International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 28 Issue 11/12

Researching sensitive fields: Some lessons from a study of sperm donors in Israel

Daphna Birenbaum‐Carmeli, Yoram Carmeli, Sergei Gornostayev

Research fields that may imperil one's privacy and dignity present particular methodological challenges to researchers. Gaining a closer look into such fields therefore requires a…

Transnational adoption: reflections of the “diaper diaspora”: On reconfiguring race in the USA

Pamela Anne Quiroz

Popularly viewed as a humanitarian issue that transcends not only geopolitical boundaries of nationality but also sociopolitical borders of race, the ways in which transnational…

Coping with discipline: Discipline and dilemmas among teachers and warders

Mette Sandoff, Gill Widell

The purpose of this study is to put forward examples of disciplinary practices, i.e. to interpret Foucault's ideas with data collected from today's working‐life in schools and…

A framework for labour policy reforms in India: Balancing economic growth and social development

Anjula Gurtoo

This paper seeks to develop a framework for Indian labour reforms that lay emphasis on economic growth and social development by balancing growth needs of firms and socio‐economic…

A well‐being model of small‐scale microenterprise development to alleviate poverty: A case study of Bangladesh village

Masudul Alam Choudhury, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Mohammad Solaiman

The paper's purpose is to present and empirically validate a learning model of participatory grassroots development among the poor and needy in Bangladesh.

Are you unhappy? Then you are poor! Multi‐dimensional poverty in Belgium

Gijs J.M. Dekkers

This paper aims to present a multi‐dimensional measure of poverty. The proposed method has been applied to the Panel Set of Belgian Households dataset for Belgium for the years…

Neo‐liberalism, risk and regional development in Western Australia: The case of the Pilbara

David Pick, Kandy Dayaram, Bella Butler

This paper aims to present the case of the Pilbara as an illustration of how neo‐liberalism and globalisation affect a natural resource region.

Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth

Valérie Fournier

Whilst there is a growing recognition of environmental degradation, the policies of sustainable development or ecological modernisation offered by national governments and…

Islamophobia: examining causal links between the state and “race hate” from “below”

Diane Frost

This paper's aim is to examine whether there is a causal link between “race” hate, particularly Islamophobia (defined as anti‐Muslim feeling and violence based on “race” and/or…

Islamophobia: examining causal links between the media and “race hate” from “below”

Diane Frost

The paper's aim is to examine whether there is a causal link between “race” hate, particularly Islamophobia (defined as anti‐Muslim feeling and violence based on “race” and/or…

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams