SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ...

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES

UNIVERSIDAD ABAT OLIBA CEU BARCELONA, SPAIN

25-28 JUNE 2012

www.TheSocialSciences.com

2012 Social Sciences Conference

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES ............................................................................................ 5

LETTER FROM CONFERENCE HOST ............................................................................................................. 7 ABOUT COMMON GROUND ........................................................................................................................... 8 ABOUT THE CONFERENCE ............................................................................................................................ 9

SCOPE AND CONCERNS ............................................................................................................................ 9 THEMES ......................................................................................................................................................11

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS ..............................................................................................................................12 SESSION GUIDELINES ...............................................................................................................................12

CONFERENCE PROGRAM................................................................................................................... 14

DAILY SCHEDULE ..........................................................................................................................................15 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS ..........................................................................................................................16

FEATURED SESSIONS ...............................................................................................................................16 EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ..........................................................................................................................16

CONFERENCE PLENARY SPEAKERS ..........................................................................................................17 PROGRAM ......................................................................................................................................................19 GRADUATE SCHOLARS ................................................................................................................................64 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD ...........................................................................................................67 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ......................................................................................................................67 SUPPORTERS ................................................................................................................................................67 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ................................................................................................................................68

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES ............................ 76

ABOUT THE JOURNAL ..................................................................................................................................77 SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION .....................................................................................................................78 SUBMISSION INFORMATION .........................................................................................................................79

OTHER JOURNALS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND .........................................................................80

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES BOOK SERIES ............................................................................................. 82

SUBMIT YOUR BOOK PROPOSAL ................................................................................................................83 TYPE OF BOOKS ........................................................................................................................................83 PROPOSAL GUIDELINES ...........................................................................................................................83 RECENT BOOKS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND .............................................................................84

CONFERENCE EVALUATION FORM .............................................................................................................88


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INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES


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LETTER FROM CONFERENCE HOST

Dear Social Science Conference Delegates, Welcome to the Seventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. This conference explores notions of disciplinarily and interdisciplinary in the human sciences. It represents a marvelous collage of specific instances of the study of social life worthy of the label ‘science’ as well as presentations which think in more general terms about the problem of method and the nature of interdisciplinary. The Social Sciences Conference was held in 2006 at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece, and in 2007 at the University of Granada, Spain, in 2008 at Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, in 2009 at the University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 2010 at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and in 2011 at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA. We will hold the 2013 Social Sciences Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

In addition to organizing the Social Sciences Conference, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference at www.SocialSciences-Journal.com. We do encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. We also publish books at http:thesocialsciences.com in both print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Finally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://thesocialsciences.com. Common Ground also organizes conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including diversity, museums, technology, learning and the arts, to name several (see www.commongroundpublishing.com). Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are also committed to creating a more accessible, open and reliable peer review process. Thank you to everyone who has prepared for this conference. A personal thank you goes to our Common Ground colleagues who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference: Monica Hillison, Rachael Little, Ana Quintana, Stephanie Turza and Kathryn Weisbaum, I would like to offer a special thanks to the Universidad Abat Oliba CEU for their hard work in helping to organize the Social Sciences Conference.

We wish the best for this conference and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world. We hope you will be able to join us at next year’s Social Sciences Conference 30 July – 1 August 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Yours Sincerely,

Bill Cope Director, Common Ground Publishing Research Professor, Dept. of Educational Policy Organizational and Leadership University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA


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ABOUT COMMON GROUND

MISSION: Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media. PHILOSOPHY: Common Ground is committed to building dynamic knowledge communities that meet regularly in face-to-face interaction, connect in a virtual community of web spaces, blogs and newsfeeds, and publish in fully refereed academic journals. In this way, we are bringing to the fore our commitment to explore new ways of making and disseminating academic knowledge. We believe that the Internet promises a revolution in the means of production and distribution of knowledge, a promise, as of yet, only partially realized. This is why we are working to expand social and technical frontiers in the production of text, so that academic publishing gains the immediacy, speed and accessibility of the web whilst nevertheless maintaining—and we would hope enhancing—the intellectual standards of legacy peer refereed journals. To support these kinds of emerging knowledge communities, Common Ground continues to have an ambitious research and development agenda, creating cutting edge ‘social web’ technologies and exploring new relationships of knowledge validation. CONNECTING THE GLOBAL WITH THE LOCAL: Common Ground conferences connect with different host universities and local communities each year, seeking fresh perspectives on questions of global concern. In recent years, we have worked with a wide range of educational institutions including (to list just a few): Beijing Normal University; The Australian National University; The University of London; The Institute for Pedagogical Sciences, Cuba; University of California, Los Angeles; The University of Cambridge, UK; The University of Carthage, Tunisia; Columbia University, New York; Singapore Management University; McGill University, Montreal; The University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and New York University in New York City. At conference sites, we bring the global to the local—academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world gather to discuss conference topics. At the same time, we also bring the local to the global, as local academics and community leaders speak from the perspective of local knowledge and experience. For links to each our twenty-four knowledge communities, visit www.commongroundpublishing.com.

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CONFERENCE KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY At a time when knowledge communities are being redefined and disciplinary boundaries challenged, Common Ground aims to develop innovative spaces for knowledge creation and sharing. Through our conferences, journals and online presence we attempt to mix traditional face-to-face interaction with new ‘social web’ technologies. This is a part of our attempt to develop new modes of deliberation and new media for the dissemination of ideas. Common Ground is founded upon and driven by an ambitious research and knowledge design agenda, aiming to contest and disrupt closed and top-down systems of knowledge formation. We seek to merge physical and online communities in a way that brings out the strengths in both worlds. Common Ground and our partners endeavour to engage in the tensions and possibilities of this transformative moment. We provide three core ways in which we aim to foster this community: Present: You have already made the first step and are in attendance. We hope this conference provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and collaborative projects. We hope your session is the start of a conversation that continues on past the last day of the conference. Publish: We also encourage you to publish your paper in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the Social Sciences Conference. You also have access to the complete works of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in which the published work of participants from the conference who submitted papers may be found. Engage with the Community Online: Each conference presenter is provided a personal CGPublisher website with public and private spaces where you are able to post your photo, biography, and CV; make links to other sites of personal interest; and create a space where collaborators may be invited to access and comment on your works-in-progress. In addition, you can contribute to the online community via our blog, email newsletter and social networking sites.

The Blog and links to other social networking sites can be found at http://thesocialsciences.com/

Email Newsletters: Please send suggested links for news items with a subject line ‘Email Newsletter Suggestion’ to [email protected]. The email newsletter will be sent to all conference participants.

Facebook: Like our Page on Facebook under “Interdisciplinary Social Sciences”

Twitter: You can now follow the Social Sciences Conference Community on Twitter: @TheSocSciences

YouTube Channel: View online presentations at http://thesocialsciences.com/wp-content/plugins/youtube-uploader/action.php?action=list. Create your own YouTube presentation with a link to your session description on the conference website, and (if your paper is accepted to the journal), a link to the abstract of your paper on the journal website. See instructions at http://thesocialsciences.com/conference-2012/online-presentations/.


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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

SCOPE AND CONCERNS

The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, The Social Sciences Book Imprint and News Weblog provide a forum for discussion of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge creation within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences. The Disciplinary Work of the Social Sciences Each of the sciences of the social is marked by its distinctive disciplinary modes—the thinking practices of Anthropology, Archaeology, Behavioural Sciences, Cognitive Science, Communications, Cultural Studies, Demography, Economics, Education, Geography, Humanities, Law, Management, Media, Politics, Policy Studies, Psychology, Social Welfare, Sociology, to name a some of the principal sciences of the social. The disciplinary variation is so broad that practitioners in some of these areas may not even consider their discipline a ‘science’, whilst in other disciplines there is a general consensus on the scientific character of their endeavour. What is a discipline? Disciplines are fields of deep and detailed content knowledge, communities of professional practice, forms of discourse (of fine and precise semantic distinction and technicality), areas of work (types of organisation or divisions within organisations such as academic departments or research organisations), domains of publication and public communication, sites of common learning, shared experiences of apprenticeship into disciplinary community, methods of reading and analysing the world, ways of thinking or epistemic frames, even ways of acting and types of person. ‘Discipline’ delineates the boundar ies of intellectual community, the distinctive practices and methodologies of particular areas of rigorous and concentrated intellectual effort, and the varying frames of reference used to interpret the world. And what is a science? Some of the studies of the social habitually and comfortably call themselves ‘sciences’, but others do not. The English word ‘science’ derives from the Latin ‘sciens’, or knowing. Return to the expansiveness of this root, and studies of the human could lay equally legitimate claim to that word. ‘Science’ in this broadest of senses implies and intensity of focus and a concentration of intellectual energies greater than that of ordinary, everyday, commonsense or lay ‘knowing’. It is more work and harder work. It relies on the ritualistic rigour and accumulated wisdoms of disciplinary practices. These are some of the out-of-the-ordinary knowledge processes that might justify use of the word ‘science’, not only in the social sciences but also in the natural, physical, mathematical and applied sciences: - Science has an experiential basis. This experience may be based direct personal intuition of the already-known, on

interests integral to the lifeworld, on the richness of life fully lived. Or it might be experience gained when we move into new and potentially strange terrains, deploying the empirical processes of methodical observation or systematic experimentation.

- Science is conceptual. It has a categorical frame of reference based on higher levels of semantic precision and regularity

than everyday discourse. On this foundation, it builds theories which model the world and develop explanatory paradigms. - Science is analytical. It develops frames of reasoning and explanation: logic, inference, prediction, hypothesis, induction,

deduction. And it sees the world through an always cautiously critical eye, interrogating the interests, motives and ethics that may motivate knowledge claims and subjecting epistemic assumptions to an ever-vigilant process of metacognitive reflection.

- Science is application-oriented. It may be pragmatic, designing and implementing practical solutions within larger frames of

reference and achieving technical and instrumental outcomes. Or it may be transformative—redesigning paradigms, social being and even the conditions of the natural world. What, after all, is the purpose of knowing other than to have an effect on the world, directly or indirectly?

Science can be any or all of these things. Some disciplines may prioritise some knowledge processes over others, and this may be the source of their strength as well as potential weakness. In any event, these are the kinds of things we do in order to know in the out-of-the-ordinary ways that deserve the name ‘science’. The Social Sciences Conference and Journal provide a space to discuss these varied disciplinary practices, and examine examples of these practices in action. In this respect, their concern is to define and exemplify disciplinarity. They foster conversations which range from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and empirical.


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The Interdisciplinary Work of the Social and Other Sciences Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary work crosses disciplinary boundaries. This may be for pragmatic reasons, in order to see and do things that can’t be seen or done adequately within the substantive and methodological confines of a discipline. Broader views may prove to be more powerful than narrower ones, and even the more finely grained within-discipline views may prove all-the-more powerful when contextualised broadly. The deeper perspectives of the discipline may need to be balanced with and measured against the broader perspectives of interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinary approaches may also be applied for reasons of principle, to disrupt the habitual narrowness or outlook of within-discipline knowledge work, to challenge the ingrained, discipline-bound ways of thinking that produce occlusion as well as insight. If the knowable universe is a unity, discipline is a loss as well as a gain, and interdisciplinarity may in part recover that loss. Interdisciplinary approaches also thrive in the interface of disciplinary and lay understandings. They are needed for the practical application of disciplined understandings to the actually existing world. Robust applied knowledge demands an interdisciplinary holism, the broad epistemological engagement that is required simply to be able to deal with the complex contingencies of a really-integrated universe. The Social Sciences Conference and Journal are spaces in which to discuss these varied interdisciplinary practices, and to showcase these practices in action across and between the social, natural and applied sciences. Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking and Ways of Knowing What are the distinctive modes of the social, natural and applied sciences? What are their similarities and differences? In English (but not some other languages), ‘science’ suffers a peculiar semantic narrowing. It seems to apply more comfortably to the natural world, and only by analogy to some of the more systematic and empirically-based of the human sciences. It connotes a sometimes narrow kind of systematicity: the canons of empirical method; an often less-than reflective acceptance of received theoretical categories and paradigms; formal reasoning disengaged from human and natural consequences; technical control without adequate ethical reflection; the elision of means and ends; narrow functionalism, instrumentalism and techno-rationalism; a pragmatism without a broader view of consequences; and conservative risk aversion. These are some of the occupational hazards of activities that name themselves sciences—social, natural or applied. In studying the social setting, however, it’s not good enough just to have a rigorous empirical methodology without a critical eye to alternative interests and paradigmatic frames of reference, and without a view to the human-transformational potentials of knowledge work. On the other hand, humanistic methodologies often take charge of the social, distancing themselves from the perceived narrownesses of scientific method. This move, however, may at times leave science stranded, separated from its social origins and ends. The natural and technological sciences are themselves more subject to contestation around axes of human interest than the narrow understanding of science seems to be able to comprehend. Whether it be bioethics, or climate change, or the debates around Darwinism and Intelligent Design, or the semantics of computer systems, questions of politics and ideology are bound closely to the ostensible evidence. Faux empiricism is less than adequate to the address the more important questions, even in the natural and technological sciences. Science is found lacking when it is disengaged from the humanistic. The humanistic, however, has its own occupational hazards: disengaged critique and supercilious inaction without design responsibility; political confrontation without systematic empirical foundation; ideological fractiousness without apparent need for compromise; the agnostic relativism of lived experience and identity-driven voice; voluntarism that leads to a naive lack of pragmatism and failure in application. A reconstructive view of the social, natural and applied sciences would be holistic, attempting always to avoid the occlusions of narrow methodological approaches. It would also be ambitious, intellectually and practically. In this context, the Social Sciences Conference, Journal, Book Imprint, and News Weblog pursue two aspirations, two openings. The first is an intellectual opening, founded on an agenda designed to strengthen the theories, the research methodologies, the epistemologies and the practices of teaching and learning about the social world and the relation of the social to the natural world. The second opening is pragmatic and inventive. All intellectual work is an act of imagination. At its best, it is ambitious, risky and transformative. If the natural sciences can have human ambitions as big as those of the medical sciences—the fight against MS or cancer or Alzheimer’s, for instance—then the social sciences can have ambitions as large as to settle the relation of humans to the natural environment, the material conditions of human equality and the character of the future person.


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THEMES

Theme 1: Social and Community Studies Theme 2: Civic and Political Studies

Theme 3: Cultural Studies Theme 4: Global Studies Theme 5: Environmental Studies Theme 6: Organizational Studies Theme 7: Educational Studies Theme 8: Communication


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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

SESSION GUIDELINES

CHAIRING OF PARALLEL SESSIONS Common Ground usually provides graduate students to chair all of the parallel sessions. If you wish, you are welcome to chair your own session, or provide your own chair or facilitator for your session. The chair's role is to introduce the presenter and keep the presentation within the time limit. PROGRAM CHANGES Please see the notice board near the conference registration desk for any changes to the printed program (e.g., session additions, deletions, time changes, etc.). If a presenter has not arrived at a session within 5 minutes of the scheduled start time, we recommend that participants join another session. Please inform the registration desk of ‘no-shows’ whenever possible.

SESSION TYPES

PLENARY Plenary sessions, by some of the world’s leading thinkers, are 30 minutes in length. As a general rule, there are no questions or discussion during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in discussions during their Garden Sessions (see below). GARDEN SESSIONS Garden Sessions are unstructured 30-minute sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet plenary speakers and talk with them informally about the issues arising from their presentation. When the venue and weather allow, we try to arrange for a circle of chairs to be placed outdoors. PAPER PRESENTATIONS IN THEMED SESSIONS Paper presentations are grouped by general themes or topics into Themed Sessions. Each presenter in the session makes a formal fifteen-minute presentation of their work; Q&A and group discussion follow after all have presented. Each presenter's formal, written paper will be available to participants if accepted to the journal. WORKSHOP Sixty-minute workshop sessions involve extensive interaction between presenters and participants around an idea or hands-on experience of a practice. These sessions may also take the form of a crafted panel, staged conversation, dialogue or debate – all involving substantial interaction with the audience. A single article (jointly authored, if appropriate) may be submitted to the journal based on a workshop session. COLLOQUIM Ninety-minute colloquium sessions consist of five or more short presentations with audience interaction. A single article or multiple articles may be submitted to the journal based on the content of a colloquium session. VIRTUAL PRESENTATION Virtual presentations are papers submitted without the participant attending the conference in person, but are eligible to be refereed and published (if accepted) in the journal. A virtual presentation allows participants to join the conference community in the following ways:

The conference proposal will be listed in the Session Descriptions of the conference.

Acceptance of a conference proposal for a virtual participant is based on the same criteria as that for an attending participant.

The full paper may be submitted to the journal.

The journal paper submission will be refereed against the same criteria as attending participants. If accepted, the paper will be published in the same volume as conference participants from the same year.

Online access to all papers published in the journal from the time of registration until one year after the conference end date.

TALKING CIRCLES Talking circles are meetings of minds, often around points of difference or difficulty. They are common in indigenous cultures. The inherent tension of these meetings is balanced by protocols of listening and respect for varied viewpoints. From this, rather than criticism and confrontation, productive possibilities may emerge.


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The Purpose of Talking Circles in this Conference The purpose of the Talking Circles is to give shape to a conference that is wide-ranging in its scope and broad-minded in its interests. They also give people an opportunity to interact around the key ideas of the conference away from the formalities of the plenary, paper, workshop and colloquium sessions. They are places for the cross-fertilisation of ideas, where cycles of conversation are begun, and relationships and networks formed.

Talking Circles are not designed to force consensus or even to strive towards commonality. Their intention is, in the first instance, to find a common ground of shared meanings and experiences in which differences are recognised and respected. Their outcome is not closure in the form of answers, but an openness that points in the direction of pertinent questions. The group finally identifies axes of uncertainty that then feed into the themes for the conference of the following year.

How Do They Work? The Talking Circles meet for a 45-minute session during the conference, and the outcomes are reported back to the whole conference in the closing plenary session. They are grouped around each of the conference themes and focus on the specific areas of interest represented by each theme. The following is the Talking Circles outline that is currently in use, but we welcome feedback and suggestions for improvement from participants. Talking Circle (45 minutes): Who Are We? What is our common ground? What is to be done? Closing Plenary: Talking Circles report back.

It is important to note that each Talking Circle may be organised in any way that members of the group agree is appropriate. They may be informal and discursive, or structured and task-oriented. Each Talking Circle group has a facilitator.

The Role of the Facilitator The facilitator must be comfortable with the process of thinking 'out of the square' and also embracing multiple and diverse scenarios. The process is one of creating a kind of collective intelligence around the stream. The facilitator should shape a conversation that is open to possibilities and new lines of inquiry or action; they should embody a spirit of openness to new knowledge rather than the closure of advocacy. The facilitator is required to keep a record of the main discussion points. These points need to be summarised for the closing plenary session at the conference.

Possible Session Contents - Suggestions to Assist Facilitators Talking Circle (45 minutes): Who are we? Orientation: members of the group briefly introduce themselves. What could be the narrative flow of the Talking Circle sessions? What could be the outcomes of the work of this group and its contribution to the closing plenary session, the Journal and the Conference as a whole (including the themes for next year's conference)? Assessing the landscape, mapping the territory: What is the scope of our stream? Do we want to rename it? What are the burning issues, the key questions for this stream? What are the forces or drivers that will affect us as professionals, thinkers, citizens, and aware and concerned people whose focus is this particular stream? Where could we be, say, ten years hence? Scenario 1: optimism of the will; Scenario 2: pessimism of the intellect.

What are our differences? The setting: present and imminent shocks, crises, problems, dilemmas - what are they and what is the range of responses? What are the cleavages, the points of dissonance and conflict? What are the dimensions of our differences (1)? Politics, society, economics, culture, technology, environment. What are the dimensions of our differences (2)? Persons, organisations, communities, nations, the global order.

What is our common ground? Where are the moments of productive diversity? What are the bases for collaboration (1)? Politics, society, economics, culture, technology, environment. What are the bases for collaboration (2)? Persons, organisations, communities, nations, the global order. Alternative futures: outline several alternative scenarios. What are the forces that drive in the direction of, or mitigate against, each scenario?

What is to be done? What is the emerging view of the future? Can we foresee, let alone predict alternative futures? Looking back a decade hence, what might be decisive or seminal in the present? Scenarios: can we create images of possibility and agendas for robust alternative futures? Directions: conventional and unconventional wisdoms? Strategies: resilience in the face of the inevitable or creative adaptation? Axes of uncertainty: working towards the right questions even when there's no certainty about the answers.

Closing Session: Conference Host reports to the Closing Session based on summaries provided by each Talking Circle.


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CONFERENCE PROGRAM


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DAILY SCHEDULE

MONDAY, 25 JUNE

8:00-9:00 Conference Registration Desk Open

9:00-9:15 Conference Opening – Kathryn Weisbaum, Common Ground Publishing, Illinois, USA

9:15-9:25 Universidad Abat Oliba CEU Welcome Address - Rector Carlos Pérez del Valle, Barcelona, Spain

9:30-10:00 Plenary Session – Alfonso Unceta, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

10:00-10:30 Plenary Session – Patricia Leavy, Pop Culture and Women’s Studies Expert, USA

10:40-11:15 Break and Garden Session

11:15-12:00 Talking Circles

12:00-13:05 Parallel Sessions

13:05-14:05 Lunch


15:10-15:25 Break


17:40-19:10 Welcome Reception

TUESDAY, 26 JUNE


9:00-9:30 Plenary Session – Nitza Nachmias, Towson University, Maryland, USA

9:30-10:00 Plenary Session – Anthony Synnott, Concordia University, Montreal, USA



12:50-13:50 Lunch


15:30-15:45 Break


WEDNESDAY, 27 JUNE


9:00-9:30 Plenary Session – Celia Fisher, Fordham University, New York, USA



12:20-13:05 Lunch


15:20-15:35 Break


THURSDAY, 28 JUNE


9:00-9:30 Plenary Session – Monica Edwards, Spanish National Research Council, Valencia, Spain



12:20-13:05 Lunch


14:45-15:15 Conference Closing


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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

FEATURED SESSIONS

Publishing Your Paper or Book with Common Ground Monday, 25 June – 14:05 Wednesday, 27 June – 15:35 Stephanie Turza, Managing Editor, Common Ground Publishing Description: In this session the Managing Editor of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and The Social Sciences Book Series will present an overview of Common Ground’s publishing philosophy and practices. She will also offer tips for turning conference papers into journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures, introduce The Social Sciences Book Series, and provide information on Common Ground’s book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions—the second half of the session will be devoted to Q & A.

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Welcome Cocktail Reception Monday, 25 June – 17:40 Location: Universidad Abat Oliba Courtyard Description: Common Ground Publishing and the Social Sciences Conference will be hosting a Reception on 25 June following the last session of the day. All delegates are welcome to attend and enjoy complimentary refreshments. This is an excellent opportunity to network and get to know your fellow delegates. Conference Tour: Panoramic Barcelona and Sagrada Familia Cathedral Tour Friday, 29 June – 10:45am Location: The bus will depart from the Hotel Catalonia Barcelona 505 – (Address: Muntaner, 505, 08022 Barcelona) Description: See the beauty of Barcelona in air-conditioned comfort on a guided panoramic bus tour of the city. The tour will explore notable sites via luxury autobus including the Olympic Stadium of Montjuic and the iconic Olympic Ring, Park Guell and Puerto de Barcelona. The tour will last approximately 3 hours. Pre-registration is required and tours historically fill-up fairly quickly. Please visit the registration desk to inquire about availability.


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CONFERENCE PLENARY SPEAKERS

MONICA EDWARDS Monica Edwards Schachter is researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, consultant and writer. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Valencia in 2003 with the thesis ‘La atención a la situación del mundo en la educación científica’ (The attention paid to the state of the World by science education, http://lsg.ucy.ac.cy/esera/phd/abstract107.html). Mónica is trained in both natural and social sciences; she holds Degrees in Mathematics and Physics and Electronic Engineering, a Diploma in Knowledge Management for the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in 2004 (FLACSO, Mexico) and she is Specialist in Engineering and Innovation Projects (Polytechnic University of Valencia, 2006). At present Monica teaches Creativity and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Master of Science and Innovation Management, sponsored by the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). She has over 20 years of experience in teaching, in-service training and consultancy in planning and educational innovation in several middle and higher education institutions in Argentina, Spain, Honduras, Costa Rica and Paraguay. From 1991 to 1997 she was engineer in charge of the Laboratory of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Infrared Spectroscopy at the Faculty of Chemistry (University of Cordoba, Argentina). Since February 2008 she is researcher at the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management (INGENIO, CSIC-UPV). She participated in numerous national and international research projects and contracts and supervised a doctoral thesis on the evaluation of cooperative work. She currently supervises thesis on social innovation and development of entrepreneurship and innovation competences. She is author and co-author of more than one hundred publications and presentations at conferences and seminars, in such journals as the Journal Proceedings of the IEEE, Environmental Education Research, the Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (OEI), the Journal of Technology Management, among others. She is member of the Social Innovation Platform Europe and blogger of the magazine Tendencias21 (http://www.tendencias21.net/innovacion). Mónica received six awards in poetry, including a prize for her book Redes para la Paz (Networks for peace), an essay on the interrelationships between peace, environment and sustainable development published in 2007 by the Foundation Culture of Peace and the Seminario Gallego de Educación para la Paz. Monica also participates in a training program (5th edition) on motivation in science education that constitutes an example of good practice in a recent UNESCO report. Her main research interests are social innovation, technological development and sustainability, Science-Technology-Society-Environment issues, science education, competences and skills development, especially in creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.

