P overty and the so-called war against it provide a principal theme for the domestic program of the present Administration. In the midst of a population that enjoys un­ exampled material well-being-with the average annual family income exceed­ ing $7,000-it is officially acknowledged that some 18 million families, number­ ing more than 50 million individuals, live below the $3,000 "poverty line...

Per the preceding paper, it has been established that despite the public health platform, the family unit is seeking better answers regarding the efficacy and safety of childhood immunizations. Though it is collectively declared by pediatricians, public health officials and often members of our social network “the benefits outweigh the risks,” this paper utilizes sociological approaches to exam...

Introduction To answer this question it is first necessary to look at the way in which the words ‘impairment’, ‘disability’ and ‘disablement’ are used in the field of Disability Studies. This requires an analysis of the social model of disability and the way in which it contrasts with the medical model of disability, including a discussion of how the social model has been used and refined as we...

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

n every society, there are different kinds of resources for good health. For instance, social capital matters – formed in networks by members of the local community and supported by concerned public and private institutions. Finding ways to understand these processes, which are the most vulnerable groups and why it happens is a major theme for the following narrative. An analysis of the relatio...

Politicising the smartphone pocket archives and experiences of 16 young refugees living in the Netherlands, this explorative study re-conceptualises and empirically grounds communication rights. The focus is on the usage of social media among young refugees, who operate from the margins of society, human rights discourse and technology. I focus on digital performativity as a means to address un...

In this article, we investigate the effect of individual and community level characteristics on subjective well-being in Belgium. Various indicators for subjective wellbeing are being used in a multilevel analysis of the 2009 SCIF survey (n = 2,080) and the 2006 Belgian ESS sample (n = 1,798). On the individual level, most hypotheses on the determinants of subjective well-being were confirmed. ...

Cold homes and fuel poverty have been identified as factors in health and social inequalities that could be alleviated through energy efficiency interventions. Research on fuel poverty and the health impacts of affordable warmth initiatives have to date primarily been conducted using quantitative and statistical methods, limiting the way how fuel poverty is understood. This study took a longitu...

This paper investigates the issue of child labor in the context of land reforms in transition economies, using farm household data from the Republic of Georgia. The results show that an increase in landholdings as an outcome of the land reform can, in the presence of market imperfections, lead to an increase in child labor. This is because the increased demand for labor on the family farm is st...