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The Voice of the People: Populism and Donald Trump’s Use of Informal Voice Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen
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Can Terrorism Ever Be Morally Justified? Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Quassim Cassam
This paper provides a framework to make moral sense of terrorism. The framework consists in a test, referred to as the MODAL test, which is an acronym standing for five tests or principles for determining the moral defensibility or indefensibility of terrorism. The five principles concern the motives for terrorism, its objectives, destructiveness, availability of alternatives, and likelihood of success
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Point-n-Kill: Label Metaphors in Heterosexual Peer Networks in Nigeria Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Eyo O. Mensah
Male and female partners in heterosexual peer networks in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, south-eastern Nigeria, use reciprocal label metaphors to characterize each other in negative (or positive) ways. This article explores how sexual metaphors, banters, and teasing are used to satirize young people’s heterosexual behaviors and practices to develop consensual sexual morality. The study is anchored
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Socrates’ Critique of Writing Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 David Roochnik
This essay discusses the critique of writing that Socrates presents in Plato’s Phaedrus. It argues that because he conceives of writing as a kind of technology (in Greek, a technê), this passage prefigures many of the conversations now taking place about our own most recent technological advances: the internet, the smartphone, and artificial intelligence.
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Paul Johnson and the Cultural Logic of the British Hard Right Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2024-01-02
Abstract Within the British conservative movement, the hard right is identifiable and significant. The hard right tends to believe that Britain’s cultural institutions, such as the BBC, have an embedded anti-conservative bias. For them, the Corporation represents everything that is wrong with the ‘liberal metropolitan elite’ that, they believe, controls key institutions. This article explores the contribution
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Traces of Hope from a New Transnational Well-Being Index: World Love Index Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Marco Palmieri, Federica Floridi, Angela Delli Paoli, Gennaro Iorio, Fabrizio Martire, Silvia Cataldi
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Does the Phrase “Conspiracy Theory” Matter? Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 M R. X. Dentith, G. Husting, M. Orr
Research on conspiracy theories has proliferated since 2016, in part due to the US election of President Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly threatening environmental conditions. In the rush to publication given these concerning social consequences, researchers have increasingly treated as definitive a 2016 paper by Michael Wood (Political Psychology, 37(5), 695–705, 2016) that concludes
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In the Face of Opposition: An Analysis of Homeless Services in Skid Row Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Maryanne Alderson Diaz
California is currently grappling with a severe homeless crisis, with Los Angeles and particularly Skid Row, harboring the largest homeless population in the nation. The escalating prevalence of homelessness necessitates evidence-based practices for effective intervention. Despite extensive research on homeless services, the issue’s complexity leaves us without a definitive solution for addressing
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Anthropometry and Lock Hospitals in Nineteenth-Century Madras Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan
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Everything for My Children: Social Policies and Traces of Hope Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Angelica De Sena
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Internalised Gay Ageism: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Minority Stressors in Urban Mumbai Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Anupam Joya Sharma, Malavika Ambale Subramanyam
Middle-aged and older queer men are socially invisible across the world, especially in countries with a long history of criminalisation of homosexuality, such as India. The heteronormative society they grew up in and the perceived ageist gay culture within the queer community have contributed to the development of two stressors—internalised homophobia and internalised ageism, respectively—as adapted
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The Bio-moral Politics of Semen Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sohini Saha
The article focuses on the bio-moral politics of semen in India. By engaging with religious, ascetic, scientific, and medical discourses on semen in the context of India, it emphasises that semen and the regimes of its control were shaped by complex discourses on health, immortality, and modern politico-medical notions of immunity. Based on sociohistorical and ethnographic perspectives, the article
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Introduction to Symposium: Healthcare Research in India: Qualitative Insights Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Ranjana Saha
The main aim of this Symposium is to bring out the significance of qualitative research in the field of public health in India. The diverse articles are thematically interconnected and jointly provide socio-historical perspectives of different health concerns prevalent in colonial and postcolonial India. These are located at the crucial intersections between gender, sexuality, and health. While pointing
