Volume 12, Issue 1 (2016) | Journal of Social Sciences

Work-Family Conflict: A Synthesis of the Research from Cross-National Perspective

Francis Annor — 2015-11-12

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 12 November 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.1.13

Changing demographic trends occurring in the work and family spheres have made combining work and family responsibilities an increasingly challenging task for employees in virtually every nation. Howe...

Climatic Hazards and Social Crisis: A Quick Mitigation Approach to Accelerate Sustainable Development

M.A. Rakib — 2016-02-18

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 18 February 2016; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.14.26

Climate change and its negative consequences frequently impede to social development through mal-structural function of socioeconomic status but prospective mitigation approach may accelerate to socia...

Nature of Price Adjustment and Market Integration among Stages in Cassava Value Addition Chain in Southern Nigeria

Sunday B. Akpan — 2015-10-14

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 14 October 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.27.35

Agricultural price behaviour in the long run depends on several factors ranging from the socio-economic, environmental and political environment among others. This study tested for the long run price ...

Realizing the Impact of Cognitive Dissonance in Predicting Consumer Behaviour

Akhilesh Chandra Pandey — 2015-11-01

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 1 November 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.36.41

Consumer psychology has always been the centre of concern for the marketers from the old time and understanding the underlying aspects leads to effective decision making. The present study elicits the...

Internal Migration and Poverty Reduction: Rethinking the Debate on the North-South Movement in Ghana

Richard Serbeh — 2015-11-16

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 16 November 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.42.54

In the past few years the nexus that link internal migration and poverty reduction has been a subject of interest among researchers and policy makers. Internal movements constitute a major coping mech...

A Theoretical Analysis of Chinese Ingratiation

Kwok Kuen Tsang — 2015-11-02

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 2 November 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.55.63

Literature about ingratiation has mainly focused on non-Chinese societies with a Western viewpoint, which regards ingratiation as an attraction-seeking behavior. However, the viewpoint may not reflect...

Retrospecting National Unity, Safety and Security in India: Foraging an United Nationhood

Sambeet Satapathy — 2015-11-11

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 11 November 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.64.67

Unlike many other developing nations India experiences a unique spatio-temporal cultural, economic, political diversity both natural and manmade. It is thus important to understand the source of natio...

Selection of Festival Planners: Application of Modified Delphi Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process

Han-Chen Huang — 2015-12-22

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 22 December 2015; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.68.77

There are more than one million festivals regularly held every year around the world. They not only create enormous economic benefits, but have also become a new global industry. Festival activities c...

From the Chicago School to Post-sub Cultural Carriage: A Review and Analysis of Contemporary Trends in Youth Culture Research

Mohd. Aslam Bhat — 2016-02-18

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 18 February 2016; doi:10.3844/jssp.2016.78.87

The historicity of youth culture studies is much challenging to date exactly. Sociologists however, trace its genesis from Chicago School and then leap to Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultur...