sociology

_International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS)_ 9 (IIIS):1019 - 1026. 2025Zambia is a multilingual Nation with 73 ethnic languages in use and one of the languages English has been adopted as the official language used in official communication. The study explored translanguaging practices in counselling sessions of university students in Zambia. This study adopted a …

_Synthese_. forthcomingWe admire some bureaucracies for their ability to efficiently organize the production of knowledge on a large scale. At the same time, bureaucracies are commonly associated with serious epistemic shortcomings. As Max Weber noted, they have a reputation for turning their members into ‘specialists without mind.’ This article resolves this apparent tension by advancing a syste…

This paper demonstrates that the concepts of "liberal" and "conservative" are trite, arbitrary, and uncontrollable. They are by no means opposing concepts. Many people hold them as authorities due to the illusion that they are shared concepts. However, these concepts are used arbitrarily, have become established facts, and are now impossible to control. In liberalism, the absence of consideration…

In an extraordinary episode in U.S. migration history, Los Angeles police stopped fellow Americans from crossing state lines into California.

Rostow’s modernisation theory argues that societies develop by moving through a series of stages from a traditional society to an age of mass consumption. In the first stage, societies are mainly agricultural, with limited technology and strong traditional values. They then develop the preconditions for take-off, such as better infrastructure, education, investment and more entrepreneurial [&#823…

R. Gunal, LLB, Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies (VISTAS) Under the Guidance of G. Uma Maheswari, Assistant Professor, Department of Legal Studies, VISTAS, Chennai ABSTRACT Child labour in rural Tamil Nadu is deeply rooted in structural poverty, weak institutional support, and limited access to quality education. This article examines the multidimensional relationship b…

Socially Engaged Buddhism is reshaping our approach to global crises by merging mindfulness with activism. This paper explores its evolution and impact through case studies and key figures. Published in the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

This traditional neighbourhood ‘across the river’ is where the city’s creatives are heading as the centre heats up Madrid’s current boomtown dynamics are driving the city centre way upmarket, pushing the average punter to outer barrios in search of cheaper rent. As seen in New York and elsewhere, the creative class is moving too – crossing the River Manzanares to open studios in the former factor…

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustach…

The Global Organism develops a relational‑structural account of the modern world as a coherent, living‑like system. Rather than treating global events as the outcomes of isolated national decisions, the paper shows that large‑scale behavior emerges from the interaction of tightly coupled subsystems—economic blocs, security alliances, energy networks, and information infrastructures—that collectiv…

Heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration has not expanded job opportunities for U.S.-born workers and is associated with a reduction of employment for U.S.-born men with no more than a high school degree, according to new CU Boulder research.The study also found that employment among remaining immigrants declines 4% on average after an Immigration and Customs Enfo…

Can you tell me about your role at Amnesty and what it involves?  I am a researcher and advisor on racial justice. My role involves researching how systemic racism manifests in society and constitutes racial discrimination under international human rights law. For example, how migration policies discriminate against groups subjected to racism or how a community has a right to reparations for colo…

Success can look stable on paper, but still feel uneasy. The model minority myth shapes money and pressure and explains why financial stress isn’t always about not having enough.

Government’s anti-slavery commissioner says traffickers are exploiting a growing pipeline of vulnerability Slavery in the UK is at record levels and is expected to worsen over the next decade, the government’s independent anti-slavery commissioner has warned. According to the number of referrals to the national referral mechanism , which assesses potential victims of slavery and provides support …

PM will say responsibility to stand with Jewish communities lies with ‘every one of us’ at event on Tuesday Keir Starmer will call for a whole-of-society response to rising antisemitism on Tuesday, saying that it is not enough simply to condemn the scourge, but people “must show it” through their actions too. Before a roundtable event at Downing Street, the prime minister will call for action on …

Police forcibly broke up protest outside hospital where federal immigration agents took detainee for evaluation Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email New York City ’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani , and other local officials on Monday condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) after federal officers dragged a man out of a hospital building where he had been taken following an arres…

This paper focuses on domestic violence in Tajikistan, discusses the findings of a qualitative study that the authors conducted during 2023-2024 with 17 informants who experienced domestic violence directly or indirectly, and concludes with some recommendations to address this significant issue that has become so ingrained in Tajik society. The in-depth interviews demonstrated the pervasiveness a…

Peter K. Enns Sociological Science May 4, 2026 10.15195/v13.a21 Abstract The finding that government policy is, “virtually unrelated to the desires of the low- and middle-income citizens” (Gilens 2005:789), is one of the most influential social science results of the last two decades. This article offers a new perspective on this finding. I show that the seemingly innocuous decision to restrict a…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07398-3 Comparison of the themes of critical factors affecting livelihood recovery following major disasters: a comparative study between China and New Zealand

New research from the University of Illinois Chicago shows that kids who participate in Big Brothers Big Sisters, the oldest and largest such program in the United States, are less likely to engage in violent behavior or substance use than those who don't.