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The main purpose and goal of Sociology Mind (SM) is to synergize sociological imagination in the 21st century toward a critical understanding of new social and cultural forces that call for scientific interpretation and analysis of facts and values. All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigo…
Aishatu Yusha’u Armiya’u, Muhammad Aliyu, 1 1, 1 1
Homicide occurring within familial and intimate relationships represents a significant public health, criminological, and forensic psychiatric concern because it violates fundamental expectations of trust, protection, and social cohesion. Despite increasing p…
Felix Kaplan
Necrography is a writing practice for sites where welfare, psychiatry, and recovery-oriented care no longer have the language to describe the lives encountered there. Drawing on two decades of field presence across four sites in Israel—an abandoned drug-and-s…
Rosalia Condorelli
Since pain’s meaning changes over time within scenarios that are a product of collective consciousness, how has the objective form or social meaning of illness pain changed over time in our modern contemporary society? How has its manifestation or communicati…
Ben Choi, Ridley Sendow, Tophy David
There is a striking sociological paradox that exists in South Korea, a country that is infamous for its demanding workplace culture. Here, the economy can be described as high-income with a world-class digital infrastructure that ranks last among 40 countries…
Michael Odibeoha Maduagwu
It is argued in this paper, the focus of which is Nigeria, that the belief in witchcraft, which is still very pervasive in contemporary Africa, has very serious implications for human rights and national security. In Africa, as in many parts of the world, wit…
Mario Ignacio Aguilar
This paper (number 7) in the research project “Burying the Dead” follows the introductory comments and typology of Aguilar’s previous papers, but moves the material context of burial to Rome and to the latest papal burial, that of Pope Francis in 2025. Pope F…
Rosalia Condorelli
In complex Western modern polyethnic and democratic societies, the idea that integration, social cohesion, and civic equality require cultural homogeneity is difficult to sustain. And if in an era of super-diversity, the assimilationist idea of cultural homol…
Annie Malcolm, Seungheon Oh
Doodling, a spontaneous mark or drawing created without the intention of producing a finished artwork, operates at the intersection of psychology, sociology, and art, offering adolescents a quiet yet powerful medium of self-expression. Through a review of exi…
Assiye Aka
This study approaches retributive justice not by reducing it solely to the internal logic of criminal law or to a normative principle, but as an affective regime in which emotions, political discourse, and cultural codes are deeply intertwined. Contrary to th…
Mario I. Aguilar
This paper (number 6) in the research project “Burying the Dead” follows the introductory comments and typology of previous papers ( Aguilar, 2024a , 2024b, 2025a, 2025b, 2025c) but moves the material context of mass graves related to victims and killings dur…
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The main purpose and goal of Sociology Mind (SM) is to synergize sociological imagination in the 21st century toward a critical understanding of new social and cultural forces that call for scientific interpretation and analysis of facts and values. All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigo… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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