CELIA B. FISHER Celia B. Fisher, PhD, Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education and the Marie Ward Doty University Chair and Professor of Psychology has served as Chair of the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Ethics Code Task Force responsible for the 2002 revision of the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. She has served as Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Human Subjects Research Board, the New York State Board for Licensure in Psychology, the National Task Force on Applied Developmental Science, and the Society for Research in Child Development Committee for Ethical Conduct in Child Development Research. Dr. Fisher also served as the founding director of the Fordham University Doctoral Program in Applied Developmental Psychology and is a co-founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science. Dr. Fisher has written commissioned papers on research ethics with mentally impaired and vulnerable populations for President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission and for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) on HIV education, treatment, and referrals for research participants. Dr. Fisher has co-edited eight books and authored more than 150 scholarly chapters and empirical articles on cognitive and social development across the life span and on research and professional ethics with special emphasis on the rights of racial/ethnic minorities, children and adults with impaired decision making, and socially marginalized populations. She is also Principle Investigator and Director of the NIDA supported Fordham University HIV Research Ethics Training Institute. She is the recipient of the 2010 Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection Life Time Achievement Award.


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PATRICIA LEAVY Patricia Leavy is an author, expert commentator and leading qualitative researcher with a dozen books to her credit. After receiving several prestigious awards and fellowships Dr. Leavy earned her PhD in Sociology and served as Founding Director for the Gender Studies Program at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. She has also served as the Chairperson of the Sociology & Criminology Department at Stonehill College. Dr. Leavy previously taught at Boston College, Northeastern University and Curry College. As a research methodologist Dr. Levy has published sever cutting-edge research methods books. She is the author of Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research Practice: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies (Left Coast Press, 2011); Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research (Oxford University press, 2011) and Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice (Guilford Press, 2009), amongst others. She is also the editor for the prestigious Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research (forthcoming). Oxford University Press hand-picked Dr. Leavy to serve as series editor for their book series Understanding Qualitative Research and she is also the series editor for the cutting-edge Sense Publishers book series Social Fictions, which publishes books grounded in research but written in literary forms. In addition to her extensive work advancing social science methodology, Dr. Leavy is also a pop culture and women’s studies expert. Dr. Leavy has spent nearly a decade conducting interview research with young women on topics including sexuality, relationships and body image. As a sociologist, pop culture and women’s studies expert Dr. Leavy has appeared on national and local television and is regularly quoted in international, national and local print news including The New York Times, USA Today and the Boston Globe. In recognition of her extraordinary contributions to the discipline of sociology, The New England Sociological Association named Dr. Leavy the 2010 “New Engalnd Sociologist of the Year.”

NITZA NACHMIAS Nitza Nachmias received her MA and PH.D in Political Science from the Graduate Center of the City University if New York, (CUNY) and her B.A from Baruch College, Summa Cum Laude. She is a professor of Political Science at Towson University, Maryland, a Senior Research Fellow at the Jewish Arab Center, Haifa University (Israel), and a professor at the Tel Aviv University Social Science Department, specializing in Conflict Management. Her research focuses on international humanitarian aid; post conflict human and economic development, refugees and internally displaced persons, international mediation and peacekeeping, among other international and global issues. Globalization creates both opportunities and hurdles for national and individual development. Violence and terrorism threaten the peace and stability of the world. Professor Nachmias has been dedicating her research to finding ways to resolve these important problems. In addition to her academic activities, professor Nachmias serves on several policy forums in Israel, and has been an advisor to the Foreign Office on Palestinian refugees issues. She previously served as Executive Director of the National Council of Women of the United States, and as Deputy executive Director of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (New York). Professor Nachmias published four books and various articles on international relations and humanitarian aid.

ANTHONY SYNNOTT After brief careers in the Royal Navy and the Jesuits, Anthony Synnott received a B.Sc. from the London School of Economics, an MA from the University of Western Ontario and his PhD from London University. He is now Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of “The Body Social: Symbolism, Self and Society” (Routledge, 1993), “Shadows: Issues and Social Problems in Canada” (Prentice Hall, 1996), co-author with Constance Classen and David Howes of “Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell” (Routledge, 1994) and most recently of “Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims” (Ashgate, 2009). He is currently working on a second edition of “Re-Thinking Men” and a lighter volume on sex to accompany the serious textbooks on the topic. He also writes a blog for Psychology Today, usually about men.

ALFONSO UNCETA Mr. Alfonso Unceta has a PhD in Political Science and Sociology, and he is also Head Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country. He has participated in over thirty research projects and external contracts. He has authored more than forty publications (books, collective books and articles in magazines). His main lines of work are Innovation, Education and Governance. Since 2007 he has been the Director of the Master Course in Management of Innovation and Knowledge. Today he is also Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication. He was the Director of Universities and Deputy Councilor for Education of the Basque Government.


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PROGRAM

Monday, 25 June 8:00-9:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK OPEN

9:00-9:15 CONFERENCE OPENING – Kathryn Weisbaum, Common Ground Publishing, USA

9:15-9:25 UNIVERSIDAD ABAT OLIBA WELCOME ADDRESS – Rector Carlos Pérez del Valle, Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain

9:30-10:00 PLENARY SESSION - Alfonso Unceta, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, “Social Innovation as an Interdisciplinary Field: An Exploratory Model”

10:00-10:30 PLENARY SESSION - Patricia Leavy, Author, Pop Culture and Women Studies Expert, USA, “Transdisciplinary Research: Responsibly Addressing Social Problems”

10:30-11:15 BREAK AND GARDEN SESSION

11:15-12:00 TALKING CIRCLES

Room 1 Stream: Social and Community Studies

Room 2 Stream: Social and Community Studies

Room 3 Stream: Civic and Political Studies

Room 4 Stream: Civic and Political Studies

Room 5 Stream: Cultural Studies

Room 6 Stream: Cultural Studies

Room 7 Stream: Global Studies

Room 8 Stream: Environmental Studies

Room 9 Stream: Organizational Studies

Room 10 Stream: Educational Studies

Room 11 Stream: Communication

12:00-13:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS

12:00-12:30 12:35-13:05

Room 1 Delaying the Famine: How Clan and Community-based Social Welfare Keeps Somalia Fed

Keith Newcomer, International Development Department, The University of Southern Mississippi, Ostfildern-Kemnat, Germany

Overview: Famine in Somalia has been delayed and confronted by local clan social support structures. Where international efforts have failed, these welfare networks provide opportunities to deliver food aid.

Is the Personal Political? Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Political Efficacy and Political Participation

Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Anat Gofen Sarig, Federmann School of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Overview: What are the relationships between intergenerational mobility and political attitudes and behavior? We draw on European Social Survey data, and employ novel measures of educational mobility to assess these relationships.

Room 2 Constructing Sacred Cyberspace: New Possibilities for Religion in the Internet Age

Ari Stillman, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Overview: The interconnectivity that the Internet makes possible allows for fraternizing and convening in innovative ways previously confined to organized religious events.

Spillover Thoughts in Rereading the Obituary of Historian Arnold Toynbee: Teleologies of History, Contingency v. Convergence and Sub-specie Aeternitatis

Dr. Myint Zan, School of Law, Multimedia University, Malacca, Malaysia

Overview: Some thoughts from rereading historian Toynbee's obituary in relation to teleologies of history, the debate concerning contingency and convergence in natural history, and the concept of sub-specie aeternitatis are discussed.

Room 3 Representations and Compressions: When Category-based Explanations Fail Us

Dr. Michael Lissack, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Naples, USA

Overview: What happens when a category-based explanation fails to serve as a basis for prediction? Do we rely too heavily on representations at the expense of our understanding of mechanism?

A Multidisciplinary Care Model: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Pediatric Transplant Service

Dr. Lawrence Newman, Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Diana Shellmer, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA

Overview: This will discuss a multidisciplinary care model for children with autism spectrum disorders identified in a pediatric transplantation surgery unit.


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12:00-13:05 MONDAY PARALLEL SESSIONS

12:00-12:30 12:35-13:05

Room 4 Female Empowerment, Female Supervisors, and the Gender Wage Gap

Dr. David Maume, Cincinnati, Dr. Leah Ruppanner, Department of Sociology, Hilo, USA

Overview: This is an examination of the gender gap in pay and how it varies by the immediate supervisor's sex and the level of female empowerment at the national level.

The Perceptions of Retail Best Practices: A South African Perspective

Prof. S. Perks, Business Management, Prof. M. Tait, Marketing Management, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Overview: This quantitative study explores the retailing practices of 224 retailers in the Nelson Mandela Metropole, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Room 5 In Three Dimensions: Art, Machinima, and the Virtual Community

Prof. Sarah Higley, Department of English Film Studies Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA, Jegatheva (Jay Jay) Jegathesan, School of Physics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Overview: A workshop introducing an audience to the collaboration between artists and machinimatographers in a world-wide, 3D virtual community that encourages participatory, interdisciplinary endeavors in New Media film and art.

Room 6 New Modes of Environmental Governance in Central America: Constructing a Biological Corridor Policy in Honduras

Dr. Celia Ruiz de Oña, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Dr. Federico Morales, Autonomous University of Mexico, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Overview: This research explores the functioning of environmental governance networks for policy design and implementation in the context of Central American democracies to assess their performance in unstable political arenas.

Finding the Balance: Is the New Zealand Parliament Able to Effectively Balance Its International Obligations with the Needs and Rights of Its Citizens During the Legislative Process?

Kirsten Jane Mander, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Overview: An in-depth look into the role of the New Zealand Parliament in the legislative process, undertaken as part of a postgraduate course in 2011.

Room 7 A Three-way Interdisciplinary Collaboration on the Topic of Justice

Prof. Richard Ross, Department of Art, Dr. Victor Rios, Department of Sociology, Dr. Cissy Ross, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

Overview: A workshop on and discussion of pedagogy of collaborative teaching and transdisciplinary studies in higher education, with a focus on "Justice."

Room 8 Epilepsy and Concomittant Pseudoseizures: The Diagnostic Dilemma

Dr. Batool Kirmani, Epilepsy Center Department of Neurology, Texas A & M Health Science Center School of Medicine and Scott and White Hospital, Temple, USA

Overview: This provides an overview of epilepsy and pseudoseizures.

Ethics of Knowledge Translation: One Step Forward

Dr. Darquise Lafreniere, Dr. Beatrice Godard, Thierry Hurimann, Dr. Vincent Menuz, Bioethics Programs Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Overview: This article draws from the literature on health research and research ethics to identify and discuss the ethical issues involved at each step of the knowledge translation process.

Room 9 Developing Workable Technologies: The Use of Sociological Research in Technological Design

Katy Lyle, Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Overview: This paper explores the possibilities for using sociological research in technological design to develop technologies that are appropriate to, and workable within user settings.

The Adoption of Knowledge Management Systems in Health Care

Dr. Richard Whiddett, Palmerston North, Nor'ashikin Ali, Alexei Tretiakov, School of Management College of Business, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Overview: A model of the organisational and technological factors that influence the successful adoption of knowledge management systems by doctors is presented, and the findings of a survey are discussed.


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12:00-12:30 12:35-13:05

Room 10 Toward the Measurement of Candidate Image

Prof. Terrence L. Chmielewski, Mass Communication Public Relations Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA

Overview: Conceptual and operational issues hamper the study of candidate image. A method for measuring a candidate’s image that acknowledges the roles of beliefs and judgments is described and tested.

The Development of Global-mindedness within International Primary School Leadership

Maria Hersey, Regional Development & Outreach, Jupiter, USA, Jennifer Giddings, Programme Develoment, International Baccalaureate, The Hague, Netherlands

Overview: Given the essential role of leadership in facilitating change in a complex and interconnected world, findings will be presented regarding dimensions of global-mindedness within the context of international school leadership.

Room 11 Against All Odds: Finding Employment in an Environment of Constantly Declining Female Labour Participation, Increasing Unemployment and Internalised Family Roles

Funda Ustek, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Overview: The case study of Istanbul aims to understand the dual role of social networks in accessing employment and how gender, age, family roles and education contribute to/hinder the job-finding process.

The Auditor Profession in Spain: What Is the Women’s Situation?

Dr. Nuria Rodriguez Avila, Universitat de Barcelona, Dr. Teresa Monllau Jaques, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: The development of auditor professions is framed inside the social, political, and economic context of Spain. The methodology used for this study was qualitative and quantitative.

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SPANISH SESSIONS

Convergencias Disciplinares Entre Historia Y Antropologia: La Perspectiva “Historico-Regional” Y Las Investigaciones Sobre Los Pueblos Indigenas En Norpatagonia Argentina

Sebastian Valverde, Sección Antropología Social, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras – Universidad de Buenos Aires / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) – Argentina, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Overview: Esta comunicación presentará una favorable integración y convergencia disciplinar entre la Antropología y la Historia que viene registrándose en relación a los estudios de los pueblos indígenas en Patagonia Argentina.

La Encrucijada De La Interdiscipinariedad: Avatares En La Tierra De Nadie (Intra-Etnografía Y Autoextrañamiento).

PhD Ester Masso Guijarro, Institute Of Philosophy Center Of Human And Social Sciences, National Council For Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain

Overview: Haremos un ejercicio de etnografía aplicada a mi propia trayectoria investigadora, disciplinaria y curricular, como filósofa y antropóloga en el campo de los estudios africanos.

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SPANISH SESSIONS

Aprendiendo de Forma Interdisciplinar: el "Juego de Simulacion del Presupuesto Comunitario"

Dr Igor Filibi, Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales, Bilbao, Dr Ixone Alonso, Departamento de Economía Aplicada V, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain

Overview: El paper muestra un juego de simulación centrado en la negociación del presupuesto comunitario, donde los estudiantes desarrollan competencias prácticas mientras adquieren una visión de conjunto de la UE.

Vias y comunicaciones en torno al santuario de Dodona, el Epiro (Grecia)

Diego Chapinal Heras, Departamento de Historia Antigua, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Fuenlabrada, Spain

Overview: El santuario de Dodona apenas ha sido investigado. Menos aún el conjunto de vías y comunicaciones por las que los peregrinos viajaban para llegar hasta allí.

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14:05-14:35 14:40-15:10

Room 1 The Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh

Dr. Aditya Kumar Dewan, Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, St. Constant, Canada

Overview: This paper argues that the Bangladesh government commits genocide against the indigenous population living within its own territory.

Globalisation and the Predicaments of Shared Cultural Spaces: Neoliberal Reforms and the Status of Indian Muslims

Dr. H.M. Sanjeev Kumar, South Asian University, Delhi, India

Overview: Home to the largest Muslim population in South Asia, with Hindus having the demographic edge, the question of status and identity of Muslims in India has been a contested one.

Room 2 Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Case-based Inter-professional Educational Exercise to Enhance Student Learning in a Pre-clinical Skills Course

Dr Eron Manusov, Duke University, Fayetteville, Dr Stephen Quintero, Family Medicine and Rural Health, Florida State University, USA

Overview: Describing the development, implementation, and evaluation of a simulation model to train medical students in the inter-professional discharge management of a patient with urosepsis and dementia

Room 3 The Broward County Mental Health Court Case Presentations: A Time for Hope, Health and Healing

Janis Blenden, Substance Abuse Mental Health, Florida Department of Children and Families, Fort Lauderdale, USA

Overview: This presentation will focus on specific case studies that have come before the mental health court.

Room 4 Children’ Temperament and Public Behaviours from the Mothers’ Perspectives

Dr. Ayse Belgin Aksoy, Department of Child Development and Education, Dr. Ilkay Ulutas, Department of Early Childhood, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: The goals of this study were to examine associations between children's temperament and public behavior.

Executive Pay and Firm Performance: Changes Following Enron and Other Reporting Scandals and Restatements

Professor Hui Chen, University of Colorado, Boulder, Professor Debra Jeter, Accounting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Professor Ya-wen Yang, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

Overview: Executive compensation has been a controversial issue for many years. We investigate changes since the passage of SOX and subsequent to reporting restatements.

Room 5 Hearing the Hidden Voices of Feminine Sexuality: Folkloric Challenges to Patriarchic Traditions in Rajasthan

Dr. Preeti Sharma, Department of History and Indian Culture Faculty of Social Sciences, Banasthali Vidyapith, Tonk, India

Overview: Folklore tends to represent queer forms of expression by their bold descriptions of unconventional issues such as feminine sexuality, else tabooed as deculturalised practices in mainstream cultural forms.


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Room 6 Publishing Your Paper or Book with Common Ground Publishing

Stephanie Turza, Commissioning Editor, Common Ground Publishing, USA

Overview: In this session the Commissioning Editor of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and the Social Sciences Book Series will present an overview of Common Ground’s publishing practices and philosophy. He will also offer tips for turning conference papers into journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures and provide information on Common Ground’s book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions – the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A.

Conflicts in the Relationship between Research and Politics: Learning and Knowledge Restrictions from Political Influences on Research

Dr. Paul Throssell, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

Overview: Research is critical in establishing how education and learning is best achieved. However, the interrelationship between research and political activity needs ongoing transparent viewing and urgent consideration.

Room 7 Putting the Liberal Back into Liberal Education

Prof. Elizabeth A. Chmielewski, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA

Overview: This is a description of a pilot general education program in which courses in four different disciplines are "bundled". The courses coalesce around one central question of study.

ADHD Identity: A Conceptual Developmental Model

Dr. Erik Schott, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Overview: This paper sought to investigate the process of forging an ADHD identity and establishes a working model of development for those with the diagnosis, paying attention to other factors.

Room 8 Interdisciplinary, Interactive Pediatric Weight Management: The Trim Kids Program

Professor Melinda Sothern, Behavioral and Community Health Science School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA

Overview: Dietary, physical activity, and behavioral approaches based on social cognitive theory are incorporated into interdisciplinary, interactive, multi-level interventions for the management of pediatric obesity.

Room 9 Are External Systemic Factors to Blame for Limiting the Commercial Potential of University Research? A Statistically-based Characterization of the ‘Valley of Death’ Associated with University Inventions

Ker Ferguson, Office of Vice President Research, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA

Overview: Since US technology-transfer offices perform about equally (after adjusting for the level of R&D at the institution), then systemic factors must be driving the overall effectiveness of the commercialization process.

Room 10 Errors in the Interpretation of Innovation: Results from an Innovation Survey in Australia

Professor Anthony Arundel, Kieran O'Brien, Australian Innovation Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Overview: A study of errors in the interpretation of innovation, based on a subject and object approach to measuring innovation in a regional Australian economy.

Room 11 Gender Differences in Health Services Utilization by Depressed Patients in Primary Care

Prof. Aya Biderman, Division of Community Health Goldman Medical School, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Dr. Zeev Weiner, Chen Psychiatric Clinic, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Prof. Pesach Shvartzman, Department of Family Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Overview: Gender differences among patients diagnosed as depressed, using the MINI screening tool: No differences were found between male and female depressed patients in their health care utilization patterns.

The Abuse of Women’s Human Rights: Explanations and Actions from Psychology

Carlie D. Trott, Dr. Silvia Sara Canetto, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

Overview: This presentation will review the psychology literature relevant to women’s human rights (WHR), and identify directions for psychology research and social action to protect and advance WHR.


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Room 12

SPANISH SESSION

Negocios Onerosos En Ambitos Religiosos Como Precedente Etico: Propuestas Para Una Moderna Economia Social

Prof Andrea Nuvoli, Departamento de Economía Solidaria, Universidad Abat Oliva CEU, Barcelona, barcelona, Spain

Overview: Los negocios onerosos en ámbito religioso representan un relevante precedente para la moderna ética. Se analizará esta relación conceptual y la propuesta de un sistema competitivo inspirado por valores moral.

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SPANISH SESSION

La Aplicacion De Los Graficos Radiales En El Analisis Contable Del Sector Pesquero En Catalunya: Grafico Radial Y Analisis Contable

Prof. Miguel Angel Perez Benedito, Accounting Department, Faculty of Economics, Valencia, Spain

Overview: La representacion de los periodos medios de maduracion a traves de un grafico radial facilita el analisis de los resultados y de la situación financiera de las entidades.

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15:25-15:55 16:00-16:30 16:35-17:05 17:10-17:40

Room 1 Growing up in Canada: Views of Second Generation Indian-Canadian Adolescents

Shagufa Kapadia, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India

Overview: The study focuses on the acculturation and adaptation of Indian-Canadian adolescents growing up in Canada to know their views on acculturation, cultural identity, and relationships with parents.

Migrant Communities: Health Literacy and Access to Health and Social Welfare Services

Dr. Bertha Ochieng, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

Overview: The aims of the study were to examine the interrelationship between health literacy and access to health and social welfare services in migrant families.

Determinants of the Use of Prenatal Ultrasounds: Evidence from Canada

Dr. Ardeshir Sepehri, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, Dr. Harminder Guliani, University of Regina, Sasketchwan, Canada

Overview: This paper suggests that the increase in the number of ultrasounds in a government-sponsored health care system, with universal access to prenatal services, is not solely explained by maternal risk.

From Arguing to Win to Arguing in Public: How Can Competitive Debate Better Address Civic Discourse

Dr. Steven Woods, Korry Harvey, Department of Communication, Western Washington University, Bellingham, USA

Overview: This paper examines the possibilities of competitive intercollegiate debate being a training for civil public discourse.

Room 2 Exploring the Organisational Collage of Memetic Paradigms

Dr. Louis Klein, Board, Systemic Excellence Group, Berlin, Germany

Overview: "Exploring the Organizational Collage of Memetic Paradigms" brings together narrative theory, paradigm thinking, and memetics based on the frame of systems sciences.

Action Research into Facilitating Resilience: Improving Adaptability among Farm Businesses

Dr. Brenda Scott-Ladd, School of Management Curtin Business School, Dr. Diane Costello, John Noonan, School of Management, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Overview: This paper discusses the preliminary results of a facilitated action research program involving farm businesses, with a view to continuously improving the program and enhancing farmer resilience.

The Impact of Social Norms on the Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Innovation: The Introduction of Organic Cotton Cultivation in Egypt

Tomislav Rimac, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: By conceptualizing innovation as a deviant behavior, I aim to contribute to the general understanding of how and under what conditions the processes of innovation start and evolve.


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Room 3 The Constructive Tension between the Real and the Ideal Portrait of Scientists: Romanian Scientists' Self-images during Communism

Cătălin Mamali, Department of Psychology, Loras College, Dubuque, USA

Overview: 30 bipolar traits from Mitroff’s study on Apollo moon scientists were applied to a representative sample of Romanian scientists to explore the distance between their real and ideal portraits.

An Empirical Study of Young French Quebecers’ Imagination Using the the Archetypal Test with Nine Elements: Exploring the Links between Interpersonal Style and Socio-economic Status

Dr. Christian R. Bellehumeur, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Dr. Louis-Charles Lavoie, Sherbrooke, Dr. Judith Malette, Dr. Raymond Lapree, Ottawa, Canada

Overview: This study examines the links between the imagination of Quebecers aged 9 to 12 years old, their levels of competition and collaboration, and their socio-economic status, by using the AT.9.

Aggressiveness and Violence in Gender Relations: A Socio-Gender Issue as Represented in Texts of Drama

Dr. Ester Levanon-Mordoch, Drama and Arts and Literature Section Humanistics Department, Kibutzim College of Education, Oranim Academic College of Education, Kibbutz Gazit, Israel

Overview: This paper examines the drama representation of gender abuse, in the original plays produced in a major repertory theatre in Israel.

The Role of Design on Combating Obesity

Asst. Prof. Dr. Pinar Ozturk, Industrial Product Design Department Fine Arts Faculty, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: Design could be an alternative for fighting against obesity. Designs could reinforce the notion of new forms of life style such as regulating and measuring eating habits, increasing physical activity.

Room 4 Financial Literacy and Women: A Mixed Method Study of Challenges and Needs

Dr. Melissa Donohue, Financial Nutrition, Inc., Wilbraham, USA

Overview: The presentation "Financial Literacy and Women: A Mixed Method Study of Challenges and Needs" focuses on connections between financial knowledge and behavior, and inequities women face in manifesting financial knowledge.

Reciprocal Frustrations: The Relationship between New Zealand Employers, Temporary Staffing Agencies and Clerical Temporary Workers

Dr. Jocelyn Handy, School of Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, Doreen Davy, Self Employed Therapist, New Zealand

Overview: This research investigates the relationship between employers, temporary staffing agencies, and clerical temporary workers. The findings suggest the employment relationship was frequently unsatisfactory for all concerned.

Economic Performance, Political and Economic Freedom, and Corruption within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Dr. Jose Juan Bautista, Division of Business, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA

Overview: This paper examines the relationship between per capita GDP of the ASEAN member nations and indicies measuring political freedom, economic freedom, and corruption.

Educational Mobility and Educational Aspirations of High School Students in the Czech Republic

Dr. Jena Švarcová, Department of Economics Faculty of Management and Economics, Vít Gabrhel, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

Overview: The Czech Republic is preparing for the introduction of tuition fees at universities. Prime beginning of the debate starts with analysis of the educational aspirations of students.


