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{"title":"Kindness as the social bond and the education for the future","authors":"Monica Mastrantonio","doi":"10.30918/njss.113.23.040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/njss.113.23.040","url":null,"abstract":"Kindness studies have been brought to attention and highlighted in new studies in the field of humanities as the central social bond of humanity and much needed for future generations. Being so, an education that reinforces this skill should be prioritized across disciplines and curriculums. In the Imaginable Futures survey conducted worldwide with 313 responders, kindness was mentioned as one of the three most important abilities for the future. Together with the importance of peace education and mental health, kindness needs to be prioritized in education for the future. As the core aspect of social bonds, this skill acquisition requires a new approach to education, rather than the past content acquisition that led school education for so many years. Kindness is also deeply connected to happiness, well-being, empathy, and sociability, and it can generate physical benefits, like low blood pressure, among other physical and mental health bonds. This research concludes that kindness should be implemented as a key educational figure at this critical time of the Anthropocene. Keywords: Kindness, social bond, skill acquisition, education, future, peace, mental health.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"280 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135750847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The nexus between poverty and socio-economic characteristics of the household and household head: Evidence from Sierra Leone","authors":"Abubakarr Turay","doi":"10.30918/njss.93.21.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/njss.93.21.016","url":null,"abstract":"Household poverty is widespread in Sierra Leone, affecting about 6 out of every 10 persons, which calls for urgent policy action. This study used the 2018 Sierra Leone Integrated Household Survey (2018 SLIHS) and a logistic model to analyze the influence of socio-economic characteristics of the household and household head on poverty. The analysis has shown that living in rural areas, having no formal education, or being unemployed, significantly increases the probability of a household being in extreme poverty. Other factors contributing to household extreme poverty status were: have a large household size with many children below 10 years, being separated from a spouse (widowed or divorced), being disabled, and working in the agriculture sector. On the other hand, the characteristics that decrease the probability of a household being poor include being a female household head, having at least secondary school education (notably tertiary education), residing in urban areas or cities, working in the services sector, and being single or married. Therefore, enhancing service delivery through a viable decentralization process, and supporting easily accessible quality education programmes, especially tertiary education, are critical for meaningful poverty reduction across all sections of the population. Keywords: Poverty, household, socio-economic characteristics, logistics model.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132533049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between entrepreneurial intention and positive education: Case of communication students","authors":"Martha Silvia Torres Hidalgo","doi":"10.30918/njss.82.20.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/njss.82.20.014","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the article is to identify the trends in factors of positive education that affecting the entrepreneurial spirit in the students of the Communication’s School. The research makes a Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis for its hypothesis test, between entrepreneurial intention IE (Kruger et al., 2004) and the strengths and virtues in action, short test VIA (Peterson and Seligman, 2004). For this purpose, the empirical research was applied to a sample of 81 students from the eighth semester of the terminal area of the Communication’s School. The results demonstrate a high level of correlation between the two variables, highlighting the sub-dimension of significance, where optimism and gratitude expose significant degrees of correlation. The research framework proposes a guide and key factors to be included in the design of future updates for fostering entrepreneurial strategies.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128498439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Red meta-analytical retrospective of the policies in the handling of risks of transportation in the City of Mexico","authors":"Celia Yaneth Quiroz Campas, Mexico. Itson, J. Aguayo, M. J. Nájera, Eyder Bolívar Mojica, María Luisa Quintero Soto, C. Lirios, M. Unam, Mexico. Uam, Mexico. Usta, Mexico. Uaemex, Mexico. Ceps","doi":"10.30918/njss.74.19.034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/njss.74.19.034","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to carry out a systematic review of the literature to reveal the policies of metropolitan mobility and peri-urban health, focusing the discussion on the effects of public transport safety on the health of users. The purpose of the study is to carry out a systematic review of the random effects of public transport on the health of users in order to test the hypothesis of homogeneity. A documentary, retrospective and meta-analytic study was carried out with a non-probabilistic selection of indexed sources published from 2010 to 2019 and search with the key words. Findings show prevalence of data that sustain the non-exposure to risk events derived from mobility policies in public transport safety and the health of users. Political comparisons reveal the prevention of the effects of risk events on the health of users. In conclusion, mobility policies, focused on the effects of transport safety on the health of users, do not recognize the risks of exposure or the short, medium and long-term consequences.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127539636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land tenure challenges in Kisumu City, Kenya","authors":"N. Obange, G. Wagah","doi":"10.30918/njss.74.19.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/njss.74.19.023","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid urbanization often results in land tenure conflicts commonly in urban fringe areas. Overly, this is attributed to lack or in some instance unclear urban planning schemes. Kisumu city, the third largest city in Kenya has experienced rapid urbanization as a result of high rural-urban human migration in search of informal/informal employment. Consequently Kisumu urban sprawl is highly characterized by gentrification challenges and land tenure disputes in its fringes. The study sought to provide a comprehensive national and local overview of the historical and legal context of land tenure challenges as a result of urbanization in Kenya and Kisumu in particular. The study used document content analysis technique to review records at the lands office and county city planning office. Key informant interview and focus group discussion were conducted on different socio-economic group from the informal settlements of Nyalenda A and B. The study established that land ownership is an emotive issue. There are three types of land tenure namely; public, communal and individual land tenure. Further, the study found that urban population pressure and gentrification remain major challenges in Kisumu urban fringe land which were traditionally communally owned. In the two study areas: Nyalenda ‘A’ the population density is 8,953 per sq. km while Nyalenda B has a population density of 6,886 per sq. km, far above most residential areas of the city. The demographic growth in Kisumu is exerting pressure on housing development which typically is extending to the surrounding agricultural hinterlands which traditionally were owned by local communities. Consequently, the traditional communal land use practices such as subsistence farming and cattle herding is under threat of gentrification. According to the study respondents, a stylized continuum from: leaseholds to freehold to community land tenure system would be the best model to resolve land tenure challenges and enhance security of tenure in Nyalenda urban fringe. The study therefore recommend stylized model (model based on public participation) but anchored on the UN-HABITAT model (2008) to resolve conflicts over land tenure arising from Kisumu urban sprawl.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126814144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancient technology as mitigation to the 21st century problems: A case of coping with climate change in Ankole region, Western Uganda","authors":"W. K. Kayamba, P. Kwesiga","doi":"10.30918/NJSS.73.19.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/NJSS.73.19.021","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigates how communities in Ankole region of western Uganda are coping with climate change and what strategies they have layed to counteract its effects using primordial (traditional) technologies. The study was carried out in the districts of Mbarara and Isingiro, which are separated by the River Rwizi and are part of the Uganda's cattle corridor. Since the end of the 19th Century, this region has experienced prolonged dry seasons. The main objective of the research was to investigate how climate change and human activities associated with social and economic developments have affected the environment; and how the people of Ankole are coping with these issues. The study involved twenty purposively selected participants who were involved in different activities. Interviews were conducted to obtain a deeper understanding of their experiences and opinions to assess their perception of climate change. Site visits were done to observe activities in the area of study. Research findings indicated that these activities have had a devastating effect on the environment. The production of bricks on the banks of River Rwizi has lowered its water table and increased siltations. The cutting of wood for fuel to burn bricks, as well as agricultural activities has led to silting-up of the river and loss of vegetation leading to extended drought in the region. The increasing demand for river sand for construction has equally increased sand mining activities along R. Rwizi which has diverted its course, caused water evaporation and reduced its flow. However, these activities have called for innovative technologies which are environmentally friendly to counteract the climate change, the study has revealed.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133413841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Administrative leadership styles and their role in improving job satisfaction: An analytical research in Al-Sadr Medical City in Najaf, Iraq","authors":"Abbas Mezeal Mushraf Alsahlani","doi":"10.30918/NJSS.72.19.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/NJSS.72.19.018","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the research is to identify the relationship between managerial leadership styles and job satisfaction in view of the styles stipulated by the Management Network theory. These styles are Team Management style, Club Management style, Middle of the Road Management style, Authority-Compliance style and Impoverished style, using a set of criteria for measuring job satisfaction, among which are satisfaction with work, wages, promotion, the team, and the leader. The research problem is focused on identifying which type of leadership styles is dominant and their impact on improving job satisfaction. Random sample of 300 employees out of 700 employees working in the hospital, namely Al-Sadr Medical City, were involved in the questionnaire. Only 259 questionnaire forms were collected and analyzed by using (SPSS) program. The results showed a positive relationship between managerial leadership styles and job satisfaction. They showed that the prevalent style is the team management style followed by the Club style. There also appeared an inverse relationship between the Authority-Compliance style and job satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130992645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of education quality at tertiary institutions of learning: Perceptions of undergraduate students at BA ISAGO University, Botswana","authors":"O. Adedoyin","doi":"10.30918/NJSS.72.19.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/NJSS.72.19.017","url":null,"abstract":"Tertiary Institutions of Learning are the most important level of education in any country because they develop the manpower that leads the nation in giving insight into future ideals, resources and solutions to problems. Education quality in any tertiary institutions is considered as one of the major elements that guarantee sustainable economic and social development in any country. This study identified the determinants of education quality at Tertiary Institutions of Learning as perceived by BA ISAGO University undergraduate students. This study utilized survey inferential design to explore the perceptions of a representative stratified sample of BA ISAGO undergraduate students with respect to four (4) existing faculties at the university (Faculties of: Education, Commerce, Built and Environment and Law) on quality education at Tertiary Institutions of Learning. The stratified sample consisted of two hundred and fifty (250) undergraduate students in the four faculties. A 30-item questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Data collected were analyzed statistically using mean and standard deviations, independent t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 alpha level. Five (5) determinants emerged accounting for approximately 81.96% of the total variance with eigen values ranging from 11.013 to 1.249. The findings that were perceived to be determinants of education quality were as follows: Lecturers’ attributes; Administrative support; Institutional status; Students’ characteristics and Academic procedures of the university. Recommendations were made based on these findings.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132278892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Children as subjects of rights: Three waves of emancipation, from past and present cruelty to future creativity?","authors":"J. Willems","doi":"10.30918/NJSS.71.19.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/NJSS.71.19.014","url":null,"abstract":"Human rights are a universal language intended to end discrimination and violence, reduce human suffering and promote human development. The implementation of children’s rights may prove crucial for the success of the human rights project. We are beginning to understand why this may be so, due in large part to new approaches to the prevention of childhood trauma which may lead to a paradigm shift in children’s subject of rights status. The subject of rights status of children is still an international legal stipulation without substantive national implementation. Automatic parental authority over children at child birth – and its logical and factual corrolory: unprepared and not empowered or even disempowered parenthood – does not seem compatible with children’s subject of rights status. Two waves of emancipation, culminating in the nearuniversal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), have not changed this situation. A recent third wave, however, may trigger structural reforms in child protection. In this contribution, the three waves of children’s emancipation will be briefly indicated on the basis of the movements and pioneers that played or play a crucial role in them. The first wave of children’s emancipation from parental property status started with the first child protection organizations and laws at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first movement that has tried, and is still trying, to mitigate adult privileges that perpetuate transgenerational transmission of trauma, is the so-called Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention movement. The second wave consists of several advancements in children’s social and legal status that, by and large, began after the adoption of the CRC in 1989, culminating in a fastly growing number of states adopting legal bans on corporal punishment in family law at the turn of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The CRC’s monitoring treaty body, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Europe, and child rights NGOs and national child rights coalitions together form what may be called a Child Participation movement. The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Europe and especially one NGO, the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, launched in Geneva in 2001, are also part of another movement which may be labeled the Hitting Ban movement. A third wave started recently, independently of the CRC and child rights NGOs, in the US. It is spreading around the globe on the basis of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study). The ACE Study led to a new science, ACEs science, and a new movement, the ACEs science movement or ACEs movement. These are exciting times, especially in relation to the ACEs movement which may very well trigger structural reforms in the century-old field of child protection. This could happen if the ACEs movement leads to trauma-informed child rights research and advocacy – which in ","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127118439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing climate change communication strategies with game theory","authors":"A. Larkin","doi":"10.30918/NJSS.71.19.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30918/NJSS.71.19.012","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change perceptions and perceived risk in the United States has become increasingly partisan, with increased belief in and support for climate change and regulation among democrats, but decreased belief and support among republicans. These divergences are partly attributable to increasingly partisan news outlet viewership and coverage. We developed a game theory model to identify optimal climate change communication strategies through news media outlets. Actor strategies included whether to communicate with proand/or anti-climate change new outlets, and to emphasize regulation, renewable energy, whether climate change is real, man-made, and/or causes harm to the United States Payoffs consisted of change in public opinion for each of the candidate topics actors can chose to emphasize. Twenty-five sequential games were played independently for each of the 50 states within the United States. In all 25 repeated games and for all 50 states, strategies with the greatest output for pro and anti-climate change actors consistently reinforced partisan perceptions, driving democrats towards and republicans away from supporting climate change regulation. Predicted bipartisanship support was greatest for renewable energy but varied widely by state.","PeriodicalId":227217,"journal":{"name":"Net Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133495088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}