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World War I as a Cause of Ephemeral Hope in the Artistic Avant-Gardes Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Juan A. Roche Cárcel
The article shows, first, how Sociology has approached the concepts of “hope” and “war” and how throughout the history of the discipline these terms have gone from being neglected to arousing considerable interest. Second, the paper analyzes how and why avant-garde artists understood the First World War as a motif of utopian hope to annihilate a civilization in crisis and to transform it through its
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The Standpoint of Hope and the Decolonial Ethno-Poetics of Radical Love Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 William A. Calvo-Quirós
This article argues that love and care, and more specifically, the hope of a new world, were central to the ethos of the US Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s and the decolonial projects inspired by it. Starting from the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other central activists of the era, this article explores how hope guided their visionary work. This article examines what differentiates
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A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? With, against, and beyond Habermas Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Simon Susen
The main purpose of this paper is to assess the validity of the contention that, over the past few decades, the public sphere has undergone a new structural transformation. To this end, the analysis focuses on Habermas’s recent inquiry into the causes and consequences of an allegedly ‘new’ or ‘further’ [erneuten] structural transformation of the political public sphere. The paper is divided into two
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The Emergence of Social Folds: How the Environment Contributes to the Creation of Ambivalent Social Actors Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Jesús Romero Moñivas
The concept of “environment” is ambiguous in social theory. Sometimes it is wielded like a “tyrant” which moulds subjects as if they were a simple reflection of its environment; other times it is treated as if the environment is a “slave” of subjects whose agency can transform it. This paper reflects on the complex interaction between people and their environments. Social theory cannot establish a
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Legal Pluralism as a Necessity: The Difficulty of Adjudicating Land Disputes in India Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Sharib Zeya
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Minority Language Public Sphere: The Irish Language in the Media and Beyond Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Iarfhlaith Watson, Lorenzo Posocco
In this paper, we delve into the dynamics of the Irish-language public sphere, with a primary emphasis on the media landscape. In our analysis, we contend that the prevailing public sphere in Ireland predominantly functions in the English language, thereby subordinating the Irish-language public sphere. By scrutinising the challenges inherent in conceptualising an Irish-language public sphere vis-à-vis
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“This Is Not a Riot”: Activists’ Responses to Accusations of Violence in the Ferguson Unrest Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Carmit Wolberg
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the last decade has gained widespread support for protests against police brutality targeting African Americans. However, some people during these protests have resorted to violence, mostly against property, creating an opening for opponents to shift the debate from protesters’ grievances to the nature of the protests by labeling them as “riots” and depicting
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Publicking/Privating: The Gestural Politics of Digital Spaces Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Hannes Bajohr
The distinction between public and private spheres has become increasingly blurred in the digital age. As more aspects of life move online, where information is potentially visible to anyone, traditional barriers dividing public and private realms dissolve. This creates a default condition of publicness for much online activity. In response, Internet users have developed novel ways of demarcating contexts
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“But why isn’t it an accomplishment not to have children?”: A Qualitative Investigation into Millennial Perceptions of Voluntarily Childless Women Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Hannah E. Colledge, Jessica Runacres
The concept of women as ‘child-bearers’ and the overarching view of motherhood as a prerequisite for female fulfilment has formed the basis for societal expectations of the female gender for centuries. However, the number of women who choose not to have children is increasing. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of millennials’ perception of voluntarily childless women in the UK. It
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Land as Common Property: The Fit of Land Governance with Ostrom’s Design Principles Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Abdul-Salam Ibrahim, Mohammed Abubakari, Thembela Kepe
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College Diversity Politics and American Higher Education: An Institutional Analysis Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Kaleb Demerew
In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC, this paper reexamines the politics of diversity and affirmative action. Exploring legal constructions and three core dimensions of diversity—structural, interactional, and viewpoint—the study identifies three perverse outcomes of the prevailing “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) paradigm in American higher
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The Unnamed: Exploring the Erasure of Women from the History of Ghana Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Aboabea Gertrude Akuffo
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Geographies of Public Deliberation: A Closer Look at the Ingredient of Space Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Harrison Esam Awuh
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Du Bois Watches Standup: Double Consciousness Revisited Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Adam Valen Levinson
For more than a century, the psychosocial concept of “double consciousness” (DC) has been inextricably linked to issues of “race,” and racial objectification. Using stand-up comedy as a close proxy for presentations of self, this article presents a fundamentally different understanding, and one that Du Bois quietly pivoted towards near the end of his life: DC is a cultural issue, one best described
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No Victims Without Sacrifice, No Sacrifice Without Victims: Conceptualizing Violence and the “Oklahoma City Bombing” Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jodok Troy
This article proposes a conceptualization of violence that builds on a tripartite relationship between violence, victims, and sacrifice that frames violence as a self-justifying sacrificial act. This conceptualization delineates the nature of violence by addressing its transformation from an instrumental act to a constitutional act, making violence possible, ongoing, contagious, and productive. In
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The Specter of Gentrification in a Pan-Asian Immigrant Neighborhood: Community Development and Resistance to Displacement in Portland’s Jade District Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Hilary Sanders
Focusing on a low-income neighborhood of Asian immigrant settlement located at the eastern periphery of Portland, Oregon, this article traces the efforts of an organization representing API (Asian and Pacific Islander) populations to implement community-led development and to prevent the displacement of residents vulnerable to real estate pressures. The project is representative of a growing recognition
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When a Club Turns into a Public Event: The Structural Transformation of the British Parliament and the Making of Collective Solidarity Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Danny Kaplan
Much of the scholarship on the modern public sphere has, following Habermas, focused on arenas of sociability detached from state authority. However, little attention has been given to the ways in which patterns of sociability intrinsic to political institutions facilitated the rise of civil society and a sense of nationhood. This article unpacks various structural dimensions of collective solidarity
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Office Obligation as Civil Virtue: The Crisis of American Democracy, November 3, 2020–January 6, 2021, and After Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Jeffrey C. Alexander
This essay develops a new theoretical and empirical understanding of the contemporary crisis of American democracy. Between November 3, 2020, and January 7, 2021, President Donald Trump battled to overturn the results of the American presidential election, launching myriad lawsuits and pressuring hundreds of electoral officials. Confronting this antidemocratic assault was a resilient civil sphere that
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Religious Affiliation in the Twenty-First Century: A Machine Learning Perspective on the World Value Survey Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Elaheh Jafarigol, William Keely, Tess Hortag, Tom Welborn, Peyman Hekmatpour, Theodore B. Trafalis
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Avoiding the “Job-Stopper” Tattoo: An Exploratory Study on the Placement of Tattoos Among College Undergraduates Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Roberto Gallardo
Designed as an exploratory case study, this analysis focuses on the determining factors for the placement of tattoos on the body among undergraduates. Previous tattoo literature has predominantly focused on reasons for getting tattoos or the deviance associated with tattooing and tattooed populations. Little research exists on the process and placement of tattoos on the body, especially among the undergraduate
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The Sociology of Hope: Classical Sources, Structural Components, Future Agenda Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Adrian Scribano
The multiple problems that the planet is currently experiencing—climate crisis, conventional and unconventional wars, planetary disenchantment with political systems, growth of inequality, increase in all kinds of intersectional violence, destructuring of the political economy of morality, etc.—are not a favorable scenario for thinking about hope. This paper nevertheless offers a summary presentation
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The Uses and Misuses of History: Reflections on Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Julian Young
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Populism: A Berlinian Critique Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 George Crowder
How would Isaiah Berlin assess the current wave of authoritarian populism? The question is worth asking both for the light it casts on populism and for what it tells us about Berlin. In several respects, his view of populism is ambivalent: he is surprisingly sympathetic to the Russian populists of the nineteenth century, sharing their concern for genuine democracy and their reservations about elite
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Fragmented Discourses: The Indian Digital Public Sphere in a Post-truth Era Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Shabin Basheer, Chitra Karunakaran Prasanna, Fathimath Mahitha. K.
