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Factors Influencing on E-Banking Practices: Evidence from Sri Lanka 影响电子银行实践的因素:来自斯里兰卡的证据

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2017-11-06 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V9I1.11989

Anusiga Gunaratnam, K. Kajenthiran, Umanakenan Ratnam, Achchuthan Sivapalan

引用次数: 5

Sociology School Textbook for 3rd Grade-High School, Semiotic Analysis of Illustration. 高中三年级社会学学校教材《插图的符号学分析》。

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2017-07-25 DOI: 10.5296/jsr.v8i2.11618

Stella Saragatsi, A. Christodoulou, Argyrios Kyridis, N. Fotopoulos, Ifigenia Bambakidou

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引用次数: 1

The Myth of Increasing Life Expectancy and Its Social Policy Implications 延长预期寿命的神话及其社会政策含义

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2017-07-17 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V8I2.11138

R. E. Parker, Vianett Garcia Achaval

引用次数: 0

The Impact of Self-assessment and Peer-assessment in Writing on the Self-regulated Learning of Iranian EFL Students 写作自我评价与同伴评价对伊朗英语学生自主学习的影响

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2017-07-04 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V8I2.11252

J. Fathi, L. Yousefi, Mehrnoosh Sedighravesh

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引用次数: 10

The Relevance of the Social Control Theory in Explaining Crime among African Americans 社会控制理论在解释非裔美国人犯罪中的相关性

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2017-04-07 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V8I1.10729

A. Daramola, G. Osho

{"title":"The Relevance of the Social Control Theory in Explaining Crime among African Americans","authors":"A. Daramola, G. Osho","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V8I1.10729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V8I1.10729","url":null,"abstract":"Today, criminologists, especially, Black criminologists, are thoroughly perplexed by the same problem of disproportionate minority confinement (DMC) most especially of Blacks in both the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Are African Americans more criminally minded than other races or ethnic groups? Do African Americans actually commit more crimes than others? These are the questions that the different deviant theories have tried to answer. The concept of social bonding arose from social control theory, which suggests that attachment to family and school, commitment to conventional pathways of achievements and beliefs in the legitimacy of social order are primary and important elements of establishing a social bond (Hirschi, 1969). In expounding his social control theory, Hirschi listed the elements of the bond as attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. Does it mean that African Americans commit more crimes than other racial and ethnic groups? Or are African Americans genetically wired to be criminogenic? Is the society or the environment to blame for the perceived higher rate of crime among African Americans? Or are the criminal justice system, the judicial system, and the juvenile justice system, all together racially biased against Blacks, especially, Black males? Even though Hirschi (1969) did not mention attachment to religious beliefs as part of social control, but for the African American families, the church could play a significant role in helping to cement the bond of adolescents to their families. Any study of the African American family is not complete without the church. According to Work (1900), in all social study of the Negro, the church must be considered, for it is one of the greatest factors in his social life.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129402825","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}

引用次数: 1

Resurrecting an Abandoned “Standpoint”: An Exploratory Application of W. I. Thomas’ Abandoned “Four Wishes” and the “Definition of the Situation” to Adolescent Shoplifters’ Cases 复活被抛弃的“立场”:托马斯被抛弃的“四个愿望”与“情境定义”在青少年商店行窃案件中的探索性应用

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2017-04-07 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V8I1.11046

J. Farmer

引用次数: 0

Juvenile Probation Professionals’ Perceptions of Community-Based Probation Practices 青少年缓刑专业人员对社区缓刑实践的看法

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2016-10-04 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V7I2.10033

Darren R. Beneby

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引用次数: 0

The Phenomenon of State Violence in the Student Community: The Views of Greek University Students 学生群体中的国家暴力现象:希腊大学生的观点

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2016-09-26 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V7I2.9730

S. Danis, Argyris Kyridis, Christos Zagkos, C. Tourtouras

{"title":"The Phenomenon of State Violence in the Student Community: The Views of Greek University Students","authors":"S. Danis, Argyris Kyridis, Christos Zagkos, C. Tourtouras","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I2.9730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I2.9730","url":null,"abstract":"By its nature, the modern nation - state obtains the monopoly of the legitimate authority and the institutionalized violence. The relations of the authority with its citizens are determined by specific regulations and rules, which are supposed to reflect the “social contract”. However, the use of state violence in modern societies is being increased during the periods of economic and political crisis. Thus, in Greece during the years of crisis the use of violence by the state mechanisms is an everyday phenomenon. Our research analyzing the attitude of Greek university students towards state violence in Greece. Regarding methodology, two methodological tools were used, meeting the requirements of the research: a questionnaire with closed questions, in order to quantitatively investigate the attitudes of students regarding various issues, with a 5/point scale Likert. Moreover, a quantitative content analysis was used, investigating a basically qualitative research material, which was derived from the responses to open-ended questions, concerning the perceptions of the university students towards the topic of state violence.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133282367","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}

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Social Media and Learning Styles as Correlates of Senior Secondary Students’ Chemistry Achievement in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria 社交媒体和学习方式对尼日利亚奥贡州阿贝奥库塔高中生化学成绩的影响

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2016-09-08 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V7I2.9902

Modupe M. Osokoya, R. Kazeem

{"title":"Social Media and Learning Styles as Correlates of Senior Secondary Students’ Chemistry Achievement in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria","authors":"Modupe M. Osokoya, R. Kazeem","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I2.9902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I2.9902","url":null,"abstract":"Students spend most of the time they should have spent on reading on social media, meanwhile social media should be a tool for students to enhance their learning styles and improve their achievement in chemistry. Literatures revealed that both learning styles and social media affect the academic performance of students either positively or negatively, however little or no attempt has been made to investigate the effect of both on the academic achievement of students in chemistry. This study thus investigated the effect of learning styles and social media on the achievement of senior secondary school chemistry students in Abeokuta south local government of Ogun State, Nigeria. It is ex post facto research design. The population of study is all the public secondary schools students in Abeokuta South local government area of Ogun State. Random sampling was used to select five schools while forty SSIII chemistry students each were purposely selected from the schools to give a total of 200. The students responded to three research instruments which were Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) (reliability = 0.79), and Social Media Usage Scale (SMUS) (reliability = 0.85). Five research questions were answered and data was analysed with descriptive statistics including graphical presentations. Use of Facebook (57%) was prevalent among the students. Participative learning style (mean = 15.88, mode = 17) was found to be the style commonly used by chemistry students. Both male and female students (t (198) =1.65, p> 0.05) were found to be equal on the use of social media. Students usually shared more personal features than sharing ideas or knowledge. There was no significant relationship between the use of social media and students’ achievement in chemistry. Science students, especially chemistry students are enjoined to devote some of the time they spent on social media for academic development rather than on social affairs mainly.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133643696","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}

引用次数: 4

Qatar's Modern Diplomacy and Al-Jazeera’s Role in Middle East’s Evolutions over the Recent Decades 卡塔尔的现代外交与半岛电视台在近几十年中东局势演变中的作用

Journal of Sociological Research Pub Date : 2016-06-10 DOI: 10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9580

A. Amini, Mehdi Akbarsefat

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