Tenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

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1 Tenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Social Change JUNE 2015 UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT SPLIT, CROATIA THESOCIALSCIENCES.COM

2 Tenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Social Change University of Split Split, Croatia June #CGSocSci

3 International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences First published in 2015 in Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Publishing, LLC Common Ground Publishing All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the applicable copyright legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. For permissions and other inquiries, please contact

4 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences thesocialsciences.com Dear Delegate, Welcome to the Tenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. This conference explores notions of disciplinarily and interdisciplinary in the human sciences. It represents a marvelous collage of specific instances of the study of social life worthy of the label science as well as presentations which think in more general terms about the problem of method and the nature of interdisciplinary. The Social Sciences Conference was held in 2006 at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece; in 2007 at the University of Granada, Spain; in 2008 at Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy; in 2009 at the University of Athens, Athens, Greece; in 2010 at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; in 2011 at the University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA; in 2012 at the Universidad Abat Oliba, Barcelona, Spain; in 2013 at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; and in 2014 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. We will hold the 2016 Social Sciences Conference in London, UK at Imperial College London. In addition to organizing the Social Sciences Conference, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference at We do encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the collection. We also publish books at com/publications/books in both print and digital formats. We invite conference participants to develop book proposals for original works, or for edited collections of articles drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Finally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at www. thesocialsciences.com. Common Ground also organizes conferences and publishes journals in other areas of critical intellectual human concern, including diversity, sustainability, health, learning, and the arts, to name several ( Our aim is to create new forms of knowledge community, where people meet in person and also remain connected virtually, making the most of the potentials for access using digital media. We are also committed to creating a more accessible, open, and reliable peer review process. Thank you to everyone who has prepared for this conference including our co-organizers and supporters, The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Split. A personal thank you and acknowledgement goes to Jelena Novaković, Sanja Stanić and everyone at the University of Split who helped organize this year s conference. In addition, thank you to my Common Ground colleagues who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference: Monica Hillison, Marta Llorente, Dana Modrowski, Ana Quintana, and Jessica Wienhold-Brokish. We wish the best for this conference and hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the world. We hope you will be able to join us at next year s Social Sciences Conference, 2-5 August 2016 in London, UK. Yours sincerely, Dr. Homer (Tony) Stavely Host, Social Sciences Conference Common Ground Publishing

5 About Common Ground Our Mission Common Ground Publishing aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative knowledge communities and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media. Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds knowledge communities that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of the humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology s connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations. Common Ground is a meeting place for these conversations, shared spaces in which differences can meet and safely connect differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. We strive to create the places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves. Our Media Common Ground creates and supports knowledge communities through a number of mechanisms and media. Annual conferences are held around the world to connect the global (the international delegates) with the local (academics, practitioners, and community leaders from the host community). Conference sessions include as many ways of speaking as possible to encourage each and every participant to engage, interact, and contribute. The journals and book series offer fully-refereed academic outlets for formalized knowledge, developed through innovative approaches to the processes of submission, peer review, and production. The knowledge community also maintains an online presence through presentations on our YouTube channel, monthly newsletters, as well as Facebook and Twitter feeds. And Common Ground s own software, Scholar, offers a path-breaking platform for online discussions and networking, as well as for creating, reviewing, and disseminating text and multi-media works. 6

6 About Common Ground España Common Ground España Since its inception, Common Ground Publishing has been committed to building bridges between different languages and cultures, crossing the geographical and linguistic boundaries that slow down the free flow of ideas between the countless communities that populate the planet. We are truly committed to diversity, and that is why we are striving to create synergies between the English, Spanish, and Portuguese-speaking knowledge communities that meet every year at the conference and that interact through the scholarly journals, the book series, and the social networks. To fulfil this ideal, Common Ground Publishing has launched Common Ground Publishing España in order to create and develop Latin American knowledge communities based on the Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, crossing geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Each of these knowledge communities holds an annual academic conference (which takes place in parallel to Common Ground s conferences in English) and manages a peer reviewed scholarly journal, a book series, and a number of social networks that allow scholars and practitioners to interact with other peers coming from different geographical, institutional, and cultural origins, as well as to strengthen interdisciplinary discussions. For the time being, Common Ground Publishing España, whose headquarters are located at the Research Park of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, has developed ten Latin American knowledge communities; Learning; E-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies; Science in Society; Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; On the Organization; New Directions in the Humanities; The Image; Book and Libraries; Health, Wellness, and Society; and Technology, Knowledge, and Society. 7

7 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community Exploring disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences

