Social Sciences

This area deals with the latest developments in the field of empirical and theoretical research as it relates to the structure and function of institutes and systems, their social interdependence and how such systems interact with individual behavior processes.

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Maternity leave: fazed out and slowly welcomed

This is the finding of Dr Lynne Millward of the University of Surrey. She recently revealed her findings in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational…

Is the work stress epidemic all in the mind?

The researchers behind the 24-7 survey into working life, hope employees in the UK will share their good and bad experiences in an attempt to discover more…

You can't scare people into getting fit or going green

Recent years have seen increasing efforts to encourage people to do more for their health and for the environment, for example by recycling more, using cars…

Russian students vote with their feet

This new wave of emigration of the country citizens is conditioned not by political factors as it was formerly, but by economic, social and psychological…

58% of older hospital patients have problems eating and 31% leave most of their meal

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia, spent two weeks studying 48 hospital patients and 50 nurses during mealtimes on two medical wards. They…

What makes business people see red?

When asked what made them most irate, bureaucracy and form-filling were cited by more than two-thirds of business advisers and more than a third of businessmen…

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