Advances in Sociology Research (Numbered Series)
This is a numbered series focused on advances in sociology research.
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Quick ViewThis continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Included in this compilation are topics such as the translation of homelessness into healthcare risk for youth; Medicaid capitation of the program of all-inclusive…
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Quick ViewThe first chapter of Advances in Sociology Research. Volume 27 addresses epistemological tensions which reflect on the accessibility of minority groups to universities in Brazil, emphasizing the role of Afro-Brazilian women. It focuses on the cosmopolitics of gender and race, taking into consideration the feminist thinkers who have raised the prospect of the intersectionality categories…
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Quick ViewThis continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Included in this compilation are topics such as adolescent health risk behaviors in a migrant population; parent’s religious involvement, family socialization and adolescent behavioral…
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Quick ViewThe authors of this book discuss the latest advances in sociology research. Chapters include research on empowering youth who were diagnosed with learning disabilities and attended mainstream schools; the study of territorial processes, such as land use and land use change, which can give rise to serious health problems, such as tuberculosis (TB0 and diseases…
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Quick ViewThe authors of this book discuss the latest advances in sociology research. Chapters include research on the importance of stories in assessing personal and/or community problems and designing culturally relevant and effective solutions; the repercussions of precarious, low-status work regarding access to healthcare services by immigrant workers in Greece; the repercussions of work and employment…
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Quick ViewAdvances in Sociology Research. Volume 26 opens with an attempt to explore the impact and extent of Kuwait’s religious freedom in encouraging the accumulation of social capital for the migration workers’ community in Kuwait. Although Kuwait’s constitution states that Islam is the state religion, numerous faith groups coexist with the majority Sunni and minority Shiite…
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Quick ViewThe authors of this book discuss the latest advances in sociology research. Chapter One presents a review of the current literature of AIDS in the Caribbean and postulates several hypotheses to explain the unusually high rate of HIV infection and AIDS in the heterosexual population. Chapter Two examines how three sub-groups of skinheads – heterosexual…
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Quick ViewThe authors of this book discuss the latest advances in sociology research. Chapter One focuses on understanding the current situation and factors affecting life quality of workers at Export Processing Zone/Industrial Parks (EPZ/IPs) in HCMC. Chapter Two reviews the international legal standards on the protection of child victims of crime and consider how these standards…
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Quick ViewIn this book, Chapter One highlights the most common challenges related to social determinants of health in selected slum areas in Amman and Aqaba and Suggesting policy directions and interventions so as to meet these challenges. Chapter Two examines the determinants of poverty in urban slums in four secondary cities of Bangladesh (i.e., Tongi, Jessore,…
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Quick ViewThe authors of this book discuss the latest advances in sociology research. Chapter One reviews technology and the place of labor in a future socialist society. Chapter Two focuses on YouTube users from different cultural markets with the purpose of identifying their patterns of behavior in relation to gender, age and the main activities (uses)…
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Quick ViewThis continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. Included in this compilation are topics such as recommendations to help the advancement of scientific research in the Sudanese society; the social work education…
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Quick ViewLorenzo Todesco begins Chapter One by reviewing the positive and negative implications of the factorial survey method, which is applied to examine the social origins of human judgements, with the overall goal to reduce the negative ramifications of its procedural restrictions. Following this, Chapter Two by Michael E. Antonio, PhD and Anderson Amaya presents a…
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Quick ViewIn this volume of Advances in Sociology Research. Volume 24, the consequences of entrapment in insecure, low-status/low wage jobs of migrants and how these affect their decision to return to their origin countries via the AVRR Program during the economic crisis in Greece are examined using results from in-depth interviews. The authors suggest that regardless…
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Quick ViewAdvances in Sociology Research. Volume 25 opens with a chapter underscoring the importance of this age-old cultural practice of herding in relation to Basotho males and its implications to the non-formal education (NFE) policy and practice. To do this, the authors present the findings of an interpretative study conducted on a snowball-sample of thirty out…
