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Social marketers are facing major challenges as the United State's aging population becomes increasingly ethnically diverse. Social marketers are interacting with more elderly immigrants, refugees, and multiethnic populations who hold varying world views and health practices. In the face of the dramatic demographic shift toward diversity, concurrent with major changes in healthcare and Medicare, social marketers need to design effective interventions to reduce racial/ethnic and educational/socioeconomic discrepancies in health. Social marketers are also faced with the cultural adaptation of emerging interactive health communication technologies for minority elders who have two major barriers to achieving this communication: low literacy levels and little access to new technologies. It is imperative that social marketers develop culturally competent skills to work with the unique needs of seniors from diverse cultural backgrounds by understanding their needs, beliefs, and behaviors. Culturally appropriate adaptations and extensive pretesting of health messages for literacy and cultural sensitivity will be essential.

Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences is an interdisciplinary core text on introductory qualitative research for social science disciplines. With a focus on the integral role of the researcher, Marilyn Lichtman uses a conversational writing style that draws readers into the excitement of the research process. She offers a balanced and nuanced approach, covering the full range of methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study. Lichtman provides real-world examples from across the social sciences to provide both practical and theoretical information, helping readers understand abstract ideas and apply them to their own research. Features to enhance the learning experience include Focus Your Reading learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, Did You Know? sections throughout each chapter, Check Yourself sections, key discussion issues, activities, and more.

Australian universities expanded rapidly in the period after the Second World War, assisted by the national government and with a clear understanding that they would serve national purposes. Social scientists sought to participate in the enhanced opportunities for research by pressing their relevance to the nation-building project. At the same time they sought academic recognition as research disciplines by stressing the objective and authoritative character of their knowledge. This article explores the way these strategies were pursued in Australia and the United States, and suggests their consequences. The institutionalization of the social sciences in the university is contrasted with the oppositional social science practised in the labour movement's independent working-class education in the early part of the 20th century, and it is argued that the expectations created by state support of research in the social sciences — and the policies imposed to serve them — are ill founded.

The Latvian Social Science Data Archive

These pages present the communications of a roundtable held during the workshop organized by Politix in preparation of this hundredth issue. Relying on their personal experience, the participants engage in assessing the opportunities and constraints defining the edition of a social science journal in nowadays context. Adapted from the source document.

The pursuit of sustainable goals entails substantial technological and scientific advancements. However, commitment and cooperation from vast segments of our societies is also required to turn the efforts into actions. Just a mention from a straightforward example: climate stabilization is not only a scientific and technological task, it also depends on activating processes of social change on several levels. An interesting concept to raise here is the social tipping point, which is a point where a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice. The concept, taken from the field of behavioural sciences, has strongly emerged in climate literature but it is potentially of interest to face any other urgent societal challenge. Due to its participatory spirit, citizen science provides a framework to further reflect on the notion of social tipping point and integrate social dimensions into any specific SDG oriented research activities. Grounded on our current CoAct EU project, the presentation will discuss a general model for a citizen social science which offers communities, groups or individuals the possibility to directly intervene into scientific research and to then actively contribute to SDGs. Citizen social science engages citizen bodies concerned with specific social issues in co-research and imagines the possibility to support demands of the public with scientific evidence. The joint effort represents itself a way to reinterpret scientific practice, much closer to collective action and policy making and very much linked to public debate. The presentation will take experiences from contexts such as climate justice, mental health care provision, air pollution exposure, gender biased interactions in public spaces among others to encourage a further enhancement of social dimensions in citizen science practices if they want to more effectively support SDGs.

"The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is one of China's most strategically important, resource-rich and largest regions but also one of the country's most troublesome, the region now being synonymous with ethnic conflict and nationalist movements. This detailed and compelling study sets out to explore how the Chinese government has governed Xinjiang in light of growing tensions in the region exploring initiatives such as the partner assistance programme to understand the extent to which attempts to reverse the deteriorating situation have been effective. Furthermore, this study also provides compelling insights into how policies vary in different regions, focusing in particular on the role played by officials in interpreting and implementing these policies within their specific locale. It shows that Communist Party strategy and policy become messy when introduced at a micro-level as local governments interpret how these policies should work within their particular region. As such, this text is invaluable to students and scholars of policy-making and implementation in China"--