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Room 5 Tracking Critical Thinking Changes in Two Regionally Diverse Master's Level Physical Therapy Programs

Marie Vazquez Morgan, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences Program in Physical Therapy Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA

Overview: The purpose of this was to evaluate the ability of the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Analysis to track critical thinking changes over a 1-year period in Master’s level physical therapy students.

An Institutional Approach to Understanding Public Relations Practices in the Chinese "Guanxi" Context

Zhengye Hou, University of Queensland, Dr. Yunxia Zhu, University of Queensland, Australia, Prof. Michael Bromley, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Anguilla

Overview: This is a typically interdisciplinary study bridging institutional sociology and public relations scholarship to investigate how the existing Chinese "guanxi" culture is integrated and legitimized in Chinese PR practices.

Public Sector Innovation: A Western Australian Case Study

Marion Burchell, Corporate Strategy and Operations Division, Department of Agriculture and Food, Perth, Australia

Overview: Public sector innovation is critical to meeting current and future challenges. This paper explores public sector innovation using social movement, social change and organizational change theories.

Room 6 A Family Perspective on Parental Incarceration: Implications for Criminal Justice Reform and Human Development

Dr. Joyce Arditti, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Overview: In this workshop session, I advance family focused policy and practice that aligns with a developmental, ecological systems framework which examines families in context.

New Interdisciplinary Encounters and the Future of Political Science

Asli Peker Dogra, Politics Department, New York University, New York, USA

Overview: This paper explores recent trends in North American political science, particularly new collaborations between social and natural scientists, and the possible implications of these for the future of the discipline.

Remedies for Minority Oppression in Closed Corporations in China

Changwu Zuo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Overview: Although existing remedies for oppression reach a balance to some extent between protecting minority shareholders and respecting controlling shareholders’ discretion in China, room for improvement to strengthen protection still exists.


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Room 7 Negotiating the Vacuum: Using Assessment Criteria to Create Dialogic Space

Jennifer Bain, Dr Juliet Sprake, University of London, London, UK

Overview: This presentation examines the ‘assessment vacuum’—the empty dialogic space that surrounds assessment practice—and offers insights into how this might be filled with learning conversations and narratives.

Using Online Discussion Forums to Engage Students in Positive Education

Robert M. Bell, School of Communication and the Arts, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: This paper explores the use of Computer Mediated Communication as a platform to engage first-year undergraduate music students with the discipline of Positive Education.

Saudi Prepatory Year Programme Students’ Perceptions of the Intensive English Programme at Salman bin Abdulaziz University

Dr. Majed Al qahtani, University, Al Kharij, Saudi Arabia

Overview: This is based upon research which investigates the perceptions of the skills-based Intensive English Programme (IEP) among Preparatory Year Programme (PYP) students at Salman Bin Abdulaziz University.

Room 8 Practical Socio-cultural Intervention in Health Care in Latin America

Oscar Labra, University of Quebec in Abitibi - Témiscamingue, Rouyn-noranda, Canada

Overview: This paper aims to describe the contributions of social practice intervention based on a socio-cultural approach to patients suffering from severe chronic diseases in Latin America.

An Innovative Teamwork Approach to Healthcare Delivery in a Canadian Academic Health Centre

Susan Drouin, McGill University Paula Rozanski, Saint-Thomas Health Centre, Canada

Overview: A Canadian academic health centre is building a new hospital. The overhaul emphasizes the need for new ways to deliver healthcare. We attempted to develop an innovative integrated teamwork approach.

Are New Mothers Really More Depressed? Reflecting on the Specificity of the Postnatal Depression Diagnosis

Dr. Catherine des Rivières, Université du Québec à Montréal, Dr. Charo Rodriguez, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Overview: In this paper, we offer an in-depth reflection on the emergence of the diagnosis of postnatal depression.

Interdisciplinary Drought Risk Assessment for Agriculture: The Case of Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Dr Andries Jordaan, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Overview: Interdisciplinary drought risk assessment is key to the assessment of drought risks. Vulnerability and coping capacity are included in the drought risk assessment for the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

Room 9 Technology Implementation in Language Teaching: The Use of ICTs to Teach English as a Foreign Language

Dr Lidia Taillefer, Rosa Munoz-Luna, Department of English, French and German, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

Overview: The use of technology in the English classroom at secondary or/and university level

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Building Integrated Design using Collective Objects

Dr. Daniel Forgues, École de technologie supérieure, Dr. François Chiocchio, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Overview: A constructive research exploring how collective objects could replace specialized tools used in various disciplines to facilitate collaboration and innovation

Multicultural Diversity and China Town in Paris: Evolution of a Neighbourhood

Gözde Kutlu, Faculty of Fine Arts, Okan University, İstanbul, Turkey

Overview: This study comprehends historical and architectural development of one of the neighbourhood,named "China town" in Paris. It includes Asian migrants and their social, cultural, and economic influences in the area.


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Room 10 Interdisciplinary Relationships in the Occupational Health and Safety Field

Dr. Monique Lortie, Université du Quebec, Montreal, Dr. Francine Madeleine Mayer, Sciences biologiques, Université du Québec, Claire Lapointe, Service veille et gestion de la qualité, Institut de recherch en santé et sécurité du travail du Québec, Montréal, Canada

Overview: The aim of this study was to document researchers' perception of their own discipline and that of their collaborators with regard to the exchange process.

Experiences of Transdisciplinarity in Research on Agricultural Sustainability

Dr. Lesley Hunt, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Dr. Jayson Benge, The Agribusiness Group, Prof. Hugh Campbell, University of Otago, Prof. John Fairweather, AERU, Glen Greer, Lincoln University, Dave Lucock, Jon Manhire, The Agribusiness Group, Prof Henrik Moller, University of Otago, Dr. John Reid, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Dr. Chris Rosin, University of Otago, Prof. Caroline Saunders, Lincoln University, New Zealand

Overview: A study of the experiences of the researchers from the different disciplines involved in the transdisciplinary research programme Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability.

Online Networking for Rural Businesses: Understanding the Social Context

Dr. Leanne Townsend, dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Overview: This interdisciplinary research explores the use of social networking technologies in the user-led design of a rural business networking system to improve connections for rural enterprise.

Islamic Education in Malaysia: A Study of History and Development

Dr. Mohd Shuhaimi Ishak, Department of General Studies Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, Dr. Osman Chuah Abdullah, Department of Usuludin and Comparative Religion Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Overview: The study attempts to shed light on the variety of forms, patterns and evolutionary trends of the Islamic education in Malaysia.

Room 11 Microcredit and Women's Empowerment in Rural Vietnam

Prof. Quan Le, Department of Economics Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University, Seattle, USA

Overview: The paper attempts to analyze the impact of a microcredit program on the empowerment of women in rural Vietnam.

Recens Politica Mulieribus: Lessons on Modern Political Women from Ancient Greece and Rome

Prof. Valentine J. Belfiglio, Department of Texas Woman’s University, Denton, USA

Overview: The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate a transgenerational correlation between political women in ancient Greece and Rome and political women of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Genet and the Time of Capital

Prof. Donald Morton, English Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

Overview: An investigation of the use of Jean Genet to legitimize capitalist criminal justice system under the cover of honoring "literary achievement."

Unpacking a Smart City Model: The Revolution of Communication in the Urban Social Space

Dr Claudio Marciano, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Overview: An informational and ecological society molds a Smart City Model, characterized by human capital, digital innovation, and civic engagement. The paper shows communication's role understood as immaterial strategic infrastructure


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Resiliencia Y Futuros Profesionales De La Educacion Social

Prof. Irati Novella Gil, E.U. Magisterio de Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Portugalete, Spain

Overview: La presente comunicación expone un estudio exploratorio sobre el perfil resiliente de futuros/as educadores/as sociales.

Cuando Los Musicos Se Convierten En Profesores: Una Reflexion Sobre La Ensenanza De La Musica

Dr Maria Teresa Diaz Mohedo, Dr. Alejandro Vicente Bujez, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Overview: Ya que la enseñanza es una actividad compleja, es indispensable la investigación sobre cómo los músicos aprender a enseñar y cómo se configura la identidad de estos profesores noveles.

Las Ensenanzas Artisticas Superiores De Musica En El Siglo XXI: El Reto De La Convergencia Europea

Dr. Alejandro Vicente Bujez, Dr Maria Teresa Diaz Mohedo, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Overview: En este trabajo reflexionamos sobre el modelo musical que se desarrolla en los conservatorios de música, basado en una concepción técnica de la enseñanza musical.

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La Tragedia De Los Comunes: Un Enfoque Teórico-Experimental

Dr Juan Carlos Aguado Franco, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos., Madrid, Spain

Overview: Muchos recursos naturales se ven afectados por la sobreexplotación, encontrándose inmersos en la "tragedia de los comunes". Analizamos aquí los factores presentes en este tipo de situaciones.

Cooperación En Los Dilemas Sociales

Dr Juan Carlos Aguado Franco, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos., Prof. de las Heras Camino David, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Overview: Cuando la "mano invisible" de Adam Smith no ayuda a quienes persiguen su bienestar individual a alcanzar el bienestar coletivo aparecen "dilemas sociales" para cuya solución se requiere cooperación.

Ensinar Para Aprender Ou Para Avaliar?

Alcina Lourenco, Universidade do Minho, CIED, Braga, Portugal

Overview: A Educação tem um importante papel na (re)construção das sociedades. A avaliação surge com diferentes faces e propósitos. Pretendeu-se problematizar abordagens e importâncias atribuídas à avaliação no ensino da Matemática.

Perfil Del Turista Cultural En Un Destino De Sol Y Playa. El Caso De La Laguna En Tenerife. Pedro Ernesto Moreira Gregori, Universidad de Las Palmas, Las Palmas, Spain Overview: Perfil del turista que visita la ciudad de La Laguna (Tenerife). Ciudad declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad, en el marco de un enclave de turismo masivo de sol y playa.

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Tuesday, 26 June 8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION DESK OPEN

9:00-9:30 PLENARY SESSION - Nitza Nachmias, Towson University, Maryland, USA - "The Politics of Mercy and Compassion: The Case of Refugees' Aid Agencies"

9:30-10:00 PLENARY SESSION - Anthony Synnott, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada – “Pigs? Boys? Hegemonic? Rethinking Men”



10:35-11:05 11:10-11:40 11:45-12:15 12:20-12:50

Room 1 Subsistence and Sustainability in Yap: The Reemergence of Subsistence Agriculture and Its Impact on Rural Community Development In Yap, FSM

Dr. Todd Ames, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Guam, Mangilao, USA

Overview: This paper considers the emerging importance of what was once subsistence agriculture in Yap, in supplying increasing demands for agricultural produce. This has helped to augment rural family incomes.

Collecting Visual Voices: Understanding Identity, Community and the Meaning of Participation within Gay Rodeos in the United States

Moshoula Capous Desyllas, Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge, USA

Overview: This uses a photo-elicitation method to understand how individuals participating and performing in gay rodeos experience their identities and the meanings they attribute to their experiences within this queer sub-culture.

Love and Desire: Understanding Practices of Intimacy amongst Middle Class Gujarati Indians in the UK and India

Dr. Katherine Twamley, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London, UK

Overview: The paper compares the meanings and understandings of love and desire amongst Gujarati Indians in the UK and India.

Community Group Actions: Their Emergence, Maintenance and Continuance

Dr. Carl Hylton, Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project, Leeds, Dr. Bertha Ochieng, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

Overview: The presentation will explore the reasons for the existence, maintenance and continuance of community group actions and also the groups' methods of organisational and group dynamics.

Room 2 Challenges Confronting Oral History: Problematic Nature of Memory in Recollection

Dr. Marietjie Oelofse, Department of History, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Overview: Oral historians need to be aware of the challenges memory poses. Different factors/variables influencing memory and the kind of information it produces are analysed.

Cultural Sensitivity and Needs: Considerations for Delivering a Mental Health Program for the Jewish Community of Melbourne

Bronwen Ngaire Taylor, Malmsbury, Rachael Bajayo, Jewish Care Victoria, Caulfield, Australia

Overview: This paper presents an exploration of considerations for the delivery of a Mental Health Program for the Melbourne Jewish Community including an assessment of needs and issues of cultural sensitivity.

Basque Traditional Dance: A Fundamental Part of Their Folklore

Dr. María Amaya Epelde, Department of Didactic of Music, University of Granada, Melilla, Spain

Overview: Traditional Basque dances are an important part of the Basque culture and it's the main source for their folklore.

Orphan-ness in Rural Tanzania: A Posteriori Metric for Orphan Care

Emily Catherine Joan Knight, University of Kansas, Lawrence, David S. Knight, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, Jennifer Peck, Geoffrey Knight, United Republic of Tanzania

Overview: Initial findings of this research suggest the relative orphan-ness of a child, or the degree of surviving family connections, is perhaps the best indicator of the child’s overall vulnerability.


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10:35-12:50 TUESDAY PARALLEL SESSIONS

10:35-11:05 11:10-11:40 11:45-12:15 12:20-12:50

Room 3 Come Jump, Laugh, and Cry, with Us! The Osho Dynamic Meditation Technique to Relieve Stress

Dr. Avni Vyas, Psychological Passages, Inc., Irving, USA, Mr Ali von Stein, Meditation Module, Berlin, Germany

Overview: This workshop explores the effectiveness of Osho Dynamic Meditation.

Perceived Control as a Longitudinal Moderator of Late Life Stressors on Depression

Dr. Patrick Dulin, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA

Overview: This study found that perceived control functions as a moderator of the relationship between late life stressors and depression among a sample of older adults.

Musical Traces and the Subconscious

Dr. Henriette Van Rensburg, School of Music, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Overview: This discusses the role of subconscious memory with regard to the occurrence of musical traces from the past.

Room 4 Teacher Education for the 21st Century: Developing Equity-mindedness in Future Educators

Tina Matuchniak, Alejandra Sofia Albarran, Gilberto Q. Conchas, Education, University of California, Irvine, USA

Overview: This presentation discusses findings from a study investigating prospective teachers’ perceptions of the factors that either contribute to, or ameliorate, the inequities that exist within and across schools in America.

Governmentality and Performativity in Chilean Firms

Dr. Claudio Ramos-Zincke, Department of Sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile

Overview: This paper studies the complementarity between Foucault’s conceptualization on governmentality and Callon’s approach to the performativity of science, applying them to account for the changes occurring in Chilean companies.

The Perceptual Boundaries of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-level Cross-cultural Framework

Dr. Shannon Peterson, Dr. Stacey Hills, Utah State University, Logan, Cassidy Williams, University of Oregon, USA

Overview: This research explores the perceptual boundaries of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across different cultural groups in the United States and internationally, between the United States and China.

Reframing the Future for Farmers: A Multidisciplinary Facilitated Strategic Planning Approach to Mitigate Threats to Farm Businesses

John Noonan, International Institute for Agri-Food Security, Dr Christine Storer, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Overview: Using a multidisciplinary facilitated “learning journey”, farmers have considered the impact of influences, such as climate change and planned for more volatile financial, human capital, production and trading environments.

Room 5 The Trauma-Psychopathology Relationship Reconceptualized

Dr. Beth Rosenthal, City University of New York, NYC, Dr. W. Cody Wilson, School of Social Work, Adelphi University, New York City, USA

Overview: A new reconceptualization of the trauma-psychopathology relationship (4-category person-types) is confirmed by latent class analysis with a sample of 681 18-19 year old youth.

An Addictive Workplace: New Zealand Film Production Workers’ Subjective Experiences of Freelance Labour

Dr. Jocelyn Handy, Massey University, Palmerston North, Lorraine Rowlands, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, New Zealand

Overview: This utilises the theoretical framework provided by social models of addiction to interpret freelance film production workers’ subjective experiences of project-based labour within the New Zealand film industry.

Utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy to Create Change in a School-based Mental Health System: Applying Theory and Research in Practice

Dr. Courtney McLaughlin, Educational and School Psychology Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, USA

Overview: Attendees to this workshop will learn how to conduct cognitive behavioral group therapy as a part of a SBMH system and how to overcome barriers to delivering group therapy.


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Room 6 Mobility in the Retirement Period: An Assessment of the Current Situation

Assoc. Prof. Hülya Öztop, Hacettepe University, Pelin Pekmezci, Pro Team / Amway, Amway, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: In this article, studies analyzing properties of post-retirement migration and factors causing this migration are assessed.

Resetting Turkish Foreign Policy in the Wake of the Arab Spring and Its Impact on Turkish Activism in the Middle East

Dr. Omer Kurtbag, Gaziosmanpasa University, Tokat, Turkey

Overview: This will discuss resetting Turkish foreign policy in the wake of the Arab Spring and its impact on Turkish activism in the Middle East.

From Research, through Policy and Politics to Practice: What Confounds and What Helps to Bridge the Gaps

Dr. Emma Davies, Auckland, New Zealand, Elizabeth Rowe, Rowe Davies Research, Sydney, Australia

Overview: A structured dialogue using three case studies from New Zealand to examine what confounds and what helps to bridge gaps between research, policy and practice

Room 7 Helping the Most Innocent: Social Awareness in Preventing Child Abuse

Dr. Erika Landau, Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Overview: Child abuse increased in 2010 in the USA. Mandated reporters aren't reporting all suspicions out of fear of abusers, losing patients or clients, or lack of knowledge. Education is needed.

Female Literacy and Development

Dr. Anne Mary Mungai, School of Education, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

Overview: In spite of the important role they play in development, the education of women has lagged significantly behind that of men.

Social Capital, Stereotype Threat, and the Myth of Effort: A Narrative of Two Culturally Responsive Education Initiatives

Dr. David K. Truscello, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA

Overview: This paper describes two training initiatives designed to expand student social capital networks of knowledge.

Room 8 Theoretical Modelling of Trust and Risk in the Context of Personal Health Information

Dr. Richard Whiddett, Dr. Inga Hunter, Palmerston North, Prof. Tony Norris, Dr Barry McDonald, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, Dr John Waldon, University of New South Wales, Australia

Overview: This paper draws on prior theoretical models of trust and risk-taking within organizations to interpret patients’ willingness to consent to the use of their personal health information for various purposes.

Connecting Food Environments and Health through the Relational Nature of Aesthetics: Gaining Insight through the Community Gardening Experience

Dr. Jill Litt, Colorado School of Public Health, Denver, Dr. Sarah Schmiege, University of Colorado, USA, James Hale, Sprout City Farms, USA

Overview: Exploring alignment of aesthetics, ecology and health through the lens of community gardening, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data from Denver, Colorado

Localising Medical Discourses: Tensions between Mbya and Medical Perspectives on Child Health in North-eastern Argentina

Coll Hutchison, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Argentina

Overview: This paper discusses the importance of localizing medical discourses and entering dialogues with indigenous peoples to ensure approaches to health reflect their needs.

Health Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Traditional Birth Attendants

Dr. Karen Lane, Arts and Education Faculty, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: Enlisting alternative health practitioners into formal health care systems in developed and developing economies represents a move towards philosophical pluralism and health cosmopolitanism.


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10:35-11:05 11:10-11:40 11:45-12:15 12:20-12:50

Room 9 Responding to Energy Challenges: Developing an Understanding of the Interactions between the Social and the Physical Sciences in Energy Research

Dr. Joseph Szarka, University of Paris - Diderot, Paris, Hassan Peerhossaini, University of Nantes, Luc Valentin, University of Paris - Diderot, France

Overview: This paper discusses interdisciplinary energy research undertaken within the Paris7 Interdisciplinary Energy Research Institute (PIERI), drawing lessons for understanding the interactions between the social sciences and the physical sciences.

Capitalism, Globalisation, Cultural Landscape, and Rural Tourism

Dr. H.M. Sanjeev Kumar, South Asian University, Delhi, Dr. Preeti Sharma, Banasthali Vidyapith, Tonk, India

Overview: The structuring and sponsoring of tourism by a neoliberal State, especially in rural areas, merely seems to cater to the obtrusive assertions of a late capitalist politico-economic order.

Out of the Coffee House and into the Mobile Network: Using Habermas's Theory of Pragmatic Meaning to Understand Mobile Technology’s Impact on Governance

Mr. Charles Martin-Shields, George Mason University, Washington, USA

Overview: This paper will make a theoretical argument for why mobile telephones can spur the development of active civil society using Jürgen Habermas’s theory of pragmatic meaning.

The Technophile Individual in Society: The Enthusaism of Techno-humans for Machines and New Media

Özgür Çalışkan, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: Humans can be called technophiles when they love technology and are addicted to it. This paper discusses how humans become technophiles in today’s society, with specific examples.

Room 10 Key Factors Influencing Environmental Behavior of Green Buyers within the Scope of Turkish Households

Ass.Prof.Dr. Haluk Zulfikar, Billur Engin, Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: To investigate and understand Turkish green buyers' attitudes, and households structure with impact-oriented measure

An Empirical Examination of the Role of Social Outrage in U.S. Child Welfare Decision Making: A National Study

Radha Jagannathan, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Michael J. Camasso, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Overview: The paper expands the traditional risk model used in the United States Child Protective Services to include societal outrage caused by particularly egregious cases of child maltreatment.

Sinking Paradise or Eco-revolution Leader? The Twisted Nature of the Ecological Situation in the Maldives

Justyna Ziemba, Graduate School for Social Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Overview: The Maldives is known as victim of climate change and country fated to sink into the ocean. But this is not their biggest environmental problem.


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10:35-11:05 11:10-11:40 11:45-12:15 12:20-12:50

Room 11 Looking through a Corporeal Lens about Elite Perceptions of Gender Equality in Norway

Greta Gober, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Overview: By examining social processes that create hierarchies of bodies, this paper will demonstrate the importance of social embodiment of inequalities for the lived experiences of young women in Norway.

From Married Father to Gay Father: Family Life after Coming Out

Damien Fitzgerald, Children and Childhood Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Overview: The paper explores how the process of coming out impacts all family members and censorship is deployed in multiple ways to manage identity shifts.

Do Multinational Companies Exhibit Strategic Intentions to Alleviate Poverty?

Dr. Nicholas Mangos, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Overview: This study investigates the extent to which a select sample of multinational corporations embrace poverty alleviation, and more importantly, whether they view it as a strategic priority.

The Politics of Women's Empowerment in Turkey: The Transformative Struggles of KAMER Women's Center against Violence

Fulya Kama Ozelkan, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: This paper presents an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Turkey with a women’s organization working in eastern Anatolia on violence against women.

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SPANISH SESSIONS

Situacion Actual De Las Empresas De Gestion Deportiva Privada En La Comunidad Valenciana

Prof Eduardo Mata Varea, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Dr Juan Antonio Mestre Sancho, Dr Carlos Pablos Abella, Universidad Catolica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Overview: Revisión de la situación actual de las empresas del sector de gestión de instalaciones deportivas públicas y privadas, en base a indicadores cualitativos y cuantitativos.

Innovacion Social. Nuevas Formas De Organizacion En Tiempos De Crisis

Dra Carmen Ruiz, Business Management and Economy, University Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: Análisis del Rol de la solidaridad para promover el comportamiento Emprendedor a nivel social. Diseño, implementación y promoción de nuevas prácticas y políticas públicas para alcanzar nuevos fines sociales.

Los Factores Clave Para Una Sucesion Efectiva En La Empresa Familiar

Dra Elisenda Tarrats Pons, Department of Business Administration, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya & universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Vic, Spain

Overview: El presente artículo explora y analiza de forma aplicada los principales factores psicosociales que inciden en el proceso de sucesión intergeneracional garantizando una planificación óptima de dicho proceso.

La Arquitectura Interdisciplinaria De La Teoria Sociologica: Una Elucidacion Desde, Mas Alla Y Contra Luhmann Dr Patricio Miranda Rebeco, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile Overview: La observación meta-sociológica de las gramáticas interdisciplinarias que dan forma a las arquitecturas de las teorías sociológicas, se acomete aquí desde, más allá y contra la teoría sociológica de Luhmann

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Metodologias De Estudio De Las Redes Sociales Online Y Jovenes

Lizette Martinez, Departamento de Historia de la Comunicación Social, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Overview: Análisis de la metodología empleada en las investigaciones académicas aparecidas hasta la fecha que tratan sobre los distintos usos que hacen los jóvenes de las redes sociales y propuesta metodológica.

La Realidad Transformada: Propuestas Videograficas Y Nuevas Tecnologias Sobre Paisajes Urbanos Inestables

Dra Isadora Guardia calvo, Universitat Valencia, Spain, Dr. Sergio Rodriguez Tejada, Universitat Valencia, Spain Overview: Estudio y análisis de casos prácticos sobre las relaciones entre nuevas tecnologías audiovisuales y activismo social en el caso de procesos de gentrificación.

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13:50-14:20 14:25-14:55 15:00-15:30

Room 1 Are Universities Institutionally Racist?

Prof. Andrew Pilkington, School of Social Sciences, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK

Overview: The Macpherson report in 1999 claimed that public organizations, including universities, were characterized by institutional racism. This paper examines the response of the academy in the UK to this charge.

Micro-credit and Community Development in the Asia Pacific: A Socio-economic Analyses of Micro-credit Programs in Yap State, Chuuk State, Malaysia, and Indonesia

Dr. Angeline Ames, University of Guam, Yona, Guam

Overview: This work is a socio-economic comparative analysis of micro-credit programs in Yap and Chuuk states in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and Malaysia and Indonesia.

