Volume 11, Issue 2 (2015) | Journal of Social Sciences

Subjective Perception and Causal Attributions for Poverty in Italy

Maurizio Norcia — 2015-06-16

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 16 June 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2015.49.54

Does a relation between subjective perception of one’s own socioeconomic status and what one believes about impoverishment exist? Are people’s causal attributions for poverty related to their conc...

The Diaspora Nigerians’ Image Problem of Drug and Fraud: A Case Study of the Malaysian-Indonesian Experience through Newspaper Reports

Musa Yusuf Owoyemi — 2015-06-24

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 24 June 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2015.55.71

It is no longer news that the economic and social problems in Nigeria have led to mass migration of Nigerians to other parts of the world for better job opportunities and/or education. South-East Asia...

Perceptions of Care, Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Health Care Utilisation among Health Insurance users in Ghana

Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah — 2015-06-25

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 25 June 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2015.72.81

The socio-demographic characteristics of clients and their perception of quality of care play a major part in people’s decision making process especially in service utilization. This study assesses ...

Juvenile Court Dispositions in the Deep South: Examining the Concept of Justice by Geography

Bret Blackmon — 2015-06-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2015.82.90

The concept of justice by geography suggests that sentencing decisions in the juvenile justice system are influenced by the geographical context of the courts. This study sought to examine this phenom...