Social Sciences & Humanities: Recent submissions
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Characterological Correlates of Selfie Taking Behavior
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)Few researchers have examined selfie taking behavior. To address this gap, 235 participants (age 18 - 60) completed an online questionnaire assessing a variety of psychological factors, personality traits, and selfie ... -
Burnout as Alienation in the Counselling Field: The Descent from Homo-Faber to Homo-Economous
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-04-08)The concepts burnout and alienation are routinely connected in a linear unproblematic trajectory (Tomei et al., 2011) perpetuating more of an ideological conflation than providing any insight into either concept. This ... -
When Does My Future Begin? Student Debt and Intragenerational Mobility
(Scientific Research, 2018-04)Higher education financing policy largely assumes that college graduates enjoy equal opportunities for economic mobility regardless of how they finance their degrees. To examine this contention, this study uses data from ... -
Anger and Contested Place in the Social World
(Scientific Research, 2018-07)The root term angr includes in its meaning anger-rage and sadness-grief, which today are recognized as two primary or basic emotions. Anger involves the brain’s “rage system”, an architecture widely represented in the ... -
Use of Computers/Apps and the Negative Effects on Children’s Intellectual Outcomes
(Scientific Research, 2017-07)The accelerated development of computer/Apps has had a negative effect on children’s intellectual outcomes. This effort will suggest that the simple nature of this technology can affect critical thinking in children. ... -
The Constitution of Somaliland: The Problem of Constitutional Generations and Clan Dissolution
(Scientific Research, 2015-10)This paper outlines the history, formation and general principles of the 2001 Somaliland Constitution. The people of Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 returning to the boundaries that had marked the ... -
Gender and Sexual Abuses during the Italian Colonization of Ethiopia and Eritrea —The “Insabbiatti”, Thirty Years after
(Scientific Research, 2015-10)This paper explores the singular role of cross-cultural couples of Italian men and Abyssinian women during the fascist colonies in East Africa (Eritrea and Ethiopia). This article is based on an inquiry driven ethno-historical ... -
The Influence of Visual Distraction on Awareness Test
(Scientific Research, 2014-10)In everyday situation, there are so many events happening around our lives. Although human beings are capable of perceiving many events happening at the same time, it is not possible for individuals to pay attention to ... -
Development of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching by Using the Innovation of Lesson Study and Open Approach
(Scientific Research, 2014-10)This research was under context of professional development for mathematics teacher by using the innovation of lesson study and open approach project implemented by the Center for Research in Mathematics Education, Faculty ... -
The Need for a Family Policy That Fosters Family as an Institution
(Scientific Research, 2015-01)The 20th anniversary of the international year of the family has led to the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for a review of family policies adopted by each country to achieve three objectives: eradication ... -
Balancing Scales of Language Injustice
(Scientific Research, 2015-01)This paper addresses the ways in which our everyday usage of the common phrase “people of color” perpetuates a basic inequality in language use. A suggestion to eliminate inequality in teaching is proposed. -
“Soul Stealer: 1768 Chinese Sorcery Scare” in Social Crisis
(Scientific Research, 2015-01)The “Soul Stealer: Chinese Sorcery Scare 1768” written by Alden Kuhn is a successful example to research more profound problem areas by use of legal history. In the aura of prosperity and good governance by the determination ... -
Borders by Proxy, Europe’s Aggressive Border Restrictions and the Perils of Young African Migrants
(Scientific Research, 2015-04)The intrinsic challenges in the intersection of international laws and codes of praxis with respect to the operation of EU states’ border officials towards migrant individuals, to be specific, migrant African youth, is ... -
Counselling: The Current Opium of the People?
(Scientific Research, 2015-04)Western religion’s propensity to stultify holiness and the sacred is eclipsed in the profession of counselling. With its fundamentalist enthralment with the individual self, this poster-girl of liberalism, through its ... -
The Construction and Standardization of a Domestic Violence Questionnaire
(Scientific Research, 2014-01)The purpose of this research was to standardize the self-reported domestic violence scale. 530 participants were randomly selected via clustered sampling methods from married students of The Islamic Azad University of ... -
Anger and Contested Place in the Social World
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-05)The root term angr includes in its meaning anger-rage and sadness-grief, which today are recognized as two primary or basic emotions. Anger involves the brain’s “rage system”, an architecture widely represented in the ... -
An Exploration of the Canon of Hausa Prose Fiction in Hausa Language and Translation: The Literary Contest of 1933 as a Historical Reference
(2017-01-04)The paper premises that the literary contest of 1933 has been a very important historical reference and a determining condition for the emergence of the canon of Hausa prose fiction (Furniss, 1991, 1996). As a consequence, ... -
Why Judaism and Islam Prohibit Eating Pork and Consuming Blood as a Food?
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)To date, many influential religious leaders from both Judaism and Islam have attempted to provide answers to the question of why both these religions prohibit eating pork. The most straightforward answer is that the Lord ... -
Environment and Philosophy: The Aesthetics and the Natural Environment
(Scientific Research, 2018-06)In this study, after initially identifying the field of Aesthetics and the concept of Aesthetically Remarkable (Beautiful), we are going to analyze the aesthetic categories, which constitute a basic element of Aesthetics, ... -
Two Important Issues in Environmental Ethics: Cloning and Genetic Engineering
(Scientific Research, 2017-09)This paper aims to investigate the moral dilemmas that arise in two contemporary issues, those of Cloning and Genetic Engineering. Firstly, we examine some purely technical aspects of these two issues. Secondly, we attempt ...
