A human capital model of the defense-growth relationship
Publication date: Available online 16 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Bruce D. McDonaldAbstractThis paper develops a model to illustrate how human capital investments made by the defense sector impact economic performance. Emphasizing the on-the-job accumulation of human capital during military service, the model demonstrates the effect of investments on the accumulation of human capital and output of the defense sector, whose military good has a spillover effect on general production. Calibrated with data from the United States for the years 1949 to 2014, investments are shown to positively impact bot...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Living in the brothel”: Participant observation in hidden contexts
This article describes the difficulties of the research and application of participant observation in hidden contexts and in behaviours that are considered taboo or intimate in western societies. Ethnographic work in four brothels of female prostitution was carried out in four Spanish cities, in which the author lived with the women and employees of the brothels. Aspects that arise during the ethnographic work are reflected upon: selection of and access to the spaces of interaction, the roles to be carried out by the researcher, the limits of the participation, the legal and ethical codes, acceptance by the informants and ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Being social during the big dance: Social presence and social TV viewing for March Madness in public and private platforms
Publication date: Available online 15 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Jihyun Kim, Hocheol Yang, Jinyoung KimAbstractIn response to a recent trend in a TV viewing behavior, the current study examined the role of motives for social TV viewing in public and private communication platforms. Using an online survey, data were collected from college students in the U.S., who engaged in social TV viewing for March Madness, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Primary findings indicate that the entertainment and communication motives for social TV viewing are stronger in the public platform than in private. ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Internalizing production costs and changes of tastes: More recent theatre plays feature fewer roles
Publication date: Available online 7 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Sacit Hadi Akdede, Victor Ginsburgh, Aynur UçkaçAbstractThis paper shows that the number of roles in theatre plays has decreased over time. Playwrights seem to internalize the costs of producing plays by downsizing the number of roles. This downsizing is not a recent phenomenon: it already started a long time ago. This is not surprising, since production costs increase over time and the Baumol cost disease is obviously one of the reasons, though one cannot exclude that fashion has changed given the time elapsed between William Shake...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Meal times and synchronization: A cross-metropolitan comparison between Santiago (Chile) and Paris (France)
Publication date: Available online 3 May 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Anne Lhuissier, Claudia Giacoman, Coline Ferrant, Denisse Devilat, Daniella Leal, Pamela Ayala, Giselle Torres, Pierre ChauvinAbstractThis paper investigates the temporal dimension of meals. Specifically, it compares meal schedules and their social determinants in two metropolises, Santiago (Chile) and Paris (France). Our empirical material is drawn from two comparable data sources: Encuesta de Comensalidad en Adultos de la Región Metropolitana (Santiago, Chile) and Santé, Inégalités et Ruptures Sociales (Paris, France). Our resea...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Towards a new approach to managing teacher online learning: Learning communities as activity systems
This study proposed a practical, theory-driven approach to managing teacher online learning, taking the educational infrastructures and teacher characteristics of rural China into account. We explored the effectiveness of this approach in an OLC that created on a free communication software named öQQ’. A total of 117 primary school teachers that came from rural China participated in this study for two months. The results demonstrated that the participants had positive perceived ease-of-use, usefulness and satisfaction towards the online learning community. Besides, teachers experienced considerably more positive emotion...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Income inequality in local economies: Where is it perceived as an obstacle?
Publication date: Available online 30 April 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): David M. YaskewichAbstractUsing data from a survey of city and county managers, the 2014 ICMA Economic Development Survey, the effect of local area inequality on the perception that it is a barrier to development was estimated with ordered logit regression models. At most, there was weak evidence to suggest that higher inequality raised perceptions of its importance as a barrier to local development in poorer areas. However, estimates indicated that concerns about inequality were significantly higher in jurisdictions with larger Af...
