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Basic social justice orientations—measuring order-related justice in the European Social Survey Round 9
Individuals hold normative ideas about the just distribution of goods and burdens within a social aggregate. These normative ideas guide the...
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I Guess We are from Very Different Backgrounds: Attitudes Towards Social Justice and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Societies
This paper addresses the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and attitudes in relation to fairness in European societies. The...
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Social Justice as a Field
This chapter proposes a field theory approach to morality and offers analysis of contemporary social justice as a moral field. Unlike moral formalism... -
Social Integration – Levels and Dimensions
The conceptual proposals on social integration are diffuse and vague. Alarmist diagnoses are contrasted by empirical research results that give an...
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Implications of the Theory of Basic Human Values for the Second Demographic Transition: Interdependence and Individualism in the Era of Self-Fulfillment
I examine the implications of a modern psychological theory of values for the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). The SDT derives its values theory...
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Orientations and Futures of Indian and South African Sociologies
The hope for a universal sociology has not yet deserved purchase across the global sociological community. Neither is any form of consensus on a... -
No Sex in Social Work: (the Lack of) Human Sexuality Courses in US Social Work Education
This research examined all social work programs in the USA to determine if free-standing human sexuality courses were required or offered. Human...
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Higher education and social responsibility: a proposal for internationalization of university—community engagements; perspectives from Uganda
One of the traditional missions for universities was community service which was updated to entail community engagement. Community engagement is a...
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Clinical Social Research and Social Intervention
This chapter delineates the scope of Clinical Social Research and Social Intervention and the organizational principles that govern it as a complex... -
Social Widerspiegelung and Social Work
In the previous presentation, Widerspiegelung was introduced and explained as the conception of matter. This was continued to define social... -
Social Welfare Attitudes
Dong-kyun Im examines Koreans’ attitudes about welfare expenditureWelfare expenditure, individuals’ ideas and beliefs about the role of the... -
The Continuity of the Social Sciences During COVID-19: Sociology and Interdisciplinarity in Pandemic Times
I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity for sociologists and other social scientists to focus their scholarship on this apparently...
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Building a Social Progress-Adjusted Indicator of GDP Per Capita for the European Union’s Regions
Boosting economic, social and territorial cohesion is a high priority for the European Union. The regional Cohesion Policy is its instrument for...
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Professional Competencies for Social Change
Social work practice is not solely defined through direct social work practice with service users. Social work is theoretically imagined as an agent... -
Towards a greater integration of ‘spicier’ sexuality into mainstream society? Social-psychological and socio-cultural predictors of attitudes towards BDSM
Opposition and stigmatization toward BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism) preferences or lifestyles only...
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Building bridges or digging the trench? International organizations, social media, and polarized fragmentation
Communication departments of international organizations (IOs) are important intermediaries of global governance who increasingly use social media to...
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Three Decades of Post-Yugoslav Transformation(s) of Social Policy and Social Work in Serbia – Still Between Uncertainty and Failure
This chapter provides contextual insights into the changing nature of social policy and social work as a result of profound societal transitions that... -
The Phases of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Italian Sociology: Institutionalisation, Social Engagement, and Emerging Problems
This article reflects on the qualitative and quantitative methods developed and adopted by Italian sociology and the historical circumstances that...
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The Perspective of Community Members in the Assessment of the Social Value Generated by Non-profit and Voluntary Organizations
This study aimed at develo** a scale to measure Social Added Value (SAV) according to the perspective of community members, building on the...