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{"title":"Surviving in the trails: teacher's lived experiences in remote areas.","authors":"Mark Neil A Galut","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1456269","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1456269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the experiences of teachers who are assigned to teach in remote areas. This qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological research study investigates the teachers' journeys in surviving the trails of teaching in remote areas. Using hermeneutic phenomenological research methods, such as in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, this study found that assigning teachers to remote areas or distant locations is difficult not only in Kabugao District but also across the country. The findings revealed that surviving in the trails of the lived experiences of teachers in a remote areas had diverse experiences: Accessibility at the end of the trail, teachers' love and passion, experience is the best teacher, eagerness behind challenges, culture-based teaching, teaching is fulfilling a life-changing experience, quality education is possible through support and connection, twenty-first-century teachers and twenty-first-century IP learners in remote area. Going to their respective stations needs to hike for almost a day or ride on a boat for almost 5 h. Teachers sacrifice their own money for the welfare of their learners. They provide a valuable contribution to our understanding of the challenges and resilience of teachers working in remote areas. Teachers of this study suggest increasing the support for the next teachers who are assigned to teach in remote areas and include the provision of adequate resources and infrastructure, as well as the development of support networks to improve their working conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1456269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11920974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A troubling cost-A study of the republican sacrifice in murals.","authors":"Fredrika Larsson","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1490546","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1490546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the representation of the cost of war in mainstream and dissident republican murals in Northern Ireland by examining depictions of bodily sacrifice in three historical rebellions. The study highlights how psychological resilience is valorized alongside physical sacrifice, reinforcing identity hierarchies within republicanism. This challenges assumptions of republican solidarity, revealing competitive dynamics within and between mainstream and dissident factions. Murals as expressions of the republican identity and collective memory show how cultural violence is embedded in the republican collective memory, legitimizing past violence while marginalizing dissenting perspectives. This perpetuation hinders societal healing, as these narratives exclude those who challenge the justification of violence, complicating efforts to address the mental health crisis stemming from the Troubles. The article underscores the critical role of visual culture in shaping collective memory and identity, perpetuating societal hierarchies and cultural violence. It also identifies the potential for reinterpretation of sacrifice, offering a path toward inclusive understandings of the Troubles.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1490546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11920116/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracing individual experiences to systemic challenges: the (re)production of GBV in migrant women's experiences in Canada.","authors":"Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Myrna Dawson","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1528525","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1528525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the experiences of migrant women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Canada, focusing on their processes of disclosing violence and seeking help. It explores a range of migration-related factors and circumstances that shape migrant women's responses to violence while also aiming to reveal how migration contexts determine system-and structural-level responses to GBV, which are then traced back to women's individual experiences and responses. Based on 17 in-depth interviews with migrant women and using a situated intersectionality perspective, our findings demonstrate first how GBV in migration is uniquely shaped and (re)produced by precarity, rooted in structural, socioeconomic, and legal conditions that translate into heightened vulnerability at the individual level. We showed that migration contexts increased women's vulnerability to GBV, as perpetrators exploited precarity to manipulate and control women, illustrating the continuum of precarity-GBV. Secondly, this manipulation, controlling behaviors, and abuse of migrant women by perpetrators are enabled by migration policies and practices that give rise to their precarity. Additionally, our participants reported a lack of supportive social networks, which, in combination with the fear of cultural stigmatization, created a double bind hindering their processes of seeking safety. Furthermore, systemic responses to migrant women experiencing GBV were found to be inadequate, with discriminatory and negligent attitudes in healthcare, police, and legal systems. This is the continuum of systemic-individual level violence. Our findings enhance both the theoretical and empirical understanding of the continuum (i) between precarity and GBV and (ii) between systemic and individual forms of GBV in migration contexts, where precarity exacerbates GBV, and vice versa, creating a vicious cycle that deepens individual experiences of vulnerability, while the systemic and structural forms of violence contribute/(re)produce individual experiences of GBV.