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Space-time analysis of tuberculosis (2016–2020) in South Punjab, Pakistan
Pakistan is among the top countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in the world. This study aims to identify and visualize spatiotemporal...
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Conflicting Interpretations of ‘Design’ and ‘Premature Product Obsolescence’: Australia’s Right to Repair Inquiry 2020–2021
In 2020–2021 the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission ran a public inquiry into the ‘Right to Repair’ (R2R). This inquiry was a moment in...
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A new cultural sociological approach to social movements: cultural pragmatics, iconicity, and the transformation of the Hong Kong Palace Museum into a symbol of authoritarian power
This article addresses a collective protest triggered by the Hong Kong Palace Museum in 2016–2017. Conventional approaches to social movement...
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Conclusion
The Conclusion chapter recaps the main points of the book and brings together the common threads emerged among the chapters, highlighting the...
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Partnership Dynamics of LGB People and Heterosexuals: Patterns of First Partnership Formation and First Cohabitation
In this study we examine partnership dynamics among people with different sexual orientations in Germany. More specifically, we explore the process...
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The decision to commit robbery: the perspectives of Serbian robbers
While there is a considerable body of research on robbery, including interviews with those convicted of robbery offences, little of this research has...
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A systematic review to identify the use of stated preference research in the field of older adult care
In the design of long-term care systems, preferences can serve as an essential indication to better tailor services to the needs, wishes and...
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Spreading Disease Modeling Using Markov Random Fields
Markov random fields are widely used to model spatial processes. Key components of any statistical analysis using such models are the choice of an...
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Does Globalization Affect the Performance of Secondary Education Systems? A Coevolution Model of Multiplex Transnational Networks and Educational Performance
In Chap. 4 , Helen Seitzer and Michael Windzio address PISA scores, student exchange, service sector trade...
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EQ-5D-5L Value Set Summaries
This chapter provides structured summaries of all 25 currently published national EQ-5D-5L value sets. The summaries were developed by extracting...
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Between Social Sustainability and Subjective Well-being: The Role of Decent Work
Sustainability is one of the main topics of this century, and social sustainability is a declination of that principle embracing the concepts of...
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Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children
Highly skilled parents deploy distinct strategies to cultivate their children’s development, but little is known about how parental cognitive skills...
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Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights
Sociologists have long studied the ways people resist oppression but have devoted far less empirical attention to the ways people resign to it. As a...
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Spatio-temporal Analysis of China's Livelihood Development: Evidence from a Functional Index Model
As a vital element for achieving common prosperity and China's socialist modernization, exploring the time-varying disparities in the development of...
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Husband is a Priority: Gender Roles, Patriarchy and the Naming of Female Children in Nigeria
In onomastic practices of some traditional societies in Nigeria, stereotyped gender roles and patriarchy are deliberately perpetuated in the naming...
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Die Besetzung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
Which candidates do the German public want to be judges of the Federal Constitutional Court? Constitutional courts require public support. This...
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Seasonality and the female happiness paradox
Most studies tracking wellbeing do not collect data across all the months in a year. This leads to error in estimating gender differences in...
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Crafting Social Networks: the Production of Obsidian Stemmed Tools in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Widely held assumptions about static societies during the early-middle Holocene (c. 10,000–3300 BP) in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea are...
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How did women’s education and differential family planning policies shape transition to second and third births in historical China? New evidence from micro data
The influence of China’s family planning policies on fertility transition is widely acknowledged in research studies. However, little is known about...
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Groups' contribution to sha** ethnic residential segregation: a dynamic approach
Some have argued it is possible to infer different groups’ contributions to ethnic residential segregation from their individual neighborhood...
