Society

The relation between social class and economic inequality: a strengthening or weakening nexus? Evidence from the last three decades of inequality in Italy
Recent sociological research has shown that in contemporary western societies social class remains a relevant factor in the structuration of socio-economic inequalities and individuals’ life courses. However, in the framework of class analysis, there is one aspect that has received relatively l...


Saving Pritchard’s anti-luck virtue epistemology: the case of Temp
Virtue epistemology is faced with the challenge of establishing the degree to which a knower’s cognitive success is attributable to her cognitive ability. As Duncan Pritchard notes, in some cases one is inclined to a strong version of virtue epistemology, one that requires cognitive success to ...
Life Satisfaction as a Distinguishing Indicator of College Student Functioning: Further Validation of the Two-Continua Model of Mental Health
The two-continua model of mental health contends that both psychological distress and psychological well-being make related-yet-distinct contributions to our understanding of human health and its relations with other quality of life outcomes. Using self-reported somatization, depression, and anxi...
Validity of Domain Satisfaction Across Cohorts in the US
Domain satisfaction, a relatively under-researched topic in subjective well-being research, is designed to capture satisfaction in multiple aspects of life (e.g., family, health). In view of the life course perspective, perceptions toward such different domains of life are most likely influenced ...
Affective Mediators of the Influence of Gratitude on Life Satisfaction in Late Adolescence
The aim of this study is to examine the mediation effects of positive affect and negative affect on the link between gratitude and life satisfaction in late adolescence. Three hundred and fifty-four Chinese university students were asked to conduct the Gratitude Questionnaire, the Positive and Ne...
Social Participation in Poland: Links to Emotional Well-Being and Risky Alcohol Consumption
Social participation has been hypothesised to have both positive and negative impact on health outcomes via a variety of pathways, but previous studies have found few significant effects of social participation, and there is a lack of research from post-communist societies, which are known to be ...


Shared Leadership in Multiteam Systems: How Cockpit and Cabin Crews Lead Each Other to Safety
In this study, we aimed to examine the effect of shared leadership within and across teams in multiteam systems (MTS) on team goal attainment and MTS success.>Due to different and sometimes competing goals in MTS, leadership is required within and across teams. Shared leadership, the effectivenes...
Force-on-Force Handgun Practice: An Intra-Individual Exploration of Stress Effects, Biomarker Regulation, and Behavioral Changes
The aim of this study was to explore human factors aspects of reality-based "force-on-force" (FoF) handgun practice through a within-subjects field experiment that assessed subjective stress measurements, biomarker regulation, performance outcomes, and behavioral adaptations.>FoF handgun practice...
Evicting Children
This study identifies children as a risk factor for eviction. An analysis of aggregate data shows that neighborhoods with a high percentage of children experience increased evictions. An analysis of individual data based on an original survey shows that among tenants who appear in eviction court,...
EU cohesion policy, horizontal partnership and the patterns of sub-national governance: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe
This article draws on the concept of Europeanization to assess the EU cohesion policy’s capacity to promote inclusive regional governance and cooperation in regional development initiatives in Central and Eastern European countries. EU cohesion policy is often credited with improving cooper...
Coffee brands, class and culture in a Canadian city
This article draws on a dynamic, cultural approach to class, as well as recent theoretical developments within the sociology of brands, to explore some of the ways that social class is being made and remade on the platforms of brands. It focuses on the three most prominent coffeehouse brands in C...


Educomunicação: uma inter-relação entre educação e comunicação
Este artigo tem por objetivo abordar definições e práticas relacionadas à educomunicação, campo de intervenção social que emerge da inter-relação entre a educação e a comunicação. O trabalho baseia-se em contribuições de pesquisas desenvolvidas pelo Núcleo de Comunicação e Educ...
O futebol na Belle Époque francesa: entre a resistência, a apropriação e a mundialização
Na segunda metade do século XIX, o futebol era praticado por britânicos, em vários países onde guardavam interesses comerciais. Todavia, o processo de regramento e mundialização do esporte foi efetivamente realizado por iniciativa de franceses que acreditavam em seu papel civilizador. Após...
O problema hermenêutico em O Mercador de Veneza: um embate entre o abuso do direito e o abuso do poder
Objetivando realizar uma análise lítero-jurídica da obra O mercador de Veneza, de William Shakespeare, no sentido de aproximar Direito e Literatura, parte-se de uma revisão crítica no que diz respeito à genericidade teatral do texto e aos seus símbolos culturais e psicológicos, para situa...
Síndrome da alienação parental ou simplesmente vingança
A alienação parental, não é um problema recente, de tão recorrente em consultórios psiquiátricos e disputas judiciais, foi criada uma Lei tratando do assunto, prevendo a tipificação da conduta, descrevendo suas formas de ocorrência e impondo sanções. A implantação de falsas memória...