On Poverty and Its Eradication

Guillermina Jasso, Andrzej Klimczuk, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley

Frontiers Media SA

Today the world observes the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, first commemorated...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Sociological Theory

Keywords: Poverty,­Poverty relief,­Poverty and Inequalities,­poverty and fairness

Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. A Sociological Perspective

Andrzej Klimczuk, Minela Kerla, Magdalena Klimczuk-Kochańska, Piotr Toczyski, Delali A. Dovie

Frontiers Media SA

Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals are the...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Work, Employment and Organizations

Keywords: SDG8,­pay gap,­Unemployment,­labor-market issues,­Social insurance,­Working poor,­Precarity,­Remote work

Deconstructing Masculinity: Interrogating the Role of Symbolism in Gender Performativity

Lauren Dundes, Michael Macaluso

Frontiers Media SA

Progress towards gender parity is hindered by unconscious ways that hypermasculinity is valorized...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Gender, Sex and Sexualities

Keywords: Masculinity,­symbolism,­Gender performativity,­hypermasculinity,­toxic masculinity,­Emasculation,­Hegemonic masculinity,­Misogyny,­militarized masculinity

Conversation Analysis and Sociological Theory

Melisa Stevanovic, David Inglis, Anssi Peräkylä, Emmi Koskinen

Frontiers Media SA

The relations between Conversation Analysis (CA), sociology, and social theory are complex, often...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Sociological Theory

Keywords: sociological theory,­culture,­Institutions,­Rituals,­dynamic systems,­conversation analysis

Boredom: The Elephant in the Room

Doris Sommer, Robert D. Austin, Alexandra Vuyk, David M. Ndetei, Nicolas Prevelakis, Pier Luigi Sacco, Josefa Ros Velasco

Frontiers Media SA

When cases of domestic violence spiked during the COVID-19 lockdowns, terror spread among potential...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Medical Sociology

Keywords: boredom,­Domestic Violence,­Human Rights,­Aggression,­Arts,­Pleasure,­Primary Prevention

Theories, Methods, Practices, and Fields of Digital Social Research

Gabriella Punziano, Felice Addeo, Angela Delli Paoli

Frontiers Media SA

The digital, in the form of technologies, scenarios, objects, processes, and relational and...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Sociological Theory

Keywords: Social research,­methodology,­methodological innovations,­digital methods,­mixed methods,­digital society,­epistemology of research

Ethnography in the Open Science and Digital Age: New Debates, Dilemmas, and Issues

Colin Jerolmack, Alexandra Murphy, Victoria Reyes

Frontiers Media SA

In the current moment, ethnography is caught up in a number of debates that have led ethnographers...

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology Sociological Theory

Keywords: ethnography,­data vertification,­research integrity,­Ethics,­methods,­Open Science,­representation,­Journalism

Break the Mental Health Stigma: Mental Health in the Workplace

Eduardo Fernández-Jiménez, Daniela Acquadro Maran, Shaun Chen

Frontiers Media SA

Health Public Health Public Mental Health

Keywords: stigma,­Mental Health,­Workplace

Living labs and open innovation approaches to scale impact for human wellbeing

Ann Borda, Sonja Pedell, Evdokimos Konstantinidis, Francesca Spagnoli, Dimitri Schuurman

Frontiers Media SA

Humanities and Social Sciences Sociology

Keywords: Living labs approach,­Quadruple Helix,­wellbeing,­Quintuple Helix,­Innovation lifecycle,­Emerging Technologies,­ecosystems,­co-design