BACKGROUND Muslims comprise 4.8% of the national population in the UK and also form a significant proportion of its ethnic minority population, with trends set to continue for the foreseeable future. With ethnic minority health inequalities deepening further, there is an apparent lack of strategies to effectively tackle this growing problem. Imams, Muslim religious leaders, represent a hitherto...

Surveillance is never only about surveillance but embedded in the broader social context, both domestically and internationally. During COVID-19 pandemic, practices of non-Western countries have often been analyzed from perspective West, impacting domestic policymaking public perception. However, we rarely know how Western societies’ discourses may impact people societies understand their own s...

Muslims were introduced to modern Western philosophy during the time of colonization, when they not emotionally or mentally ready absorb it and generally skeptical anything Western. This has caused an intellectual crisis, some saw new ideas from West as a direct threat Islamic identity. The point here is why Muslim societies have always been philosophy, even though accepted all without any trou...

The main purpose of this article is to combine three important themes in Chinese cultural societies: serendipity in relationship (yuanfen), relational interactions, and psychological adaptation through self-cultivation. People who live in Chinese cultural societies are deeply affected by relationalism and tend to be very different from their Western counterparts, who adopt individualistic metho...

This article explores theoretical responses to the living structures of dominance and subordination within modern postcolonial societies, highlighting racialised international students’ experiences Australian universities. Drawing on coloniality power border thinking, it seeks address ethical responsibilities for social work human service educators from author’s positioning as a non-Western imm...

The present research investigated the relationship between individual differences in maximizing versus satisficing (i.e., seeking to make the single best choice, rather than a choice that is merely good enough) and well-being, in interaction with the society in which an individual lives. Data from three distinct cultural groups (adults), drawn respectively from the U.S. (N=307), Western Europe ...

Previous research has found parental divorce to have negative effects on children’s educational attainment; in addition, it has been noted that the effects of divorce are not the same in all western societies. However, research on Catholic and southern European countries is missing. The aim of this paper is to add to the research on the relation between parental divorce and the educational atta...