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{"title":"Changes and their effects on working and daily life time use allocation between work-from-home and office work days during the telework period: insights from the survey in Japan.","authors":"Eri Aoki, Ai Hiramatsu, Keisuke Hanaki","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1534548","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1534548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The rapid adoption of telework, accelerated by advancements in ICT and the COVID-19 pandemic, offers potential benefits for wellbeing and environmental impact. However, telework's effects on work productivity, work-life balance, and social connectedness remain complex, particularly within hybrid models combining work-from-home (WFH) and in office days.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study assessed telework's impact by comparing WFH and office days. A survey of 1,500 full-time workers in Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Region focused on daily time allocation, and telework preferences during telework periods. Principal component and cluster analyses were used to identify groups with distinct work and lifestyle patterns.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Six telework-related groups emerged, reflecting diverse experiences in productivity and daily life. Groups such as the \"Overall Increase\" and \"Housework and Rest Increase\" reported gains in leisure and family time, positively impacting wellbeing. In contrast, the \"Unsuitable for WFH\" group faced increased office-day workloads and reduced WFH productivity, indicating that telework's effectiveness depends on job and individual characteristics.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings highlight telework's potential to enhance wellbeing and sustainability but also underscore the need for tailored policies that address diverse job requirements and personal characteristics. This study contributes to sustainable telework strategies by offering insights into effective support systems that balance flexibility, productivity, and environmental sustainability, aiming both for an enhanced personal life and societal benefits.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1534548"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11832714/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143450499","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":"Development of a cross-cultural scale on attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity (AGSD).","authors":"Daniel Oleas, Xochitl Garza-Olivares, Fernando Silva Teixeira-Filho, Guido Mascialino, Jose A Rodas","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1510002","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1510002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity can range from acceptance to rejection, influenced by various social, psychological, and cultural factors. In Latin America, instruments tailored to measure these attitudes within specific cultural contexts are limited. This study aimed to develop and validate a culturally relevant scale to assess attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity in Ecuador.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The research was conducted in two studies. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed on data collected from 225 psychology students to identify the scale's structure. In Study 2, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted with 362 students to confirm the factor structure and assess the scale's validity. The final scale comprised 18 items across three factors: social coexistence, moral and pathological views, and stereotypes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The scale demonstrated sound psychometric properties, with acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.74-0.77). Factor loadings ranged from 0.56 to 0.87, confirming the robustness of the scale. Three distinct factors were identified, providing a comprehensive measure of attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity in social, psychological, and behavioral contexts.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This scale represents a valuable tool for assessing attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity in Latin American populations. Future research should test its applicability across broader populations and in different Latin American countries to further validate its use and generalizability.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1510002"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11825456/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433659","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":"Explaining the prevalence of marital conflict: conceptual bifurcation and sociological explanations.","authors":"Wing-Chung Ho","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1490385","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1490385","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sociologists have investigated extensively marital conflict which is supposedly \"antithesis\" of marriage. However, there is little systematic reflection on how the coexistence of universal marriage <i>and</i> prevalent spousal discord in diverse cultural settings can possibly explained sociologically. This conceptual paper aims to address this issue by first critically reviewing how scholars have assessed the prevalence of marital conflict in human societies. This review is then extended to the conceptual elusiveness in gauging \"marital conflict,\" arguing that the concept has been inadvertently bifurcated as (i) a <i>constituent</i> (oft-represented as a single global continuous measure) of certain critical consequential events within a marriage (e.g., divorce); and (ii) a <i>predisposition</i> (oft-represented in terms of a set of multifarious binary variables) in pair-bonding relationships that increases the likelihood of the occurrence of certain critical consequential events. Such conceptual bifurcation sheds light on two board distinctive approaches-roughly termed contextual and evolutionary-through which the coexistence of marriage formation and martial conflict can be sociologically explained. Implications are briefly discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1490385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11825742/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433662","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":"Extending the concept of total pain to cancer survivorship.","authors":"Marian Krawczyk, Kari Nyheim Solbrække, Lisbeth Thoresen","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1387096","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1387096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>More people are surviving cancer than ever before. While there is a growing body of research on quality of life in cancer survivorship, we still do not have a good understanding of the lived complexities that many people experience after successful treatment. Inspired by the literature on existential concerns in cancer survivorship, we consider how the concept of 'total pain', which emerged from the contemporary hospice movement, may be useful to think about experiences of suffering in cancer survivorship, using interviews from a Norwegian research project <i>Rethinking Cancer Survivorship</i>. We find that the concept of total pain encapsulates concerns for existential suffering and also has unique features which offer new forms of understanding and action. This includes its origins within cancer care; how it addresses the individual as a whole and re-centres the body; its reliance on and recognition of the limits of narrative; how it attends to relationality; and how the concept may afford unique insights for service development. Dying from cancer and surviving cancer are different processes, but total pain can serve as a useful conceptual compass to orient our understandings of those who experience this illness, regardless of disease outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1387096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11821597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415138","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":"Settlement deservingness perceptions of climate change, economic, and political migrant groups across partisan lines.","authors":"Defne Aksit, Tijs Laenen","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1510672","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1510672","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>International migration is a prevailing issue of our times. With opponents of multicultural societies becoming more vocal across Europe, it is pivotal to strengthen our knowledge of how migrants are popularly perceived in receiving countries. Prior research suggests that there is remarkable agreement within different countries as to which types of migrants are seen as deserving of settlement, cutting across