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Social Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 9

September 2019 - 22 articles

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Articles (22)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,009 Views
15 Pages

19 September 2019

This study explores the aspirations of undocumented youth seeking to defer deportation from the United States and obtain temporary employment authorization through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The data are twenty-three letters submi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,162 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2019

Using a feminist, new materialist frame to activate ethico-political research exploring religion and gender at a community level both on Instagram and in arts workshops, we show how sharing ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, gender identities and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,000 Views
18 Pages

Implementation of the ISO 26000 Guidelines on Active Participation and Community Development

  • Oscar Daniel Licandro,
  • Adán Guillermo Ramírez García,
  • Lisandro José Alvarado-Peña,
  • Luis Alfredo Vega Osuna and
  • Patricia Correa

16 September 2019

The ISO 26000 Guidance provides valuable conceptual and methodological guidelines for making corporate social action an effective tool through which organizations contribute to the solution of social problems within the communities they operate. Thes...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,131 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2019

A key technological trend in big data science is that of the quantified self, whereby individuals can self-track their health and well-being using various sources of information. The aim of this article was to integrate multidimensional views on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,936 Views
15 Pages

12 September 2019

This article provides an assessment of how the EU trade policies affect EU imports. The main contribution is that we compute a theoretically consistent measure of the EU tariff margin and estimate the elasticities of substitution at the sectoral leve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,642 Views
17 Pages

10 September 2019

Using a rights framework underpinned by the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child of; best interests, participation/respect for the child’s views, non-discrimination and life, survival and development, this paper outli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
13,427 Views
13 Pages

9 September 2019

Structural social changes and population aging are emerging as important policy issues in many countries around the world. In particular, although early retirees aged 50 or older are left behind from social welfare services and suffer from worsening...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,098 Views
15 Pages

Collective Perception of Anthropic and Extractive Interventions in the Colombian Llanos

  • Luca Eufemia,
  • Hector Morales,
  • Michelle Bonatti,
  • Maximilian Graser,
  • Marcos Lana and
  • Stefan Sieber

9 September 2019

Increasingly, the developmental model of anthropic and extractive interventions is a global concern. Its impacts are challenging not only the precarious equilibrium of natural resources but also the one of local communities and identities. The case o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,053 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2019

Family involvement plays a key role in diabetes management. Challenges related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) often affect the whole family, and relatives are at increased risk of developing diabetes themselves. Creating family involvement in families livi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
459 Citations
359,517 Views
17 Pages

6 September 2019

Debates around the issues of knowledge of, and for, social work and other social justice–oriented professions are not uncommon. More prevalent are the discussions around the ways by which social work knowledge is obtained. In recent years, soci...

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