mastery and sustainable

Online: 9 July 2018 (13:54:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0072.v1

Saudi Reforms: Developing Tourism to Minimize Dependency on Oil and Its Impact in the Society

Masood Ahmed

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Employment; Governance Indicators; Oil Economy; Reforms; Welfare

Online: 5 January 2021 (10:28:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0254.v1

Consumer Perception of the Quality of Lamb and Lamb Confit

Guillermo Ripoll, Margalida Joy, Begoña Panea

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: cluster; intrinsic; extrinsic; oil; meat confit; lamb

Online: 18 May 2018 (05:21:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0126.v1

A Mixed Methods Investigation of LGBTQ+ Victimization, Its Relationship to LGBTQ+ Identity Development, and the Buffering Potential of Social Support and Outness

Sarah Kiperman, Hannah Schacter, Margaret Judge, Gabriel DeLong

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: LGBTQ+ youth; peer victimization; identity development; social support; outness; mixed methods

Online: 9 March 2022 (02:27:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0187.v1

Socio-Economic Patterns of COVID-19 During the Pandemic in Italy

Alberto Mateo-Urdiales, Massimo Fabiani, Aldo Rosano, Maria Fenicia Vescio, Martina Del Manso, Antonino Bella, Flavia Riccardo, Patrizio Pezzotti, Enrique Regidor, Xanthi Andrianou

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: COVID-19; HEALTH INEQUALITIES; DEPRIVATION; SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Online: 8 February 2021 (11:04:18 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0154.v1

Health, Child Development and Education in Rwanda: Understanding and Working with Contextual Complexity

Pamela Abbott, Roger Sapsford

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: School health policy; educational attainment; early child development; stunting; causal models; critical realism

Online: 10 April 2023 (05:48:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0394.v1

Co-Operation among Irish Beef Farmers: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects in the Context of New Producer Organisation (PO) Legislation

Teresa Hooks, Aine Macken-Walsh, Olive McCarthy, Carol Power, Maeve Henchion

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Ireland; beef farms; Producer Organisations (POs), product differentiation; co-operatives; values-based supply chain

Online: 20 September 2018 (04:16:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0293.v1

Recognising the Embedded Child: Children’s Participation, Child Protection Inequities and Cultural Capital in Child Protection

Emily Keddell

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Child protection, social work, participation, child abuse, inequalities, cultural capital

Online: 16 December 2022 (03:29:14 CET)

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Children’s right to participation in child protection decision-making is supported by moral imperatives and international conventions. The fragmented implementation of this right reflects an already-conflicted discursive terrain that attempts to incorporate both children’s agency and their need for protection. This article uses two key theoretical lenses to further examine this terrain: child welfare inequalities and cultural capital. These theories draw attention to how social inequities and cultural capital relating to culture and class affect how participation plays out. An unintended consequence of constructing children within a traditional liberal account of rights, within neoliberal and ‘child focussed’ policy paradigms, is the reduction of an acknowledgment of the culturally contested nature of an individualistic construction of children, excising children from their social backgrounds and promoting the notion of a ‘universal child’. With a particular focus on class, culture and professional paradigms, I argue that the ways children’s views are elicited, the content of those views and how they are interpreted, become subject to a set of professional assumptions that tend to take little cognisance of the social backround of children, including norms relating to class, ethinicity and the oppressive structural relations relating to those two factors. This process is shored up with concepts such as attachment theory, the ‘adultification’ of children of colour, the diminishing of Indigenous concepts of children and childhood, and the pre-eminence of the ‘concerted cultivation’ middle class parenting style. The child’s cultural worldview and manner of expressing it may clash with professional cultures that emphasise an ability for verbal expression, independence, and entitlement when negotiating preferences with representatives of powerful social institutions such as child protection systems. Many children may not comply with this expectation due to both cultural and class socialisation processes, and the histories of the oppressive functions of child protection systems. The unspoken power of child protection organisations that must engage in constant translation of children’s cultural capital to ensure participation, may instead better serve children’s participation aims by devolving authority to affected communities. Communities reflecting children’s own, may be better able to offer recognition to children and enable their participation more effectively.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0024.v1

The Making of Democratic Actors: Counting the Costs of Public Cuts in the UK on Young People’s Steps Towards Citizenship

Darren Sharpe

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Citizenship, Young People, Participatory Research, Political Participation

Online: 1 August 2018 (14:23:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0161.v1

Correlation of Knowledge as a Basic Element for Generating Tourism Sustainable Projects in Rural Communities

Monica Gomez, Daniela Palmas, Andrea Jimenez- Ruiz, Rocio Serrano- Barquin, Rebeca Osorio

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: harmonic methodology tourism; sustainability attributes; rural tourism; knowledge; complex systems

Online: 12 December 2019 (04:33:50 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0541.v1

Re-inventing Community Development: Utilizing Relational Networking and Cultural Assets for Infrastructure Provision

Charles Che Fonchingong

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Cameroon, agency; community; cultural assets; empowerment; relational networking; infrastructure; traditional authority

Online: 27 July 2018 (14:00:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0254.v1

The Impact of COVID-19 on Police Intelligence Reports and Stop and Search within the United Kingdom

Eric Halford

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Policing; Crime; Stop and Search; Intelligence Led Policing; COVID-19; Coronavirus

Online: 19 May 2022 (08:11:14 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0324.v1

