International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 43 Issue 9/10

Crisis management: personal financial well-being and public attitudes toward government intervention

Andrea Lawlor, Tyler Girard, Philippe Wodnicki, Miranda Goode

Crises precipitate strong fiscal responses by government – sometimes toward austerity, other times toward renewed social spending. This variation in approaches to crisis handling…

Sense of belonging among people outside of working life in Finland

Elina Turunen, Heikki Hiilamo

For social inclusion, it is necessary to have a sense of belonging to society, whether having a job or not. Experience of belonging means feeling a part of something beyond…

Exploring the contributions of concepts of time to pension studies in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom

Liam Foster, Sam Wai Kam Yu, Ruby Chui Man Chau

This article aims to link discussions of the role of earnings-related pension measures with time in Hong Kong (HK) and the United Kingdom (UK). It presents a new conceptual…

Post-COVID-19 poverty in France: magnitude, manifestations and actors from nine case studies

Célia Bouchet, Nicolas Duvoux

Drawing on the French case, this article examines the size and scope of poverty resulting from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the diversity of poverty's…

Diversity management in the integration of minorities in the job market: policies and practices

Tehila Kalagy, Orna Braun-Lewensohn

Cultural variance represents a significant challenge to policy designers and, in practice, to employers in the varied employment spaces. Providing workplace accessibility for the…

Consumer logics and the relational performance of selling high-risk goods: the case of elective cosmetic surgery

Anson Au

This article investigates how medical specialists as professionals and elective cosmetic surgery tourists as consumers relationally negotiate decisions within the cosmetic surgery…

Does institutional quality affect the relationship between income inequality and entrepreneurial activity?

Hazwan Haini, Yazid Abdullahi Abubakar, Pang Wei Loon

This study examines whether institutional quality affects the relationship between income inequality and entrepreneurial activity. The authors specifically examine whether the…

Understanding lurking behavior on enterprise social media: the perspective of the transactional model of stress

Qin Yuan, Chun Liu

Drawing on the transactional model of stress, this study develops a theoretical model to understand the lurking behavior on enterprise social media (ESM).