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Advances in Applied Sociology (AASoci) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in applied sociology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of app…
Mahshid Alsadat Keyhandoost, Ebrahim Namani, 1 1
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of marriage enrichment training through PAIRS method in marital conflicts of married female students. The present research is an applied study in terms of purpose. Also, in terms of data collection method, it i…
Limin Xu
The contingency plan is the basis for dealing with emergencies. In order to strengthen the emergency management, improve risk management and crisis response capacity, Chinese grassroots units and departments have prepared basic contingency plans. In the actua…
Yong Zhang, Lu Chen
More and more enterprises organize co-creation activities in virtual brand community to allow customers to participate in new products or new service development process. Involved in those activities, customers obtain experience value, which can make them hav…
Christopher Bagley, Sadia Kadri, Afroze Shahnaz, Padam Simkhada, Kathleen King
Background : This research is based on our argument that the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children (CSEWC) often includes a variety of abuses, sexual, physical, emotional, and economic. In Bangladesh, “Sex work” is a major industry, and about t…
Ishmael Norman, 1 1, 1 1
The concept of “African democracy” invokes James and Stuart Rachels’ (2003) treatise against “Cultural Relativism”. That is to say, it is generally assumed that there is democracy relative to Africa and therefore, there is a concept of “African Democracy Rela…
Tony Carton
This article problematizes the current western hubris around resilience and compulsory positivity that has ideologically insinuated itself into the addiction counselling treatment field. It argues that these discourses emanate less from clinical propositions…
Chunxian Zheng, Xueying Huang
Using discourse analysis and social learning theory (Wenger, 1998, 2000, 2010), this article analyzes the peer interactions of a group of four college learners of English in a peer feedback activity with the focus on the writer, the peripheral participant’s l…
Fred Tavares, Analice Araujo Silva, Giselle Gama Torres Ferreira, Margarete Ribeiro Tavares, Roberta Matos de Miranda
The purpose of this essay, whose theoretical bases are inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, is to investigate the relationship between consumption, subjectivity, capital and nature, in the context of the world society of control, the production of t…
Ishmael Norman, 1 1, 1 1
The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, a “flagship” program of Ghana, has been praised as a Sub-Saharan Africa’s “miracle cure” for poverty alleviation because it gives US$4.00 - 6.00 a month to a single beneficiary household. In any other regions of the…
Christopher Bagley, Alice Sawyerr, Mahmoud Abubaker
Critical realism emerged from the philosophical writings of Roy Bhaskar, and has evolved into a philosophy of social science research using the model of “dialectical critical realism” (DCR) which begins with the researcher’s assumptions that the structures be…
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Advances in Applied Sociology (AASoci) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in applied sociology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of app… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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