Volume 16, Issue 1 (2020) | Journal of Social Sciences

Pharaonic or Ottoman in Modern Egyptian Culture: Consequences of Immigration

Dina Aly Ezzat — 2020-01-11

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 11 January 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.1.16

It is often assumed by tourists and other visitors to Egypt that all or most aspects of Egyptian culture originated from the Pharaonic period or ancient Egyptians. This perception is, however, wrong a...

Job Satisfaction and Family Functioning of Dual-Earner Commuter Family in Malaysia

Farah Syuhada Pai — 2020-01-17

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 17 January 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.17.22

The aim of the present study is to determine the relationship between job satisfaction and family functioning of dual-earner commuter family in Malaysia. More over, the investigation of the difference...

Does Monetary Policy Stimulates Macroeconomic Performance during Economic Downturn in Nigeria?

Bashir Adelowo Wahab — 2020-02-11

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 11 February 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.23.36

This study investigated the relationship between monetary policy and macroeconomic performance in Nigeria during 1981-2018. The stochastic properties of the time series data were examined using both c...

Participatory Territorial Approaches: The Municipal Culture Agendas, Identity and Local Knowledge

Alejandro Noboa — 2020-02-19

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.37.48

This article offers a global presentation on the participatory process of elaboration of the Municipal Agendas of Culture taken from thirty-eight Municipalities of twelve Uruguayan regions; they were ...

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in the Public Sector. The Case of Greek General Chemical State Laboratory under the Greek Crisis

Athanasios Vazakidis — 2020-03-04

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 4 March 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.49.58

The international globalized environment and the financial crisis have generated new demands with internals (citizens-users) and externals (creditors) pressuring the governments to control public spen...

Changing Accusation in the First Instance: One Step Forward in Criminal Procedure Law

Daniel M. Assad — 2020-03-28

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 28 March 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.59.62

Changing the deed's judicial qualification - as a form of changing accusation in the first instance - is a procedural institution, regulated by the Code of penal procedure of Romania. It may be ordere...

Unified Model of Global Wellbeing as Index of Spirituality and Socio-Economic Development: The Islamic Economic Approach

Masudul Alam Choudhury — 2020-04-15

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 15 April 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.63.71

The paper firstly establishes the ontological methodology according to the qu’anic monotheistic law, Tawhid and its unitary relationship in the world-system of ‘everything’. Tawhid as the primal...

Public Opinion About Ramadan and Obesity in Egypt

Dina Aly Ezzat — 2020-04-26

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 26 April 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.72.83

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of people’s perception of Ramadan eating habits and obesity in Egypt. Data were obtained through a paper and pencil cross-sectional survey that was...

The European Miracle Psychological Stages and the Origin of Modern Society

Georg Oesterdiekhoff — 2020-05-15

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 15 May 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.84.99

The idea that the rise of modern, industrial society originates in psychological advancements is to find among classic authors of sociology and history such as Comte, Elias and Lamprecht and more rece...

Violence on Social Media: An Exploration into the Online Expressions of Adolescents from Marginalized Areas of Greater Buenos Aires

Joaquín Walter Linne — 2020-05-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 May 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.100.111

This paper explores the online expressions of violence perpetrated or experienced by adolescents from marginalized areas of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Four specific events-threats, “bondis” ...

The Growth of Awareness and Introspection in History. Mystical Interpretations of Mental Activities and of Social or Physical Incidents

Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff — 2020-08-05

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 5 August 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.112.124

Historians, philologists and scholars of antiquity have described how people in pre-modern societies tend to see their own thought processes, decisions and actions as being influenced and made by exte...

Great Game in Central Asia: Causes and Consequences

Ali Muhammad Bhat — 2020-08-23

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 23 August 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.125.133

Great game, a political attitude adopted by great powers to achieve geo-strategic and geo-economic benefits in the Central Asian and the Caspian region. The main thrush hold of current strategic and e...

The Chinese Diasporic Periodization between “Peak” and “Bottom” -Framework, Indicators and Determinants

Jack Kangjie Liu — 2020-08-29

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 29 August 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.134.146

Although the research on the Chinese diasporas in the Asian Pacific is abundant, rare projects specifically focus on periodization framework. This paper aims to reveal the Chinese diasporic periodizat...

Man of the Year: The Saga of Private Reuben Johnson

Ian Kurtz — 2020-09-07

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 7 September 2020; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.147.150

This manuscript investigates a long forgotten American hero. Although Americans are no doubt familiar with prominent military names such as Audie Murphy, or Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur, amidst m...

Love in Crisis? How Young Women’s Ideas and Experiences of Intimate Relationships are Reshaped by Conditions of Economic Austerity in Greece

Julia Kazana-McCarthy — 2021-01-01

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 1 January 2021; doi:10.3844/jssp.2020.151.161

This study seeks to examine intimate relationships and attitudes towards such ties, among Greek young women (n = 36). In the wake of challenging structural situations surrounding the effects of econom...