Determinants of state long-term debt: The political market framework
This study also aims to expand the application of the political market framework to state governments and to integrate determinants of state long-term indebtedness. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Exploring the potential contributions of mindfulness and compassion-based practices for enhancing the teaching of undergraduate ethics courses in philosophy
This article will identify issues with the dominant approach to teaching philosophical ethics, focusing on the need for a bridge between theory and action. It will also explore the potential benefits of utilizing mindfulness in the classroom, with a focus on compassion-based practices such as loving-kindness, to contribute to meeting this need to enhance the teaching of undergraduate philosophical ethics. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics
This article discusses the socio-cultural dynamics that interact with ethno-racial identity experiencing in a previously under-researched group. A qualitative interdisciplinary study with 40 Native American academics from 28 mainstream universities across the U.S. served as a case example with findings that contrasted with historically influential theoretical frameworks postulating identity confusion and conflicts at the intersection of one’s mainstream education and profession versus one’s ethno-racial community grounding. Instead of feeling pressure to identify with only one worldview, the contextual, dynamic identit...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Socioeconomic status, perceived inequality of opportunity, and attitudes toward redistribution
In conclusion, people commensurately support redistribution policies (even contrary to their own self-interest) as they recognize the significance of inequality of opportunity. The greater the support among people for redistribution against their self-interest, the weaker the social cleavage in attitudes toward redistribution across different SES strata, and the higher the overall level of support for redistribution in society. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Economic burden of tuberculosis and its coping mechanism at the household level in Pakistan
This study aims to assess the resulting economic burden of TB and examine the coping mechanisms practiced at the household level in Pakistan. A cross-sectional study was conducted at TB centers by interviewing 269 patients. Statistical tests and binary logistic regression were used to explore the relationship between catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and socio-economic factors. Results show that the incidence and intensity of CHE were higher for households in the lower income-quintile. Several coping strategies were practiced and varied among the different income-quintiles. The independent determinants of CHE were as ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How to conduct a Narrative Policy Framework study
This article is intended to assist those interested in conducting an NPF study that is ‘clear enough to be wrong’ (Sabatier, 2000). While graduate programs offer critical methodological training, this article focuses on the specific application of the NPF to research inquiries about the role of policy narratives in the policy process. We approach our discussion by examining various decisions in the research process and include a detailed discussion of specifying the model and obtaining narrative data. We also point out areas for further investigation. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11, James Kendra, Tricia Wachtendorf. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA (2016), 181 pp., ISBN: 978-1439908211
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Debra Rose Wilson, William A. Wilson (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Waiting to Happen: The Sociology of Unexpected Injuries, Lorne Tepperman, Nicole Meredith. Oxford University Press, Ontario, Canada (2016), 226 pp., ISBN: 9780199012060
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Brandi Hissong (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Encounter On The Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890–1930, Karen V. Hansen. Oxford University Press, New York, NY (2013), Hardcover, ISBN 9780199746811, 332 pp.
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Sandra Marklin (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way, Hasia R. Diner. Yale University Press, New Haven (2015), 247 pp.
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): R. William Weisberger (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Globalization and Environment Reader, Peter Newell, J. Timmons Roberts (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell (2016), 454 pp., ISBN: 978-1-118-96413-2
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Erin Pischke (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The importance of International Collaboration, collegiality, and the free flow of people and ideas
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Michèle Companion (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
To the Reader: Introduction to the Special Section of the SSJ on Amitai Eztioni’s Essay
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Stephanie L. Witt (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Amitai Etzioni: Communitarian Centrist and Principled Pluralist
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Paul Schumaker (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Moral dialogs
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Amitai EtzioniAbstractMoral dialogs are social processes through which people form new shared moral understandings. They differ from reasoned deliberations because they are focused on values and not on facts, logic or reason. They differ from irrational passions because value statements require moral justifications. Such dialogs take place not just in families and communities, but often on national levels and sometimes even on transnational ones. They played a core role in major societal changes brought about by social movements, s...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
