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Social Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 2

2018 February - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,627 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2018

Youth work is a very recent field in Turkey and the evolution of the field has been very much influenced by the European institutions, especially with the European Union candidacy process of Turkey. Youth work in Turkey can be analyzed in three diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,268 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2018

Over the past three decades, there has been a steady increase of funds by the international community to support civil society organizations (CSOs) in fragile states. Surprisingly, this growing attention has not strengthened local civil society lands...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,652 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2018

I analyze attitudes towards gun control from a recent survey of American high school students. For students who most closely identify as Republicans, cueing them to think about prior school shootings increases their agreement that armed staff in scho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,977 Views
10 Pages

13 February 2018

The widening of participation in higher education in recent decades has been heralded as a means toward the reduction of social class inequalities in higher education. Research findings indicate, though, that simply increasing the number of people at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
17,837 Views
21 Pages

11 February 2018

Male-dominated work environments often possess masculine cultures that are unwelcoming to women. The present work investigated whether male-dominated academic environments were characterized by gender ideologies with negative implications for women....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,090 Views
24 Pages

9 February 2018

Newly inaugurated President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama made his diplomatic debut promoting conflict transformation between the United States and the international Muslim community following eight years of U.S. militarized intervention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,860 Views
13 Pages

Achieving Quality Education by Understanding Teacher Job Satisfaction Determinants

  • Chux Gervase Iwu,
  • Ikechukwu Onyekwere Ezeuduji,
  • Ita Chimezie Iwu,
  • Kenechukwu Ikebuaku and
  • Robertson Khan Tengeh

8 February 2018

The issue of quality education in Nigeria has come up in a number of studies. In particular, the teacher has been identified as a major resource in achieving the very important objective of quality basic education. This comes against the backdrop tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,953 Views
26 Pages

7 February 2018

The rise in African immigrants to the US provides an opportunity to assess relations between Africans and African Americans in college. An online survey of 322 current and recently-graduated college students (including 45 Africans, 160 African Americ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
15,671 Views
33 Pages

Chilly Climates, Balancing Acts, and Shifting Pathways: What Happens to Women in STEM Doctoral Programs

  • Marilyn Cabay,
  • Bianca L. Bernstein,
  • Melissa Rivers and
  • Natalie Fabert

31 January 2018

Women in doctoral programs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) leave without finishing at higher rates than men and, as with men, turn away from academic and research careers. This qualitative study examines the day-to-day influences...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,400 Views
11 Pages

30 January 2018

This study focuses on three important shared values—trust, openness, and commitment—and examines the impact of these values on project performance and outcomes, specifically for science and innovation research projects. To this end, 12 in-depth inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,303 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2018

In March 2016, after a series of hate crimes victimized students of color on campus, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison started #TheRealUW movement against racism on campus. In order to exemplify racism on campus, students of color took...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,041 Views
11 Pages

26 January 2018

Sexual harassment has been widely studied in the workforce, but the factors that contribute to hostile educational environments for women have received less attention. The present study focuses on male dominance, gender harassment, gender threats, ma...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,095 Views
11 Pages

26 January 2018

Since the majority of top-level researchers are men, how does this vertical gender-segregation affect students’ perceptions of a research career? In the current study, an experimental manipulation either reminded students of academia’s current domina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,833 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2018

Over the last few decades, coastalscapes have been seriously threatened by the rising effects of climate change such as sea level rise, coastal degradation and extreme flooding. To cope with these threats, since 1992, international development organi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,415 Views
16 Pages

Strategic Self-Presentation of Women in STEM

  • Alexandra Garr-Schultz and
  • Wendi L. Gardner

26 January 2018

Despite a plethora of initiatives and a surge of research activity, women remain under-represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines (National Science Foundation 2017). While much research has focused on ways to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,279 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2018

Climate changes are reshaping agricultural production and food security across the world. One result is that women in both the developed and developing world are increasingly being drawn into agricultural labour. Yet, because the labour of women has...

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