Immigrant and Refugee Health Status: An Integrated Model of Social Determinants

Laurel Lunn, Community Research & Action Program , Dr. Craig Anne Heflinger, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

Overview: This paper proposes a framework for understanding the social determinants of health among immigrants and refugees from an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective.

Room 2 The Social Integration of Immigrant Youth in Schools: Influential Factors

Anaïs Nadeau-Cossette, School of Social Work Social Sciences Faculty, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Overview: This presentation focuses on the different factors that facilitate or restrain the social integration of immigrant youth among peers in secondary school institutions.

The Humanist Historian: Juan Cristobal Calvete de Estrella and De Rebus Indicis

Dr. Zebulun Weeks, English, Brigham Young University, Laie, USA

Overview: This is a short glimpse into what makes a history written by a Spanish humanist from the sixteenth century worth reading.

The Bees from “Baghdad”: Challenges of Trajectory, Transgression, and Transformation in Anthropology’s Spatial Turn

Prof. Mark Lawrence, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, USA

Overview: Anthropology’s “spatial turn” allows reconsideration of the discipline’s core concept. Kibwezi, Kenya’s cultural geography shows that what a landscape means reframes what geography and anthropology as social sciences can be.

Room 3 Job Fit: A New Model for Using Peer Support and Supported Employment

Dr. Linda Holloway, Martha Garber, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

Overview: The session will discuss the development and implementation of a program designed to assist individuals with psychiatric disabilities in finding meaningful employment.

An Etiology of Mental Illness and the Perceived Helpfulness of Mental Health Professionals: An Exploration of Social Work Students' Attitudes in the US, Great Britain, and Australia

Dr. Chris Locke, Auburn University, Auburn, USA, Dr. Jill Chonody, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, Dr. Barbra Teater, University of Bath, Bath, UK

Overview: This study explored social work students’ attitudes in the US, Great Britain, and Australia about the perceived helpfulness of social workers and other professionals in providing mental health services.

Room 4 When Will China Become More Religious

Dr. Shaoming Zhou, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Overview: Rituals performed during the funeral process indicate that Chinese villagers have not become more religious through the course of revitalization of local religion in China.

Dueling Perspectives on Progress in Women's Rights

Prof. Jan Knippers Black, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, USA

Overview: This paper deals with the bifurcation in the trajectory of the status of women, between increasing participation in the political sphere and shrinking means of supporting themselves and their families.

Is Economic Man Different from Psychological Man? An Interdisciplinary Analysis

Assoc. Prof. Ester Ruben, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: The purpose of this paper is to compare human understanding of economics and psychology, and to propose a new perspective for cooperation between these two sciences.


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Room 5 An Interdisciplinary Examination of Gender Roles, Political Discourses, and Violence through Film, Musicals, Theater and Literature

Maria Teresa Rinaldi, Alicia Ramos-Jordán, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Marco Valesi, of California, Merced, USA, Mar Trallero-Cordero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: Taking an interdisciplinary approach that includes literature, theater, film and musicals, different aspects of society are analyzed and its local and global repercussions are explored.

Room 6 The Human Rights Debate and an Examination of Amartya Sen's Countervailing Power: Public Reasoning as a Social Instrument

Dr. Santosh Saha, Department of History, University of Mount Union, North Canton, USA

Overview: I argue that Amartya Sen, a Nobel Laureate in economics, presents public reasoning as a legitimate social tool to cover collective obligations to enhance human rights.

The Economy of Suicide: Economic Policy and the Creation of a Suicidal Cohort

Dr. Cate Curtis, University of Waikato, Hamilton, Dr. Bruce Curtis, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Overview: Youth suicide is a topic of concern in New Zealand. Prevention strategies are based on individualistic notions of mental health. However, neoliberal policies can be associated with youth suicide.

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making in Terms of Constrained Maximization and Cognitive Cybernetic Theory

Dr. Joseph Ignagni, Dr. Rebecca Deen, University of Texas, Arlington, USA

Overview: United States Supreme Court decision making will be analyzed in terms of constrained maximization and cognitive cybernetic theory in cases involving the government of United States as a party.

Room 7 An Examination of the Relationship between Maslow’s Deficiency Needs and Academic Achievement

Dr. Amity Noltemeyer, Department of Educational Psychology School of Education, Health, and Society, Dr. Kevin Bush, Department of Family Studies and Social Work School of Education, Health, and Society, Dr. Jon Patton, Information Technology Services Department, Dr. Doris Bergen, Educational Psychology School of Education, Health, and Society, Miami University, Oxford, USA

Overview: This study tested the relationship between Maslow’s (1954) deficiency needs and growth needs in a sample of 390 American students.

An Analysis of Education Globalization and the Chinese Education Trade Imbalance: An International Student Flow and Service Trade Perspective

Prof Dejun Cao, Foreign Affairs Office, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chendu, China, Prof. John Zhang, Mathematics Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, USA, Shixiang Zuo, School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chendu, China

Overview: This paper studies the current education globalization and the Chinese education service trade imbalance.

The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Lecturer Performance: An Examination at a Public Higher Education Institution in Malaysia

Wan Ummi Kalsom Meor Osman, Nordiyana Hisham, Norhafizah Azizan, Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia

Overview: This paper will discuss the relationship between emotional intelligence and lecturer performance at one of the public higher education institutions in Malaysia.

Room 8 The Building Global Social Capital through Social Science and Liberal Arts Education in the New Media Age: A Comprehensive Approach to Mitigate World Disasters

Prof. Golam Mathbor, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, Nairruti Jani, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

Overview: Recent disasters reveal communities with higher levels of social capital were more effective in surviving disasters. This presentation highlights how Bangladesh Red Cross developed its social capital to respond effectively.

The Relationship between Western and Complementary Medicine in the Doctor's Surgery

Dr. Rosemary Patricia Crone, Aged Care and Rehabilitation, McKellar Centre and Deakin University, North Geelong, Australia

Overview: This presentation will explore the interactive dynamic between western medical practitioners, their clients, and their use of complementary health.

Addressing Indigenous Maternal Health Inequities: Lessons from the Ecuadorian Andes

Ana Llamas, Faculty of Public Health and Policy Social and Enviromental Health Research, London, UK

Overview: This is an exploration of the emergence of the vertical birth, an intercultural health policy to address maternal health inequities in Ecuador.


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Room 9 Website Accessibility Evaluation as an Extrinsic Mode of E-governance Evaluation Framework: A Case Study in the Netherlands

Marya Butt, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Overview: This paper is an attempt to evaluate the e-government websites of the Netherlands across the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 Level AA) by using available online tools.

Swapping the Pipette by the E-mail: An Exploratory Study of New Science Careers in Portugal

Alexandra Rosa, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Overview: This paper aims to discuss the constraints and opportunities of alternative science careers for young PhDs in science and technology in the current Portuguese current research system

Cross-national Analysis of Economic Prerequisites of Democratization in Latin America

Prof. Dale Story, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

Overview: This paper will utilize cross-national data to examine the impact of various economic indicators on political development in Latin America.

Room 10 Familism and Elementary School Children: A Perspective from Puerto Rican Mothers Living on the Island

Arelis Vellon Fernandez, Dr. Kevin Bush, Department of Family Studies and Social Work School of Education, Health, and Society, Miami University, Oxford, USA

Overview: This is a qualitative study with 10 married mothers living in Puerto Rico that explored familism and its role among families with young school children.

The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on the Comorbidity of PTSD and Juvenile Delinquency

Dr. Kee Jeong Kim, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

Overview: Utilizing a large scale longitudinal data set, the interconnection among childhood maltreatment, PTSD, and juvenile delinquency was examined.

Stream: Psychology, Cognitive Science and the Behavioural Sciences

Room 11 Lilian Tshabalala: A Daughter of Africa and South African Proto-nationalist Freedom Fighter

Dr. Dawne Y. Curry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

Overview: the work examines the ideology of proto-nationalist freedom fighter Lilian Tshabalala. Tshabalala spent eighteen years in the US and this experienced her thinking and reintegration back into South African society.

Using New Geospatial Technologies for Urban Transportation Planning

Dr. Hongmian Gong, Department of Geography, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City, USA

Overview: This paper presents a prototype of how GPS traces could be uploaded on our website, processed to derive travel modes, and verified/modified to provide accurate data for transportation planning.

“When Elephants Fight, the Grass Get Trampled”: The Internal Displacement of Women and Its Educational Implications

Dr. Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, Department of Curriculum and Instruction School of Education, Adelphi University, Saxtons River, USA

Overview: This study described the experiences of internally displaced women in Nigeria, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks.

Room 12

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¿De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos De Barrio? Trayectoria Del Concepto Y Apuntes Para Su Problematizacion

Veronica Tapia, Departamento de Geografía Humana, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: Trayectoria del concepto de barrio e identificación de enfoques alternativos para su definición entregando herramientas teóricas para realizar una lectura crítica de las actuales políticas urbanas de enfoque barrial.

Humor Politico: Estudio Del Humor Como Proceso De Subjetivacion En Los Movimientos Sociales Del Pais Vasco

Uxoa Anduaga, Departamento de Sociología II, EHU-UPV, Hondarribia, Spain

Overview: Este texto en una propuesta para el estudio de caso de las transformaciones, características y consecuencias del humor en los movimientos sociales del País Vasco.

La Influencia De Las Redes Sociales Online En La Construccion De La Identidad Colectiva Euskaldun: El Caso De Las Relaciones Juveniles En Y Mediante Facebook

Koldo Diaz, Departamento de Sociología II, EHU-UPV, Bilbao, Spain

Overview: Planteamiento teórico de la pregunta de estudio que concierne a la (construcción de la) identidad (euskaldun) partiendo del análisis de las prácticas juveniles en/mediante Facebook

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Room 1 Factors Affecting the Decision to “Age in Place” in Post-retirement: The Case of Ankara-Turkey

Assoc. Prof. Hülya Öztop, Dr. Ayfer Aydiner Boylu, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: The purpose of this study is to explore the factors affecting the decision to stay in location after retirement.

Disciplines, Knowledge Territories, and Boundaries: Disciplinary Interaction inside Project Teams

Dr. Jacqui Rogers, Plymouth School of Management, Beryl Ann Badger, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

Overview: This paper examines the disciplinary interaction between disciplines working inside project teams to better understand how this interaction promotes learning and opportunities for increased creativity / innovation.

Levels and Causes of Adolescent Mortality in South Africa, 2001- 2007

Nicole Claire De Wet, Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Overview: This paper determines the levels and causes of adolescent mortality in South Africa. Demographic methods and statistics are used to estimate mortality and probability of death.

Room 2 Understanding First Wives' Adolescents' Emotional Responses on Fathers' Polygamous Marriage in Indonesia

Mira Ariyani, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Overview: This study is concerned with the emotional responses of the first wives' adolescents to their fathers' polygamous marriage when their fathers became married for the second time during their adolescence.

Community Mental Health for New Americans: Pilot Research

Dr. Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Dr. Wai Hsien Cheah, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, USA

Overview: This paper presents results of a culturally sensitive and innovative pilot program designed to address the mental health issues among Bosnian refugees resettling in the United States.

Unpacking Migrant 'Cultural Bagage': Investigating the Case of the Visually-impaired Migrant in Ireland

Esther Murphy, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Overview: This paper reports a qualitative, grounded theory study exploring the impact of cultural perceptions of disability for migrants in Ireland.

Room 3 The Socio-emotional Loneliness and Communication Skills of Preschool Teacher Trainees

Dr. Ilkay Ulutas, Dr. Ayse Belgin Aksoy, Child Development and Education, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: This study investigated the relationship between socio-emotional loneliness and communication skills of preschool teacher trainees.

The Time Aspects of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication

Dr. Alla Bolotova, Psychology Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

Overview: This article is devoted to the time aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication.

Changes in Social Attitude towards the Elderly in India

Dr. Bishnupriya Dasgupta, Resource Management, Sreejata Mitra, Resource Management Department, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, India

Overview: Contemporary social status of the elderly depends on how people think and perceive the elderly: an overview of the changes in the attitude of society according to changing times

Room 4 Preventing Job Burnout in the Housekeeping Department

Sibel Erkal, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Nihan Gürsoy, Family and Consumer Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: This paper covered the effectiveness of burnout on health and productiveness of staff, factors leading to burnout among household staff, and ways of preventing burnout.

The Planning of Logistics in Malaysia: A Review

Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Noor Mohid, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia, Malaysia Institute of Transport, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdul Malek A. Tambi, Department of Business Study, Idrus Abd Shukor, Department of Town and Regional Planning, UiTM Perak, Malaysia, Mohd Sabri Mohd Arip, Department of Town and Regional Planning, UiTM Perak, Malaysia, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

Overview: To identify the characteristics of logistics village planning in Malaysia

Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Extension Services for Sustainable Agriculture: Evidence from the MCA-Ghana Programme

Mr. Hayford Mensah Ayerakwa, Robert Darko Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Economics, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, Accra, Ghana

Overview: Using the Millinnium Challenge Account Programme, the study looks at the factors that explains a farmer's decision to pay for agric extension services in Ghana.


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Room 5 Being Digitally Active = Loss of Privacy?

Dr. Peter Géczy, Dr. Noriaki Izumi, Dr. Kôiti Hasida, AIST, Tokyo, Japan

Overview: Interdisciplinary elucidation of privacy challenges arising from growing exploitation of private information by social networking platforms, web service providers, and other entities due to contemporary technological enablers.

The Structure of the Georgian Blogosphere and Implications for Information Diffusion

Dr. Zakaria Babutsidze, Sophia Antipolis, France, Tengiz Lomitashvili, Tbilisi State University, Koba Turmanidze, Caucasus Research Resource Centers, Tbilisi, Georgia

Overview: This is the first study of the Georgian blogosphere. The complete dataset on Georgian bloggers is collected and analyzed using social network analysis tools.

Media Portrayal of America and Its Influence on Youth Migration Intentions in Nigeria

Prof. 'Dimeji Togunde, Gordon-Zeto Center for Global Education, Spelman College, Atlanta, USA

Overview: The media portrayal of America in the Nigerian media was examined. Most youth want to live in the US because their dreams of comfort and success can be easily realized.

Room 6 Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Research: A Theoretical Review and Empirical Examples

Gutu Olana Wayessa, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Overview: The concerns of what constitutes reality (ontology), and how it should be studied for meaningful knowing (epistemology) is not merely a philosophical exercise, but also a pragmatic one.

A Content Analysıs of a Postmodern Sıtcom: Avrupa Yakası

Dr. Funda Erzurum, Department of Journalism, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: Throughout this study, the sitcom Avrupa Yakası is analyzed from the postmodernism perspective and using content analysis research methods.

Are Emotions Leading Communication on Facebook? An Investigation of Turkish Social Network Site Users

Asst. Prof. Haluk Birsen, Journalism Department, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: This study examines how emotions are leading communication on Facebook as a sample of social network sites.

Room 7 The Contribution of Self-concept and Time Concept towards Cultural Capital

Dr. Regina Catharina Grobler, Department of Science and Technology Education Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Overview: Self-concept and time concept are contributing towards the cultural capital which learners in South Africa need for scholastic achievement.

The Relationship between Transitional Word Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Achievement

Dr. Pratin Pimsarn, Language Institute, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Overview: An investigation of the relationship between transitional word knowledge and reading comprehension

Programmer or Moderator? Rethinking the Radio Listener on Interactive Environments

Özgül Birsen, Journalism, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: This study aims to investigate how interactivity was using in radio, what the interactivity was contributing program and new role of listeners.

Room 8 The Changing Media Environment and the Parental Perspective toward New Media

Asst. Prof. Sibel Onursoy, Journalism Department Communication Sciences Faculty, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: This research investigates children and adolescents' use of the Internet in Turkey, usage that has been increasing rapidly and evoking much concern in Turkish society.

The Construction of Male and Female Identity: Media, Daily Life and Perception of Fiction/Reality Genres among Poor Families

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Incilay Cangoz, Department of Journalism, Emre Gokalp, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Hakan Ergul, Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: This paper bases on a large-scale ethnographic research project among poor families. In this study we will discuss how the male and female identity are constructed through media genres.

How Do the Media Supporting Matchmakers Frame Internet Marriage?

Dr. Deniz Kilic, Journalism Department Faculty of Communication Siciences, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: This article presents a brief history of tabloidization of news in Turkish news media and reasons about phenomenon of tabloidization and sensationalism.


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Room 9 Conventional Economic Legal Theory in Comparative Legal Reform of Takaful (Islamic Insurance) in Malaysia

Dr. Haemala Thanasegaran, Dr. Elsa Satkunasingam, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Overview: Conventional welfare economic legal theory is used to perform a comparative legal analysis between progressive common law insurance regulations, and takaful (Islamic insurance) in Malaysia, in proposing viable law reform.

Implications of Transplanting Hudud into the Malaysian Legal System

Dr. Elsa Satkunasingam, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Kuala Lumpur, Dr. Haemala Thanasegaran, Department of Business Law and Taxation Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Overview: This paper will examine the outcomes of tranplanting hudud (Islamic criminal law) into the Malaysian legal system as it poses a challenge to the secular foundations of the legal system.

The Impact of Transnational Aid Campaigns on Public Opinion and National Governments’ Foreign Aid Policy: A Critical Analysis of Canada and Great Britain

Dominic Hakim Silvio, Interdisciplinary PhD Program, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Overview: The paper investigates whether transnational aid campaigns have been successful in influencing public opinion and national governments’ foreign aid policy.

Room 10 Daylight Performance and Quality in Tropical Office Buildings: The Efficacy of the Light Shelf

Ar Elina Mohd Husini, Department of Architecture, and the Built Environment, Skudai, Ar Fadli Arabi, Department of Post Graduate and Research study,Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Overview: This paper evaluates the performance of the light shelf through its characteristic as a shading device and daylight distributor to the interior of office buildings.

Occupant Perception of the Effect of Discomfort Glare from Different Window Sizes under Malaysian Sky Condition

Ar Fadli Arabi, Department of Post Graduate and Research Study, Faculti of Built Environment, Ar Elina Mohd Husini, Department of Post Graduate and Research. Faculty of Built and Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Overview: The effort to achieve a sustainable vision is planned from considerations in design method for environmental and human welfare investigating discomfort glare through use of a qualitative approach.

An Investiagation of the Quality of Life and Career Development of Parents of Children with Down Syndrome

Vivienne Maria Mangos, Community Services and Health Program, TAFESA Adelaide South, Adelaide Campus and Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Overview: A study involving an analysis of quality of life and career development impacts of thirty South Australian parents of children with Down Syndrome, with varying support needs.

Room 11 Gender Differences in Determinants of Marital Quality and Happiness in Ankara, Turkey

Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Çopur, Betül Gürel, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: The purpose of this study is to investigate and understand the general attitudes of spouses towards traditional family behavior, non-marital sex, division of household labor, decision making, and fairness.

The Relationship between Gender Role Beliefs and Negativity, Distancing, and Marital Instability: The Keys of Ankara, Turkey

Betül Gürel, Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Çopur, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between gender role beliefs, negativity, distancing, and marital instability.

An Analysis of the Environmental Knowledge and Attitudes of University Students

Hande Sahin, Faculty of Industrial Arts Education Sciences Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Gazi University, Ankara, İbrahim Kılıç, Afyon, Sibel Erkal, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: This research aims to analyze the environmental knowledge and attitudes of university students. A survey was conducted on 162 students.


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La Educacion De La Primera Infancia En Europa. Un Estudio Comparado

Dra. Ana Ancheta Arrabal, Educación Comparada e Historia de la Educación, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Overview: Este trabajo examina la equidad del derecho a la educación y atención durante la primera infancia de calidad desarrollado a través de diversas políticas en el contexto comunitario.

El Enclave Actual De La Educacion Comparada En El Sistema Universitario Espanol. Estado De La Cuestion, Definicion Y Prospectiva.

Dra. Ana Ancheta Arrabal, Educación Comparada e Historia de la Educación., Lic Miriam Lorente Rodriguez, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Overview: La disciplina de Educación Comparada en el espacio universitario español: avances, desafíos y tendencias de un campo en ¿crisis o transformación?

Construccion Del Sentido De Realidad En El Nino Desde El Caracter Ludico Situado En La Relacion Intersubjetiva Con El Objeto

Elizabeth Martinez Palma, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Overview: La representación del sentido de realidad que construye el niño, encuentra su asidero en la relación intersubjetiva y lúdica que experimenta al interactuar con los objetos socializados por su entorno.

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Wednesday, 27 June 8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION DESK OPEN

9:00-9:30 PLENARY SESSION - Celia Fisher, Fordham University, New York, USA – “Enhancing Multicultural Ethical Competence in Social Science Research”



10:05-10:35 10:40-11:10 11:15-11:45 11:50-12:20

Room 1 Urban Space in Historical Capital: Reexamining Zipf's Law in Global Urban Development

Daniel Pasciuti, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Overview: This paper examines the global urban distribution from a comparative historical perspective to reconceptualize the expected outcome of urban development under different conditions of power and complexity.

Exploring the Character of Place in Lubbock Music through Walking Interviews, Mental Maps, and the Place Histories of Local Musicians

Caitlin Grann, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

Overview: Through the use of walking interviews, mental maps, and place histories taken from a sample of Lubbock musicians, I will explore the character of place in Lubbock, Texas (USA).

Constructing and Resisting Patriarchy in Literature and in the Jungle: Science/Fiction

Dr. Barbara Clark, Department of Modern Languages, Averett University, Danville, USA

Overview: A discussion of the social construction of gender roles and examples of resistance to those roles in science and in literature.

The Invisibility of Tourism in Canadian Sociology

Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri, Department of Social Sciences, Camosun College, Victoria, Canada

Overview: This paper examines the extent, causes and consequences of sociology’s neglect of tourism in the context of the growing trend of interdisciplinary practices in academia.

Room 2 Interviewing Thai Migrants in the UK Using Qualitative Methods: Merits and Pitfalls in Social Science Research

Sirima Ussawarakha, , Kasembundit University, Bangkok, Thailand

Overview: The paper discusses the merits and pitfalls of interviews—unstructured, semi-structured and focus group. The paper draws on cases from different fields to analyze the researcher’s use of method.

Using a Mixed Methods Approach in Understanding Educators’ Experience of Teaching and Learning Soft Skills at Higher Education Institutions

Wan Sofiah Meor Osman, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Australia

Overview: Mixed methods research is a relatively new approach to inquiry but its development has been contentious and has been caught up in a “paradigm war”.

'Embedded Academics' and the 'War on Terror': Race, Religion, and the Securitization of Muslim Youth

Dr. Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

Overview: This paper examines the discursive construction of Islamist youth radicalism in the west and how this process is aided by academics working with security and military regimes.

The Permissibility of Self-defence against Terrorist Organizations

Petra Perisic, International Law Chair Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Overview: The paper explores whether self-defense can be undertaken against states only or against non-state actors as well.


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10:05-12:20 WEDNESDAY PARALLEL SESSIONS

10:05-10:35 10:40-11:10 11:15-11:45 11:50-12:20

Room 3 A Dancing Prison: The Cebu Jail Experiment

Dr. Gabriel Cavaglion, Department of Criminology and School of Social Work, Ashkelon, Israel

Overview: This discusses the rehabilitation of prisoners using dance and music, media coverage of this experiment, and public involvement.

Pacific Islands Families Study: A Longitudinal Investigation of Child Depression

Prof. Janis Paterson, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Overview: This presentation is based on data from the longitudinal Pacific Islands Families Study, which has followed a cohort of Pacific families living in New Zealand over the past eleven years.

Does Success at Work Produce Well-being and Happiness or Vice Versa?

Dr. Satu Uusiautti, Rovaniemi, Professor Kaarina Määttä, Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Finland

Overview: This presentation is focused on experiences of success at work. The purpose is to contribute a new way of understanding success and well-being at work through a holistic positive experience.

Optimal Ecological Management Practices for Minimizing Impact of Climate Change and Watershed Degradation Due to Urbanization

Prof. Dr. Arup Kumar Sarma, Banasri Sarma, Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Overview: Developing hilly urban area by applying Ecological Management Practices to have maximum carbon sequestration, so that maintenance can be handled by industries interested in earning carbon credit.

Room 4 Comparative Earnings Dispersal among Migrant and Australian Workers

Dr. Brenda Scott-Ladd, Curtin Business School, Dr Naomi Segal, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Overview: This paper compares the employment outcomes of Australian-born workers and immigrants (using linguistic distance as a proxy for ethnicity) to identify differences in region of employment and earnings outcomes.

Assessment for Learning: A Case Study in Business Studies

Prof. Eldrie Gouws, Psychology of Education College of Education, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Overview: The study aims to describe by way of a case study how schools can prepare business studies learners for assessment for learning.

IT Firms Working Time (De)Regulation Model: A By-product of Risk Management Strategy and Project Management Organisation

Dr. Marie-Josée Legault, Téluq-UQAM, Montreal, Canada

Overview: Based on two case studies, practice of unlimited unpaid overtime in IT illustrate an emerging workplace regulation model stemming from combined firms’ risk management strategy and project management

Exploring Supplier Selection Approaches: A South African Small and Medium Enterprises Perspective

Prof. S. Perks, Port Elizabeth, Nadine Oosthuizen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Francine Du Plessis, Marketing Management, Witwatersrand University, South Africa

Overview: This is a study of the perceptions of 243 South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) regarding supplier selection criteria.

