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Social reproduction, playful work, and bee-centred beekee**
With growing awareness of a crisis in pollinator health, the practice of urban hobbyist beekee** has grown in Canada with practitioners arguing...
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Anxious Altruism: Virtue Signaling Mediates the Impact of Attachment Style on Consumers’ Green Purchase Behavior and Prosocial Responses
Virtue signaling serves to express moral and ethical values publicly, showcasing commitment to social and sustainable ideals. This research,...
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Social Robot Personality: A Review and Research Agenda
Social robots made to interact with humans have increasingly entered various domains in recent years. For example, they support patients in elderly...
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“Overestimated technology – underestimated consequences” – reflections on risks, ethical conflicts, and social disparities in the handling of non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPTs)
New technologies create new complexities. Since non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPTs) were first introduced, kee** pace with complexity constitutes...
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Quantitative Research on Corporate Social Responsibility: A Quest for Relevance and Rigor in a Quickly Evolving, Turbulent World
In this article, the co-editors of the corporate responsibility: quantitative issues section of the journal provide an overview of the quantitative...
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Fear, Fanaticism, and Fragile Identities
In this article, I provide a philosophical analysis of the nature and role of perceived identity threats in the genesis and maintenance of...
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Can We Be Creative with Communication? Assessing Decision-Making Capacity in an Adult with Selective Mutism
Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder in which an individual is unable to speak in certain social situations though may speak normally in other...
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Responsible nudging for social good: new healthcare skills for AI-driven digital personal assistants
Traditional medical practices and relationships are changing given the widespread adoption of AI-driven technologies across the various domains of...
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AFHVS 2021 Presidential Address: critical praxis and the social imaginary for food systems transformation
In this 2021 AFHVS Presidential Address, Kim Niewolny provides a brief foray into the onto-epistemic framing of critical praxis for sustainable food...
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The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users
Assistive reproductive technologies are increasingly used to control the biology of fertility and its temporality. Combining historical, theoretical,...
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Lacan, Discourses and Social Bonds I: Graphs of Desire
Žižek’s vital concept is “ideology.” He is viewed as a theorist of ideology and its many matrices. I emphasize the Lacanian thesis that discourses...
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Exposed: On Shame and Nakedness
This article develops a new phenomenological account of the shame people typically tend to feel when seen naked by others. Although shame at...
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Social Knowledge, Agreements, and Testimonies
Although experiential knowledge is reliable (because of the adaptation of the cognitive mechanisms by which we achieve such knowledge), this kind of...
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Medicalization of Social Policies: Defining Health, Defining Illness
This chapter examines the process of medicalization as it relates to both social policies implemented during the Nazi regime and contemporary social...
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Kodomo shokudo (Children’s Cafeterias): Changing Families and Social Inequality in Japan
In Japan, a social initiative, Kodomo shokudo, was initiated in 2012. These are free or low-cost cafeterias where children can come alone and feel...
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Cognitive Enhancement: Unanswered Questions About Human Psychology and Social Behavior
Stimulant drugs, transcranial magnetic stimulation, brain-computer interfaces, and even genetic modifications are all discussed as forms of potential...
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Lacan, Discourses and Social Bonds II: Aggressivity and Narcissistic Rage
Žižek’s work moves interesting, under-theorized directions that can at times appropriate from Lacan’s work on narcissism, aggressivity, and affect...
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Aging in Turkey: Social, Psychological and Financial Issues
Kee** up with the global demographic trend, Turkey has experienced an increase in its aging (65 and over) population in the past few decades....
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Ethical and Social Issues for Health Care Providers in the Intensive Care Unit during the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: a Questionnaire Survey
This questionnaire-based observational study was conducted in July 2020 with the aim of understanding the ethical and social issues faced by health...
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A Social Science Research Agenda for Engineering Practice
While emerging literature on engineering practice is gradually improving our understanding of workplace performances, little has been written on how...