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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…
Solomon Sika-Bright, Chinyere C. P. Nnorom
Children are mostly the victims of child sexual abuse however, most children have little or no idea about what child sexual abuse entails and the forms it takes. In addition, the opinions of children have mostly been neglected in cases of child sexual abuse.…
María de los Ángeles Aguilera, José de Jesús Pérez, Diemen Delgado, Mónica Contreras, Martín Acosta, Blanca Elizabeth Pozos
The purpose of this qualitative case study, carried out in two phases, is to systematize the learning experiences and expectations of older adults and their families as they face approaching retirement, in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2012. The strategy implemented w…
Samira Welhezi, Makram Zghibi, Najmeddine Ouesleti, Chamseddine Guinoubi, Najwa Jerbi, Mohamed Jabri
This study focuses on the socio-cultural constraints in women’s access to the practice of competitive sport. Through a sociological approach, we explore the field of lived experiences from a population of twenty young Tunisian women practicing competitive spo…
Mohmad Saleem Jahangir, Aneesa Shafi
Population census is a total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing and publishing demographic, economic and social data pertaining, at a specified time, to all persons in a country or in a well defined part of a country, drawing valid conclu…
F. A. Olasupo
The crisis of Local Government autonomy in Nigeria is a recurrent issue. How much autonomy this third tier of government possesses is unclear and uncertain to the extent that it engenders the problem of measurement. In other words, what are the defining chara…
Esposito Maurizio
Background : This article analyzes the social world of seafarers, with the aim of crossing the boundary defining the field of social sciences and entering the area of knowledge, where, to paraphrase Marcel Mauss, scientists argue for a place. Methods and Inst…
Priscila Diaz, Jessica Stahl, David Lovis-McMahon, Summer H. Y. Kim, Virginia S. Y. Kwan
Objective: By 2014, over 30 million Americans currently lacking health insurance will be able to access health services. While enhancing accessibility to healthcare is a significant step towards reducing health disparities, it is unclear whether access to hea…
Collins K. Ahorlu, Eric Koka, Seth Kumordzi, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Edwin Ampadu
Background :Buruli ulcer infection is generally referred to as a re-emerging disease with the highest burden in West Africa. In Ghana, about 1000 cases are reported annually. The former Ga district (now the Ga West and Ga South municipalities) continues to re…
Yunjiao Gao, Yanping Yu, Ting Kin Ng
This study examined the interaction effect between family functioning and delinquent peer association on delinquent behavior in a sample of 534 adolescents from five middle schools in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic ofChina. The results showed that both expos…
Joshua Oyeniyi Aransiola
This article examines the limitations of all stakeholders in providing support for street children in Nigeria in the face of continuous increase in their number with a view to identify possible policy options in the light of inabilities of the stakeholders to…
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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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