8 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community The Social Sciences Knowledge Community is a forum for discussion of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge creation within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round online relationships, a family of peer reviewed journals, and book series exploring the affordances of new digital media. Members of this knowledge community include academics, teachers, administrators, policy makers, and other education practitioners. Conference The conference is built upon four key features: Internationalism, Interdisciplinarity, Inclusiveness, and Interaction. Conference delegates include leaders in the field as well as emerging scholars, who travel to the conference from all corners of the globe and represent a broad range of disciplines and perspectives. A variety of presentation options and session types offer delegates multiple opportunities to engage, to discuss key issues in the field, and to build relationships with scholars from other cultures and disciplines. Publishing The Social Sciences Collection enables members to publish through two media. First, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical, and constructive nature of the peer review process. The Social Sciences Collection provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard. The second publication medium is through the book series, The Social Sciences, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposal and manuscript submissions are welcome. Community The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community offers several opportunities for ongoing communication among its members. Any member may upload video presentations based on scholarly work to the community YouTube channel. Monthly newsletters contain updates on conference and publishing activities as well as broader news of interest. Members also join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter, or on our new social media platform, Scholar. 11

9 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Themes On disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices in the study of the social. Theme 1: Social and Community Studies Sociology: concepts and practices Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows What are the behavioral sciences? Psychology of the social Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice Economics as social science Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony Philosophy s place in the social sciences Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice Health in community Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences Social sciences for the professions Social sciences for social welfare Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence Social sciences addressing social crisis points Technologies in and for the social Economics, politics, and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards Commonalities, differences, and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions Research methodologies involving human subjects The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health On the processes of governance and nature of citizenship. Theme 2: Civic and Political Studies Political science as disciplinary practice Investigating public policy Law as a social science Criminology as social science Public health Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation, and inclusion Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare Politics in, and of, the social sciences Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship, and nationality Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror The neo-liberal state and its critics Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness 12

10 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Themes On disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices in the study of human cultures and cultural interactions. Theme 3: Cultural Studies Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting, and aging Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology Ethnographic methods Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text Cultural studies as a constitutive field Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism Where humanities and social sciences meet Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism Religion and the human sciences Health, wellbeing, and culture On the dynamics of globalization and the transformation of the local. Theme 4: Global Studies Global flows Global security Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants The dynamics of globalization, diaspora, and diversity Globalized economics: inequalities, development, free, and fair trade Developed and developing worlds Inequalities in international perspective Poverty and global justice Human rights in global perspective The local and the global On the connections between human and natural environments. Theme 5: Environmental Studies The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies Human environments Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study What are applied sciences? Health and the environment People, place, and time: human demography Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic externalities, sustainability, environmental equity Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment 13

11 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Themes On the social dynamics of public, community, and privately owned organizations. Theme 6: Organizational Studies Management as social science Culture in organizations Technology and work The social dynamics of organizations Human resource management Workers rights Corporate governance Organizational and social sustainability Corporate social responsibility Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting Tacit and explicit knowledge Private and public knowledge Scenario building and futures forecasting Organizational change On learning about the social and social learning. Theme 7: Educational Studies Education as a social science The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science Teaching and learning the social studies History teaching and learning Economics teaching and learning Geography teaching and learning Technology in learning and learning about technology On the representation and communication of human meanings. Theme 8: Communication Media studies as social science Communications as a social science Information and communications technologies The social web: the internet in its social context Human-computer interactions Literacies as a social learning experience 14

12 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2015 Special Focus Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Social Change Modern societies face a number of overarching changes. The consequences of these changes are equally evident at the local as well as global level, influencing the everyday lives of individuals and large societal aggregates. The role of the social sciences is of pivotal significance in the interpretation of these intense social changes. More than other disciplines, the social sciences are in an integral position to recognize changes and problems, determine causal links, interpret the available information, and offer solutions. Accordingly, the aim of the 2015 Social Sciences Conference is to contribute to the identification and understanding of different recent social issues, with a focus on social changes that we face in the various segments of the social world. The conference offers a wide range of topics that may be discussed in local and global terms, either through the prism of the social sciences or through interdisciplinary collaborations. 15