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1528525"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11915144/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Migration, ethnicity, race and diversity in a post-Brexit and pandemic Britain.","authors":"Steve Garner, Sin Yi Cheung, Sofia Vougioukalou, April-Louise Pennant","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1563314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1563314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1563314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11915024/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the willingness of healthcare workers to treat viral infected patients in Saudi Arabia: evidence from post-COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Abdulhadi Sharhan Alotaibi","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1461479","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1461479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers played an essential role in saving millions of lives and stopping the spread of the virus worldwide. This study investigates the impact of perceived behavioral control, attitudes, subjective norms, and emotion-focused coping on willingness to treat viral-infected patients in Saudi Arabia. However, the theory of planned behavior was extended by including emotion-focused coping. Data were collected from 283 male and female healthcare workers from public, private, and semi-government hospitals. \"Structural Equation Modeling\" (SEM) was applied to test the hypothetical relationship using SmartPLS software. Overall, the findings indicate that healthcare workers perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, and emotion-focused coping significantly impact healthcare workers' willingness to treat viral-infected patients. In contrast, attitudes showed a negative effect. In addition, emotion-focused coping mediates the relationship between perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, and willingness to treat viral-infected patients; emotion-focused coping does not mediate the relationship between attitudes and willingness to treat viral-infected patients. Overall, findings suggested that healthcare workers showed positive perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, and emotion-focused coping toward viral-infected patients. On the other hand, due to the novelty of the viral-infected viruses, attitudes of healthcare workers toward willingness to treat viral-infected patients shows that healthcare workers feel stressed and scared to treat viral-infected patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1461479"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11913814/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of education as a socialization mechanism in addressing the social gradient in depression treatment in Belgium (2004-2018).","authors":"Lisa Colman, Katrijn Delaruelle, Piet Bracke","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1204794","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1204794","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Previous studies have identified socioeconomic inequalities in the treatment of depression. However, these studies often take a narrow approach, focusing on a single treatment type and lacking a comprehensive theoretical framework. Moreover, income and education are frequently used interchangeably as indicators of disadvantage, without distinguishing their unique impacts. This study argues that relying solely on income to explain treatment inequalities is overly simplistic, suggesting instead that education influences treatment through two distinct pathways. The study's objectives are twofold: first, to investigate the presence of a social gradient in depression treatment, and second, to examine how this gradient is manifested.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study utilizes data from the Belgian Health Interview Survey (BHIS), covering four successive waves: 2004, 2008, 2013, and 2018. The weighted data represent a sample of the adult Belgian population. Multinomial regression models are used to address the research aims, and models are plotted to detect trends over time using marginal means post-estimation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings indicate that income is not significantly related to depression treatment, while persistent educational inequalities in treatment are observed over time. Individuals with longer educational attainment are more likely to use psychotherapy alone or a combination treatment, whereas individuals with shorter educational attainment are more likely to use pharmaceutical treatment alone.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This study demonstrates that education plays a critical role in fostering health-related knowledge and reasoning, making individuals with longer education more likely to engage in rational health behaviors and choose more effective treatments, even when these treatments require more effort and competencies. The findings underscore the importance of considering education as a key determinant of depression treatment inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1204794"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11914119/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research theme mapping and future directions on corruption and religion: a bibliometric analysis.","authors":"Salahudin, Iradhad Taqwa Sihidi, Ali Roziqin, Tinuk Dwi Cahyani, Kisman Karinda, Muhammad Firdaus, Tawakkal Baharuddin","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1502700","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1502700","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Corruption harms social and economic structures whilst religion acts as a moral pillar with ethical values to fight it. Unfortunately, the relationship between the two is less explored in the literature. This present study employs a bibliometric analysis approach with data retrieved from the Scopus database. We explore the relationship between corruption and religion through the identification of trends and mapping important topics to reveal potential future research on the topic. The results show a considerable increase in the recent number of publications on the topic despite its limited literature. More importantly, the mapping illustrates that the relationship between corruption and religion has transformed focus from economic, social, and political factors to including religious variables as an important element. In particular, topics like religiosity, religious affiliation, liberation theology, education, and anti-corruption mark shifts in complexity in current discussions. Such a complexity challenges diverse perceptions of religious values and their position in linking political and economic interests. This finding implies that future research needs to adopt a holistic and contextual framework to understand the factual impact of religion on corruption. This attempt potentially expands the current thinking on the role of religion within corruption cases in shaping a more inclusive perspective that bridges anti-corruption practises in society.