Source: The Social Science Journal - May 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Suicide, sentiment and crisis
This study posits the hypothesis that this influence broadly translates as emotional reaction, ‘gut feelings’ and as such explicitly considers the use of subjective factors of economic performance to better explain variations in suicide rates. Alongside traditional economic indicators we use a ‘consumer sentiment’ measure, a sense of how economic factors are perceived to be impacting on individuals, to explain suicide rates. Furthermore, we explicitly consider the impact of the global financial crisis and test the impact of state public and health expenditures. Results show that consumer sentiment is found to offer...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How does community philanthropy function?: Direct effects of the social problem and the moderating role of community racial diversity
Publication date: Available online 19 April 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Hyunseok Hwang, Tiffany Amorette YoungAbstractBased upon the existing literatures surrounding collective action and the environmental justice frame, consciousness-raising is a social tool for community constituents facing the hazards of environmental pollution to community health. Environmental pollution is a complex phenomenon that poses grand societal challenges including global implications and locally situated contexts. We believe that locally situated social problems, such as air pollution emissions, influence the functions of...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Community-based social service utilization of marriage migrants in Korea: Focusing on differences by women’s country of origin
This study examines factors associated with women’s use of multiple types of services, focusing on the effects of women’s country of origin. We use Gelberg–Andersen’s behavioral model for the theoretical framework and exploit the 2015 National Survey on Multicultural Families for analyses. The results from multi-group analyses reveal that Korean-Chinese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipina women all used services in systematically different patterns, and that different factors were associated with service use depending on women’s country of origin. Implications for practice and policies are provided based on the fi...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Socio-demographic associates of tolerant attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women in Kosovo
This article relies on secondary data analysis of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) conducted in Kosovo. The Kosovo MICS sample was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators at national, urban, and rural levels. In total, 5251 women and 2165 men age 15–49 years participated in interviews. The findings indicate that tolerant attitudes toward IPV against women in specific hypothetical situations are more acceptable among women: who live in rural areas, who have lower secondary education, and those who have lower wealth index income and report less access to media (TV and newspapers/magazine)...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
We share the euro, but not our humanity: Humanity attributions are associated with the perceived causes, consequences, and solution to the Greek financial crisis
Publication date: Available online 10 April 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Mario Sainz, Steve Loughnan, Friederike Eyssel, Afroditi PinaAbstractPolitical and financial crises are complex and multi-determined situations whose solutions depend on multiple factors. To understand these conflicts, we explore to what extent mutual outgroup dehumanization along with ingroup humanization between the parts involved in the conflict predict the interpretation of the different facets of the political situation (i.e. interpretation of the crisis, the perceived consequences, or the possible solutions). In this article,...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The influence of societal and organizational culture on the use of work-life balance programs: A comparative analysis of the United States and the Republic of Korea
Publication date: Available online 8 April 2019Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Haidy Brown, Ji Sung Kim, Sue R. FaermanAbstractThis research examines data from in-depth interviews with professional women in the U.S. and Korea to explore the underuse of work-life balance programs (WLBPs) in these two countries. Using thematic analysis, the study examines these women’s perceptions of the influence of societal and organizational culture on their WLBP use. It also examines their beliefs that work-nonwork balance is achievable [labelled work-nonwork self-efficacy (WNSE)] as well as their perceptions of how societ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do effects of copycat suicides vary with the reasons for celebrity suicides reported by the media?
We examined whether the number of suicides in the public in the weeks following the media coverage of celebrity suicide varied with the reason of the suicide. Using 9-year data, from 2007 to 2015, collected in South Korea, we found that when the reported reason of a celebrity’s suicide was either “depression,” “financial problems,” or “life despair,” there were more suicides in the public and more individuals searched for suicide methods on the Web during the weeks following the media coverage than when other reasons were reported. Additionally, the frequency of searching for suicide methods on the Web was fo...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Public attitudes toward the minimum wage debate: Effects of partisanship, ideology, beliefs
In this study, we examine the factors that affect public attitudes about raising the federal minimum wage, with a focus on partisanship, ideology, and individuals’ values or beliefs concerning the current state of wealth distribution, the government’s role, and the effects of raising the minimum wage on employment. Using logit analysis on a 2014 CBS News Poll, we find that public attitudes about raising the minimum wage are shaped by not only partisanship or ideology but also individuals’ long-standing values or beliefs regarding policy issues. Particularly, by making those values or beliefs the intervening variables...
Source: The Social Science Journal - April 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