13 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Scope and Concerns The Disciplinary Work of the Social Sciences Each of the sciences of the social is marked by its distinctive disciplinary modes the thinking practices of Anthropology, Archaeology, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Science, Communications, Cultural Studies, Demography, Economics, Education, Geography, Humanities, Law, Management, Media, Politics, Policy Studies, Psychology, Social Welfare, Sociology, to name some of the principal sciences of the social. The disciplinary variation is so broad that practitioners in some of these areas may not even consider their discipline a science, whilst in other disciplines there is a general consensus about the scientific character of their endeavor. What is a discipline? Disciplines represent fields of deep and detailed content knowledge, communities of professional practice, forms of discourse (of fine and precise semantic distinction and technicality), areas of work (types of organization or divisions within organizations such as academic departments or research organizations), domains of publication and public communication, sites of common learning, shared experiences of apprenticeship into disciplinary community, methods of reading and analyzing the world, ways of thinking or epistemic frames, even ways of acting and types of person. Discipline delineates the boundaries of intellectual community, the distinctive practices and methodologies of particular areas of rigorous and concentrated intellectual effort, and the varying frames of reference used to interpret the world. And what is a science? Some of the studies of the social habitually and comfortably call themselves sciences, but others do not. The English word science derives from the Latin sciens, or knowing. Return to the expansiveness of this root, and studies of the human could lay equally legitimate claim to that word. Science in this broadest of senses implies an intensity of focus and a concentration of intellectual energies greater than that of ordinary, everyday, commonsense or lay knowing. It is more work and harder work. It relies on the ritualistic rigors and accumulated wisdoms of disciplinary practices. These are some of the out-of-the-ordinary knowledge processes that might justify use of the word science, not only in the social sciences but also in the natural, physical, mathematical and applied sciences: Science has an experiential basis. This experience may be based on direct personal intuition of the already-known, on interests integral to the lifeworld, on the richness of life fully lived. Or it might be experience gained when we move into new and potentially strange terrains, deploying the empirical processes of methodical observation or systematic experimentation. Science is conceptual. It has a categorical frame of reference based on higher levels of semantic precision and regularity than everyday discourse. On this foundation, it connects concept to concept into schemas. This is how science builds theories which model the world. Science is analytical. It develops frames of reasoning and explanation: logic, inference, prediction, hypothesis, induction, deduction. And it sees the world through an always cautiously critical eye, interrogating the interests, motives and ethics that may motivate knowledge claims and subjecting epistemic assumptions to an ever-vigilant process of metacognitive reflection. Science is application-oriented. It can be used to do things in the world. In these endeavors, it may be pragmatic, designing and implementing practical solutions within larger frames of reference and achieving technical and instrumental outcomes. Or it may be transformative redesigning paradigms, social being, and even the conditions of the natural world. What, after all, is the purpose of knowing other than to have an effect on the world, directly or indirectly? 16

14 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Scope and Concerns Science can be any or all of these experiential, conceptual, analytical, and applied things. Some disciplines may prioritize one or other of these knowledge processes, and this may be the source of their strength as well as potential weakness. In any event, these are the kinds of things we do in order to know in the out-of-the-ordinary ways worthy of the name science. The Interdisciplinary Work of the Social and Other Sciences Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary work crosses disciplinary boundaries. This may be for pragmatic reasons, in order to see and do things that can t be seen or done adequately within the substantive and methodological confines of a discipline. Broader views may prove to be more powerful than narrower ones, and even the more finely grained within-discipline views may prove all-the-more powerful when contextualized broadly. The deeper perspectives of the discipline may need to be balanced with and measured against the broader perspectives of interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinary approaches may also be applied for reasons of principle, to disrupt the habitual narrowness or outlook of within-discipline knowledge work, to challenge the ingrained, discipline-bound ways of thinking that produce occlusion as well as insight. If the knowable universe is a unity, discipline is a loss as well as a gain, and interdisciplinarity may in part recover that loss. Interdisciplinary approaches also thrive at the interface of disciplinary and lay understandings. Here, interdisciplinarity is needed for the practical application of disciplined understandings to the actually existing world. Robust applied knowledge demands an interdisciplinary holism. A broad epistemological engagement is required simply to be able to deal with the complex contingencies of a really-integrated universe. Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking, and Ways of Knowing What are the distinctive modes of the social, natural, and applied sciences? What are their similarities and differences? In English (but not some other languages), science suffers a peculiar semantic narrowing. It seems to apply more comfortably to the natural world, and only by analogy to some of the more systematic and empirically-based of the human sciences. It connotes a sometimes narrow kind of systematicity: the canons of empirical method; an often less-than reflective acceptance of received theoretical categories and paradigms; formal reasoning disengaged from human and natural consequences; technical control without adequate ethical reflection; an elision of means and ends; narrow functionalism, instrumentalism, and techno-rationalism; a pragmatism to the neglect broader view of consequences; and conservative risk aversion. These are some of the occupational hazards of activities that name themselves sciences social, natural, or applied. In studying the social setting, however, it s not good enough just to have a rigorous empirical methodology without a critical eye to alternative interests and paradigmatic frames of reference, and without a view to the human-transformational potentials of knowledge work. Humanistic methodologies sometimes address the social in a deliberate counterpoint to science, distancing themselves from the perceived narrownesses of scientific method. This move, however, may at times leave science stranded, separated from its social origins and ends. The natural and technological sciences are themselves more subject to contestation around axes of human interest than the narrow understanding of science seems to be able to comprehend. Whether it be bioethics, or climate change, or the debates around Darwinism and Intelligent Design, or the semantics of computer systems, questions of politics and ideology are bound closely to the ostensible evidence. Faux empiricism is less than adequate to address the more important questions, even in the natural and technological sciences. Science can be found lacking when it is disengaged from the humanistic. 17