Room 5 The Portrayal of Males and Females in Children’s Television Commercials: A Content Analysis

Dr. Subir Sengupta, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA

Overview: Content analysis of children's television commercial showed significant stereotypical portrayal of male and female children. These portrayals can be detrimental to the overall growth of children.

Generational Transmission of Collective Memory about Tiananmen in Hong Kong: How Young Rally Participants Learn about and Understand June 4

Joseph M. Chan, Francis L.F. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Overview: Using on-site surveys and in-depth interviews, this article seeks to understand how the intergenerational transfer of the collective memory of the Tiananmen Square incident is achieved in Hong Kong.

Child Poverty in the UK: The Voices of Children

Dr. Alan Rust-Ryan, Hull University Hull, UK

Overview: This paper is based on research into child poverty in the UK, based on interviews undertaken with children and their parents or guardians.

On Male Violence: Arendt, Violence and Dark Times

Dr. Matthew Filner, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, USA

Overview: This paper explores the global crisis of male violence. The author employs Arendtian theory on violence, while seeking to overcome Arendt's limits, and offers a novel theory of male violence.


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Room 6 Comparing Operational Methods of Delivering Aid to Refugees: A Case Study on UNRWA and UNHCR

Prof. Nitza Nachmias, Department of Political Science, Towson, Baltimore, USA

Overview: This is a comparative analysis of the different operational approaches of two major international organizations that provide education, health, and welfare services to refugee populations.

Public Policy Lessons from Research: A Study of Poverty in Puerto Rico

Dr. Norma Rodriguez-Roldan, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Overview: A study of poverty in Puerto Rico disputes prevailing stereotypes about poverty and considers the lessons derived for guiding more effective policy formulation.

The Link between Inter-racial Marriages and Democracy in the USA: Miscegenation Laws and Court Decisions in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker, Department of General History/American Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israe, Tel-Avuv, Israel

Overview: By following a trail marked by three miscegenation cases, this paper will examine the relation between court rulings and racial ideologies and the impact it had on American society.

The Socio-Political Foundations of the Zionist Banking System in British Mandatory Palestine and Its Transformation in the Political Economy of Israel

Oleg Komlik, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, Israel

Overview: This paper explains the institutional evolution of the Jewish banking in British Mandatory Palestine and analyzes the extensive transformation of the financial system during the first decades after Israeli independence.

Room 7 African Americans in Urban Schools: Critical Issues and Solutions for Achievement

Dr. Chance Lewis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, Dr James Moore, College of Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ivory A. Toldson, Counseling Psychology and The Journal of Negro Education, Howard University, USA

Overview: This session will highlight the most pressing issues surrounding African American students in K–12 urban schools and highlight research-based solutions.

On the Role of Learning By Doing in Architectural Education

Dr. Eren Erdener, College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

Overview: This discusses architectural educational models and Dewey's theory of learning by doing, and the role of prototyping and testing, as an ultimate learning by doing experience.

Political Leadership under the Classic Thinkers: Lessons for Education

Dra. Mireia Tintore, Faculty of Education, Dr. Casilda Güell, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: The authors recover a few features of leadership from the perspective of some of the classic thinkers in order to draw some applied conclusions on how to educate potential leaders.

Room 8 Contract Enforcement in China: Theory and Facts

Prof. Guanghua Yu, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Overview: This article pays close attention to the relative roles of formal law and informal trade associations in enforcing business contracts.

Law, Politics, and the Contested Meaning of Supreme Court Decisions

Prof. Jeffrey Hockett, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA

Overview: As the desegregation rulings demonstrate, Supreme Court justices are not the final arbiters of constitutional meaning; rather, legal meaning is a function of the interests and actions of political actors.

Social Science Research and the Social Policy Making Process: The Case of Albania

Prof. Fatos Tarifa, Institute of Social and Policy Studies, European University, Tirana, Albania

Overview: This paper examines the role that social research and social analysis play in the policy-making process

Official Debates on the Contemporary Kurdish Question in Turkey

Nazli Sila Cesur, Department of Government, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Overview: The paper will argue the Kurdish question dicourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the European Union (EU), and the Democratic Society Party (DTP).


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Room 9 The Development of a Distance Learning Package for Community-based Researchers: A Case Study of Khunsri Community, Nonthaburi Province

Dr. Passawalee Nitikasetsoontorn, Dr. Pataraporn Yuttapornpitak, Dr. Wattanee Watanawigkit, Pattararuedee Patsophon, Sasasorod Kiatpakdikul, Open University, Thailand

Overview: This reveals how a distance learning package had been developed and employed in accordance with the needs of community leaders in rural Thailand.

An Investigation of the Perceptions of Smokers and Health Care Professionals on the Smoking Cessation Program in Saudi Arabia

Khaled Alturki, General Administration of Medical Services in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Medical Services, Manchester, UK

Overview: In Saudi Arabia smoking is increasing. According to health professionals working in the clinics does this indicate that the Tobacco Control Program (TCP) is ineffective in dealing with smoking cessation?

Room 10 Building Community Resilience from the Ground up: A Coffee Table Edition of the Human Library Project

Dr. Robin Cox, Royal Roads University, Vancouver, Canada

Overview: This describes an innovative action research project blending Photovoice and Human Library methodologies to enhance the resilience of a university community through dialogue, stories, and images.

French, African, and Indian Cultural Narratives in Martinique: The Architecture of Shifting Social Hierarchies from 1848 - 1884 (Part 2)

Dr. Mahadevi Ramakrishnan,Colgate University, Hamilton, USA

Overview: This discusses the three way dynamic between French, African, and Indian groups influencing cultural narratives and social hierarchies in Martinique.

African and French Cultural Narratives in Martinique: The Architecture of Social Dominance from 1635-1848 (Part 1)

Dr. R. Scott Smith, Psychology Department, Utica College, Utica, USA

Overview: The Caribbean island of Martinique is an exemplary case study to illustrate the exchange of cultural narratives, resulting in a renegotiation of identities over time.

The Extent and Nature of Family Violence and Females Offending in Saudi Arabia: An Investigation into the Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Offending

Maha Alluhaibi, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

Overview: Investigated the risk and protective factors which might be associated with family violence and their correlations with delinquency among juvenile females in Saudi Arabia.


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Room 11 Antigay Bias and the Role of Religion: How Gay and Lesbian Friends Make a Difference

Dr Jill Chonody, School of Psychology, Social Work, and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Magill, Australia, Dr Kenneth Scott Smith, Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Addictions, University of North Texas, Denton, USA, Dr Barbra Teater, University of Bath, Bath, UK

Overview: This study explores how the number of gay and lesbian friends moderate the relationship between antigay bias and type of religious messages received.

Dangerous Driving Behavior and the Reasons for It

Oksana Jenenkova, Social Psychology Department Faculty of Social Sciences, Riga, Dr. Aleksejs Ruza, Department of Social Psychology Faculty of Social Science, Dr. Prof. Alexey Vorobyovs, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Elena Levina, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Overview: The presented study examined the reasons for aggressive driving in different groups by conducting psychological measurement of drivers.

Ethical Dilemmas in Dangerous Qualitative Fieldwork

Dr. Paer Gustafsson, Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Overview: This paper examines ethical guidelines for social scientific research, and asks whether it is possible to act in a principled manner during dangerous qualitative fieldwork.

R we really talkin? A Study of How We Communicate and the Importance of Storytelling

David Sinfield, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Overview: This study explores how we communicate in a world of multiple technologies and how our level of communicating through this technology is changing the way we communicate.

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La Prensa Espanola y el Menor Inmigrante: Un Analisis Critico del Discurso

Lda Julia Rodriguez, Procesos Psicológicos Básicos y su Desarrollo, Facultad de Psicologia. UPV/EHU, Dra Patricia Insua, Department of Basic Psychological Processes, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain

Overview: Se presenta un análisis crítico del discurso que transmite la prensa española sobre los menores inmigrantes.

La Educación En La Prensa Escrita: Análisis De La Imagen De Los Jóvenes En La Prensa Publicada En La CAV

Prof Alazne Ayestaran Yarza, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Pr Idoia Camacho, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain

Overview: Este estudio analiza la imagen que la prensa editada en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca proyecta sobre los menores y la adolescencia en relación a los temas de educación.

Alimentacion Y Diferenciacion Social:El Caso De Una Comunidad En Mexico

Dr. Teresa Ochoa-Rivera, Health Department, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, Mexico

Overview: El propósito del estudio fue analizar, mediante el método etnográfico, los significados de los alimentos como diferenciadores sociales en un poblado rural en México.

La Influencia De Los Spots Politicos Televisivos En La Decision Electoral De Las Mujeres Jovenes Universitarias Nuevas Votantes. Mexico, Elecciones Federales.

Mtra Nuria Beatriz Pena Ahumada, Universidad Tecnológica de San Juan del Río, San Juan del Río, Mexico

Overview: La incorporación de la categoría de género al análisis del proceso de recepción de los spots políticos y la influencia que ejercen en la decisión electoral de las jóvenes universitarias.

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Room 1 The Pro-natalist Policy in Romania Reflected in the Written Media of the Time

Dr. Marinela Istrate, Geography Department, Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iasi Branch, Raluca-Ioana Horea-Serban, University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

Overview: Our article focuses on the communist pro-natalist policy emphasizing, through a quantitative methodology and a trans-disciplinary support, the role played by mass-media in the proliferation of families with more children.

Delinquent Behaviors of Migrant Adolescents in Guangzhou: Does School Matter?

Xi Chen, Department of Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,

Overview: Based on self-reported data, this study investigates the effects of institutional disadvantages, especially the differences in school type, on migrant adolescents’ delinquency in China by using a HLM model.

A Qualitative Analysis of Divorce in the United Arab Emirates: A Growing Trend

Dr. Nicole Bromfield, Department of Social Work, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Overview: This paper presentation is on a recently completed research project in which divorced Emiratis were interviewed in order to gain an understanding of this growing social problem in the UAE.

How Does Socio-economic Context Affect Well-being? Impact of Social Trust, Formal and Informal Social Capital, and Income on Subjective Well-being

Kiril Milenov, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Overview: A study of the effects of trust, participation in voluntary and charitable activities, frequency of interaction with family, children, friends and neighbors on well-being both on individual and contextual level.

Room 2 Restructuring the Collective Memory of Space: Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project

Aysenur Kucukboyaci Meram, Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: This presentation focuses on Istanbul as a city that has been transformed in both architecture and spatial memory during the heavily promoted process of becoming European Cultural Capital in 2010.

The Birth of Ambiguous Citizen and Dis/Abled Body in Thailand: From Biological Body to Political Body

Prachatip Kata, Amesterdam University, Amesterdam, Netherlands

Overview: The life-world experience of blind singers is historic construction of power and knowledge of Thai regime in each era and is also affected from international organizations’ ideas or policies

Modernity's Double Birth: A Critique of Stephen Toulmin's Cosmopolis

Prof. W. Jay Reedy, History Department, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA

Overview: An evaluation of Stephen Toulmin's Cosmopolis (1990) and its stimulating interpretation of modernity's dual source.

Speaking in Tongues: Promoting Speaking in the L2 Classroom - Content and Context

Prof. Engracia Angrill-Schuster, Modern Languages Department, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, USA

Overview: The presentation will explore how cultural contexts provide content for the foreign language classroom, propelling the L2 learner to speak.

Room 3 Motivation for Becoming a Professional Helper and the Effect on Self-other Merging in Empathy

Kim Gillbee, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: This will describe research into the relationship between motivation for becoming a psychotherapist and empathy, and theoretical and practical implications of the findings for helping professions.

The Intersection of Media and Mental Health: What Media Want and How We Can Responsibly Deliver It

Dr. Ramani Durvasula, Department of Psychology, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, William Pruitt, Discovery Communications, USA

Overview: The proliferation of media which focus on mental health requires social scientists to be able to interact with the media in a manner that balances science, connection, and clarity.


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Room 4 Students, Small Dollar Credit, and Financial Empowerment

Dr. Lynda Livingston, School of Business and Leadership, University of Puget Sound and Four Horsemen Investments, Spencer Kadas, Four Horsemen Investments, Tacoma, USA

Overview: This describes a study of students' use of short-term credit, focusing on payday loans.

Doing Business on the Go: Executives’ Self-presentation in Everyday E-mail Communication

Dr. André H. Caron, University of Montréal, Montréal, Dr. Jennie Hwang, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Dr. Letizia Caronia, University of Bologna, Italy, Dr. Boris Brummans, University de Montréal, Canada

Overview: This study examined how high-ranking professionals do business by presenting themselves in everyday work life through specific e-mail writing practices on their smartphone and office computer.

The Future of Exchange Rate Regimes: Can Bretton Woods be Revived?

Dr. H. Dilara Mumcu Akan, Department of Economics Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: I will try to explain why there is no way back to Bretton Woods, or any system based on a single world anchor currency, with specific examples from Europe.

The Influence of Social Media on Business Model Transformation: Interactive Tools That Change Business Model Dynamics

Silvia Rodriguez-Donaire, Management, Technical University of Catalona, BarcelonaTECH - UPC, Terrassa, Spain

Overview: This research aims to assess the transformation generated social media implementation in micro-retailer's business models.

Room 5 Using Human Rights-based Approaches to Support the Engagement and Empowerment of Young People

Prof Ann Taket, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

Overview: Using ongoing research and a critical interrogation of past research, this paper explores the value of human rights-based approaches in supporting the engagement and empowerment of young people.

An Interdisciplinary Community Partnership to Improve Health: Project CEASE and Exist

Fernando Wagner, Baltimore, Dr. Payam Sheikhattari, Morgan State University, USA

Overview: Project CEASE and Exist is an interdisciplinary project aimed to improve both tobacco prevention and cessation outcomes among innercity residents with high rates of poverty and adult tobacco smoking.

Thought Reform and Female Domestic Workers in China

Dr. Haixin Jiang, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Overview: The paper explores how intellectual's thought reform in Mao's time relates to the rise of female domestic workers' social status in China.

Observations of the Use of Positive Education Techniques in a Tertiary Music Unit of Study

Greg Aronson, School of Communications and the Arts Faculty of Arts, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: This paper examines the use of three positive education tools in a tertiary music unit of study.

Room 6 The Obvious Aspects of Voting: Ritual Communication and the Ballot Box

Dr. Mark Brewin, Faculty of Communication, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA

Overview: The paper presents a theory that attempts to resolve the so-called "paradox of voting".

Modernization of the Russian Economy and Society

Dr. Fyodor I. Kushnirsky, Temple University, USA

Overview: We outline attempts at modernization of the Russian economy and society in the 20th century and analyze major projects undertaken currently by the government.

Revolving Doors, Capture, and the Normative Structure of Regulation

Matthew Titolo, College of Law, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

Overview: This examines the role of "public good" in new governance.

Stream: Politics, Public Policy and Law

The Increasing Role of Non-governmental Organisations in Turkish Immigration Policies

Deniz Eroglu, University of Essex, Essex, UK

Overview: I examine the increasing role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) by relying on interview data I collected during meetings with the main NGOs dealing with immigration topic in Turkey.


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Room 7 Higher Education and Development: Students from Angola in Portuguese Higher Degree Education

Dra Margarida Faria, Global Development Programme Department of Human Sciences, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal

Overview: The paper presents a project on students from Angola pursuing their university degrees in Portugal. Individual and family trajectories will be analysed as inscribed in the post-colonial Angola.

Project COPEA Model Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative Targeting Urban Minority Youth in the Northeastern United States

Dr. Robert Reid, Dr, Pauline Garcia-Reid, Montclair State University, USA

Overview: Project C.O.P.E. is a U.S. federally funded initiative that has developed and coordinated comprehensive substance abuse and HIV prevention services targeting at-risk urban minority youth in the northeastern US.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Social Work: A Cross-county Comparison in North America, Europe and Asia

Dr. Terry Mizrahi, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, USA, Dr. Yossi Korazim-Korosy, College of Management, Israel, Dr. Péter Török, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Dr. Shinichi Murota, Osaka University, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan, Martha L. Garcia, City University of New York, Dr. Marcia Bayne-Smith, Urban Studies, Queens College of the City University of New York, USA

Overview: This workshop uses a survey of social work deans and directors in several countries. It provides a forum for improving the status of interdisciplinary collaboration in the university and community.

Room 8 Unlearning and Relearning from Medical Education Research: Teacher Education Research in the Pursuit of Teacher Professionalism

Dr. Ted Purinton, American University, Egypt

Overview: This analyzes intents, research methods, and funding mechanisms in medical education research that have provided physician students with the skills and knowledge to ensure professional status of the medical field.

Articulating Bourdieu and Bakhtin in a Sociology of Voice

Dr. John Myles, University of East London, London, UK

Overview: This paper examines the relationship between Bourdieu and Bakhtin's ideas on language in order to examine the social evaluation of voice in the context of everyday life and media.

Interventions in the Art Therapy Encounter: A Multi-perspective Exploration of the Art Therapy Experience with Young People

Jo Kelly, Southern Cross University, Yamba, Australia

Overview: This is a qualitative, post-positivist, multi-perspective and participatory PhD investigation using naturalistic inquiry with an ethnographic focus.

Room 9 The Myths that Maintain Us

Prof. David Macarov, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Overview: An examination of seven myths underlying many societal theories, activities and institutions.

Learning for Resilience and Action: Ideas from a Welsh Perspective

Shan Ashton, School of Lifelong Learning, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

Overview: This explores approaches to education and understandings of community that can lead to more effective learning for change and resilience in communities.

From Obama to the Arab Spring: US-Middle East Cultural Encounters in the Season of Change

Eid Mohamed, State University of New York in Binghamton, NY, USA

Overview: This project fills a niche because it is the first attempt to understand the relationship between the Obama era in the U.S.and the social/political change movements in the Arab world.

Spreading the Difference: Preservice Teachers as Ambassadors of Change

Coral Cara, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development School of Education, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: This practice-based paper examines improving educational practice through preservice teacher role modeling of effective pedagogy.


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Room 10 The University of Western Australia 3D Art Challenges: Virtual Promotion of an Art Community

Merle Hearns, Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, Jegatheva (Jay Jay) Jegathesan, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Overview: A survey of the University of Western Australia 3D Art Challenges in Second Life (a virtual world) examined the demographics of participants and skill development in a community of practice.

Empirical Verification of the Symbolic Function of Law: A Multilevel Analysis

Yong Ryung Lee, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan

Overview: This study clarifies that humans create social differentiation by using symbols, and it empirically verifies the symbolic effects that the power of new symbols allows humans to transcend social boundaries.

Ethics as a Social Science

Dr. Richard Garrett, Department of Philosophy, Bentley University, Waltham, USA

Overview: The paper argues that, since there are moral statements that can pass a certain, clearly specified test for knowledge claims, a science of ethics is possible.

Room 11 Science as a Metanarrative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go: The Plight of the Human / Reader before the Clone / Narrator

Yasemin Yilmaz, Western Languages and Literatures, İstanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: This provides a critical reading of Never Let Me Go with respect to the notions of mortality, science, and the similarity between the life of clones and that of humans.

The Impact of Globalisation on the Culture of Indian Youth: Comparative Study between Rural and Urban Youth

Simona Sarma, Miranda House College, Delhi University, Guwahati, India

Overview: This paper presents a comparative study on the impact of globalization among the rural and urban youths of India and focuses on various cultural parameters.

The Deplorable Conditions of the Tea Tribes in the State of Assam

Bhaswati Choudhury, Sociology Department Miranda House, Delhi University, New Delhi, India

Overview: In this paper I have tried to focus on the deplorable condition of the tea tribes of Assam since the colonial period on the basis of archives and observation.

Exploring the Life and Work of Female Domestic Workers in Pakistan

Zahra Sheriff, Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Overview: My field research report explores the personal lives and working lifestyles of female domestic workers in Pakistan.

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Escribir En Una Aldea Reticular: Intervención De Los Formatos En Los Contenidos

Gladys Carrasquel, Departamento de Comunicación., Universitat Abat Oliba, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: El lenguaje actual se ve influenciado por las nuevas maneras de comunicación digital, cuyos formatos forman parte activa del discurso. En medio, el dispositivo se hace imprescindible.

Implicaciones De La Exposicion A Violencia Domestica En Ninos/As (6-12 Anos): Estudio De Casos

Maria McCormack Padial, Jorge Lopez_Martinez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

Overview: Esta investigación comprende tres estudios de casos sobre seis menores (6-12 años) afectados/as por exposición directa a distintos tipos de violencia doméstica en sus hogares.

La Interactividad En Medios Sociales: Un Estudio De Caso

Dr Joan Francesc Fondevila, Dra. Ana Beriain, Comunicación, Universidad Abat Oliba CEU (UAO), Barcelona, Spain

Overview: Predisposición a la agregación de amistades en las redes sociales

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Room 1 Publishing Your Paper or Book with Common Ground Publishing

Stephanie Turza, Commissioning Editor, Common Ground Publishing, USA

Overview: In this session the Commissioning Editor of the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and the Social Sciences Book Series will present an overview of Common Ground’s publishing practices and philosophy. He will also offer tips for turning conference papers into journal articles, present an overview of journal publishing procedures and provide information on Common Ground’s book proposal submission process. Please feel free to bring questions – the second half of the session will be devoted to Q&A.

Understanding the Role of Hofstede’s Factors of Culture in Business Communications

Dr. Arthur Shriberg, Xavier University, Ohio, USA

Overview: This article discusses how a small business can utilize well documented inclusion models to build effective multicultural relationships and maximize the likelihood that cultural differences can provide a business advantage.

Growth, Natural Resources, and Institutions: A Cross-Country Study

Dr. Saeed Moshiri, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada

Overview: In this paper, we examine the natural curse hypothesis using a large sample of countries for the period 1990-2010.

Room 2 The Academic Trajectory of Octavio Ianni on Racial Relations

Rafael Tauil, Social Science Department, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

Overview: We hope to present a part of Octavio Ianni's trajectory about the Brazilian racial question. Ianni wrote important works about this thematic and we would like to introduce the subject.

Patterns of Community Resilience in the US Great Recession: Responses by Local Organizations in Chicago's New Communities Program

Dr. David Greenberg, New York, NY, USA Overview: This paper describes different responses taken by Chicago neighborhood organizations to the Great Recession, and what facilitated a more mobilized community approach.

The Effects of Cyber-bullying on the Mental Health of Young People Steven Walker, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex, UK Overview: This discusses evidence from a study which identified cyber-bullying as affecting the mental health of young people.

Room 3 The American Dream: An Indian Version

Dr. Sudata DebChaudhury, San Diego Mesa College, California, USA Overview: The paper studies Indians who came to the United States between the 1960's and now to pursue academic or professional goals, adopted permanent residency, and re-defined the American Dream.

Netizenship and Cultural Identity Challenges

Seyed Roohollah Hassani, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Sachsen Anhalt, Germany

Overview: This paper discusses in detail the cultural aspects of netizenship and challenges of network citizens with an attempt to look forward to future developments.

Matching Peers and Teacher Standards: Expectations and Standards of First-Year Group Project

Dr. Paula Hodgson, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Theresa L.K. Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Overview: First-year students need to know about the standards and expectations in university study. Peer review may provide a good opportunity to develop critical evaluative skills and receive valuable


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Room 4 Developing EFL/EFL Teachers’ Cross-cultural Communicative Competence: A Research-based Critical Pedagogical Model

Dr. Abdelilah Sehlaoui, Emporia State University, Kansas, USA

Overview: This workshop aims at developing a critical pedagogical crosscultural communicative competence in educators by engaging participants in classroom-tested activities based on findings and insights gained from research years of experience.

Reward Distribution Judgments by Romanian Students: A Factorial Survey Approach

Dr. Carmen Buzea, Transylvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania

Overview: A factorial survey approach was employed to identify the social components of reward allocation normative judgments. The resulted allocation pattern is characterized by an equality-equity dyad.

Room 5 Asymmetry of Information between Employers and High School Graduates in the Labour Market in the Czech Republic

Dr. Zuzana Dohnalova, Tomas Bata University in Zlín Zlín, Czech Republic, Czech Republic

Overview: Asymmetry of information, when a potential employer does not have access to information about attitude of a graduate to work, can be a source of failures in the labor market.

Room 6 Cargomobilities: Additive Manufacturing and Freight Miles

Dr. Thomas Birtchnell, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Overview: This paper surveys different futures in the making and movement of material objects and focuses on the impact of 3D printing on the container and the global cargomobility system.

The Socio-Economic Trasformation of Suburbs in a Central European Metropolitan Area: Arrival of the Affluential Strata and Polycentric Urban Development in Budapest Suburbs

Dr. Janos B. Kocsis, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Overview: Flock of affluential people together with the arrival of economic activities profoundly transform the characterisitics of once tranquil and lower class suburbs of Budapest, creating tensions and opportunities.

Bastards Are Beautiful: The Formation of American Adult Adoptee Community through the Life and Work of Jean M. Paton

Michal Ostrovsky, Department of General History, Bar Ilan University, Pardesia, Israel

Overview: This discusses the formation of an American adult adoptees' community, struggling for civlian equality and openness in adoption as viewed in the work and writings of Jean Paton.

