Farmers’ adaptability to the policy of ecological protection in China—A case study in Yanchi County, China
This article uses a case study in Northwest China to investigate the adaptability of farmers to the policy. First, we study the restoration status of ecosystems. In addition, this paper studies the perceptions regarding farmers’ adaptability to the policy and explores the adaptation strategies of different types of farmers. Finally, this paper discusses the main factors that influence farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies. The implementation of the PGP has achieved remarkable ecological benefits. Farmers of different types had different adaptation perceptions, and their choices of adaptation strategies also varied. ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Reactions to cyberbullying among high school and university students
In this study, behavioral and emotional reactions to cyberbullying were investigated by surveying 567 undergraduate-level university students and 211 high school students. Among the study participants, 170 of the undergraduates (29.98%) and 120 of the high school students (56.87%) reported that they had recently been cyberbullied. A four-factor scale with 37 items was used to investigate the behavioral cyberbullying reactions of victimized students. The four factors were revenge, countermeasure, negotiation and avoidance. An additional two-factor scale with 11 items was used to classify victimized students’ emotional rea...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection, Dorceta E. Taylor. Duke University Press, Durham, NC (2016), 486 pp., ISBN: 9780822361985
Publication date: Available online 4 July 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Kathleen E. Halvorsen (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms, Cristina Bicchieri. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2016), 239 pp., ISBN: 9780190622053
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Erin Pischke (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
In the Trenches: Teaching and Learning Sociology, M.P. Atkinson, K.S. Lowney. W. W. Norton, New York (2016), 346 pp., Paperback
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Shawna Bendeck, Ian D. Greenwood, Sneha Kadyan, Robert Tuttle, Nefratiri Weeks, N. Prabha Unnithan (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms, Cristina Bicchieri. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2016), 239 pp., ISBN: 9780190622053
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Erin Pischke (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relationship between sources of counseling self-efficacy and counseling self-efficacy among Malaysian school counselors
This study employs the Social Cognitive Theory to examine the relationship between the sources of counseling self-efficacy and the Malaysian school counselors’ counseling self-efficacy. The Sources of Counseling Self-Efficacy questionnaire and the Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory were used on 541 school counselors nationwide, as the respondents. The result reveals mastery experience has the strongest relationship with counseling self-efficacy. Recommendations on how to strengthen self-efficacy are proposed. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Determinants of state long-term debt: The political market framework
This study also aims to expand the application of the political market framework to state governments and to integrate determinants of state long-term indebtedness. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Exploring the potential contributions of mindfulness and compassion-based practices for enhancing the teaching of undergraduate ethics courses in philosophy
This article will identify issues with the dominant approach to teaching philosophical ethics, focusing on the need for a bridge between theory and action. It will also explore the potential benefits of utilizing mindfulness in the classroom, with a focus on compassion-based practices such as loving-kindness, to contribute to meeting this need to enhance the teaching of undergraduate philosophical ethics. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics
This article discusses the socio-cultural dynamics that interact with ethno-racial identity experiencing in a previously under-researched group. A qualitative interdisciplinary study with 40 Native American academics from 28 mainstream universities across the U.S. served as a case example with findings that contrasted with historically influential theoretical frameworks postulating identity confusion and conflicts at the intersection of one’s mainstream education and profession versus one’s ethno-racial community grounding. Instead of feeling pressure to identify with only one worldview, the contextual, dynamic identit...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Socioeconomic status, perceived inequality of opportunity, and attitudes toward redistribution
In conclusion, people commensurately support redistribution policies (even contrary to their own self-interest) as they recognize the significance of inequality of opportunity. The greater the support among people for redistribution against their self-interest, the weaker the social cleavage in attitudes toward redistribution across different SES strata, and the higher the overall level of support for redistribution in society. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Economic burden of tuberculosis and its coping mechanism at the household level in Pakistan
This study aims to assess the resulting economic burden of TB and examine the coping mechanisms practiced at the household level in Pakistan. A cross-sectional study was conducted at TB centers by interviewing 269 patients. Statistical tests and binary logistic regression were used to explore the relationship between catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and socio-economic factors. Results show that the incidence and intensity of CHE were higher for households in the lower income-quintile. Several coping strategies were practiced and varied among the different income-quintiles. The independent determinants of CHE were as ...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How to conduct a Narrative Policy Framework study
This article is intended to assist those interested in conducting an NPF study that is ‘clear enough to be wrong’ (Sabatier, 2000). While graduate programs offer critical methodological training, this article focuses on the specific application of the NPF to research inquiries about the role of policy narratives in the policy process. We approach our discussion by examining various decisions in the research process and include a detailed discussion of specifying the model and obtaining narrative data. We also point out areas for further investigation. (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Encounter On The Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890–1930, Karen V. Hansen. Oxford University Press, New York, NY (2013), Hardcover, ISBN 9780199746811, 332 pp.
Publication date: March 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1Author(s): Sandra Marklin (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