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Understanding Public Acceptance of Automobile Restriction Policies: A Qualitative Study in Four Latin American Cities Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Àlex Boso, Christian Oltra, Jaime Garrido, Sergi López-Asensio
In recent decades, several Latin American cities have implemented policy instruments to reduce urban air pollution and traffic congestion such as license plate–based restrictions on car use. Our research analyzes the factors influencing the public acceptance of these urban policies in four cities: Bogotá, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, and Quito. We use semi-structured interviews and digital diaries
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Forgetting the Founders? The Uses of Classical Theory Today Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Anthony Albanese, Elise Wolff, Alan Sica
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Tattooing, Cultural Change, and the Indigenous Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Tania Sen, Sambit Mallick, Ngamjahao Kipgen
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White Christian Nationalism and Youth Development in the USA Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Andrew Nalani, Hirokazu Yoshikawa
White Christian nationalism is a political ideology and cultural framework that views the USA as an explicitly and exceptionally Christian nation. It is a recent example of centuries of efforts to link a single religious faith to nation building, in this case to maintain a White supremacist and patriarchal society. Although White Christian nationalism has been investigated extensively in other disciplines
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Attitudes of Refugees Towards Integration: The Experience of South Sudanese Refugees in Adjumani District in Uganda Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Samuel Opono, Frank Ahimbisibwe
The question of how socioeconomic situations in and around refugees’ settlement in Uganda affect their motivation and attitudes towards integration has not been clearly addressed in the literature. To address this gap, this study explores the integration framework, and uses thematic and content analysis to analyse data collected via in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. The study finds that
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Trans-border Mobility and Security in the Sahel: Exploring the Dynamics of Forced Migration and Population Displacements in Burkina Faso and Mali Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Joachim Chukwuma Okafor, Olihe Adaeze Ononogbu, Anthony Chimankpam Ojimba, Casimir Chukwunoyelum Ani
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Infrastructures of Migrant (Im)mobilities in the Borderland of Burkina Faso and Niger Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Martin Doevenspeck, Kamal Donko
Externalized “migration management” in West Africa involves different infrastructures of monitoring, control, and blockage of mobility. By taking the Kantchari/Makalondi borderland between Burkina Faso and Niger as a case, we study infrastructures that condition (im)mobility. We analyze infrastructures that both support migrant mobility and serve the European idea of keeping Africans in their place
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Introduction to Forum: (Im)mobilities, Security, and Identities in West Africa Borderlands Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Victor Chidubem Iwuoha, Martin Doevenspeck
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‘Your Land or Your Life’! ECOWAS Free Movement Regime, Migration, and Resource Conflicts in West Africa Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Ernest Toochi Aniche, Ikenna Mike Alumona, Victor Chidubem Iwuoha, Chris Isike, Rebecca Ginikanwa Nnamani
West African borderlands still depict free labour migration that weaves a complex grid of relations and inter-dependences over the ‘artificial’ borders inherited from colonialism. Migrants consider the sub-region as a single cultural and socio-economic unit within which trade and services are intertwined across countries, and where border crossing is a main part of people’s lives and livelihoods. This
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Border Governance, Migration Securitisation, and Security Challenges in Nigeria Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Confidence Nwachinemere Ogbonna, Nsemba Edward Lenshie, Chikodiri Nwangwu
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The Varieties of Nationalism and Their Implications for the Liberal World Order Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Heather P. Wilford
The rise of populist leaders and nationalist parties has provoked a spate of commentary warning about the dangers posed by nationalism. Yet analysts often deploy the term as a catch-all for everything opposed to liberalism and fail to distinguish between different forms of nationalism. Differentiating expansionist authoritarian nationalism from national populism can help us clarify the serious threats
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The Contemporary Generations in American Politics Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Patrick Fisher
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Twins as a Minority: A Minority Building Perspective Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Mikko Lagerspetz
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An Immunity to Authoritarianism? Bagehot, Bryce, and Ostrogorski on the Risk of Caesarism in America Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Cheryl B. Welch
