Humor in the Arabic comedy show, N2O by Sara Al-Sawaeer, Ghaleb Rabab’Ah, Andrew J. Power

“…The study also revealed that the Jordanian comedians in N2O create the audience’s laughter by using satire, pun, exaggeration and mocking to flout Grice maxims of conversation while addressing different social practices or phenomena, such as the high increase in prices, addiction to the internet and Jordanians’ ignorance of some social issues.…”
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Les temporalités sociales : mise en marché et conflits by Jens Thoemmes

“…Social groups oppose each other when they are prompted by social issues: workers against Sunday consumers; employers against the proponents of leisure time; welfare and safety against risk and volatility. …”
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Teaching Practice Research of Narrative Pedagogy with the Forensic Innocence by Chun-Mei Tsai, Cheng-Pin Lai

“… Piloted in September 2020, this semester-long study was conducted in order to help university students better understand social issues, such as wrongful convictions or miscarriages, and help them be able to analyze issues from different perspectives. …”
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Botched Ebola Vaccine Trials in Ghana: An Analysis of Discourses in the Media by Esi E. Thompson

“…Of equal importance are the social issues surrounding challenges with vaccine trials and their implementation. …”
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Antiretroviral interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus: challenges for health systems, communities and society by Rachel Baggaley, Eric van Praag

“…This paper examines the ethical, economic and social issues that should be considered when antiretroviral interventions are being planned to reduce mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus. …”
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Konstruksi Teologis dalam Hadih Maja by Lukman Hakim

“…Lately hadih maja is oriented in the realm of law and social issues alone. It makes some of the  content of the hadih maja as neglected as the theological side. …”
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Research on Problems and Countermeasures of Government Response to Online Public Opinion in the Era of Self-Media by Wang Shuning

“…The continuous spread and fermentation of any social developments may form online public opinion, which may have a certain guiding effect on major social issues. Therefore, governments at all levels deepen online governance and attach importance to early warning and detection of online public opinion. …”
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Transhumance heritage in the bioregional perspective by Carlo Valorani, Marco Vigliotti

“…The regeneration of the vast material and immaterial heritage inherited from transhumance, on the other hand, can provide answers to environmental, ethical and social issues that afflict every continent today: an ante litteram model of sustainability that finds in bioregional planning a concrete prospect of re-actualisation. …”
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Civic engagement: Digital activism of university students in Malang amidst covid-19 pandemic by Nurbani Yusuf, Arif Prasetyo Wibowo

“…This change in carrying out students’ political movement has succeeded in attracting public attention which resulted in the success of political movements and gathering and amplifying “attention” on certain social issues.…”
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Socio-political Perfectionism: A Cross-cultural Study by Yadola Zargar, Fatemeh Sarami

“…Additionally, positive and negative perfectionism scale and attitude measurement question about the severity of social issues, as well as the scale of socio-political perfectionism, were used as the instruments. …”
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The praxis of radical placemaking by Kavita Gonsalves, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth

“…This practice involves marginalized bodies highlighting social issues through the ephemerality and spectacularity of digital technologies in public space in [smart] cities. …”
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Digital tools for remote teaching of additional languages in times of pandemic by Gilmara Oliveira Maquiné, Iandra Maria Weirich da Silva Coelho, Sandra Bastos Figueiredo

“…The discussion also shows some limitations and social issues that highlight the precariousness of online education before and during the context of a global pandemic.   …”
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FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS IN THE COVID 19 ERA: A RETURN TO TRADITIONAL ROLES by Nadia Laaraj

“… During the last two years, the world has experienced an unprecedented health crisis, and in addition to health and social issues, the economy has been severely affected, with all its actors, particularly the VSEs-SMEs created and managed by women. …”
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Intertextuality in Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry: A Case Study of the "La'ab Al-Nard" Ode. [In Arabic] by Narges Ganji, Somayye Kazemi Najaf Abad

“…Mahmud Darwish is one of the poets who attempted to use various symbols in order to express the social issues of his own community. Therefore, following a descriptive and analytic method, the present study has studied the intertextuality of "La'ab al-Nourd" ode as an example in order to analyze the symbols used in this poem by focusing on the intertextual concept.…”
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Regarding Societal Change by Leda Blackwood, Andrew G. Livingstone, Colin Wayne Leach

“…Together, the contributions argue for (1) the need to contextualize the study of societal change, (2) the value of considering factors and processes other than collective action in transforming societies, (3) the importance of ideology and its operation through social institutions such as news media, and (4) an imperative to ensure that our research is fully engaged with society in terms of its grounding in social issues, its sensitivity to our own social context as researchers, and in its practices and outcomes.…”
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Body, sex and reproduction. Te notion of women autonomy questioned: abortion and other sensitive situations by Josefina Leonor Brown, Mario Pecheny, Cecilia Tamburrino, Soledad Gattoni

“…Our interest is to research different conceptions of "being a patient," put into play as political and social issues of the first order, for example, having to do with the forms of autonomy and social relations of subordination. …”
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Early Child Welfare Policy and Services in Colonial Malaya by Fuziah Shaffie

“…As the major agency authorised to provide child care and protection in Malaya, the DSW had to deal with, among others, post-war social issues that needed immediate attention. It focused on issues during the post-war period that triggered the government’s desire to provide services to ensure the well-being of children. …”
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“Defenders of perversion”: Professing Same-Sex Marriage Rights in the Local Press by Geraint Osborne, Shauna Wilton

“…We explore the relationship between professors and small-town newspapers in fostering democratic dialogues on key social issues through an analysis of faculty columns and the responding Letters to the Editor in a local paper. …”
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF BUSINESS by Nadiia Morozova, Iryna Denchyk, Oleksandr Tarasenko, Tetiana Parkhomenko

“…In the course of the study, the main shortcomings associated with the implementation of digital technologies were identified, which include, in addition to possible risks of data security violations, and social issues associated with a possible reduction in the number of personnel. …”
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Do Structures Matter in the Process of Sustainable Intensification? A Case Study of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Jakub Staniszewski, Łukasz Kryszak

“…On the basis of the panel logit model, we conclude that, in the European Model of Agriculture, where basic environmental and social issues regarding agriculture are regulated, in order to become aligned with sustainable intensification, agricultural production should become concentrated in larger farms with less labour-intense production—units capable of investments in innovative, green technologies.…”
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