International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 35 Issue 9/10

Women’s working hours: The interplay between gender role attitudes, motherhood, and public childcare support in 23 European countries

Wouter Andringa, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Minna Van Gerven

The purpose of this paper is to show how the interplay between individual women’s gender role attitudes, having young children at home, as well as the country-context…

Social exclusion: re-examining its conceptual relevance to tackling inequality and social injustice

Clive Sealey

The purpose of this paper is to rationalise the continued conceptual utility of social exclusion, and in so doing addresses the prevailing question of what to do with it. This is…

Certifying voluntary living wage employers

Melita Ptashnick, Daniyal Zuberi

Living wage campaigns are popular responses to counter increasing inequality in advanced industrial countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine how voluntary living wage…

NGOs helping migrants: an Israeli case study of counterculture

Yaffa Moskovich, Adi Binhas

– The purpose of this paper is to study the NGOs in the immigration field as a counterculture working simultaneously with and against the establishment.

Political participation and commons: The case study of the “Water Common Good” referendum

Francesca Belotti

The crisis of confidence in political institutions has become a phenomenon with uniform trends across Europe. Nevertheless, citizens still express interest in politics and are…

Neoliberal governance in Indonesian universities: the impact upon academic identity

Nurdiana Gaus, David Hall

The purpose of this paper is to understand the under life of Indonesian academics during ongoing implementation of government-driven policy enacted in higher education…

Weapon of the weak: The hidden transcripts of academics’ resistance to policy imperatives in Indonesian universities

Nurdiana Gaus, David Hall

The purpose of this paper is to examine how academics resisted and accommodated changes towards the reform process in higher education institutions in Indonesia which has…

“The totality of caring”: Conceptualising childcare arrangements for empirical research

Borbála Kovács

The purpose of this paper is to formulate a conceptually and empirically grounded new understanding of childcare arrangements for cross-national and longitudinal micro-level…