This paper considers the early lineage of assumptions, current in both the public sphere and the academy, that the United States was safe from capture by an authoritarian populist figure because of some combination of long-standing democratic institutions and a supportive civic culture. It analyzes the arguments of three influential European commentators—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), James Bryce (1838–1922)
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Let the Chips Fall! Public Nudging Arrangements, Coercion, and the Role of Independent Shopkeepers Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Matti Häyry, Johanna Ahola-Launonen, Tuija Takala
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The Look and Intersubjectivity: Insights from Sartre and Schutz for Race Relations Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Sara Kärkkäinen Terian
This article compares and contrasts Sartre’s discussion of the look with Schutz’s theory of intersubjectivity and applies their ideas to race relations. While both focus mostly on face-to-face interpersonal encounters, for Sartre these encounters are fraught with conflict, each partner endeavoring to make the other an object while regaining one’s own subjectivity and thus one’s ability to pursue one’s
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Causality Between Cultural Diversity and Economic Growth in India: Cross-State Study, 1990–1991 through 2017–2018 Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Abdul Shaban, Philippe Cadene
Existing studies have examined only the unidirectional impact of cultural diversity on the economic performance of countries, regions, and cities, not the other ways. They have assumed the diversity as given, while it may also grow, due to in-migration of workers and entrepreneurs, with economic growth and may be dependent on it. This paper models diversity and economic growth in a bi-directional causal
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Going Beyond the “Normative vs. Social” Standard: A Preliminary Framework for Evaluating the Legitimacy of International Institutions Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Peng Liu, Yun-Hua Cao
International institutions are facing a new paradox: there is an urgent need for them, but they are increasingly being resisted, and one of the main grounds for supporting and resisting international institutions is their legitimacy. Every organization claims legitimacy for itself and denies the legitimacy of others. However, a framework for evaluating legitimacy is lacking. This paper defines the
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The Right to Retract and the Danger of Retractions Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 John K. Wilson
Retractions by journals are an essential part of scholarship to deal with fraud and false research. But retractions also pose a threat to academic freedom when they are used to censor unpopular views under political pressure. Decisions to retract need to be made by the correct people (the journal editors), in the correct manner (following established due process procedures), and for the correct reasons
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Threats to Academic Freedom in Higher Education Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Patrick M. Garry
Much debate centers on the conditions of free speech and academic freedom within higher education. Underlying these debates are what appears to be increasing occurrences of ideologically based censorship battles within academia. This paper examines one aspect of those battles—e.g., how cancel culture has intruded into the academic environment of higher education. In particular, this paper explores
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Retraction, Free Speech, and Editorial Ethics: A Defense of the Retraction of Lawrence M. Mead’s “Poverty and Culture” Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Daniel Gordon
The article is a defense of the retraction of Lawrence M. Mead’s “Poverty and Culture” from the journal Society in 2020. Four reasons for retraction are adduced: the unreliable content; the faulty review process; the redundancy of the article in relation to previous articles by Mead; and the defamation of racial and national groups. The article discusses the ethics of retraction in general, arguing
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The Experience of International Students: Biographical Narratives and Identities Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Pierluca Birindelli
This article presents the findings of a qualitative and comparative study on the cultural experience of international students in North and South Europe. I employ a narrative approach and the focus of the research revolves around the autoethnographies of 25 international students in Helsinki and 25 in Florence. The narratives were prompted by in-depth interviews following a template divided into the
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Evolution of ‘India’s Neighbourhood First Policy’ Since Independence Society (IF 0.979) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Saroj Kumar Aryal, Simant Shankar Bharti
The ‘Neighbourhood First Policy’ is the anchor point of India’s general foreign policy since independence in 1947. Subsequently, the Neighbourhood First Policy has evolved, was debilitated, and has been reformed under the various prime ministers of India. Based on preferences and perceptions about the South Asian neighbourhood, the Neighbourhood First Policy has been implemented differently. This article