Room 7 Battling the Stigma: Marty Mann and the Madicalization of Alcoholism, 1944-1980 Dr. Pnina Levi, Bar-llan University, Kfar Saba, Israel Overview: This presentation aims at demonstrating how Margaret (Marty) Mann used medicalization in order to change popular and institutional attitudes toward alcoholism in the United States.


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Room 8 The Process of Evaluation in Higher Education: An Epistemological View of Quality of Education in Mexico

Prof. Cesar Correa Arias, University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Overview: An hermeneutic/ phenomenological analysis of education focused in the capacities of individuals in the perspective of learning and in the perspective of just institutions.

The Development of a Cultural Competency Survey for Preservice Teachers in Their First Two Years of College

Jeannette Jones, Northwest Vista College, Texas, USA

Overview: This presentation defines cultural competency and provides preliminary results for the development of a cultural competency survey for preservice teachers in a two-year college system in the United States.

The Experience of Parenting in Sibling Adoption

Janet Kay, Education, Childhood and Inclusion, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Overview: This paper explores the experiences of sibling adopters, focusing on their preparation and support needs to adapt to their parenting role with reference to attachment and "becoming a family".

Room 9 How Much Do I Save If I Use My Health Insurance Care When Seeking Outpatient Care? Evidence from a Low-income Country

Dr. Ardeshir Sepehri, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada

Overview: Assessing the influence of Vietnam’s three health insurance schemes on out-of-pocket expenditures with and without controlling for the actual use of the health insurance card when seeking outpatient care

The Social Nature of Leisure Experience: Hiking as a Leisure Actıvıty of Woman

Muge Akyildiz, Anadolu University, Merkez, Turkey

Overview: This study explores social nature of leisure experience of women participating in hiking activities. Three themes emerged from this study using interviews with women: socialization, discovery of nature, and relaxing.

Room 10 Understanding Adoption of Decentralised Systems: Protection Motivation Theory and Adoption

Dr. Sorada Tapsuwan, CSIRO, Floreat, WA, Australia

Overview: Examining the role of protection motivation theory on alternative water supply adoption practices.

Research Capacity Development: Challenges Faced by Researchers at Walter Sisulu University

Mr Nkosinathi Owen Sotshangane, Walter Sisulu University Mthatha, South Africa

Overview: This paper reports a recent quantitative research study at Walter Sisulu University to examine the factors that demonstrate the need for the improvement in knowledge, skills and research capacity development.

Room 11 Media Professionals’ Dilemma within the Context of the Political Economy of the Media: The Case of Television News Professionals

Prof. Dr. Izlem Vural, Anadolu University Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: This study examines the existing functioning of the media directly on media professionals and the perceptions of those professionals regarding the state of corporate media at the present time.

Customer Attitudes toward Internet Advertising

Dr. Ozlem Atalık, Anadolu University Eskisehir, Turkey

Overview: This research aims to provide information concerning attitudes towards use of the Internet and Internet advertising.


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Las Ciencias Sociales Ante Los Desastres Teluricos

Prof. Carlos Eduardo Maldonado, Facultad de Administración, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Overview: Las ciencias sociales pueden y deben reaccionar ante la complejidad que significan constantes y crecientes terremotos alrededor del mundo.

Horror Sin Nombre: Impacto De La Entrada Paramilitar En Territorio Wayuuu

Maria Ochoa Sierra, Instituto de Estudios Regionales INER, Universidad de Antioquia, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia

Overview: Mi interés en este trabajo fue explorar los cambios que experimentaron los indígenas wayúu con la entrada de los paramilitares en la Guajira.

Calidad de Vida y Desigualdades Sociales: Una aproximacion socio - espacial

Karina Gatica Chandia, Escuela de Trabajo Social. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Educacion, Universidad del Pacifico. Chile, Bilbao, Spain

Overview: El desarrollo material no opera como causa- efecto en la percepción de la calidad de vida de las personas y su sentimiento de satisfacción, instalándose muchas veces como una paradoja.

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Thursday, 28 June 8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION DESK OPEN

9:00-9:30 PLENARY SESSION - Monica Edwards, Spanish National Research Council, Valencia, Spain – “Quo Vadis Educ-Action? On Purposes and Barriers for Achieving Social Innovation and Sustainability”



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Room 1 An Experimental Test of Durkheim's Theory of Social Solidarity

Yue Liu, The Department of Sociology, Hong Kong, Lin Tao, Sociology, Winton Wing Tung AU, Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Overview: This is a laboratory experimental test of Emile Durkheim's theory of mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity.

Visions of Europe at the Eastern and Western Border of European Union: A Comparison between Romanian and Portuguese Students

Dr Oana Mihaela Stoleriu, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi, Prof Octavian Groza, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, IASI, Romania, Prof Eduarda Marques da Costa, Portugal Alameda da Universidade, Dr Ana Rita Pedro, Alameda da Universidade, LISBON, Portugal

Overview: The paper analyzes the representation of Europe from the perspective of undergraduate students from the eastern and western peripheries of Europe: Romania and Portugal.

Place, Placelessness, and Conceptions of the Built Environment: Human Experience and Contemporary Architectural Discourse

Prof. Lynne M. Dearborn, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Champaign, USA

Overview: The current ideological divide between environments conceived through digital scripting and those conceived through an emphasis on social and/or ecological relevance are analyzed using a phenomenological framework of place.

Generating Incomes and Conflicts: Profitability and Social Cohesion in the Cotton Sector in Benin

Guirguissou Maboudou Alidou, Wageningen, Dr. Hester Moerbeek, Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Overview: This is about cotton production in Benin and its effects on people and communities.

Room 2 Memory, History and Forgetting: Narrating History in Carmen Boullosa’s Novels

Dr. Iliana Underwood-Holbrook, California State University, USA

Overview: Boullosa's historical novels express dissatisfaction with existing historical representations and with the institutions that have perpetuated them; her work is an attempt to encourage new viewpoints and a plural history.

Voodoo, Tragedy, Desire: Haiti's Earthquake and Spivak's Axiomatics of Imperialism

Dr. Mary Caputi, Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, USA

Overview: This essay examines the current tragedy in Haiti as a means of demonstrating what Gayatri Spivak terms "the axiomatics of imperialism".

Refutation of the Enlightenment Concept of the Self in Morrison’s Sula

Dr. Sima Farshid, English Department Faculty of Literature, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Overview: Morrison’s Sula defies any possibilities of regarding the “self” as offered by the Enlightenment thinkers, seeing as its protagonist is a torn, irrational, unpredictable figure.

A Theory of Social Ontology: Explaining the Emergence of Society, Culture, and Economy

Dr. Thomas Brian Whalen, Social Sciences Division, McPherson College, McPherson, USA

Overview: This is a transdisciplinary theory explaining social, cultural, and economic ontology. The primary ontological factors are transaction, negotiation, and emergence.


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Room 3 Going beyond Multiculturalism: A Multileveled Dimensional Collaboration of Team in the Third Space

Erina Ata, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Malin Quintern, Social Sciences, Waiariki Institute for Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand

Overview: This presentation provides a theoretical and practical approach to the development of how to create a Third Space.

Interviewing Practices and the Interpretation of Children’s Statements: A Linguistic Perspective

Marie Sanford, Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA

Overview: The communicative competence of children is an often overlooked determinant of credibility. This presentation offers a linguistic perspective for professionals involved in investigative child interviewing practices.

Culture, and Coping: Anglo-Austalian and Greek-Australian Parents of Children with a Disability

Helen Kothrakis, Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: The current study explored the relationships between mother/father coping resources and coping strategies in a sample of Anglo-Australian and Greek-Australian parents with a child with a disability.

Room 4 Inquiry-based Learning for Active Citizenship: Tensions and Futures in Humanities Education in Singapore

Seng Lee Lee, Dunman High School, Singapore

Overview: This paper studies the tension between participatory inquiry-based learning on secondary school students' understanding of active citizenship and the desired competencies and values embedded in a prescriptive national curriculum.

Roots of Terrorism: Confronting the Challenge

Muqarrab Akbar, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Overview: The paper will explore the root causes of terrorism such as poverty, unemployment, economic conditions, and political institutions. The study will help in making counter terrorism measures and strategies.

Discoursing Discursive Psychology

Dr. James Moir, School of Social & Health Sciences Division of Sociology, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, UK

Overview: This paper considers recent debates in the study of discursive psychology concerning the status of speech acts versus performative actions.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Marriage and Relationship Education Program

Dr. Mary S. O’Halloran, Department of Counseling Psychology, Dr. Sonja Rizzolo, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, USA

Overview: This paper presents the quantitative and qualitative findings from a Marriage and Relationship Education program conducted for low-income couples in the United States aimed to increase marital satisfaction.

Room 5 Ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and Face the Strange): First-Year Seminar as Interdisciplinary Academic Inquiry

Prof. Teresa Stores, Dana Eckstein, University of Hartford, West Hartford, USA

Overview: Description (with documentary footage) of a freshman seminar designed to examine the significant life transition of moving residence through video-taped interviews of first-year residents of a senior "life-care" community.

Towards a Cognitive Model of Distortion in Concept Mapping: A Case Study

Prof. Julien Mercier, Department of Special Education, University of Quebec, Montreal, Prof. Patrick Charland, Prof. Patrice Potvin, Prof. Martin Riopel, Canada

Overview: This case study investigates how concept mapping task constraints determine aspects of the content of concept maps through a cognitive model of concept mapping.

Homeless Jewish Babies in the Age of Immigration: Asylum Care and Adoption in New York’s Progressive-Era Jewish Community

Dr. Dianne Creagh, History, Penn State York, York, USA

Overview: Examines Progressive-Era solutions for homeless Jewish infants in New York City. The debate over institutions versus family homes reveals anxieties over Jewish assimilation and the proper development of displaced children.

The Energy Geopolitics of the Greater Caspian Region: A Positive-Sum Game?

Dr. Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu, International Relations and the EU Department, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey

Overview: This paper defines the energy geopolitics of the Greater Caspian region and the role of external actors in the aftermath of the Soviet Union.


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Room 6 Country Brand Management for Existing and Emerging Global Powers

John Pantzalis, School of Business, Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, USA

Overview: The article explores how the competition for power and influence among several countries in the 21st century will rely on managing their "soft" power, i.e. country brand image.

Power Politics and the Study of International Relations

Donald Shena, Department of History and International Relations, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

Overview: The paper focuses on the power particularistic approach to international relations by studying IR as a composite of all three realms: economic, normative and coercive

Room 7 Babysitter or Professional? Early Childhood Educators Construct Their Own Identity

Dr. Debra Harwood, Brock University, St. Catharines, Dr. Mary-Louise Vanderlee, Stephanie Tukonic, Canada

Overview: Professionalism in the early child care field is somewhat paradoxical, as caring and education are often presented as juxtaposing constructs.

The Marine Corps Language Learning Approach: A Strategy for Effectively Teaching Foreign Languages to Military Personnel

Abdelhamid Lellou, Center for Advanced Operational and Cultural Learning, CENTCOM and AFRICOM, Quantico, USA

Overview: This workshop demonstrates a tested, effective approach, that enables military language learning to go beyond survival and familiarization levels, by incorporating military culture into the strategy.

Experiencing the Musikhane Community Project: A Vehicle to Spiritual and Social Enhancement

Dirkie Nell, School of Music, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Overview: The impact of a music education programme on the spiritual and social well-being of children from an African background, presented by the North-West University of South Africa.

Room 8 Humanistic and Civic Education through Mathematics

Prof. Raimonda Dervishi, Department of Mathematics, Politechnical University, Tirana, Albania

Overview: This paper examines the educational values of mathematical knowledge as a means to achieve humanistic educational goals.

Happiness, Human Development, and Political Stability in Latin America

Dr. Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA

Overview: This study determines the associations among perceived happiness, human development, and corruption in Latin America. Control variables such as labor freedom and the status of women are accounted for.

Knowledge Transfer Determinants and Effects in the Field of Social Science

Dr. François Chagnon, University of Quebec at Montreal, Mathieu-Joel Gervais, Université du Québec a Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Overview: This research examines knowledge transfer strategies used by research teams and organizations in social science. These strategies are compared to those used in the medical field.


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Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Presidential Illness: New Considerations

Dr. Robert Gilbert, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Overview: Reagan suffered a bullet wound in 1981 and cancer surgery in 1985. Both were serious health crises and each had a significant imact on Reagan's presidency.

Subjectivity on the move: Objectivity and subjectivity in Lacanian psychoanalysis

Jonas Hill, Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Brisbane, Australia

Overview: The interplay between subjectivity and objectivity cannot be stably implemented until we grasp its repetition in the interplay between the unconscious and conscious.

Rising Food Prices: A New Security Threat?

Argiro Vasilaki, Phd Candidate, University of Aegean, Rhodes, Greece

Overview: This research aims to prove that food insecurity if combined with economic, social, political and environmental factors can pose a threat or a threat multiplier to global stability and security.

Room 10 Training Courage in the United States Marine Corps

Dr. Frank Tortorello, Jr., Translational Research Group United States Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning, Professional Solutions, LLC, Quantico, USA

Overview: In this presentation I use examples from participant observation of U.S. Marine Corps hand-to-hand combat training to illustrate how courage is trained.

Researching Affective Valences and Moral Judgment: An Evaluative Study of Cognitive Conflict in Groups and Cultures

Dr. Denise Elizabeth Faifua, School of Business, University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra, Australia

Overview: This paper presents the research design for a study contrasting affective valences with moral judgment.

History of Family Violence and the Prevention of Homelessness in an Adolescent Population from a Youth Protection Program

Prof. Mario Poirier, Social Sciences, Teluq (University of Quebec), Montreal, Canada

Overview: History of family violence and prevention of homelessness. Qualitative exploratory study with twenty adolescent from a youth protection center.

Adolescents’ Self-Concept and Social Status in School Class

Elena Levina, University of Latvia, Dr. Natalija Ivanova, Oksana Jenenkova, Daugavpils University, Riga, Latvia

Overview: The purpose of this research was to investigate the relations between multidimensional self-concept of adolescents and different dimensions of social status in school class.

Room 11 Ethics as Social Science?

Dr. William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA

Overview: We usually thnk of ethics as part of philosophy and as part of the humanities. This presentation explores the idea that ethics might be better understood as a social science.

Interdisciplinarity in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Closer Look at How Various Disciplines Helped Shape This Field

Chantal Mayer-Crittenden, Laurentian University, Roxanne Bélanger, Laurentian University - Université Laurentienne, Manon Robillard, Prof. Michele Minor-Corriveau, Speech and Language Pathology Programs Department of French Studies, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada, Nicole Keating, Laurentian University, Sudbury

Overview: Communication sciences and disorders bring together many theoretical frameworks surrounding communication and cognition. Inherent clinical implications of this vast knowledge and practical efficacy will be discussed.


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Paradigma 00. Dispositivos Electronicos E Imagenes Artificio

Dr Seber Ugarte Calleja, Ciencias de la Comunicación, Univertat Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain

Overview: Lo fotográfico, en las últimas décadas, junto con la imagen audiovisual y el social media han impregnado transversalmente nuestra percepción convirtiéndonos en seres visuales.

La Doble Titulación En La Universidad: Estudio De Caso En España

Dra. Ana Beriain, Dr Joan Francesc Fondevila, Comunicación, Universidad Abat Oliba CEU (UAO), Barcelona, Spain

Overview: Predisposición a cursar un doble grado.

Investigacion-Accion: Formación De Formadores En Habilidades De Comunicación Para Matronas De Hospitales Públicos En El Gran Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Dra Patricia Insua, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain, Lda. Vazquez Mariana, Lda Salazar Virginia, Area de Epidemiología y Prevención, Med. Rojo Marina, Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Overview: Investigación previa demostró las necesidades formativas de las matronas de los Hospitales públicos del conurbano bonaerense, para potenciar los controles de VIH y sífilis en las mujeres que atienden.

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Room 1 The Effects of Labor Market Trends in Romania on the Sustainability of the Public Pension System

Ciprian Panzaru, The Department of Sociology, The West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

Overview: The paper is focused on labor market dynamics in Romania and its effect on the sustainability of the public pension system.

Environmental Initiatives in the Kaz Mountains Region

Emre Sakar, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Overview: Local environmental initiatives in the Kaz Mountains region are discussed from a sociological perspective. These initiatives are approached as offering alternative ways for environmental protection, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental politics.

Citizen Scenarios for the Future of Personalized Medicine: A Participatory Scenario Process in Germany

Cornelia R. Karger, Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM-8), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

Overview: This article describes the development and implementation of a citizen scenario workshop. The results show that the scenario method offers a social learning opportunity appreciated by nonprofessionals and experts alike.

Room 2 Public Shaming in American Legal and Popular Culture

Dr. Myra Mendible, Language and Literature Department, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, USA

Overview: This essay examines shame and humiliation as media commodities, theorizes their role in social dramas, and evaluates shaming spectacles in US pop culture.

A Critical Review of a Community Arts Project against Principles of Social Inclusion

Leanne Schubert, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

Overview: This paper critically reviews a community (public) arts project against key principles of social inclusion.

A Study of Social and Cultural Capital, Funds of Knowledge and Acculturation Paths

Maria Telles, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Overview: This study analyzed funds of knowledge, acculturation paths, social and cultural capital of three immigrant women from Mexico to the US


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Room 3 Hardiness and Its Role in Coping Behaviour in a Conflict Situation

Dr. Milana Hachaturova, Department of Psychology Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Overview: This paper is devoted to the problem of coping behaviour in conflict interactions. The role of hardiness in this process is considered.

Isomorphism in the Privatization and Globalization of Iranian Higher Education: Higher Education

Dr. Farough Amin Mozaffari, Islamic Azad University of Tabriz Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran, Rezgar Salehi, University of Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Overview: The central question in the present paper is the rate of private sector contribution towards widening access to higher education in Iran.

Evaluating the Psychological Risk and Abilities of Adolescents in Confronting Injustices

Dr. Jeffrey Perrin, Psychology and Applied Therapies Division, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA

Overview: This paper addresses participants’ perception of psychological risk for adolescents intervening in conflict situations. Applied implications related to adolescents’ role in confronting local and global injustices will be discussed.

Room 4 I Am a Woman Because You Make Me a Woman and I Am a Man Because You Construct Me as a Man: A Study of Discourses in Selected Malaysian Magazines

Azwan Azmawati Azman, Journalism Section School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Malaysia

Overview: This paper examines discourses in a few selected Malaysian magazines.

Innovation in Adhocracy: Facing the Paradox of Functional Diversity and Strategic Consensus

Secil Bayraktar, Department of Management, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Overview: The dual effect of functional diversity on innovation through the moderation of strategic consensus is proposed as a conceptual model in view of the conflict resolution styles.

Reports from Patients with Advanced Cancer and Their Caregivers of Their Health-related Quality of Life: Implications for Survival and Community Care

Charlotte Bradley-Peni, University of Newcastle, Flinders University, Dr Catherine Burns, Newcastle University, Flinders University, Newcastle, Australia

Overview: Exploration of matched data of the health status of patients with advanced cancer and their family caregiver to evaluate the interaction of physical and mental functioning reports on patient survival

Room 5 Investigation into Business Graduates’ Communication Skills in the UAE

Susan Mikecz Munday, College of Arts and Sciences Department of Writing Studies, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Overview: This paper explores the issues that result from the Anglo-Americanization of teaching business communication in universities in the UAE.

Satellites: Panacea or Poison for Education in Less Developed Countries?

Prof. Richard Knecht, Department of Communication, University of Toledo, Toledo, USA

Overview: This paper will attempt to evaluate the potential of satellites used for educational purposes in less developed countries between 1958 - 1970.

East Asian Dramas and Contemporary Malaysian TV: Impacts, Influences and Implications

Lay Kim Wang, Journalism Department School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Overview: This paper has three parts. Part one describes development of television in Malaysia, outlining policies and structures. Part two analyzes the evolution of import policies. Part three analyzes imported dramas.


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Room 6 The Legitimacy of Public Policy in Guiding Urban Development in Market Economies: Why Do Urban Development Outcomes Differ from Strategic Objectives in Melbourne, Australia?

Matthew Ford, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: In contemporary Western cities, governance networks seem to have supplanted representative government in determining how our cities are managed. What impact does this have on citizen choices and sustainability?

The Mandating Process for Ngāpuhi’s Settlement of Claims with the Crown

Hōne Sadler, Māori Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Overview: Seeking mandate from Ngāpuhi Iwi in regard to its settlement of claims with the crown, a costly and long process fraught with many obstacles, has been given to Tūhoronuku.

Where Theory Meets Policy: Tracing the Development of Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy in New Zealand

Rebecca Bollard, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Overview: This paper outlines different theoretical perspectives on the use of assisted reproductive technology in humans, then looks at how these theories have influenced policy development and design in New Zealand.

Room 7 The Browne Report: A Critique of Higher Education Policy and Practices around Widening Participation into Higher Education in the United Kingdom

Dr. Peter Stone, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Michele Westhead, Kings College London, UK

Overview: This paper critiques the Browne Report, which recommends financing British higher education through market-driven policies constrained by directives encouraging diversity.

Invisible Voices: Socio-political Influences on Poor Relief 1523-1536

Stephen Gravel, Institute for Northern Ontario Research and Development, Dr. Anne-Marie Mawhiney, School of Social Work, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada

Overview: In this paper the authors trace the process that led to the enactment of legislation on poor relief in the time of Henry VIII.

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Social Practice: Masters of Social Practice at Unitec, New Zealand

Dr. Ksenija Napan, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences Department of Social Practice, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand

Overview: This explores the notion of transdisciplinarity that underpins the existence of the Masters of Social Practice programme, as well as teaching and learning methods that this approach requires.

Room 8 How Does Internet Influence Oral History Methodology?

Tania Abrão Rangel, Law School, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Overview: This study analyzed the role Internet plays in oral history methodology. It demonstrates, by comparing two researches, what Internet influences are and how they affect the data collection process.

Western Psychotherapy and Islamic Spirit: The Implications of Multiculturalism

Khorshid Padashi Asl, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran, Saina Amin Mozaffari, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Overview: We hope this paper provides you with insights and alternative ways of thinking about mental health and psychological distress across cultures.

Testing the Adaptability and Flexibility of Different Urban Forms: A Comparison of Transport Infrastructure and Services in Grid and Non-grid Planning Systems

Ann Maudsley, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Overview: This study explores the continuation and adaptation of gridded urban forms in relation to the retrofitting of infrastructure particularly transport services, private and public and motorized and non-motorized.

Room 9 Enhancing Tourists Involvement with Tourism Products: The Influence of Motivation

Claudia Patricia Seabra, Management Department Higher School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

Overview: This study tries to relate two important concepts in tourism consumer behavior, involvement and motivation. The results prove that relationship.

On Gendered Conceptions of Human Rights and Culturally Diverse Feminism

Dr Snjezana Bilic, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Overview: This paper discusses feminist perspectives on women’s human rights. It promotes multicultural feminism as discourse that positions women at the center whilst moving beyond essentialist categorizations of women’s issues.


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Room 10 The Problem of Malnutrition in Older People from an Ethical Point of View

Dott. Loris Bonetti, Dott. Annamaria Bagnasco, Genova, Dott. Anna Siri, Sasso Loredana, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Overview: The aim of this study is to analyze the problem of malnutrition in older people from an ethical point of view.

Mexican-American Perceptions of the External Causes of Mental Distress

Dr. Iran Barrera, The University of Texas- Pan American, Dr. Celia Schulz, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Stephanie Anita Rodriguez, Petersberg Mental Health Services, Petersburg, Crystal J. Gonzalez, Celia A. Acosta, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, USA

Overview: This study reports a subset of data obtained from interviews with Mexican-Americans about the causes of mental distress. Interdisciplinary interventions with this population will be discussed.

Understanding Sun Safety Awareness and Practices among Twelve Canadian University Women

Kainat Bashir, School of Human Kinetics Faculty of Health Sciences, Dr. Eileen O’Connor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Overview: This paper will explore the knowledge and perceptions of Canadian women through a scan of the dominant messages on sun safety and an analysis of what they know about it.

Room 11 The Prophetic Celebrity Communication of Dissent

Mary Margaret Hambrick, School of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA

Overview: My premise is that anyone attempting to persuade a visual media culture about social justice, must successfully embody a hybrid construct of a celebrity persona balanced with a prophetic persona.

Under the Shadow of Deviance: Positionality, Subjectivity, and Masculinity of the Male Feminist Ethnographer in a Patriarchal Field Setting

Dr. Chan Ching Mario Liong, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Overview: The paper discusses issues of positionality and subjectivity of non-hegemonic masculine embodiment in conducting feminist ethnography in a male-dominated field site. The relevant benefits, obstacles, and dangers will be discussed.

Women and Retirement Pensions: Judgments, Beliefs and Choices

Dr. Federica Cornali, Department of Social Science, University of Turin, Turin, Dr. Barbara Saracino, Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of Florence, Italy

Overview: This study examines some factors that cause gender differences in pensions. Particular attention will be focused on the analysis of preferences and beliefs that guide the choices of working women.

