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Can we trust measures of trust? a comparison of results from open and closed questions
Many public opinion surveys compare trust in a number of different information and (mediated) knowledge sources, typically using closed questions...
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Women Fighting Gender Stereotypes in a Gender Egalitarian Culture
Despite the increased importance of technology, at current rates it will still take hundreds of years to achieve gender equality in technology across...
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For a Better Living-Together: Ongoing Meaningful Conversations at Play
This chapter provides two contributions. On the one hand, it argues that morality is a mine field for sociologist as they lack the analytical tools...
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Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource in Social Work Practice: The Case of Bedouin Society
The Bedouins are an ethnic minority in Israel with a unique way of life, tradition, and customs. Over the past decade, they have undergone an...
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Knowledge Acquisition and Transmission in the Domain of Statistics
Statistical reasoning is intended to be fostered throughout the semester in alternation with students’ motivational and emotional development. The...
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Women and Intergenerational Mobility in Education: A Micro-Level Study from Weavers’ Community of Varanasi, India
Macro-level studies on intergenerational mobility among women in India suggests that, there is a need to further probe certain excluded communities...
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Examining the Motivations Underlying International Students’ Migration Behaviors: the Case of Master’s Students in Spain
This study aims to examine the motivations that international graduate students have to either migrate or return home after completing their master’s...
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Sociology as an Academic Discipline
Disciplines are to the academic world what firms and corporations are to the economy – fundamental building blocks. Furthermore, disciplines are in...
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Fighting to belong: drivers for transnational diaspora military service in Israel and beyond
Previous studies have explored two scenarios wherein diaspora members fight for their ancestral homeland: (1) in response to immediate threats, and...
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English proficiency as a performance of digital social capital: understanding how Chinese study abroad students use WeChat for the symbolic purpose of English language learning
This study investigates how Chinese study abroad students utilize WeChat for the symbolic purpose of English language learning while exploring what...
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A methodological proposal for a strategic design investigation
This article presents the decisions that are presented in the transition from theoretical to methodological, as a means to establish coherence and...
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Reparation Policy in Gendered Political Violence: Gendered Torture During the Dictatorship and the Recent “Social Explosion” in Chile
This study explores the gendered violence dimension present in the torture exerted in Chile and the problems that continue to affect the reparation...
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Cocreating Inclusive Interviews: VR Technologies for Job Interview Training of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum and Strategies for Employers
This is a report on the research of how to use Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and Video Self-Modeling (VSM) techniques to structure job interviews...
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Ethnographic Method
This chapter explicates ethnographic method of qualitative research in the light of the field experience of the author. Many graduate students face a...
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Interreligious Learning as a Contribution to Peace Education—Empirical Insights from Christian-Islamic Team Teaching
This chapter is based on the experiences gained from a sub-section of the project “Integration through Interreligious Education,” which is based at...
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Case Study Research
Case study research has been extensively used in numerous disciplines as a way to test and develop theory, add to humanistic understanding and...
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Cocreating Inclusive Interviews: VR Technologies for Job Interview Training of Individuals on the Autism Spectrum and Strategies for Employers
This is a report on the research of how to use Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and Video Self-Modeling (VSM) techniques to structure job interviews...
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Ageing and Health in Africa: Assessing how low- and Middle-class Older Adults with Chronic Illnesses Navigate the Problem of Counterfeit Drugs in Nigeria
Many older adults in Nigeria live with chronic illnesses and regularly need drugs to manage them, however, procuring genuine drugs is a challenge...
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Appendix A: The Extended Case Method and Global Ethnography
This chapter outlines the methods used to conduct a feminist postcolonial ethnography of community ophthalmology organizations. Burawoy’s extended...
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“I Don’t Want to Have the Time When I Do Nothing”: Aging and Reconfigured Leisure Practices During the Pandemic
In this paper, we contend that urban middle-class older Indians engaged in “serious leisure” as a way to reimagine and reconfigure the structure of...