International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 35 Issue 3/4

Expectations towards home care re-ablement in Danish municipalities

Barbara Fersch

Re-abling care of frail older people is highly on the agenda in several countries. The purpose of this paper is to have a closer look at the argumentation used for its…

Family socio-cultural values affecting early marriage between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh

Md. Emaj Uddin

Family socio-cultural values and its practices have pervasive effects on early age at first marriage in every society. The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare how…

Re-thinking queue culture: the commodification of thick time

Mark N. Wexler

The purpose of this paper is to highlight both the contribution and the present need to reconfigure the literature on “queue culture” as a precursor of the sociology of waiting…

Post-Soviet informality: towards theory-building

Huseyn Aliyev

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that informal practices and institutions of post-Soviet countries differ from informality in other post-socialist regions and, therefore…

Documenting the UK “Black Fish Scandal” as a case study of criminal entrepreneurship

Robert Smith

The purpose of this paper is to consider the industrial exploitation of fishing quotas as a case of organized criminal entrepreneurship. Seldom is consideration given to the…

Bridging the social divides: a school-based model from India

Tamo Chattopadhay

The purpose of this paper is to examine the transformative potential of a school-based model in India that makes middle class students active stakeholders in the well-being of…

Advocacy research and social policy: Action for Children and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as case studies

Kenneth McLaughlin

Much social policy research today is commissioned, published and publicised by organisations with direct involvement in that particular aspect of policy. Whilst much good can…

Continuing caste inequalities in rural Uttar Pradesh

Srinivas Goli, Nagendra Kumar Maurya, Manoj Kumar Sharma

A continuous mixed opinion on the relevance of caste-based reservations and caste as a factor of socioeconomic disparity in the recent period demands update of evidence on…

Examining the influence of business environment on socio-economic performance of informal microenterprises: Content analysis and partial least square approach

Eijaz Ahmed Khan, Mohammed Quaddus

This study realize that the relationships between business environment and firm performance in context of small- and medium-sized enterprises and large organizations is well…