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Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Seweryn Rudnicki, Katarzyna Wojnicka
This article argues that translating social research findings into policy recommendations may pose a significant methodological and practical challenge. Due to the current emphasis on the ‘third mission’ of universities and the ‘relevance’ of scientific knowledge, it has become more common for sociologists to engage in projects that include the development of social-research-based recommendations.
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Book Review: Rethinking Locality in Japan Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Meriç Kırmızı
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Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Theresa Dyrvig Henriksen, Josefine Frøslev-Thomsen
Sugar dating is a complex phenomenon that unfolds on a continuum between traditional dating and sex work. Existing research shows that sugar dating is often portrayed as rife with potential physical and social risks, and from a societal standpoint, it is also often characterized as a risky activity, particularly for young individuals. In this article, we investigate the emergence of these risks and
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Book Review: Habit’s Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Gordana Angelichin-Zhura
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Digital Therapeutic Cultures and Their New Regime of Psychological Truth Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Rodrigo De La Fabián
The article focuses on contemporary digital therapeutic cultures’ new regime of truth. This entails describing and critically analysing the sociomaterial apparatuses that distinguish truth from false and produce specific modes of subjectivation. The article shows that the digital regime of psychological truth is heir to the behavioural mistrust of subjectivity and the epistemological shift from the
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Young People Experiencing Multiple Mobilities: In Search of an Oasis of Youth Across Europe Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Ewa Krzaklewska, Valentina Cuzzocrea
In this study, we look at those young Europeans who have undertaken more than one Erasmus stay abroad during their higher education to reflect on spaces for youth development. On the basis of 18 qualitative interviews with such Erasmus students, we propose the concept of an ‘oasis of youth’ to highlight the potential for the exploration of the self that occurs through participation in mobilities. We
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The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Antti Saari, Kristiina Brunila, Saara Vainio
Public debate and media attention concerning mental health problems, stress, psycho-emotional vulnerabilities, and anxiety among university students has reached record level. Informed by media representations, student mental health guides, and our observations, we focus on the ethos of vulnerability as an articulation of psychologized student subjectivity in Finnish academia. We explore the multiple
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Understanding Food Assistance Through Care: Theoretical Insights Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Fábio Rafael Augusto
Two theoretical perspectives have been extensively mobilized to understand the social role of food assistance initiatives, namely ‘food security’ and ‘political economy’. The main objective of this article is to develop an alternative theoretical approach that allows for more comprehensive analyses. Building on Thomas’s (1993) conceptual work on care, it is expected to encourage the development of
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Misbehaviour on Retreat: Rule-Breaking and the Labours of the Self Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 James Hodgson
Current scholarship tends to frame retreat-going, and the practices carried out therein, as emblematic of late-modern forms of self-work, understanding retreats as part of broader personal life projects of self-mastery and self-knowledge. For this article, I draw on empirical data to suggest that, although work on the self is typically the central concern for retreat-goers, they also question or outright
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Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson
Over the past two decades, the need to create ‘age-friendly cities and communities’ (AFCC) has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people’s physical and social environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has driven this agenda through the launch in 2010 of the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Support for ageing in place has, at the same time, run alongside
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‘It Feels Like a Big Performance’: Space, Performativity and Young Woman Skateboarders Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Carrie Paechter, Lyndsey Stoodley, Michael Keenan, Chris Lawton
In this article, we apply philosophical and sociological theory to consider how young women skateboarders interact with and are affected by performative aspects of skateboarding cultures. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study of three skateparks plus other skate spaces in and around two English cities, we argue that these spaces are performative in nature and that this is frequently problematic
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With God We Distrust! The Impact of Values in Conspiracy Theory Beliefs About Migration in Serbia Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Türkay Salim Nefes, Jasna Milošević Đorđević, Milica Vdović
Immigrants are a popular target of conspiracy theories. Despite the urgent relevance of the topic all around the world today, the number of studies on conspiracy theories about migrants and immigration is limited. Helping to fill this important gap in the academic literature, the research analyses conspiracy theory beliefs about migrants and immigration in contemporary Serbia through survey data from
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Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ashley Frawley, Chloë Wakeham, Kenneth McLaughlin, Kathryn Ecclestone
In 2018, the UK Conservative government issued a ‘non-negotiable’ instruction for universities to make ‘positive mental health’ a strategic priority. This was responding to growing pressure from a variety of stakeholders including mental health organisations, student groups and higher education (HE) management who claimed a worsening crisis of student mental health in the UK. We conducted a qualitative
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Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Radka Dudová, Alena Křížková
Using an intersectional approach, we explore how parents in the Czech Republic coped with the increased demands of childcare and how their perceptions of childcare changed throughout the COVID-19 p...
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How to Overcome the Secretiveness of a Group: Opportunities of Online Interviews Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Inês Maia
In a pandemic, qualitative methodologies and in-person interviews, the key to understanding the experiences lived by participants in social phenomena, proved to be ill-suited. As a result of the re...
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Examining Professionalisation as a Strategy for Sex Worker Empowerment and Mobilisation Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Nadine Gloss
In this article, I examine the concept of professionalisation in sex work as a strategy shaped by political activism that aims to empower and mobilise sex workers to fight for labour rights. Using ...
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Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Wendy Wills, Angela Dickinson
Food insecurity is a public health issue in Western countries, including the UK. Being food-insecure means older adults may not access sufficient nutritious, safe, and socially acceptable food, lea...
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What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Andrea Doucet, Janna Klostermann
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches t...
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Trajectories of Vulnerability and Resistance Among Independent Indoor Sex Workers During Economic Decline Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Laura Jarvis-King
Economic decline, such as we have witnessed in recent years, has disproportionately affected women and evidence demonstrates how financial hardship encourages entry to the sex industry. This worsen...
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‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Eva Soares Moura
Time has become one of the most researched topics in the field of sociological, but especially psychological, research. While broad attention has been paid to the impact of chronological age on pla...
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Explaining Regularities or Individual Outcomes: Chance and the Limits of Social Science Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Judith Glaesser
Can we explain individual outcomes by referring to patterns observed in populations? Social scientists generally assume that we can, at least to a certain degree, and they study populations partly ...
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Discounts as a Barrier to Change in Our Food Systems Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Lisa Jack
Despite the wealth of discussion and ideas on how food systems might change, and all the plans and schemes created to provide solutions to unsustainable food systems, very few researchers have exam...
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Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Shahin Davoudpour
While the power of legal exclusion in stigmatisation is undeniable, its impact on ally behaviour has never been explored. This gap in stigma, law, and allyship is the focus of the present study. Mo...
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The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Jennifer Burr, Nigel Russell-Sewell
The aim of this study is to explore how the dead human body is socially produced through the practices of those involved in teaching anatomy through cadaveric dissection. The perspectives of anatom...
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Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Co-production Outside Chrononormativity Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Harvey Humphrey, Edmund Coleman-Fountain
This article explores how ‘chrononormative’ constructions of time shape research and offers an approach to co-production and research involvement that draws on insights from trans, queer, and disab...
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Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Anthony Lloyd, Daniel Briggs, Anthony Ellis, Luke Telford
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overw...
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The Re-enchantment of Food: An Introduction Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 John Coveney
To say that humans have a profound relationship with the food they produce and eat is a mere truism. What is new derives from the recognition that in Western cultures, over time, our deep relations...
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Using a Range of Communication Tools to Interview a Hard-to-Reach Population Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Orlanda Harvey, Edwin van Teijlingen, Margarete Parrish
Online communication tools are increasingly being used by qualitative researchers; hence it is timely to reflect on the differences when using a broad range of data collection methods. Using a case...
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Gendered Interaction and Practices of Intimacy Among Emirati Young Spouses: Exploring the Experiences of Wives Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Mohammed Abdel Karim Al Hourani
This study aims to explore the practices of intimacy among Emirati spouses in a society where gender discrimination persistently governs the private space of family relationships. Participants incl...
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Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Adam Gemar
Recent research into religion’s intersection with social class, specifically in the UK, represents a conspicuous gap in recent scholarly work. I seek in this article to help fill this gap by focusi...
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‘Amusing and Fun’, ‘Arresting’, or ‘The Wrong Pictures’? Methodological Lessons from Using Photo-Elicitation in a Study of Academic Retirement Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Graham Crow
This article reports on the use of photo-elicitation in a mixed methods study of academics’ later careers and retirement. Interviewees, who were either in their later career stage or retired from u...