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Representar E Intervenir (O La Economia Al Alcance De Humanistas)

Manuel Hernandez, Departamento de Economía Aplicada. Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Overview: Propuesta de comunicación

Principios Básicos Para La Financiación Socialmente Responsable De La Renta Básica Del Ciudadano

Noemi Pena Miguel, Economia Financiera I, Universidad Del Pais Vasco, Dr Joseba Inaki De La Pena, Departamento:Economía Financiera I, UPV/EHU, M Cristina Fernandez, Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes., Bilbao, Spain

Overview: Estudiaremos los principios que un gobierno socialmente responsable debe establecer, para asignar los recursos con los que hacer frente a los gastos estimados.

Disimilitud entre el tiempo que cada miembro de la pareja empleado en el hogar: Cuidado de niños

Sra M. Angeles Medina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Cristobal Pareja Flores, Escuela de Estadística, U.C.M., Loenzo Escot Mangas, Escuela Universitaria de Estadística, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Overview: La plena igualdad de mujeres y hombres en los ámbitos del trabajo remunerado debe tener como contrapartida la plena igualdad de mujeres y hombres en el cuidado de los hijos.

14:45-15:15 CONFERENCE CLOSING – Kathryn Weisbaum, Common Ground Publishing, USA

Presentation of Graduate Scholar Awards & Talking Circle Closing Report (held in Plenary Room)


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GRADUATE SCHOLARS

Graduate scholars contribute to the flow and overall success of the conference. Their key responsibilities include chairing the parallel sessions, keeping the conference on schedule, providing audio-visual technical assistance and assisting with the registration process. We would like to thank the following Graduate Scholars who participated in the 2012 Social Sciences Conference

Xi Chen is currently a PhD student of sociology, with an emphasis in the study of crime and deviance, social stratification, and migration, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her B.A degree in sociology from Fudan University, China. She participated in a diversified research projects and was honored with Wangdao Scholar Award in her undergraduate study. Her PhD thesis aims to systematically investigate delinquent behaviors of migrant adolescents in China, with a focus on how SES set the parameters within which social structural and other factors impinge on delinquency. Moreover, school contextual factors on delinquency will also be examined by using a multilevel model. She has delivered presentations at the annual meeting of American Society of Criminology (2011), and the annual conference of Hong Kong Sociological Association (2010) about her working papers.

Zhengye Hou has a very diverse and international background as a researcher, a teacher and a practitioner in professional communication. After receiving a B.A. in sociology from Chongqing University in China, and an MPhil in Journalism from Hong Kong University, she is a currently a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism & Communication at the University of Queensland in Australia. Her research interest revolves around public relations and institutional theories. Her thesis adopted an institutional approach to exploring how public relations practices, as a product of the Western capitalism and democracy, are translated and institutionalised in a non-western cultural context. She has a number of referred papers accepted at top international conferences, including the 2012 ICA (International Communication Association) and AOM (Academy of Management) annual meetings. One of her articles has recently been accepted for publication in the top journal Public Relations Review. In addition, Zhengye is currently a teaching assistant in media and issues management, as well as business.

Emily Knight is a senior in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. During her undergraduate studies, Emily served as a Research Assistant on a grant-funded study of collaborative governance and was awarded the SPAA Undergraduate Research Award for her qualitative study of orphan-care in Mufindi, Tanzania. Her findings suggest that the relative orphan-ness of a child, or the degree of surviving family connections, is perhaps the most predictive indicator of the child’s overall vulnerability and the use of such a metric would allow greater specificity in public policy creation. Additionally, Emily serves as an assistant in the Office of the Dean of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the President of the KU Women’s Rugby Team, and a member of the Phi Alpha Alpha Honor Society. In the fall of 2012, Emily will attend Cornell University for graduate study. She was awarded the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs Fellowship to pursue a Master’s of Public Administration with an emphasis in international development. Emily will continue to develop her research interests, which include cross-cultural management, leadership studies and international policy.

Oleg Komlik is a PhD Candidate in Economic Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Management at Ben-Gurion University. In his Master’s thesis Oleg examined the legislative process through which the global Anti-Money laundering norms have been institutionalized in Israel in accordance with the local societal, political and economic context. This research was awarded the Best Master Thesis Prize by the Israeli Sociological Society and the Outstanding Master’s Thesis by the Israeli Political Science Association for 2009. In his doctoral dissertation Mr. Komlik focuses on the socio-political foundations of the Israeli banking and financial system, and analyzes the institutional relationship between Israeli banks and the state agencies throughout the years. This research reveals the essential role of the Jewish banking in Mandatory Palestine in realization the Zionist movement’s goals; the evolution and concentration of the Israeli banking system; the close cooperation between the big banks, the state authorities and political actors; and the institutional change of the banking sector and the financial system in the Globalized Neoliberal age. The empirical and theoretical importance of this project has been widely acknowledged and Mr. Komlik was awarded many highly competitive scholarships and grants.

Kirsten Mander was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand (NZ), and is currently a graduate student with the University of Canterbury. In 2012, Kirsten is pursuing a Master of Arts in European Union Studies at the NZ National Centre for Research on Europe, following the completion of her postgraduate Honours degree in International Relations at Victoria University in Wellington (the capital and political hub of NZ). She was the first New Zealand Business and Parliament Trust Scholarship winner and participated in a parliamentary internship in the NZ Government Whips office over the course of 2011. Miss Mander works as a Project Manager for a well-known business translation agency in her hometown of Christchurch and was recently offered a three-month position in the office of a Member of the European Parliament in Belgium to begin in September 2012. She has travelled extensively throughout Europe and South America, attending the United Nations World Youth Conference in Mexico in 2010 as well as working for the international organisation Red Argentina para La Cooperación Internacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Miss Mander’s research focuses on the ability of parliamentary constitutions to maintain a balance between meeting international responsibilities and protecting citizen rights through the legislative process. Following the 2012 International Conference on ISS, she hopes to pursue an exchange with the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid to further her research in this area.


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Wan Ummi Kalsom Meor Osman is graduating in Business Administration (MBA) from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UITM), Malaysia. She is planning to pursue her PhD abroad in the same field within this year. She holds a B.A in Administrative Science from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. Ummi’s Master research focuses on emotional intelligence and lecturer performance. Her major research interests are in the areas of organisational culture, and employee attitudes and performance. As an early career researcher, she looks forward to the opportunity to develop her potential in the field which includes publication. Beyond academics, Ummi is active in extra-curricular activities. She was appointed as a president for student societies and actively involved in sports. She also has a keen interest in drama and theatre.

Daniel Pasciuti is currently a PHD Candidate in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. His research focuses on urbanization and economic development, examining the changing structure of global urban development in macro-historical comparison. His research crosses many disciplinary boundaries including economics, history, political science, and geography and he is looking forward to the opportunity to discuss the economic and historical conditions of urban distributions in the world economy, as well as learning about and exploring other avenues of research currently being engaged. Currently he is completing his dissertation in the summer of 2012 and has taught courses on Social Theory, Statistics, Political and Economic Development, Global Urbanism, and Comparative-Historical Methods.

Alexandra Rosa comes from Lisbon, Portugal, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economic and Organizational Sociology at School of Economics and Management, Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG-UTL). Her research focus is on science careers; more precisely she is interested in studying the emergence of non-scientific careers for scientists in Portuguese universities and research centres. Alexandra holds a Master’s in Economics and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation from ISEG, but her background is in Physics. She graduated from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, did a post-graduate in Condensed Matter Physics and was a junior researcher for eight years in a laboratory of the same faculty. Between Physics and Social Sciences, Alexandra was a freelance science journalist for three years.

Carlie D. Trott is a graduate student of applied social psychology at Colorado State University. Her primary research interests include gender, culture, sexuality, and human rights. At DePaul University as an undergraduate psychology student, she became part of a research team exploring mother-daughter sexual health communication in rural Kenya, with the goal of supporting HIV/AIDS prevention among adolescent girls. She remains a part of this team and has traveled to Kenya to conduct HIV/AIDS prevention and general sexual health workshops. As a Graduate Research Assistant at Colorado State University, she is currently involved in several major research projects exploring women’s participation in science and engineering. Her Master’s thesis project explores female graduate students’ educational persistence in the field of Atmospheric Science. Outside the research lab, she is currently assembling an evidence-based comprehensive sex education program for an underserved population (Latino adolescents) in her community. For her dissertation, she plans to examine social reasoning about women’s human rights violations, specifically the roles of psychological distance and gender on perceptions of harmful traditional practices.

Stephanie Tukonic is a Master of Education student specializing in teaching, learning, and development at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada. She received a Bachelor of Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in Biology and minor in Religious Studies. Stephanie has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Debra Harwood on a project entitled, Early Childhood Educator Professionalism: What can University level degrees contribute? Stephanie is a research assistant for the Public Health Unit of Niagara and she has worked on a variety of projects in the Family Health Division. She conducted a literature review to help inform the direction of a research project under Public Health Ontario of a provincial assessment of the parenting styles in Ontario. She conducts preliminary statistical analysis for the local Triple P Parenting Programs and Fathering Project data. Lastly, Stephanie’s thesis will examine and identify the needs and challenges of fathers of different family dynamics, and how these needs and challenges conceptualize the role of the parent.

Funda Üstek is a Doctorate Candidate in Sociology at St. Cross College, University of Oxford. Previously, she completed a Master’s degree in Comparative Social Policy (University of Oxford & St. Edmund Hall) and a Double BA in Political Science & International Relations and Philosophy (Bo?aziçi University, Turkey). She is interested in employment disadvantages of the less-educated in globalising job market. Her doctoral thesis aims at deciphering the role of social ties in accessing the labour market for less-educated women in Istanbul, a metropolitan city where the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing as the distance between centre and peripheries widen, and unskilled work is more and more informalised. Previously she conducted research on educational integration of non-Western immigrants in Denmark and Germany from a social policy perspective. She is also interested in global free speech issues, as she is working for Free Speech Debate as a moderator and Turkish language editor.

Justyna Ziemba is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her specialization is Interdisciplinary Cross-National Studies and the main interest is the problem of environmental disaster in the Maldives. She defended her MA thesis Asturians: Signs of Identity in the Institute of Sociology at University of Warsaw, Poland. Her main research interests are environmental studies, refugee studies, ethnic identity, inequality, visual sociology/anthropology, and area studies specializing in South Asia. Apart from scientific work, she has experience in journalism and TV broadcasting. Therefore, she is especially interested in searching for new ways of presenting scientific data, especially visualizing them.


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Veronica Tapia Barria es de nacionalidad chilena, sus primeros estudios son en Antropología Social en la Universidad de

Chile. Durante el pregrado surge el interés en los estudios urbanos, periodo que culmina con la tesis “Autopista Costanera

Norte y el Barrio Los Moteros: Crónica de un Conflicto Urbano”. Posteriormente une este interés con una fuerte inquietud

social, liderando proyectos enfocados en la promoción y difusión del enfoque de derechos en las poblaciones urbanas más

vulnerables de Santiago de Chile, paralelamente lleva a cabo actividades académicas donde destaca la realización del curso

“Dinámicas Sociales y Transformaciones de la Ciudad Latinoamericana” en la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de

Chile. Asimismo ejerce como consultor en participación ciudadana y proyectos urbanos. El año 2006 realiza el Máster en

Planificación Territorial y Gestión Ambiental de la Universidad de Barcelona, estudios que finaliza el año 2008. A su retorno a

Chile trabaja en el Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo implementando el programa nacional de recuperación de barrios

vulnerables. En el año 2010 se le otorga la Beca de Formación de Capital Humano avanzado del Gobierno de Chile para

realizar el doctorado en Geografía, Planificación y Gestión Ambiental de la Universidad de Barcelona, actualmente en curso.

Ha presentado en diversos encuentros internacionales, durante el año 2011 en Frankfurt, Atenas y Salzburg. Próximamente

presentará en el 32º International Geographical Congress en Colonia y publicará el artículo “The Local and Global Conditions of

the Neighbourhood: A Theoretical Reflection” bajo el alero del International Research Center Salzburg, Austria.


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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Patrick Baert, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

Norma Burgess, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

Bill Cope, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Peter Harvey, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Vangelis Intzidis, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece

Paul James, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Gerassimos Kouzelis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

José Luis Ortega Martín, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Bertha Ochieng, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

Francisco Fernandez Palomares, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Miguel A. Pereyra, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Constantine D. Skordoulis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Chad Turnbull, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain

Chryssi Vitsilaki, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Monica Hillison

Rachael Little

Ana Quintana

Stephanie Turza

Kathryn Weisbaum

SUPPORTERS

Universitat Abat Oliba CEU Barcelona, Spain

Social Innovation Center Donostia- San Sebastian, Spain


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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Abrão Rangel Tania Fundação Getulio Vargas Brazil

Adeniji-Neill Dolapo Adelphi University USA

Adu-Febiri Francis Camosun College Canada

Aguado Franco Juan Carlos Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Spain

Aksoy Ayse Belgin Gazi University Turkey

Al Babtain Haya Abdulmohsen Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Saudi Arabia

Al-Manei Al-Jawharah Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Saudi Arabia

Al qahtani Majed Salman bin Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia

Alhamadi Nasser King Fahd Security College Saudi Arabia

Ali Safaa Hussein Kirkuk University Iraq

Alluhaibi Maha University of Huddersfield. UK

Alonso Ixone Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Alturki Khaled Medical Services UK

Alvarado Lozano Mario Andres Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia Colombia

Amara Nabil Laval University Canada

Ames Angeline University of Guam USA

Ames Todd University of Guam USA

Ancheta Arrabal Ana University of Valencia Spain

Anduaga Uxoa EHU-UPV Spain

Angrill-Schuster Engracia Onondaga Community College USA

Arabi Fadli University Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia

Arditti Joyce Virginia Tech USA

Ariyani Mira Lancaster University UK

Aronson Greg Victoria University Australia

Ashton Shan Bangor University UK

Asl Khorshid Padashi Islamic Azad University Islamic Republic of Iran

Ata Erina Waiariki Institute of Technology New Zealand

Axpe Inge Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Aydiner Boylu Ayfer Hacettepe University Turkey

Ayerakwa Hayford Mensah Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research Ghana

Ayestaran Yarza Alazne Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Azman Azwan Azmawati University Sains Malaysia Malaysia

Bain Jennifer University of London UK

Bashir Kainat University of Ottawa Canada

Bautista Jose Juan Xavier University of Louisiana USA

Bayraktar Secil Bogazici University Turkey

Bélanger Roxanne Université Laurentienne Canada

Belfiglio Valentine J. Texas Woman's University USA

Bell Robert M. Victoria University Australia

Bellehumeur Christian R. Saint Paul University Canada

Beriain Ana Universidad Abat Oliba CEU Spain

Biderman Aya Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel

Bilic Snjezana University of South Australia Australia

Biresselioglu Mehmet Efe Izmir University of Economics Turkey

Birsen Haluk Anadolu University Turkey

Birsen Özgül Anadolu University Turkey

Birtchnell Thomas Lancaster University UK

Black Jan Knippers Monterey Institute of International Studies USA

Blenden Janis Florida Department of Children and Families USA

Blizek William L. The University of Nebraska at Omaha USA

Bollard Rebecca University of Waikato New Zealand

Bolotova Alla National Research University Russian Federation

Bonetti Loris University of Genoa Italy

Boyko Sergey Russian State University for the Humanities Russian Federation

Bradley-Peni Charlotte Flinders University Australia

Brewin Mark University of Tulsa USA

Bromfield Nicole United Arab Emirates University United Arab Emirates

Burchell Marion Department of Agriculture and Food Australia


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Bush Kevin Miami University USA

Butt Marya Utrecht University Netherlands

Buzea Carmen Transylvania University of Brasov Romania

Caliskan Özgür Anadolu University Turkey

Camasso Michael J. Rutgers University USA

Cangoz Incilay Anadolu University Turkey

Canino Maria J. Rutgers University USA

Capous Desyllas Moshoula California State University USA

Caputi Mary California State University USA

Cara Coral Victoria University Australia

Caron André H. University of Montréal Canada

Carrasquel Gladys Universitat Abat Oliba Spain

Cavaglion Gabriel

Israel

Cazarin Rafael Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Cesur Nazli Sila University of Essex UK

Chagnon François University of Quebec at Montreal Canada

Chan Joseph M. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

Chapinal Heras Diego Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain

Chen Xi The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

Chmielewski Elizabeth A. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire USA

Chmielewski Terrence L. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire USA

Chonody Jill University of South Australia Australia

Choudhury Bhaswati Delhi University India

Clark Barbara Averett University USA

Concha Silvia Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Copur Zeynep Hacettepe University Turkey

Cornali Federica University of Turin Italy

Correa Arias César University of Guadalajara Mexico

Cox Robin Royal Roads University Canada

Creagh Dianne Penn State York USA

Crone Rosemary Patricia Deakin University Australia

Curry Dawne Y. University of Nebraska USA

Curtis Cate University of of Waikato New Zealand

Curtis Janette University of Wollongong Australia

Curtolo Cristina University of Macerata Italy

Dasgupta Bishnupriya SNDT Women's University India

David de las Heras Camino Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain

De Wet Nicole Claire University of the Witwatersrand South Africa

Dearborn Lynne M. University of Illinois USA

DebChaudhury Sudata San Diego Mesa College USA

Dervishi Raimonda Politechnical University of Tirana Albania

Dewan Aditya Kumar Concordia University Canada

Diaz Koldo EHU-UPV Spain

Diaz Mohedo Maria Teresa Universidad de Granada Spain

DiMaggio Kenneth Capital Community College USA

Dohnalová Zuzana Tomas Bata University Czech Republic

Donohue Melissa Financial Nutrition, Inc. USA

Drouin Susan McGill University Health Centre Canada

Dulin Patrick University of Alaska USA

Durvasula Ramani California State University Los Angeles USA

Eckstein Dana University of Hartford USA

Edwards Schachter Monica INGENIO Spain

Elliott Alison University of Sydney Australia

Engin Billur Istanbul University Turkey

Epelde María Amaya University of Granada Spain

Erdener Eren University of Oklahoma USA

Erkal Sibel Hacettepe University Turkey

Eroglu Deniz University of Essex UK

Erzurum Funda Anadolu University Turkey

Faifua Denise Elizabeth University of New South Wales Australia

Faisal Mohammad University of Queensland Australia

Faria Margarida Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical Portugal


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Farshid Sima Islamic Azad University Islamic Republic of Iran

Fartousi Hassan University of Malaysia Malaysia

Ferguson Ker University of South Alabama USA

Filibi Igor Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Filner Matthew Metropolitan State University USA

Fisher Celia B. Fordham University USA

Fitzgerald Damien Sheffield Hallam University UK

Fondevila Joan Francesc Universidad Abat Oliba CEU Spain

Ford Matthew University of Melbourne Australia

Forgues Daniel École de Technologie Supérieure Canada

Garber Martha University of North Texas USA

Garland Elizabeth Mount Sinai School of Medicine USA

Garrett Richard Bentley University USA

Garrido Inigo Paloma Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain

Gatica Chandia Karina Universidad del Pacifico Spain

Géczy Peter AIST Japan

Ghosh Ajay Kumar Government Hamidia Arts & Commerce College India

Giddings Jennifer International Baccalaureate Netherlands

Gilbert Robert Northeastern University USA

Gillbee Kim Monash University Australia

Gober Greta University of California, Berkeley USA

Gong Hongmian City University of New York USA

Gould Jessica Barcelona Media Spain

Gouws Eldrie University of South Africa South Africa

Grann Caitlin Texas Tech University USA

Gravel Stephen Laurentian University Canada

Greenberg David MDRC USA

Grobler Regina Catharina University of Johannesburg South Africa

Guardia Calvo Isadora Universitat València Spain

Güell Casilda Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Spain

Gürel Betül Hacettepe University Turkey

Gürsoy Nihan Hacettepe University Turkey

Gustafsson Paer Uppsala University Sweden

Habibi Zahra Azad Islamic univercity Islamic Republic of Iran

Hachaturova Milana National Research University Russian Federation

Hambrick Mary Margaret Florida Gulf Coast University USA

Handy Jocelyn Massey University New Zealand

Hankivsky Olena Simon Fraser University Canada

Harrison Lindsey University of Wollongong Australia

Haruna Muhammad Auwalu Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria

Harvey Korry Western Washington University USA

Harwood Debra Brock University Canada

Hassani Seyed Roohollah Universität Magdeburg Germany

Hernandez Manuel Universidad de Oviedo Spain

Hersey Maria International Baccalaureate USA

Heshmatian Mahdi Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children Islamic Republic of Iran

Higley Sarah University of Rochester USA

Hill Jonas Griffith University Australia

Hockett Jeffrey University of Tulsa USA

Hodgson Paula City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

Holloway Linda University of North Texas USA

Horea-Serban Raluca-Ioana University Al.I. Cuza of Iasi Romania

Hou Zhengye University of Queensland Australia

Howlett Catherine Griffith University Australia

Hunt Lesley Lincoln University New Zealand

Hutchison Coll London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine UK

Hylton Carl Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project UK

Ignagni Joseph University of Texas at Arlington USA

Insua Patricia University of the Basque Country Spain

Iqbal Kashif University of the Punjab Pakistan

Ishak Mohd Shuhaimi International Islamic University Malaysia Malaysia


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Istrate Marinela Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iasi Branch Romania

Izaguirre Olaizola Julen Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Izugbara Chibuogwu University of the Witwatersrand South Africa

Jamshidi Avanaki Mina Islamic Azad University Islamic Republic of Iran

Jegathesan Jegatheva University of Western Australia Australia

Jenenkova Oksana Daugavpils University Latvia

Jeter Debra Vanderbilt University USA

Jones Jeannette Northwest Vista College USA

Jordaan Andries University of the Free State South Africa

Jordan Alicia Ramos University of California USA

Kama Ozelkan Fulya Istanbul University Turkey

Kapadia Shagufa Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda India Karamehic-Muratovic Ajlina Saint Louis University USA

Karger Cornelia R. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Germany

Kata Prachatip Amsterdam University Netherlands

Kay Janet Sheffield Hallam University UK

Keating Nicole

USA

Kelly Jo Southern Cross University Australia

Khalili Mohsen Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Islamic Republic of Iran

Kilic Deniz Anadolu University Turkey

Kim Kee Jeong Virginia Tech University USA

Kirmani Batool Texas A&M University USA

Klein Louis Systemic Excellence Group Germany

Knecht Richard The University of Toledo USA

Knight Emily Catherine Joan University of Kansas USA

Kocsis János B. Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary

Komlik Oleg Ben-Gurion University Israel

Kothrakis Helen Monash University Australia

Ku Ishak Awanis Universiti Utara Malaysia Malaysia

Kucukboyaci Meram Aysenur Isik University Turkey

Kumar H.M. Sanjeev South Asian University India

Kurtbag Omer Gaziosmanpasa University Turkey

Kushnirsky Fyodor I. Temple University USA

Kutlu Gözde

Turkey

Labra Oscar University of Quebec Canada

Lafreniere Darquise University of Montreal Canada

Landau Erika Mount Sinai School of Medicine USA

Lane Karen Deakin University Australia

Lawrence Mark Bemidji State University USA

Le Quan Seattle University USA

Lee Seng Lee Dunman High School Singapore

Lee Yong Ryung Osaka University Japan

Legault Marie-Josée Téluq-UQAM Canada

Lellou Abdelhamid Center for Advanced Operational & Cultural Learning USA

Levanon-Mordoch Ester Oranim Academic College of Educatin Israel

Levi Pnina Bar-Ilan University Israel

Levina Elena University of Latvia Latvia

Lewis Chance University of North Carolina USA

Liong Chan Ching Mario Umeå University Sweden

Lissack Michael ISCE USA

Litt Jill Colorado School of Public Health USA

Liu Yue Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong

Livingston Lynda University of Puget Sound USA

Llamas Ana London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine UK

Lobao Catarina Polytechnic Institute of Leiria Portugal

Locke Chris Auburn University USA

Lomitashvili Tengiz Tbilisi State University Georgia

Lopez Leonora Proyecto El Árbol Chile

Lopez Martinez Jorge Universidad de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

Lorente Rodriguez Miriam Universidad de Valencia Spain

Lortie Monique Université du Québec Canada


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Lourenco Alcina Universidade do Minho Portugal

Lunn Laurel Vanderbilt University USA

Lyle Katy University of Southampton UK

Maboudou Alidou Guirguissou Sociology of Consumers and Households Netherlands

Macarov David The Hebrew University Israel

Maldonado Carlos Eduardo Universidad del Rosario Colombia

Mamali Catalin Loras College USA

Mander Kirsten Jane University of Canterbury New Zealand

Mangos Nicholas Flinders University of South Australia Australia

Mangos Vivienne Maria Flinders University of South Australia Australia

Manusov Eron Duke University USA

Manzano Cristina Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain

Marciano Claudio Minister of Economic Development Italy

Martinez Lizette Universidad Complutense de Madrid Spain

Martinez Palma Elizabeth Universidad Austral de Chile Chile

Martin-Shields Charles George Mason University USA

Masso Guijarro Ester National Council for Scientific Research Spain

Mata Varea Eduardo Universidad Catolica de Valencia Spain

Mathbor Golam Monmouth University USA

Matuchniak Tina University of California USA

Maudsley Ann University of Melbourne Australia

Maume David University of Cincinnati USA

Mayer-Crittenden Chantal Laurentian University Canada

McCormack Padial Maria Universidad de Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

