International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 39 Issue 5/6

Motivations and challenges of women entrepreneurs: Experiences of small businesses in Jaipur city of Rajasthan

Swati Shastri, Shruti Shastri, Abhishek Pareek

The purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations and key challenges women entrepreneurs experience in running small businesses in the Jaipur city of Rajasthan.

Social networks, accessed and mobilised social capital and the employment status of older workers: A case study

Kaberi Gayen, Robert Raeside, Ronald McQuaid

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of social networks, and the social capital embedded in them, to secure employment if someone had become unemployed after…

The strong, the weak and the meaningful: Do friends or acquaintances help us get “any” job, or “meaningful” work?

Roger Patulny, Gaby Ramia, Zhuqin Feng, Michelle Peterie, Greg Marston

Governments increasingly promote employment through social networks (whether via formal job networks or informal personal networks). However, they rarely account for how weak-tie…

To what extent does China’s aid in Africa affect traditional donors?

Kassaye Gudeta Deyassa

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the welfare and social policy ideas that characterize Chinese aid in Africa are influencing traditional donors and becoming global.

“Please give me an invoice”: VAT evasion and the Portuguese tax lottery

Daniela C. Wilks, José Cruz, Pedro Sousa

The Portuguese tax authority implemented a lottery to encourage citizens to request invoices as a strategy to fight value-added tax (VAT) evasion. As the law does not require…

Historical policies affecting women’s military and family roles

Erika Lee King, Diana M. DiNitto

The US military depends on women to meet recruiting goals, but women participate at lower rates than men. Theorists suggest that military and family policies affect women’s lower…

The effect of enabling factors on social innovation in Russian non-profit organisations

Irina Krasnopolskaya, Lucas Meijs

This paper explores the factors that are associated with a capacity of non-profits to develop social innovations (SIs). The purpose of this paper is to examine factors in the…

“It’s a bit of freedom away from home and cleaning all the time”: Schooling, gender relations and Gypsy communities in England

Dave Cudworth

Much has been written over the past 50 years about the concerns associated with the educational underachievement of Gypsy children in England. This work has usually focussed on…

What difference does the context of activation make? Challenges and innovations in the Italian and Norwegian local welfare

Matteo Villa, Venke Frederike Johansen

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of trans-contextual processes of implementation and governance in the transformation of social and labor inclusion policies in…

Abandon canon in American sociology

Anson Au

The purpose of this paper is to challenge the practice of having, using and constructing any canon in sociological theory. This paper argues that the elitism of American sociology…