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Stretching the Double Hermeneutic: A Critical Examination of Lay Meanings of ‘Emotional Labour’ Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Hana Stulikova, Matt Dawson
This article explores how the concept of emotional labour has moved from sociological into lay discourse as a case study of the double hermeneutic and concept creep, demonstrating the effect sociol...
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‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Emeka W Dumbili
In traditional Nigeria, moderate drinking was normative among adult men who occupied drinking spaces. Heavy drinking and intoxication were transgressive behaviours that attracted sanctions. Alcohol...
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The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty
This article contributes to new scholarship on family change as bricolage and institutional layering. Focusing on the classic topic of parental values and aspirations for their children, we used a ...
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Going Public: Performing Dying in the Second Decade of the 21st Century Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Michael Brennan
It is now more than a decade since the death of celebrity television personality Jade Goody – a high water mark in public dying comparable to the watershed moment in public mourning marked by the d...
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The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19 Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Oki Rahadianto Sutopo, Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto, Ariane Utomo, Annisa R Beta, Novi Kurnia
This article examines reflexive practice among young creative workers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, during COVID-19. Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a series of relentless and ove...
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Performances of Legitimate Expertise Among Life Coaches: Three Rhetorical Strategies Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Tamar Kaneh-Shalit
In the global crisis of expertise, experts are often viewed with skepticism. This article zooms in to this crisis to analyze how life coaches seek professional legitimacy and verbally perform their...
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Risk Epistemologies and Aesthetic Reflexivity of a Disaster-Affected Community: Findings from Vietnam Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Kien Nguyen-Trung
Scholars and policymakers often use their expert knowledge to define the risk that laypeople face. Nonetheless, they have frequently overlooked how laypeople describe and explain the risks they fac...
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Mid- and Later Life Cross-Sex Friendships in Minority Ethnic Contexts: Insights From Scotland Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Shruti Chaudhry
This article draws on qualitative research among older adults (50+ years) of South Asian heritage in Scotland to explore what cross-sex friendships reveal about the normative tenor of gender, sexua...
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‘You Can’t Delete a Memory’: Managing the Data Past on Social Media in Everyday Life Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Benjamin N Jacobsen
This article explores how the data past on social media, in the form of packaged ‘memories’, is managed by people in everyday life. Drawing on interview and focus group data, I examine how people m...
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Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future? Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Nicola Ansell, Peggy Froerer, Roy Huijsmans
The future for young people worldwide is characterised by multiple uncertainties, particularly perhaps in countries of the Global South. There is a growing and pervasive expectation that these unce...
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A Young Disabled LGBT+ Researchers Group: Working Collaboratively to Explore the Lives of Young Autistic LGBT+ Persons Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Alex Toft, Beth Ward, Anonymous author
This article explores setting up a research group and outlines how we work together. The goal of the research group is to work collaboratively to conduct research on aspects of life for young disab...
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Swiping as a Single Mom: A First Look at the Experiences of Single Mothers Who Use Tinder Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Maria Stoicescu, Cosima Rughiniș
Single mothers who wish to find new dating partners must contend with a lack of free time and the demands of parenting. As online dating has become a more socially acceptable way to access social, ...
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Discourse Formation of Political Dissents via Twitter: Political Sociology of the Subversion Discourse in the Islamic Republic of Iran Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Arash Beidollahkhani
Four decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the rise of the Islamic Republic (IR) system, several anti-IR groups have emerged. In the past, the disorganized structure of these groups, the...
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Lost (and Found) in Translation – Queer ‘Wedding-Engagement’ Tactics in Poland Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Agata Stasińska
In many Western countries, LGBTQ couples experience the ‘after marriage era’, allowing them to cherish their intimate bonds openly and legally. Meanwhile, Poland remains the biggest country in the ...
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Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Steve Garner, Somia Bibi
Skin lightening cuts across multiple and intersecting areas of interest to sociologists. These include consumerism, capital, the body, femininities, masculinities, the power of the media in shaping...
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What Do Arts-Based Methods Do? A Story of (What Is) Art and Online Research With Children During a Pandemic Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Julie Spray, Hannah Fechtel, Jean Hunleth
This comic draws viewers behind the final product and into the process of arts-based research. Specifically, we focus on research produced over Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on a study o...