McLaughlin Courtney Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA

Medina M. Angeles Universidad Complutense Spain

Mendible Myra Florida Gulf Coast University USA

Meor Osman Wan Ummi Kalsom Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia

Mercier Julien University of Quebec in Montreal Canada

Merlino Rossella University of Strathclyde UK

Mikecz Munday Susan American University of Sharjah United Arab Emirates

Milenov Kiril Tilburg University Bulgaria

Miller Andrew The University of Newcastle Australia

Miller Wendy The University of Newcastle Australia

Minor-Corriveau Michele Université Laurentienne Canada

Miranda Rebeco Patricio Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Chile

Mizrahi Terry Hunter College USA

Mohd Husini Ar Elina Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia

Mohid Mohamed Noor Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia

Moir James University of Abertay Dundee UK

Monllau Jaques Teresa Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain

Monsalve Lorente Laura University of Valencia Spain

Morales Hernández José Universidad de Valencia Spain

Moreira Gregori Pedro Ernesto Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain

Morton Donald Syracuse University USA

Mozaffari Farough Amin University of Tabriz Islamic Republic of Iran

Muhammad S. Siregar Campus Organization Indonesia

Mukhtar Uzma University of Balochistan Pakistan

Mumcu Akan H. Dilara Istanbul University Turkey

Mungai Anne Mary Adelphi University USA

Munoz-Luna Rosa University of Málaga Spain

Murphy Esther Dublin City University Ireland

Myles John University of East London UK

Nachmias Nitza Towson University USA

Nadeau-Cossette Anaïs Laval University Canada

Napan Ksenija Unitec New Zealand

Nath Atanu Sogn og Fjordane University College Norway

Nekrasova Tatyana National Research University Russia

Nell Dirkie North-West University South Africa

Newcomer Keith University of Southern Mississippi Germany

Newman Lawrence Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh USA


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Nitikasetsoontorn Passawalee Sukothai Thamathirat Open University Thailand

Noltemeyer Amity Miami University USA

Noonan John Curtin University Australia

Novak Tihana Kampus Borongaj Croatia

Novella Gil Irati Universidad del País Vasco Spain

Nuvoli Andrea Universidad Abat Oliva CEU Spain

O’Halloran Mary S. University of Northern Colorado USA

O'Brien Kieran University of Tasmania Australia

Ochieng Bertha University of Bradford UK

Ochoa Sierra Maria Universidad de Antioquia Colombia

Ochoa-Rivera Teresa Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico

Oelofse Marietjie University of the Free State South Africa

Onursoy Sibel Anadolu University Turkey

Oosthuizen Nadine Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa

Ostrovsky Michal Bar Ilan University Israel

Oztop Hülya Hacettepe University Turkey

Ozturk Pinar Okan University Turkey

Padmanabhan Aishwarya WB National University of Juridical Sciences India

Pantzalis John Saint Leo University USA

Panzaru Ciprian The West University of Timisoara Romania

Parker Jerry University of Missouri USA

Parry Sharon Southern Cross University Australia

Pasciuti Daniel Johns Hopkins University USA

Paterson Janis Auckland University of Technology New Zealand

Pazokizadeh Zahra Islamic Azad University Italy

Peker Dogra Asli New York University USA

Pelech Sharon University of Calgary Canada

Pelech William University of Calgary Canada

Pena Ahumada Nuria Beatriz Universidad Tecnológica de San Juan del Río Mexico

Pena Miguel Noemi University of the Basque Country Spain

Perez Benedito Miguel Angel Faculty of Economics Spain

Perisic Petra University of Rijeka Croatia

Perks S. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa

Perrin Jeffrey Lesley University USA

Peterson Shannon Utah State University USA

Pilkington Andrew University of Northampton UK

Pimsarn Pratin Thammasat University Thailand

Poirier Mario University of Quebec Canada

Purinton Ted American University Egypt

Quintern Malin Waiariki Institute for Technology New Zealand

Ramakrishnan Mahadevi Colgate University USA

Ramessur Taruna Shalini University of Mauritius Mauritius

Ramos-Zincke Claudio Universidad Alberto Hurtado Chile

Ramzan Saubia University of Balochistan Quetta Pakistan Pakistan

Rebeco Patricio Miranda Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Chile

Reedy W. Jay Bryant University USA

Reid Robert Montclair State University USA

Rimac Tomislav Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain

Rinaldi Maria Teresa University of California USA

Rios Victor University of California USA

Robillard Manon Laurentian University Canada

Rodriguez Charo McGill University Canada

Rodriguez Julia UPV/EHU Spain

Rodriguez-Donaire Silvia Technical University of Catalonia Spain

Rodriguez-Roldan Norma University of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

Rogers Jacqui University of Plymouth UK

Rosa Alexandra Technical University of Lisbon Portugal

Rosenthal Beth City University of New York USA

Ross Cissy University of California USA

Ross Richard University of California USA

Rowe Elizabeth Rowe Davies Research Australia

Rozanski Paula Saint-Thomas Health Centre Canada


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Ruben Ester Yildiz Technical University Turkey

Ruiz Carmen University Abat Oliba CEU Spain

Ruiz de Ona Celia Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico

Ruza Iveta Daugavpils University Latvia

Sadler Hone The University of Auckland New Zealand

Saha Santosh University of Union College USA

Sakar Emre Middle East Technical University Turkey

Sanford Marie Ithaca College USA

Sarma Arup Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India

Sarma Simona Delhi University India

Satkunasingam Elsa Monash University Malaysia

Schott Erik University of Southern California USA

Schubert Leanne The University of Newcastle Australia

Schulz Celia The University of Texas-Pan American USA

Scott-Ladd Brenda Curtin Business School Australia

Seabra Claudia Patricia Polytechnic Institute of Viseu Portugal

Segal Naomi Curtin University Australia

Sehlaoui Abdelilah Emporia State University USA

Sengupta Subir Marist College USA

Sepehri Ardeshir University of Manitoba Canada

Sharma Preeti Banasthali Vidyapith India

Sheikhattari Payam Morgan State University USA

Shena Donald University of Tirana Albania

Sheriff Zahra The Aga Khan University Pakistan

Shriberg Arthur Xavier University USA

Silvio Dominic Hakim Dalhousie University Canada

Sinfield David Auckland University of Technology New Zealand

Smith R. Scott Utica College USA

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Sotshangane Nkosinathi Owen Walter Sisulu University South Africa

Stanciu Filip University of South-East Europe Romania

Stillman Ari Vanderbilt University USA

Stoleriu Oana Mihaela University Romania

Stone Peter Trinity College Dublin Ireland

Stores Teresa University of Hartford USA

Story Dale University of Texas at Arlington USA

Sulitzeanu-Kenan Raanan Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel

Suriano Maria University of the Witwatersrand South Africa

Svarcová Jena Tomas Bata University in Zlín Czech Republic

Synnott Anthony Concordia University Canada

Szarka Joseph University of Paris Diderot France

Tait M. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa

Taket Ann Deakin University Australia

Tapia Veronica Universidad de Barcelona Spain

Tapsuwan Sorada CSIRO Australia

Tarifa Fatos European University of Tirana Albania

Tarrats Pons Elisenda Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya Spain

Tauil Rafael UNIFESP Brazil

Taylor Bronwen Ngaire Jewish Care Victoria Australia

Teater Barbra University of Bristol UK

Telles Maria University of Arizona USA

Thanasegaran Haemala Monash University Malaysia

Throssell Paul University of Tasmania Australia

Tintore Mireia Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Spain

Titolo Matthew West Virginia University USA

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Török Péter Semmelweis University Hungary

Tortorello, Jr. Frank Professional Solutions, LLC USA

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Trejos Sandra Clarion University of Pennsylvania USA

Trott Carlie D. Colorado State University USA


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Truscello David K. The Community College of Baltimore County USA

Tukonic Stephanie Brock University Canada

Twamley Katherine Institute of Education UK

Uçanok Basak Istanbul Bilgi University Turkey

Ugarte Calleja Seber Univertat Abat Oliba CEU Spain

Ulutas Ilkay Gazi University Turkey

Unceta Satrustegui Alfonso University of the Basque Country Spain

Underwood Iliana California State University USA

Ussawarakha Sirima Kasem Bundit University Thailand

Ustek Funda University of Oxford UK

Uusiautti Satu University of Lapland Finland

Valcarcel Mercedes Fundación Isis Para la Innovación en Inversiones Sociales Spain

Valdera Gil Juan Miguel Universidad de Granada Spain

Valesi Marco University of California Merced USA

Valverde Sebastian Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina

Van Rensburg Henriette North-West University South Africa

Vanderlee Mary-Louise Brock University Canada

Vasilaki Argiro University of Aegean Greece

Vazquez Morgan Marie Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center USA

Vicente Bujez Alejandro Universidad de Granada Spain

von Stein Ali Osho Studio Berlin Germany

Vyas Avni Psychological Passages, Inc. USA

Wagner Fernando Morgan State University USA

Walker Steven Anglia Ruskin University UK

Wallee Ibrahim CR-Network Ghana

Wang Lay Kim Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia

Warsito Happy Sriwijaya University Indonesia

Wayessa Gutu Olana University of Helsinki Finland

Weeks Zebulun BYU-Hawaii USA

Weidner W. Jeffrey University of California USA

Whalen Thomas Brian McPherson College USA

Whiddett Richard Massey University New Zealand

Wilkin Catherine Charles Darwin University Australia

Woods Steven Western Washington University USA

Yilmaz Yasemin Istanbul University Turkey

Yu Guanghua University of Hong Kong China

Yuangsri Nitaya Thammasat University Thailand

Zan Myint Multimedia University Malaysia

Zhang John Indiana University of Pennsylvania USA

Zhou Shaoming The University of Melbourne Australia

Ziemba Justyna Polish Academy of Sciences Poland

Zine Jasmin Wilfrid Laurier University Canada

Zucker Bat-Ami Bar-Ilan University Israel

Zulfikar Haluk Istanbul University Turkey

Zuo Changwu University of Hong Kong Hong Kong


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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES


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ABOUT THE JOURNAL

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences aims to examine the nature of disciplinary practices, and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of ‘real world’ applications. It also interrogates what constitutes ‘science’ in a social context, and the connections between the social and other sciences. The journal discusses the distinctive disciplinary practices within the sciences of the social, and examines examples of these practices. In order to define and exemplify disciplinarity, the journal fosters dialogue ranging from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and empirical. In considering the varied interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary work across and between the social, natural and applied sciences, the journal showcases interdisciplinary practices in action. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical, to wide-ranging multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary practices, to perspectives on knowledge and method.

EDITORS Bill Cope, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

OPEN PEER REVIEW The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences is a fully peer reviewed scholarly journal, one of approximately twenty-four academic journals published by Common Ground. Common Ground’s approach to peer review is open and inclusive. Instead of being dominated by the exclusive academic hierarchies represented by many traditional editors and their networks, Common Ground journals build lateral knowledge communities. Our referee process is criterion-referenced, and referees are selected on the basis of subject matter and disciplinary expertise. Ranking is based on clearly articulated criteria. The result is a refereeing process that is scrupulously fair in its assessments. At the same time, the process offers a carefully structured and constructive contribution to the shape of the published paper.

INTELLECTUAL EXCELLENCE The result of our peer-review process is a publishing method which is without prejudice to institutional affiliation, stage in career, national origins, or disciplinary perspective. If the paper is excellent, and has been systematically and independently assessed as such, it will be published. This is why Common Ground journals have such a vast amount of exciting new material. Much of the content originates from well-known research institutions, but a considerable amount material comes from brilliantly insightful and innovative academics in lesser known institutions in the developing world, emerging researchers, people working in hard-to-classify interdisciplinary spaces, and researchers in liberal arts colleges and teaching universities. In recognition of the highest levels of excellence, an international prize is awarded annually for the top-ranked paper in each journal.

ACCESSIBILITY Common Ground is developing a low-cost commercial approach to academic publishing. We believe there are limitations in both the high-cost commercial publishing and the seemingly no-cost open access publishing models. This is why we are seeking to find a practical middle way between the idealism of open access and the inefficiencies and greed of which the big journal publishers are increasingly accused. The idealism of open access often creates new problems, leaving academics in the often less-than-happy role of amateur publisher. And ironically, open access journals and repositories sometimes give insider networks even greater control over what gets published than was traditionally the case with the big commercial publishers. Common Ground journals are highly accessible on the web. They are not hidden behind subscription walls. Every article has its own page; and every author has their own self-maintainable website, which includes any articles and books they have published with Common Ground, a blog, and places to paste their bionote, photo and CV. We have modest tiered subscription charges for libraries and a small per-article charge for electronic access by non-subscribers. Conference participants are granted free electronic access to the corresponding journal for a year. Our journals are also available in print editions and through EBSCO.


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SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Website: http://thesocialsciences.com/Journal/ Publisher: Common Ground - www.CommonGroundPublishing.com ISSN: 1833-1882 Frequency: Twelve issues per volume

EDITORS Bill Cope, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION Information on library subscriptions may be found at http://thesocialsciences.com/journal/subscribe/. COMPLIMENTARY SUBSCRIPTION As part of the conference registration, participants are provided with a complimentary electronic subscription to all full-text papers published in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. The duration of this access period is from the time of registration until one year after the end date of the conference. To view articles, go to http://thesocialsciences.com/journal/publications/ select the ‘Login’ option and provide a CGPublisher username and password. Then, select an article and download the PDF. For lost or forgotten login details, select ‘Forgot your login’ to request a new password. LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION FORM If you wish to recommend the Journal to your library, we have library recommendation forms at the Registration Desk. The form is also available for download at http://thesocialsciences.com/journal/subscribe/#LR. CONTACT If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]


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SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Registration for the Social Sciences Conference allows participants the opportunity to publish in The International Journal of

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Presenters may submit their papers up to one month after the conference. Submitted papers will be fully refereed. The publication decision will be based on the referees’ reports. To submit, at least one author of each paper must be registered to attend the conference (to a maximum of one paper per registered author). General Requirements:

We only accept text files or files in .doc format (such as from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice). We do not accept PDF submissions or .docx files.

Papers should be approximately 2,000-5,000 words in length. They should be written as continuous expository narrative in a chapter or article style – not as lists of points or a PowerPoint presentation.

Please remember that the papers are to be published in a fully refereed academic journal. This means that the style and structure of your text should be relatively formal. For instance, you should not submit a verbatim transcript of your oral presentation, such as ‘Today I want to speak to you about …’.

Paper submissions must contain no more than 30% of textual material published in other places by the same author or authors, and these other places must be acknowledged and cited; in other words, the remaining 70% of the paper must be unique and original to your current submission.

Authors must ensure the accuracy of citations, quotations, diagrams, tables and maps.

Papers should be referenced using The Chicago Manual of Style.

Spelling can vary according to national usage, but should be internally consistent.

Papers should be thoroughly checked and proofread before submission, both by the author and a critical editorial friend – after you have submitted your paper you are unable to make any changes to it during the refereeing process.

Papers will be assessed by referees against ten criteria – or fewer if some criteria do not apply to a particular kind of paper (see the Peer Review Process).

Illustration/Electronic Artwork Guidelines:

Figures and images must be clear and easy to view. Common Ground cannot improve the quality of images.

Figures and tables need to be placed where they are to appear in the text. If preferred, you may also place images and tables at the end of your paper.

Please refrain from using Word Drawing objects. Instead use images imported from a drawing program. Word Drawing objects will not be rendered in the typeset version.

Resubmission Policy: If your paper has been rejected, we will allow a maximum of ONE further resubmissions until TWO months prior to the anticipated publication date. How to submit a paper: For information on how to submit a paper, please visit the ‘Publish Your Paper' page at http://thesocialsciences.com/journal/publish-your-paper/ The publication process is as follows:

When we receive a paper, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If there are any problems, authors will be asked to resubmit the paper.

The paper will then be prepared and matched to two appropriate referees. When a paper has been submitted to the referees, authors will receive an email notification. Additionally, authors may be asked to referee up to 3 papers.

When the referee reports are uploaded, authors will be notified by email and provided with a link to view the reports (after the referees' identities have been removed).

If a paper is accepted, we will confirm conference registration before sending a Publishing Agreement.

Authors will then be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit the final paper.

Papers will be typeset and proofs made available for final approval before publication in the journal’s online bookstore as well as in individual author Creator Sites.

The final date for submission of papers to the journal (for one way blind refereeing) is 28 July 2012 – one month after the close of the conference. Papers are published continuously in the online bookstore. Authors may view the status of their paper at any time by logging into their CGPublisher account at www.CGPublisher.com.


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OTHER JOURNALS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND

Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides an international forum for the discussion of a rapidly growing segment of the population, in developed countries as well as in developing countries. Contributions range from broad theoretical and global policy explorations to detailed studies of the specific physiological, health, economic, and social dynamics of aging in today’s global society. Website: www.AgingAndSociety.com/journal The International Journal of the Arts in Society aims to create an intellectual frame of reference for the arts, and to create an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. This peer-reviewed journal is intended as a place for critical engagement and examination of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world. Website: www.ArtsInSociety.com/journal The International Journal of the Book provides a forum for publishing professionals, librarians, researchers, authors, retailers, and educators to discuss that iconic artifact, the book—and to consider its past, present, and future. Discussions range from the reflective to the highly practical, with an eye towards new practices of writing, publishing, and reading. Website: www.BooksAndPublishing.com/journal The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses seeks to create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of evidence of climate change, its causes, its ecosystemic impacts, and its human impacts. This peer-reviewed journal also explores technological, policy, strategic and social responses to climate change. Website: www.Climate-Journal.com The International Journal of the Constructed Environment publishes broad-ranging and interdisciplinary articles on human configurations of the environment and the interactions between the constructed, social and natural environments. This peer-reviewed journal brings together researchers, teachers, architects, designers, and others interested in how we interact with our environment. Website: www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/journal Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is a site of discussion exploring the meaning and purpose of “design” and the use of designed artifacts. This peer-reviewed journal examines transdiciplinary conversations between the theoretical and the empirical, the pragmatic and the idealistic. Website: www.Design-Journal.com The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations allows educators, professionals, and anyone interested in the mediation of cultural difference and diversity to empirically and strategically discuss globalization, identity and social group formation. This peer-reviewed journal reflects the business of negotiating diversity in organizations and communities. Website: www.Diversity-Journal.com Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of agricultural, environmental, nutritional, health, social, economic and cultural perspectives on food. Contributions range from broad theoretical and global policy explorations, to detailed studies of specific human-physiological, nutritional and social dynamics of food. Website: www.Food-Studies.com/journal/ The Global Studies Journal is devoted to mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization. This peer-reviewed journal attempts to do this from many points of view and from many locations in the world, working between empirical and general modes of engagement with one of the central phenomena of our contemporary existence. Website: www.GlobalStudiesJournal.com The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society addresses a number of interdisciplinary health topics, including: physiology, kinesiology, psychology, health sciences, public health, and other areas of interest. This peer-reviewed journal is relevant to anyone working in the health sciences, or researchers interested in exploring the intersections between health and society. Website: www.HealthAndSociety.com/journal The International Journal of the Humanities provides a space for dialogue and publication of new knowledge which builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future. This peer-reviewed journal is relevant for anyone with an interest in and concern for the humanities, including academics, researchers, students, and educators of all levels. Website: www.Humanities-Journal.com The International Journal of the Image interrogates the nature of the image and the functions of image-making. This peer-reviewed, cross-disciplinary journal brings together researchers, practitioners, and teachers from areas of interest including: architecture, art, cultural studies, design, education, history, linguistics, media studies, philosophy, religious studies, semiotics, and more. Website: www.OnTheImage.com/journal


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The International Journal of Learning sets out to foster inquiry, invite dialogue and build a body of knowledge on the nature and future of learning. This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood to higher education and lifelong learning. Website: www.Learning-Journal.com The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management examines the nature of the organization in all its forms and manifestations. Across a variety of contexts, a pragmatic focus persists—to examine the organization and management of groups of people collaborating to productive ends, and to analyze what makes for success and sustainability. Website: www.Management-Journal.com The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum asks: In this time of fundamental social change, what is the role of the museum, both as a creature of that change, and as an agent of change? This peer-reviewed journal brings together academics, curators, researchers, and administrators to discuss the character and future of the museum. Website: www.Museum-Journal.com The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society aims to create an intellectual frame of reference for the academic study of religion, and to create interdisciplinary conversations on the role of religion and spirituality in society. This peer-reviewed journal seeks to critically examine ideas that connect religious philosophies to their contexts throughout history. Website: www.Religion-Journal.com The International Journal of Science in Society provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the past, present, and future of the sciences and their relationships to society. This peer-reviewed journal examines broad theoretical, philosophical and policy explorations and detailed case studies of particular intellectual and practical activities at the intersection of science and society. Website: www.Science-Society.com/journal Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies addresses some of the most pressing and perturbing social, cultural, economic and environmental questions of our time. This peer-reviewed journal focuses on spaces of production, consumption, and living, and flows of people, goods, and information as crucibles and vectors of ongoing transformation. Website: www.SpacesAndFlows.com/journal The International Journal of Sport and Society provides a forum for wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of sport. This peer-reviewed journal examines the history, sociology, and psychology of sport; sports medicine and health; physical and health education; and sports administration and management. Discussions range from broad conceptualizations to highly specific readings. Website: www.SportAndSociety.com/journal The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability creates a place for the publication of papers presenting innovative theories and practices of sustainability. This peer-reviewed journal is cross-disciplinary in its scope, a meeting point for natural and social scientists, researchers and practitioners, professionals and community representatives. Website: www.Sustainability-Journal.com The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society creates a place for the publication and presentation of innovative theories and practices relating technology to society. This peer-reviewed journal is cross-disciplinary in its scope and provides a meeting point for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. Website: www.Technology-Journal.com Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal sets out to define an emerging field. Ubiquitous Learning is a new educational paradigm made possible in part by the affordances of digital media. Our changing learning needs can be served by ubiquitous computing. This peer-reviewed journal investigates the affordances for learning through digital media, in school, and throughout everyday life. Website: www.Ubi-Learn.com/journal The Journal of the World Universities Forum seeks to explore the meaning and purpose of the academy in times of striking social transformation. This peer-reviewed journal brings together university administrators, teachers and researchers to discuss the prospects of the academy and to exemplify or imagine ways in which the university can take a leading and constructive role. Website: www.Universities-Journal.com


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THE SOCIAL SCIENCES BOOK SERIES


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SUBMIT YOUR BOOK PROPOSAL

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If a book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

TYPE OF BOOKS

Each conference and journal community has an accompanying book imprint. We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:

Individually and jointly authored books;

Edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;

Collections of papers published in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Editorial selection can occur after the conference; or a group of authors may first wish to organize a colloquium at the conference to test the ideas in this broader intellectual context.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats. To publish a book, either send us a completed manuscript for review or a proposal including:

Title

Author(s)/editor(s)

Back-cover blurb

Table of contents

Author bionote(s)

Intended audience

Sample chapters or complete manuscript

Manuscript submission date Proposals can be submitted by email to [email protected] (please note the book imprint you are submitting for in the subject line).


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RECENT BOOKS PUBLISHED BY COMMON GROUND

Limited quantities are available for purchase at the Registration Desk. These and other books are available at http://thesocialsciences.com/books/bookstore/

Where Are You From: Voices in Transition ed. by Margaret Kumar, Heather D’Cruz and Niranjala Weerakody

“Where are you from? Voices in Transition records the diverse recollections and reflections of fourteen Asian Australian women about the question ‘where are you from?’ posed to them and assumptions about their identity made by different people at different times, locations and contexts. The book examines why in the globalized world we live in today, it is not always possible to label or describe a person as having one specific cultural or national identity as they are expected to do by those asking the question.

‘... The question, ‘where are you from?’ can serve a function of demanding an explanation from minority groups about how they belong to a particular community, and whether they even have right to do so. A person who is assumed to belong to the dominant group is seldom asked this question.

nd the

Tug of War: The Tension Concept and the Art of International Negotiation by Tony English

Tony English wrote Tug of War for negotiation experts and others who might be interested in a fresh analytical method which draws on the literature of negotiation but delves into many other disciplines, including international relations, fine arts, philosophy, management, anthropology and psychology. The book focuses on international negotiation but is relevant to negotiation in general. Tony interviewed many veteran negotiators in diplomacy, hostage release and business. He weaves the rich character, skills and experience of individual veterans into the book, and presents two cases in fine detail. At the core of the book is the tension, which comprises complementary phenomena, both physical and abstract, that compete for influence over our behavior. Profuse forces generate tensions. Tony presents a model of negotiation context that comprises tensions and the forces generating them.

Working with Communities: Critical Perspectives by Margot Rawsthorne and Amanda Howard

This book responds to an urgent need to reinvigorate collective community action for just change in Australia. At a crucial point in its evolution this book gives a critical perspective to working with communities. It argues that working collectively with communities is vital in this time of rampant individualism and rapid social change. This book explores many ongoing debates about work with communities:

How should we think about the concept ‘community’?

How should we relate to governments?

How do we know we make a difference?

How do we learn from our practice?

The book offers promising ideas for practice and growth in this field for the future. It provides critical questions for practice useful for those involved in community action including: community members, paid community workers and policy makers.


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