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Social Cohesion in International Comparison: A Review of Key Measures and Findings
Although social integration has always been a central sociological issue, there has never been a consensus how to approach the topic empirically. In...
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The Intersectionality of Social Exclusion and International Comparison: Rethinking the Methodological Nuances
This chapter foregrounds the methodological considerations involved in a cross-national comparison of qualitative data on social exclusion and...
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Disability and social trust: a comparison of people with a spinal cord injury and the general population in Norway, the Netherlands, and South-Africa
Is it the case that social trust is significantly different for people with a disability compared to people without a disability? Or is it the case...
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Social Networks and Educational Decisions: Who has Access to Social Capital and for Whom is it Beneficial?
This article investigates students’ access to social capital and its role in their educational decisions in the stratified German school system. We...
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Generation OnlyFans: Examining the Effects of “Raunch Culture” on Depression via Social Media Use and Social Comparisons
“Raunch culture” is a term describing the promotion of overtly sexual representations of women. This concept may provide people opportunities to...
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Applicant Reactions to Social Media Assessments: Effects of Social Media Type, Social Media Self-Efficacy, and Minority Status
Reviewing applicant social media content during employee selection has become a common practice, but little is known about applicant reactions in...
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Social Development with Public Value: An International Comparison
Social development around the world has been stunted by the lack of a comprehensive understanding and definition of public value. Public value theory...
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Evaluating the power of social media influencing mainstream media social representations of migrants in South African townships
The relationship between mainstream media and social media for news reporting is a complex one. Mainstream media news is relied on as a source of...
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How the Social Gets Under the Skin: From the Social as Signal to Society as a Metabolic Milieu
Inflammation has risen to the forefront of biomedical research into many chronic diseases prevalent in industrialized countries, including mental,...
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Social Bond and Social Self
Modern Clinical Social Research bridges the gap between the psychological and macro-medium sociological and economic approaches to contemporary...
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Navigating the Social Media Seas: Understanding the Complex Relationship between Social Media Use and Adolescent Well-being
Despite the sharp rise of studies on social media, there is still little consensus concerning the impact of social media use on adolescents’...
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The Effect of an Intergenerational Interaction Program on the Life Satisfaction, Social Support and Loneliness of the Elderly
The aim of this research is to examine the effect of an intergenerational interaction programme on the life satisfaction, social support and...
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Life Satisfaction and the Roles of Work, Family, and Social Factors in a Social Production Function Framework
Life satisfaction, through the cultivation of happiness and the avoidance of misery, is one of the ultimate outcomes of interest for the public...
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Social Work at the Level of International Comparison Examples from Iraqi-Kurdistan and Germany
The book presents a theoretical and practical approach to international social work. It uses examples from Germany with a long tradition of social...
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Changes in Social Impacts of Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse in High-Density Residential Environment: Reciprocal Relations Between Social Cohesion and Perceived Safety
Assessing industrial heritage adaptive reuse projects as a dynamic process in a broader social context such as a neighboring community facilitates a...
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Italian validation of the social anxiety scale for social media users (SAS-SMU) in a non-clinical sample
Prior research has suggested that the use of social media could be associated with psychopathology (e.g., depression and anxiety symptoms). To...
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Five worlds of social reproduction after the new millennium: placing transitional China in a three-dimensional model of social reproduction
Since the late 2000s, China has accelerated reconstruction of the welfare state against the backdrop of the second transition. Following a...
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Perceived Social Exclusion Partially Accounts for Social Status Effects on Subjective Well-Being: A Comparative Study of Japan, Germany, and the United States
People who are socioeconomically better off tend to report higher levels of well-being, with inconsistent roles ascribed to objective socioeconomic...
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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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Social media-based social–psychological community resilience analysis of five countries on COVID-19
Community resilience (CR) has been studied as an indicator to measure how well a given community copes with and recovers from a given disaster....