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A Creative Conversation for Re-imagining Creative Visual Methods with Children and Young People in Pandemic Times and Beyond Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Amanda M Ptolomey, Elizabeth L Nelson
In this project we forward insights about the importance of being in ‘the room where it happens’ – creating tactility and togetherness in the research encounter – for research with children and you...
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It’s Our Story: Parents and Carers’ Experiences during the Pandemic Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Katie Pybus, Jean McEwan, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Maddy Power, Ruth Patrick, Sydnie Corley
Parents and carers taking part in the Covid Realities research programme came together to create a zine about their experiences during the pandemic, as well as focusing on what needs to change in t...
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Cocreating with Young Fathers: Producing Community-Informed Training Videos to Foster more Inclusive Support Environments Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Laura Way, Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow, Jonah York, Adam Gorzelanczyk, Dylan Brown, Will Patterson
Our contribution draws upon a collaborative project called ‘Diverse Dads’, which ran between October 2020 and April 2021, during the 2020–2021 COVID-19 pandemic. The team comprised members of the N...
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Young People’s Perspectives on the Value and Meaning of Art during the Pandemic Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Sara Rizzo, Ellie Knox, Naqi Azizi, Isra Sulevani, Charmaine Chia, Marie Leo, Micol Spina, Barry Percy-Smith, Chermaine Tay, Leanne Monchuk, Laurie Day
This contribution draws on the voices and reflections from young people as co-researchers in the Growing-Up Under Covid-19 project – a longitudinal ethnographic action research project to document,...
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Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Helen Lomax, Kate Smith, Barry Percy-Smith
This inaugural special issue of ‘Beyond the Text’ brings together a collection of visual arts (animation, creative and fine art, film, photographs, and zines) produced by children, young people, fa...
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Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Helen Lomax, Kate Smith
‘Our Voices’ is an animation co-created with children aged 9–11 during the 2020–2021 global pandemic. A short, stop-start animation of children’s visual, audio and textual representations of their ...
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Calais Again Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Anas, David Cường Nguyễn, Caitlin Nunn
Calais Again is a digital story recounting a young man, Anas’ experience of returning to France for the first time after migrating to the United Kingdom as a separated asylum-seeking child. Produce...
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‘. . . staff here are just dropped in the deep end’: The Impact of Roles on Communication and Supervisor Support in Youth Custody Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Claire Paterson-Young
Staff experience in youth custody are often categorised by strains, which are affected by communication and support. This research explores the association between staff roles, within a Secure Trai...
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Stories Too Big for a Case File: Unaccompanied Young People Confront the Hostile Environment in Pandemic Times Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Aissatou, Evangelia Prokopiou, Lucy Leon, Musharraf Abdullayeva, Mirfat, Osman, Pauline Iyambo, Rachel Rosen, Rebin, Veena Meetoo, Zak
What imagery best evokes the violence unaccompanied child migrants feel when asked, or made, to tell their story over and over, as well as the violence of not being asked nor being heard? How can w...
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Data Protection in Sociological Health Research: A Critical Narrative about the Challenges of a New Regulatory Landscape Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Hélder Raposo, Sara Melo, Catarina Egreja
The recent implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) establishes a set of formal requirements that reinforce personal data protection, namely, those concerning the collection,...
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Looking Within: A Call for Greater Reflexivity in Expatriate Research Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Alexandra Ridgway, Kate Lowe
Self-examinations of researcher positionality are central to understanding how scholars engage with research populations and vice versa. Discussions of how researchers are positioned are considered...
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Kelly Needs a New Coat: Views on Compensating Altruistic Surrogacy in Aotearoa New Zealand Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Rhonda M Shaw, Hannah Gibson
There is little research documenting the experience of surrogate mothers in Aotearoa New Zealand, and no published studies to date have asked surrogates about the significance of financial benefit ...
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Redistributive State in Iran, Fiscal Sociology, and the Attitude of Two Generations of Students Toward State Revenue and Expending Sociological Research Online (IF 1.315) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Hamzeh Nozari
The Iranian state is the state of redistribution of oil and gas resources by a wide bureaucracy. Inequitable redistribution of resources and bureaucratic corruption have caused drastic movements in...