Sociology: Moral dialogues and normative change
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Hilary SilverAbstractMoral dialogues are one mechanism of cultural change, allowing communities to resolve conflicts and revise the fundamental norms and values governing their members’ relationships. This essay illustrates the moral dialogue process with the debates over sexual harassment in the Trump era. Victimized women launched a transnational “megalogue” that pervaded politics, business, entertainment, academia, and other spheres. It transformed norms, institutions, and enforcement of acceptable behavior in employment a...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Communitarian idealism?
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): James M. Jasper (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The relevance of moral dialogs for policy studies and political science
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Donald P. Haider-Markel (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Political science: Moral dialogues and our understanding of American politics
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Nicholas P. LovrichAbstractThis commentary focuses on the connection between Etzioni’s moral dialogues conception and the concepts of social capital, civil society and the ultimate outcome to be anticipated from the election of Donald Trump in 2016. The optimist view that a progressive social movement is in the making is called somewhat into question given the well documented decline in the very institutions and trust-based norms essential for the moral dialogues in question to transpire. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Moral dialogs and public opinion research
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Jeffrey LyonsAbstractEtzioni’s article is thought provoking, and contains a series of arguments that would be useful lines of inquiry for scholars of public opinion. In many ways, these ideas link to, and can enrich existing areas of research on opinion formation, opinion change, and political behavior more broadly. Specifically, the elite vs. mass nature of these dialogs, the extent to which they are actual political discussions, and the impact of polarization on them are avenues where these ideas can inform broader understandin...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The role of the media in developing a shared moral understanding
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Bradley WilsonAbstractOver the last few decades, research has shown that media outlets are good at telling people what to think about, fulfilling what researchers call the agenda-setting role of the media. To that end, media outlets from social media to newspapers can play a pivotal role in developing a shared moral understanding. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social capital and health at the country level
This study examines the relationship between social capital and health. We use various estimation methods such as pooled OLS, a split-sample approach, a quadratic regression, and fixed effects model to investigate country-level unbalanced panel data of 194 countries for the time period 1990–2015. The results support the negative effect of bonding social capital and the positive effect of bridging social capital on health. The effects are more pronounced in low income countries. The first contribution of the paper is to better explain the mixed results of previous studies by focusing on the distinction between the two typ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mobile use, personal values, and connectedness with civic life
This study aims to examine whether and how mobile communication enables citizens to translate their value orientations into their connectedness to the civic life. Specifically, we probe the indirect process in which different types of personal values predict key dimensions of engagement with civic affairs through patterns of mobile phone use. We show that individualism is indirectly associated with engagement with civic affairs through informational mobile use, whereas the link between collectivism and community involvement is positively intervened by relational mobile use. Additionally, socio-tropic empathy yields indirec...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Selective exposure to partisan media: Moderating factors in evaluations of the president
This study proposes that moderating factors have different effects on conservative and liberal news consumers. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Is religious and existential well-being important in quality of life in Hong Kong Chinese?
Publication date: Available online 2 March 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Kitty ChanAbstractThe present study aims to determine the extent to which general QoL is predicted by religious and existential well-being, taking into consideration the intensity of participants’ religious and personal beliefs. Additionally, we examine the differences between Christians, believers in the Chinese religions, and those who are not religious. The study is based on the secondary analysis of a cross-sectional survey on the Spiritual Well-being scale (SWBS), which encompasses religious (RWB) and existential well-being (...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A multilevel analysis of the determinants of willingness to pay to prevent environmental pollution across countries
This study reveals that in developed countries, 90% of country variation in WTP to prevent environmental pollution can be explained by individual characteristics. This portion reduces to 80% in the case of developing countries. An interesting feature in our study is the ability to investigate the effect of contextual factors on individuals’ willingness to contribute for the environment. We observe that both democracy and government stability reduce individuals’ intention to donate to prevent environmental damage mainly in developed countries. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The politics of marital name change
In this study, we take a preliminary look at marital name change in the political arena by focusing on name changing among women serving in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. We find that half of female legislators keep their name after marriage, and that Democrats, racial minorities, legislators who come from political families, legislators who were married later in life, and legislators who were first elected to office at a younger age are more likely to keep their names. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Stay or go? Turnover in CMO, EMO and regular charter schools
Publication date: Available online 13 March 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Christine H. Roch, Na SaiAbstractBackgroundWe examine whether working conditions in different types of charter schools lead to different levels of teacher turnover. We consider two types of teacher turnover behaviors. One is teacher migration, which refers to the transfer of teachers from one school to another. The other one is teacher attrition, which describes the phenomenon of teachers leaving the profession entirely. We distinguish among charter schools managed by for-profit education management organizations (EMOs), those mana...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The gender gap on public opinion towards genetically modified foods
This study employs a 2014 Pew Research Center survey on science issues to test several possible explanations for the gender gap in attitudes towards GM foods rooted in the different life experiences of women and men. The results show that while being a parent predicts more skeptical views about genetically modified foods overall it does not explain the gender gap in attitudes. In contrast, knowledge about science and having confidence in science do play a significant role in mediating the gender gap. By exploring the robust and pervasive gender gap on the issue of GM foods, this study sheds light on the fundamentally diffe...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Lagging behind in suburbia: Suburban versus urban newcomers’ employment settlement service outcomes in Metro Vancouver, Canada
Publication date: Available online 1 April 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Daniyal Zuberi, Biorn Ivemark, Melita PtashnickAbstractSuburbanization is reshaping the context of immigrant settlement in Canada. Newcomer immigrants are increasingly settling initially in suburban communities as opposed to traditional receiving neighborhoods in urban centers. However, the quality of settlement services for newcomers to suburban neighborhoods has lagged behind, creating a mismatch between newcomer settlement patterns and service provision. As settlement patterns are recognized as significant determinants of employm...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
