Financial inclusion and social financialisation: Britain in a European context
AbstractPurpose– The article aims to discuss findings from a knowledge exchange review of financial inclusion in Britain and compare these to key features of financial exclusion evident from European...
View ArticleAre more equal societies the most cohesive?
AbstractPurpose– In recent decades, research across the social sciences has linked higher income inequality to poorer health and social outcomes in advanced market democracies. According to general...
View ArticleReliability and validity of the masculine subordination stress scale in a...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the masculine subordination stress (MSS) scale in a rural Bangladesh population. Design/methodology/approach–...
View ArticleDoes food subsidy affect household nutrition?: Some evidence from the Indian...
AbstractPurpose– Indian households having the below poverty line (BPL) ration card receive rice, wheat, sugar and kerosene from the Indian Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) at subsidized...
View ArticleFuel subsidy in Nigeria: contexts of governance and social protest
AbstractPurpose– Fuel subsidy removal has become a recurring issue in Nigeria. Successive governments in the country have interfaced with this issue as they attempted to reform the economy and the...
View ArticleInformal overtime at home instead of telework: increase in negative...
AbstractPurpose– The authors aim to compare how formal flexibility, such as telework, differs from informal overtime work at home regarding the work-family interface. Design/methodology/approach– By...
View ArticleLinking population heterogeneity with poverty: The case of high-income...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to examine how population heterogeneity contributes to poverty in 17 high-income Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries during 1980-2005....
View ArticleFrom research, through policy and politics to practice: learning from experience
AbstractPurpose– The aim of this paper is on what the authors learnt from negotiating the difficult terrain linking, or separating, research from policy advice and the political process....
View ArticleA tale of two economies: the political and the moral in neoliberalism
AbstractPurpose– This article aims to critically explore current forms of neoliberalism and their impact upon the moral economy. The authors examine how the dominant neoliberal political economy...
View ArticleIt is a scandal!: Comparing the causes and consequences of nursing home media...
AbstractPurpose– This study aims to explore the causes and consequences of media scandals involving nursing homes for older persons in Canada, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA....
View ArticleCoping with the death of singleton children in China: the role of social capital
AbstractPurpose - Discussion of China’s one-child policy generally centres on its demographic effects. Bereavement among parents of singleton children and the role of social capital in the bereavement...
View ArticleNatural resource profits and the implications for Peru’s public health system
AbstractPurpose - The Peruvian Canon system was designed to collect a percentage of taxed profits from the country’s natural resource industries and redistribute these funds into communities that are...
View ArticleAsylum, welfare and work: reflections on research in asylum and refugee studies
AbstractPurpose - Over the past 30 years asylum has become an issue of great political significance, public interest, and media coverage in most ‘Western’ countries. Policies and laws designed to deal...
View ArticleUnderstanding lesbian, gay, and bisexual worker stigmatization: a review of...
AbstractPurpose - Stigmatization of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people at work is an enduring social problem, yet little is known about how those experiences differ.Design/methodology/approach -...
View ArticleDoes a socially well integrated university have anything to do with faculty...
AbstractPurpose - In today’s world, universities are key elements in social, economic, cultural and political development. Retention of Faculty members is one of the success factors for the...
View ArticleLearning not to labour: a micro analysis of consensual male unemployment
AbstractPurpose - The Drifters are ten long-term unemployed British men. The Drifters’ unemployment is consensual: the men believe they have chosen to ‘not work’ and rely upon welfare benefits for...
View ArticleSocial dynamics in rural Punjab: changes in gender roles, spatial mobility...
AbstractPurpose - The present study aims at observing the gender roles and changes in decision making structure in a village of the Punjab, Pakistan. Spatial mobility of young females by time periods...
View ArticleEcological modernisation and citizen engagement
AbstractPurpose - Modern environmental governance, especially in developed nations, increasingly embraces ecological modernisation (EM) as a framework for managing environmental resources. EM proposes...
View ArticleCoping with the death of singleton children in China: the role of social capital
AbstractPurpose– Discussion of China's one-child policy generally centres on its demographic effects. Bereavement among parents of singleton children and the role of social capital in the bereavement...
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