Contagions and Social Sustainability: Domains, Challenges and Sanitary Devices

Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Sandro Serpa

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: contagions; sanitary devices; public health; social sustainability

Online: 23 March 2020 (01:17:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0201.v1

Believing in Women? Examining Early Views of Women among America's Most Progressive Religious Groups

Melissa J. Wilde, Hajer Al-Faham

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: religion; feminism

Online: 10 August 2018 (05:08:46 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0194.v1

Communicative Congruence and Communicative Dysphoria: A Theory of Communication, Personality, and Identity

Brett Welch, Leah Helou

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: congruence; voice; speech; communication; identity; personality

Online: 9 August 2021 (12:41:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0308.v1

Measuring Transnational Social Fields Through Binational Link-tracing Sampling

Marian-Gabriel Hancean, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: transnational social fields; social network analysis; migration; sampling; binational link-tracing; statistical network models

Online: 26 June 2020 (12:11:01 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0272.v1

Rethinking the Agroecology-Food and Nutrition Security Nexus from A Feminist Economics Perspective

Chukwuma Ume

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: agroecology; physical reproduction; social reproduction; agency; sub-Saharan Africa; smallholder agriculture

Online: 16 August 2022 (03:31:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0072.v1

Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Births by Caesarean Section Persist in the Context of Free Maternal Health Care: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Survey of Southwestern and North Central, Nigeria

Anthony Idowu Ajayi

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Caesarean section, free maternal health care, inequality, Nigeria

Online: 7 May 2019 (10:21:13 CEST)

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Background User fee exemption for maternal and child health care service policy was introduced with a focus on providing free caesarean sections (CS) in Nigeria from 2011 to 2015. This policy had a positive impact on access to facility-based delivery, but its effect on socioeconomic and geographical inequality remains unclear. This study’s main objective is to examine access to birth by CS in the context of free maternal health care. Specifically, the study examines socio-demographic and geographical inequality in access to birth by CS among women who gave birth between 2011 and 2015 under the free maternal health care policy using a population-based survey data obtained from two of the six main regions of the country. Methods Data were obtained from 1227 women who gave birth during the period the policy was in operation selected using cluster random sampling between May and August 2016. Adjusted and unadjusted binary logistic regression models were used to examine whether there is socio-demographic and geographical inequality in access to birth by caesarean section. Results The overall caesarean section rate of 6.1% was found but varies by income (14.1% in monthly income of over $150 versus 4.9% in income of $150 and below), education (11.8% in women with higher education versus 3.9% among women with secondary education and less) and place of residence (7.8% in urban areas versus 3.6% in rural areas). Women who earn a monthly income of $150 or less were 48% less likely to have a birth by CS compared to those who earn more. Compared to women who were educated to tertiary level, women who had secondary education or less were 54% less likely to have birth by caesarean section. Conclusion This study shows that inequality in access to CS persists despite the implementation of free maternal health care services. Given the poor access to facilities with capabilities to offer CS in most rural areas, free maternal healthcare policy is not enough to make birth by CS universally accessible to all pregnant women in Nigeria.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0056.v1

Association of Family Type with Happiness Attributes Among Older Adults: 2017 Korean Community Health Survey Analysis

Eun Jeong Hwang, In ok Sim

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: older adult; happiness; family type; socio-physical environment; social activities

Online: 5 February 2020 (10:33:26 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0118.v1

Brother's Keeper or Only Child? Black Middle Class Responses to Residential Mobility Initiatives in Prince George's County, MD

Carley Shinault

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Gentrification; Residential Migration; Black Middle Class; Washington, DC; PG County, MD

Online: 5 November 2018 (14:06:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0191.v1

Social Systems: Structure, Development and Application of the Fibonacci Sequence

Pavel Brazhnikov

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: economic systems; social structure; ownership; the Fibonacci sequence; surplus value

Online: 11 January 2021 (12:41:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0502.v1

Racial and Ethnic Group Spatial Assimilation in Inner and Outer Suburban Rings

Grigoris Argeros

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: suburbs; locational attainment; spatial assimilation; race and ethnicity

Online: 26 September 2018 (08:26:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0487.v1

Research on the Ability of Independent Innovation of Cities Based on the Concept of Sustainable Development—Taking Guangzhou as an example

Junhua Lin, Mengying Ge

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Innovative talents; Innovation system; Innovation culture; Innovation environment

Online: 20 November 2018 (08:30:39 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0447.v1

China Neighborhood and Village Committee confront the COVID-19 Pandemic；Cultural History and Tracking back Review of Relevant Public Health Events in Last Century

Huibing Tan, Yunge Jia, Yinhua Li, Wei Hou

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: neighborhood committee, collective responsibility, Baojia system, COVID-19 pandemic, Wu Lien-teh, China

Online: 24 April 2020 (14:11:11 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0793.v2

Counting the Cost: The effect of Covid -19 Lockdown on households in South East Nigeria

Johnny Ogunji, Stanley Iheanacho, Chinwe Victoria Ogunji, Michael Olaolu, Vivian Oleforuh-Okoleh, Nuria Amaechi, Esther David, Onyekachi Ndukauba, Theophilus Maduabuchukwu Ikegwu, Cresantus Biamba, Delight Chinonyerem

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: Food insecurity, Food insufficiency, Household Hunger, Coping Strategy, COVID-19, Pandemic

Online: 2 September 2021 (15:13:20 CEST)

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