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1502700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11911355/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"<i>Your behavior is not welcome here</i>…\": forced internal displacement of sexual and gender minorities in Kenya.","authors":"Emmy Kageha Igonya, Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah, Winstoun Muga, Kristefer Stojanovski","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1499312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1499312","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While migration studies have boomed, little is mentioned about internal displacement of queer persons. In Kenya, internal displacement of sexual and gender minorities is often overlooked and not well understood, which results in increased marginalization and vulnerabilities. The article provides an in-depth analysis of forced serial internal displacement trajectories of sexual and gender minorities, and its effect on navigating socialites and livelihoods.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We draw on qualitative data conducted between 2010 and 2023 using participant observations, in-depth interviews, case histories, and focus group discussions with LGBTQ+ persons, as well as mothers and fathers of gay men in Kenya. We used a thematic approach and principles of interpretive anthropology to organize and describe the meaning of the data as a continuous process. Broader themes were identified from the beginning of the first study, resulting in the development of a codebook framework that was reiterated over time.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Our findings show that sexual and gender minorities are forced into internal migration. Factors informing are located at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and communal levels. We identified three main themes with eight subthemes. The main themes were (1) reasons for migration, which were often related to stigma, violence and oppression, (2) patterns of migration, which primarily had rural to urban patterns and instability, and (3) kinship, networks, and social systems, which required rebuilding, and gaining \"respectability\" from kin.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There can be little doubt that sexual and gender minorities face stigma and discrimination across levels of the socioecological model, and that in most cases, there has been multiplied grievances and anti- LGBTQ+ activities instigating serial forced migration. Forced serial displacement of sexual and gender minorities in Kenya requires research attention, and it might be better served if examined through the lens of \"forced migration,\" given the non-voluntary aspects of fleeing and displacement. Rethinking LGBTQ+ IDPs through the lens of coercion may better capture the lived experiences given the structural stigma and violence in which they live and cannot escape.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1499312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11907648/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Redefining disease in the age of blood-based biomarkers.","authors":"Naveen K Reddy","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1533429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1533429","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the sociological and ethical implications of redefining disease in the era of advanced diagnostic technologies, with a focus on blood-based biomarkers. Drawing from Foucault's concept of medicalization and Illich's critique of disease mongering, it highlights how diagnostic expansions, driven by corporate and institutional influences, are reshaping the boundaries of health and disease. Advances such as blood assays for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, liquid biopsies in oncology, and biomarkers for depression and diabetes, while promising, raise concerns about premature diagnoses and overtreatment. The influence of pharmaceutical and insurance industries on diagnostic criteria, as seen in the ICD updates, underscores the need to address conflicts of interest and regulatory gaps. Case studies on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's reveal how these changes could benefit stakeholders at the expense of patient welfare. The article calls for ethical oversight, stricter regulation, and research into the population-level efficacy of diagnostic and treatment protocols.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1533429"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11906679/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors affecting trust in Bangladesh police among urban male residents: a test on instrumental and expressive model.","authors":"Md Khalid Hasan, Maruf Hasan Rumi, Abu Hossain Muhammad Ahsan","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1480164","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1480164","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The primary aim of this study was to examine the level of trust male residents in urban areas of Bangladesh have in the police. Additionally, the study sought to explore the various factors that influence this trust.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study employed a robust cross-sectional research design. Utilizing multi-stage sampling techniques, the survey was conducted among male respondents (aged 18 or over) through in-person interviews, and the data was collected using the Kobo Toolbox. A total of 1,108 data were collected from four city corporation areas in Dhaka, Sylhet, Khulna, and Rangpur districts, ensuring a comprehensive representation of urban areas in Bangladesh.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study revealed that male citizens in urban areas of Bangladesh have a moderate level of trust in the police. Trust in neighbors was found to be a significant and positive factor influencing trust in police. The study also found that neighborhood relative safety was positively associated with trust in police, while the perceived crime problem in the locality had a negative impact on trust in police. Furthermore, middle-aged (39-49 years old) and older men (over 50 years old) were found to have significantly lower trust in police than young adult (19-39 years old) respondents. Location was also a crucial factor, with respondents from Khulna City exhibiting substantially higher trust in the police than male residents of other cities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study underscores the need for the law enforcement agency to address the current situation. To improve public trust in the police, it is crucial that the agency increases its social media presence and launches campaigns to highlight its recent successes.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1480164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11903406/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143624671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}