International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 39 Issue 9/10

Unpacking the monolith: Intersecting gender and citizenship status in STEM graduate education

Michael A. Miner

The term STEM often remains an undifferentiated category, especially at the graduate level. Conceptualizing STEM as a monolithic category, rather than as a combination of distinct…

Liberal gender equality and social difference: an institutional ethnography

Raghunandan Reddy

The purpose of this paper is to examine the workplace experiences of women employees during maternity and post-maternity periods to reveal the institutional order that coordinated…

Factors of subjective household economic well-being in transition countries: Friends or institutions in need?

Daria Salnikova

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between social capital and subjective ranking of household economic well-being in transition countries. The current study…

The contributions of social entrepreneurship and transformational leadership to performance: Insights from rural tourism in Iran

Ahmad Naderi, Leila Nasrolahi Vosta, Abolghasem Ebrahimi, Mohammad Reza Jalilvand

The exploration of performance determinants in social enterprises has gained increasing relevance among researchers and practitioners, particularly in rural tourism. The purpose…

Activated and included? The social inclusion of social assistance beneficiaries engaged in “public works”

Silvia Girardi, Valeria Pulignano, Roland Maas

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how employment regulations and stigma, arising from working for welfare in “public works”, limit the social inclusion of social assistance…

Application of digital technologies in health insurance for social good of bottom of pyramid customers in India

Bishwajit Nayak, Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Bala Krishnamoorthy

Social health insurance framework of any country is the national identifier of the country’s policy for taking care of its population which cannot access or afford quality…

Can CSR help achieve sustainable development? Applying a new assessment model to CSR cases from Egypt

Khalid Abdelhalim, Amani Gamal Eldin

The purpose of this paper is to develop an assessment model for corporate social responsibility (CSR) that is interlinked to sustainable development and examine the model on CSR…

Power dynamics in organizational change: an Australian case

Emmanuel Mastio, Kenneth Dovey

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the role of abstract forms of power in organizational change by exploring the role of such forms of power in the…

The embodiment of social capital at individual and communal levels: Action, rewards, inequality, and new directions

Anson Au

The purpose of this paper is to review the study of social capital focused on the level at which it is embodied, cross-comparing two prominent camps that have emerged in the…

Gendered labour process: Exploration in an information technology services organization in India

Raghunandan Reddy, Arun Kumar Sharma, Munmun Jha

The purpose of this paper is to examine perspective of “gendered labour process” to explore the aspectsof managerialism, which utilize gender as a control measure to achieve its…

Narratives of cooperation, resilience and resistance: workers’ self-recovery in times of crisis

Luca Antonazzo

Worker-recuperated enterprises have appeared in Europe with increasing frequency since 2008, following the Great Recession that hit the western economies. The purpose of this…

Towards a welfare system that produces inequality? Interpreting the new conditions of inclusion and exclusion in two Italian cases in a macro-micro-macro perspective

Luisa De Vita, Silvia Lucciarini

The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms through which social inequality is produced and reproduced, beginning from an examination of the close interrelationship…

Social capital and social ties in organisations: a case study of two voluntary sports clubs

Richard Tacon

If social capital is understood as the ability to access resources through social ties, it is clearly important to understand how people form social ties and what types of ties…

Mediating effect of student engagement on social network sites and academic performance of medical students

Ishfaq Hussain Bhat, Shilpi Gupta

In the recent times social media is considered as the most popular tool of communication among the students in India. Based on the assumption that the usage of social media is…