deep-rooted partisan divides. Building on the CARIN deservingness theory, this article sheds new light on this so-called \"hidden immigration consensus\" by investigating Americans' original perceptions of different migrant groups rather than following the standard practice of assessing how they react to a set of pre-defined migrant characteristics in a conjoint experiment. Based on a split-sample experiment, our results show that liberals and conservatives significantly differ in their perceptions of political, economic, and climate change migrants on four of the five CARIN criteria. Liberals differentiate between migrants on control, attitude, and identity criteria, whereas conservatives only distinguish on the control criterion. Liberals rate all migrant groups twice as deserving as conservatives. The implications for the settlement deservingness model and the hidden consensus hypothesis are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1510672"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11821599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143415143","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: Re-Building and Re-Inventing Workplaces.","authors":"Raffaella Valsecchi, Maria Balta, Rachel Morgan","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1538872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1538872","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1538872"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11808359/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143391706","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":"Present(ed) bodies, absent agency: \"patients' perspectives\" at the Museum Vrolik of the body and medicine.","authors":"Azia Lafleur","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1410240","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1410240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical exhibits are complex spaces, especially when displaying human remains. This research focuses on Amsterdam's Museum Vrolik, a prominent museum of the body and medicine in the Netherlands with an important role in the conservation and exhibition of the material heritage of Dutch medicine of the 18th and 19th centuries. I am interested in the affective encounters that are at play in such a setting between us-the living-and the remains on display: How the agency and subject-hood of those who lived and live with ill health, medicalization and disability are effectively present and absent in the context of affective influences in the Museum Vrolik. I deploy the concept of \"patients' perspectives\" as a conceptual tool for looking at those who have been impacted by medicine's medicalizing gaze and handling. Their presence/absence is investigated by using embodied inquiry to attend to the affective encounter between the audience and the bodily remains on display, as felt through the embodied experiencing of visiting the exhibit and mediated by the cultural, physical and institutional context and curation of the Vrolik itself. To analyze the resulting data, I take the museum as a site of storytelling with its curatorial techniques and texts acting as narratological frames and \"orientation devices\". The most central pattern emerged as a dissonance between the affective orientation I bring into the space due to my own situated-ness and the orientations prompted by the museum's frames. The remains on display have been decontextualized from their original home as a part of someone, and transformed into \"specimens\". At the same time, my lived experience and identity as a person with chronic illness brought an impulse/intensity towards identification and closeness to the \"specimens\", grasping for a sense of their agency, voices, perspectives, personhood. To move forwards from here, persons with disabilities, illness, bodily differences, impairment and injury need to be included and recognized in their capacity as knowers, as having vital embodied knowledge via their lived experience, as narrators and subjects in the stories that are told.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1410240"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11799260/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365844","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: Dismantling racial inequalities in higher education.","authors":"Carol Azumah Dennis, Judy Chandler","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1544431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1544431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1544431"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11791906/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190787","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":"Exploring perceived barriers to palliative and end of life care provision in South-West England: bringing together the perspectives of professionals, patients, and families.","authors":"Gary Hodge, Gina Kallis, Tomasina M Oh, Hannah Wheat, Susie Pearce","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1488688","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1488688","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Palliative and End of Life care (PEoLC) in the United Kingdom (UK) is increasingly being reported as inadequate. This is occurring amidst a wider backdrop of health and social care systems facing unprecedented pressure, particularly as they recover from the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to explore the barriers to PEoLC faced by those providing and receiving care in South-West England (UK). This region of the UK brings its own set of unique challenges due to its rural and coastal location, an aging population, and a historical lack of research.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An exploratory study was conducted which involved patients, families, and professionals who were providing and receiving PEoLC. A total of 13 qualitative focus groups were held with a total of 63 participants; 45 were health and care professionals and 18 were people toward the end of their life, family/carers and people who were bereaved.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A range of barriers were identified for those providing and receiving PEoLC services. These were a lack of specialist palliative and EoL care resources (particularly in out-of-hours care); poor communication, collaboration and co-ordination across providers; inequalities in the access and provision of care; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and a reluctance to have conversations about death and dying.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study brings together the voices of patients, family, and professionals from different settings in a geographical area of the UK. Understanding their experiences and perceived barriers to care is key to being able to develop and transform care. Ultimately, there is a need for a collaborative and co-ordinated approach across both practice and research, working toward what is important to those providing, and most importantly, those receiving care at the end of their lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1488688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11788847/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143123808","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":"Using the knife to build the trust? The role of trust in the decision-making process of aesthetic surgeons and women patients/clients.","authors":"Michaela Honelová, Peta Cook, Lucie Vidovićová","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1491948","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1491948","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trust is a fundamental element in decision-making processes. In medicine, trust also helps to build relationships between patients/clients and doctors (aesthetic surgeons) and will influence a woman's decision to undergo aesthetic/cosmetic surgery. Patients/clients, as well as aesthetic surgeons, use different ways to build trust. Our analyses are based on fifteen qualitative interviews with aesthetic surgeons, fifteen qualitative interviews with women who have undergone or are planning to undergo aesthetic surgery procedure(s) and non-participatory observations at the clinic of aesthetic surgery in the Czech Republic. Based on our analysis, three levels of trust were identified: macro level: trust in medicine as a social institution; meso level: <i>a priori</i> trust to the aesthetic surgeon; and micro level: trust in aesthetic surgeon and/or other medical staff in the process of medical aesthetic encounters. These results call for further studies outside of primary care and a deeper understanding of how these 'voluntary' medical specialties work and influence patients/clients and their 'treatment'.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1491948"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11783845/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081340","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}