Social Sciences

Gendered Violence: Victim Perceptions and System Responses

edited by

submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8475 | Submission Open

Keywords: gender-based violence; sexual assault; intimate partner violence; stalking; harassment; victim perceptions; victims; law enforcement; courts; system responses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gender Studies)

“Non-Traditional” Parents in Contemporary Societies

edited by

Monica Pivetti

and

Silvia Di Battista

submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7914 | Submission Open

Keywords: “ non-traditional” parents; new family forms; attitudes; beliefs; routes to parenthood; sexual prejudice; hetero-cis-normativity; gender role beliefs

Social and Environmental Justice

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submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 472 | Submission Open

Keywords: social justice; environmental justice; economic justice; disability justice; immigration justice; digital access justice

Selected Papers from the 31st European Social Services Conference 2023: Advancing Social Services - The Role of Technology in Promoting Autonomy and Inclusion

edited by Robin Miller and

Andrzej Klimczuk

submission deadline 30 Sep 2023 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: accessibility; autonomy; co-production; data management; digitalisation; e-health; inequalities; information and communication technologies; integrated care and support; inter-professional education; implementation; interoperability; labour market; leadership; poverty; primary care; social and solidarity economy; social care; social inclusion; social innovation; social policy; social security; social services; social work; welfare state; workforce

DIDE–Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife

edited by Johanna Sumiala and Dorthe Refslund Christensen

submission deadline 1 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 96 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital death; grief; afterlife; immortality; beliefs; practices; history; ritual; ritualizations; transformation; interdisciplinarity

Gender-Related Violence: Social Sciences’ Research & Methods

edited by

Pam Alldred

and

Vanita Sundaram

submission deadline 10 Oct 2023 | 15 articles | Viewed by 25430 | Submission Open

Keywords: Gender-related violence; gender based violence; inequalities; social justice; researching sensitive topics; intersectionality; research ethics; feminist methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gender Studies)

Structural Interventions to Promote the Health, Safety & Rights of Sex Workers: Decriminalization and Beyond

edited by

Cecilia M. Benoit

and

Andrea Mellor

submission deadline 10 Oct 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 17154 | Submission Open

Keywords: diversity; structural interventions; progressive policies; social influences of health; stigma; discrimination

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)

Social Resistance and Everyday Life: Forms of Civil Society in the Arts

edited by

Ilaria Riccioni

submission deadline 13 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 750 | Submission Open

Keywords: arts; civil society; democracy; social resistance; digitalization

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Sport: New Evidence, Perspectives, and Interpretations

edited by

Mike Hartill

and Bettina Rulofs

submission deadline 25 Oct 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11129 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport; sexual abuse; violence; exploitation; harassment; safeguarding; child protection; athlete welfare; abuse prevention

(This special issue belongs to the Section Children and Youth Studies)

Reducing School Violence

edited by

Charles Crawford

submission deadline 25 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5976 | Submission Open

Keywords: school violence; school shootings; school safety; school bullying; school resource officers; school conflict resolution; school culture

Building Resilience for Future Extreme Events: Focusing on Vulnerable and Marginalized Inhabitants and Co-Inhabitants

edited by

Haorui Wu

,

Jeff Karabanow

,

Jean M. Hughes

and

Catherine Leviten-Reid

submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14363 | Submission Open

Keywords: resilience; sustainability; disaster migration and displacement; disaster health consequences; multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder; vulnerable and marginalized communities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)

New Trends in Community-Engaged Research, Volume 2: New Voices, Critical Approaches

edited by

Steven McKay

,

Claudia Lopez

and

Rebecca A. London

submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 16 articles | Viewed by 13405 | Submission Open

Keywords: critical community-engaged scholarship; policy advocacy; community organizing; participatory action research; community-based research

Contemporary Challenges: Low-income Households and Social Support

edited by

Lea Caragata

submission deadline 30 Oct 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2274 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-income; COVID-19; social inequality; single mothers; labour markets; poverty

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Policy and Welfare)

Immigration, Ethnic Residential Segregation or (vs.) Socioeconomic Integration in Urban Areas

edited by

Federico Benassi

,

Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual

and

Salvatore Strozza

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3188 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)

Racial Injustice, Violence and Resistance: New Approaches under Multidimensional Perspectives

edited by

Marcelo J. P. Paixão

,

Thomas McNulty

and

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1264 | Submission Open

Keywords: race relations; inequality; discrimination; racism; violence; injustice; gender; multidimensionality; minorities struggle; periphery potencies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)

Political, Economic and Social Crises, and National Solidarity in the Early 2020s

edited by

Klára Vlachová

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 576 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)

Moral Stress and Moral Agency in Eldercare

edited by

Sara Hultqvist

,

Magdalena Elmersjö

and

Katarina Hollertz

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 414 | Submission Open

Social Work Practice and Education in the Post-pandemic World

edited by

Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open

Keywords: COVID-19; post-pandemic; digital transformation; human rights; social justice; responses to vulnerable groups; community development; public health; allied health and social services; Social Work Practice; Social Work Education;

Communication Dysfunctions and Social Threats Associated with Digital Social Platforms

edited by

Javier Jiménez Amores

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: social media; social threat; misinformation; fake news; hate speech; cyber-hate; cyber-harassment; cyber-stalking; sexting; sextortion grooming

Multilevel Factors Affecting the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Forcibly Displaced Populations

edited by

Catharina Van der Boor

submission deadline 31 Oct 2023 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: conflict; migration; mental health; psychosocial wellbeing; social determinants; resilience; trauma; intervention; prevention; context

(This special issue belongs to the Section International Migration)

Children’s Wellbeing and Children’s Rights—A Nordic Perspective

edited by Hanne Warming and Sarah Alminde

submission deadline 1 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 611 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Children and Youth Studies)

Has Consumption Ruined the City?

edited by

Steven Miles

submission deadline 1 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open

Keywords: consumption; city; regeneration; commodification; tourism; identity; gentrification

Rethinking the Mobilities of Migrant Children and Youth Across the Americas

edited by

Leah C. Schmalzbauer

and

Joanna Dreby

submission deadline 20 Nov 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12058 | Submission Open

Keywords: Latino migration; second-generation immigrants; immigrant educational mobility; deportation and return; illegality; immigrant childhood

(This special issue belongs to the Section International Migration)

Psychosocial Research Methods to Understand Lived Experience through Art and Design Collaborations

edited by

Gail Kenning

submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8378 | Submission Open

Keywords: psychosocial engagement; psychosocial design; psychosocial evaluation; social work; social action; aging

The Contested Terrain of Sport: Sociological, Political and Policy Perspectives

edited by Steve Jackson and Mike Sam

submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2753 | Submission Open

Keywords: contested terrain; sociology of sport; sport policy; new and alternative sports; sport integrity; indigenous sport; trans athletes and sport policy; sporting identities; sport mega-events; sports activism; sport; diplomacy and foreign policy; sports gambling and matchfixing; sport media; sport; the environment and sustainability; sport and wellbeing

School-to-Work Transition of At-Risk Youth during Crisis and Distress

edited by

Giovanna Campani

,

Anderson Spavier Alves

and

Teresa Terrón-Caro

submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 563 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Stratification and Inequality)

Student Motivation and Satisfaction with Participation in Blended Learning

edited by

Isabel María Gómez-Trigueros

and

José María Esteve-Faubel

submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 285 | Submission Open

Keywords: key competition; TPACK; motivation; satisfaction; blended learning; ethics in education

Anthropological Reflections on Crisis and Disaster

edited by

Christopher Dyer

submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Exploring Alternative Perspectives of Death and Bereavement: Risk, Resilience and Recovery

edited by

Kerry Jones

and

Sharon Mallon

submission deadline 30 Nov 2023 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open

Keywords: death; bereavement; grief work; resilience; recovery

Inclusive Research: Is the Road More or Less Well Travelled?—2nd Edition

edited by

Patricia O’Brien

submission deadline 1 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 387 | Submission Open

Policing, Security and Safety in Urban Communities

edited by Laura M. Nunes,

Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

and

Ana Isabel Sani

submission deadline 15 Dec 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5455 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban criminality; policing; security; safety; community crime evaluation; crime prevention; environmental/spacial urban design; urban criminal diagnosis

Toward a Critical Sociology of Gender Violence

edited by

Sarah Jane Brubaker

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2562 | Submission Open

Keywords: gender violence; social activism; critical sociology; critical theory; participatory action research

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gender Studies)

Intersections between Work–Life Balance and Gender Policies: Equality and Sustainability for Caring and Family Transition

edited by

Isabella Crespi

and Elena Macchioni

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open

Keywords: work– family balance; gender policies; caring; equality; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)

Rethinking and Analyzing Political Communication in the Digital Era

edited by

Ana Fernández Zubieta

and

Belén Casas-Mas

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 484 | Submission Open

Keywords: political communication; digital research methods; social media; big data; digital activism; digital public sphere; polarization; disinformation; digital inequalities; digital transparency

New Studies in Political Finance and Political Corruption

edited by

Jonathan Mendilow

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: political finance; political corruption; electoral system; political competition; national interest; international interest

(This special issue belongs to the Section Contemporary Politics and Society)

Applying AI to Social Science and Social Science to AI

edited by

Carlos Fernandez-Basso

,

Jesica Gómez Sánchez

and

David Lagnado

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1359 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; explainable AI; social science; human– machine trust

Rethinking Women’s Homelessness: Understanding Complex Lives

edited by Kate Moss and

Emily Gray

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 859 | Submission Open

Keywords: housing; homelessness; social policy; gender; women; inequality

Academic Computing and the Social Sciences

edited by

Randy Connolly

submission deadline 15 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

Keywords: computing; social sciences; curricula; ethics; computational social science; computing education; interdisciplinary approaches

Teaching and Learning in Refugee/(Im)Migrant Communities around the World

edited by Jill Koyama and Yalda M. Kaveh

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 449 | Submission Open

Keywords: refugees; immigrants; education; community; critical refugee studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section International Migration)

International Counter-Trafficking: A Zero-Sum Game?

edited by Mara Clemente

submission deadline 31 Jan 2024 | Viewed by 93 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section International Migration)

Exploring New Ways to Address Early School Leaving

edited by

Laura M. Guerrero Puerta

submission deadline 15 Feb 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1978 | Submission Open

Chronic Health Conditions and Bodies: Methods, Meanings, and Medicine

edited by Natalie C. Boero and Natalie Ingraham

submission deadline 15 Feb 2024 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open

Keywords: embodiment; medical sociology; chronic illness; disability studies; pain; caretaking; methodology; interdisciplinary; sociology of health

Advances in Positive Youth Development

edited by

Alessandro Pepe

and Farina Eleonora

submission deadline 29 Feb 2024 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open

Keywords: positive youth development; youth flourishing; youth participation; social support; prosocial behaviors; emotional wellbeing; youth mental health; education and school; care system

(This special issue belongs to the Section Children and Youth Studies)

Sport, Gender and Stereotypes

edited by

Lindsay Parks Pieper

,

Jörg Krieger

and

April Henning

submission deadline 1 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport; gender; history; intersectionality; social constructivism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Gender Studies)

Marriage Equality Around the World

edited by

Gayle Kaufman

and

D'Lane R. Compton

submission deadline 15 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 669 | Submission Open

Keywords: marriage equality; same-sex marriage; LGBTQ+ families; family policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Family Studies)

Emotional Labor, Stress, and Well-Being: Components of the Sustainability and Dignity of Work

edited by Sônia Maria Guedes Gondim, Mary Sandra Carlotto and

Carla Carvalho

submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 378 | Submission Open

Keywords: emotional labor; workplace stress; well-being at work; decent work; psychology of work; research methods; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Work, Employment and the Labor Market)

Mindfulness in Social Work: Special Issue Exploring Current Application and Potential in Social Work Practice and Education

edited by

Pearse McCusker

and

Alan Maddock

submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 381 | Submission Open

Keywords: mindfulness and critical mindfulness; social work practice; social work education; social work research; self-care in social work; anti-oppressive practice; mindfulness for social change

Continuations of Cruelty: Migration, Citizenship and the Inhumane

edited by

Stephen Webb

and Natalia Farmer

submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: cruelty; onticide; migration; borders; citizenship; asylum seekers; community; environmental migration; unforced species migration; the inhumane

(This special issue belongs to the Section International Migration)

Reconceptualising Communication for Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Field

edited by Valentina Baú

submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open

Keywords: communication for development; development communication; communication for social change; participatory communication; sustainable development; community development

The Social Power of Gender-Based Violence and Abuse in the Workplace

edited by

Vera Lomazzi

and Anke Lipinsky

submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open

Keywords: gender-based violence in the workplace; violence regimes; prevalence; sexual harassment; victimization; normalization; gender norms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Family Studies)

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