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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…
Rasmus Willig
The article argues that the so-called life-coaches can be seen as exponents of the ongoing institutionali- zation of the introverted criticism that apparently leads to more self-criticism and to a feeling of failure rather than to an actual extroverted critic…
David Moscoso-Sánchez, Raúl Sánchez-García, Maria Martín-Rodríguez, Natalia Pedrajas-Sanz
Sedentarism has become one of the major concerns of our times. Nowadays people spend most of the time sitting down and moving by mechanical means instead of exercising themselves. Younger generations do only a little more sport today than their counterparts d…
Muna Abdullah Al-Bahrani
Matriculation to college life can often pose adjustment problems that require identification and help. This is especially true in societies where gender separation is the norm. This qualitative study explores the help-seeking process from the subjective and c…
Jean Baptiste Sagahutu, Patricia Struthers
The purpose of this study was to determine the psychosocial environmental barriers to school attendance by children with disabilities in Rwanda. A quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted in one urban and one rural community-based rehabi…
Ishmael D. Norman
We investigated access of professionals in public health to national healthcare laws. We undertook a survey among doctors, lawyers and nurses as stand-ins for the professional class. We found that the professionals’ access to public health laws was a challeng…
Huiying Liu, Xueke Huang, Bian Du, Pan Wu
Purposes: To study the relation among self-concept, inter-personal relation and internet altruistic behavior. Methods: Adopt internet altruistic behavior scale, TSCS, inter-personal relation scale to test177 in-school undergraduates. Results: Difference of to…
Khadijeh Abolmaali, Tayebeh Ghafari, Bita Ajilchi
Happiness related to an individual’s happy perception, life satisfaction, and ability creates a balance between positive and negative feelings and leads to better functioning in life. Psychologists believe that the family plays a role in the explanation of ha…
Hans Petter Sand
At a time when the Saami ethnic minority got little attention by the Norwegian public and the political authorities of the country, sociologists did much to raise public awareness about the conditions of this ethnic minority. In the postwar period of the 1950…
Rasmus Antoft, Anders Petersen
The aim of this article is, through two case studies, to demonstrate that focus group interviews constitute a particularly useful method with which to examine topics which may seem sensitive to the informants. The central point of the article is that focus gr…
Alfred C. M. Chan, Stephen Y. L. Cheung, Tony C. K. Lai
Hong Kong as a free society, where capitalistic economy is essentially adopted, has failed to balance the distribution of resources and led to the widening of income disparity, indicated by a Gini coefficient of over 0.53 (Ma, 2011) as well as the stagnation…
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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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