15 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Scope and Concerns The humanistic, however, has its own occupational hazards: disengaged critique and supercilious inaction without design responsibility; political confrontation without systematic empirical foundation; ideological fractiousness without apparent need for compromise; the agnostic relativism of lived experience and identity-driven voice; voluntarism that leads to a naive lack of pragmatism and failure in application. A reconstructive view of the social, natural, and applied sciences would be holistic, attempting always to avoid the occlusions of narrow methodological approaches. It would also be ambitious, intellectually and practically. In this context, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community pursues two aspirations, two openings. The first is an intellectual opening, founded on an agenda designed to strengthen the theories, the research methodologies, the epistemologies, and the practices of teaching and learning about the social world and the relation of the social to the natural world. The second opening is pragmatic and inventive. All intellectual work is an act of imagination. At its best, it is ambitious, risky, and transformative. If the natural sciences can have human ambitions as big as those of the medical sciences the fight against MS or cancer or Alzheimer s, for instance then the social sciences can have ambitions as large as to settle the relation of humans to the natural environment, the material conditions of human equality, and the character of the future person. 18

16 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Community Membership About The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences knowledge community is dedicated to the concept of independent, peer-led groups of scholars, researchers, and practitioners working together to build bodies of knowledge related to topics of critical importance to society at large. Focusing on the intersection of academia and social impact, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community brings an interdisciplinary, international perspective to discussions of new developments in the field, including research, practice, policy, and teaching. Membership Benefits As an Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community member you have access to a broad range of tools and resources to use in your own work: Digital subscription to The Social Sciences Collection for one year. Digital subscription to the book series for one year. One article publication per year (pending peer review). Participation as a reviewer in the peer review process, with the opportunity to be listed as an Associate Editor after reviewing three or more articles. Subscription to the community e-newsletter, providing access to news and announcements for and from the knowledge community. Option to add a video presentation to the community YouTube channel. Free access to the Scholar social knowledge platform, including: Personal profile and publication portfolio page; Ability to interact and form communities with peers away from the clutter and commercialism of other social media; Optional feeds to Facebook and Twitter; Complimentary use of Scholar in your classes for class interactions in its Community space, multimodal student writing in its Creator space, and managing student peer review, assessment, and sharing of published work. 19

17 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Engage in the Community #CGSocSci Present and Participate in the Conference You have already begun your engagement in the community by attending the conference, presenting your work, and interacting face-to-face with other members. We hope this experience provides a valuable source of feedback for your current work and the possible seeds for future individual and collaborative projects, as well as the start of a conversation with community colleagues that will continue well into the future. Publish Journal Articles or Books We encourage you to submit an article for review and possible publication in the journal. In this way, you may share the finished outcome of your presentation with other participants and members of the community. As a member of the community, you will also be invited to review others work and contribute to the development of the community knowledge base as an Associate Editor. As part of your active membership in the community, you also have online access to the complete works (current and previous volumes) of journal and to the book series. We also invite you to consider submitting a proposal for the book series. Engage through Social Media There are several ways to connect and network with community colleagues: Newsletters: Published monthly, these contain information on the conference and publishing, along with news of interest to the community. Contribute news or links with a subject line Newsletter Suggestion to support@thesocialsciences.com. Scholar: Common Ground s path-breaking platform that connects academic peers from around the world in a space that is modulated for serious discourse and the presentation of knowledge works. To learn more about Scholar, visit the end of the program. Facebook: Comment on current news, view photos from the conference, and take advantage of special benefits for community members at: Twitter: Follow the and talk about the conference with #CGSocSci YouTube Channel: View online presentations or contribute your own at thesocialsciences.com/the-conference/types-of-conference-sessions/online-presentations. 20

18 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Advisory Board The principal role of the Advisory Board is to drive the overall intellectual direction of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community and to consult on our foundational themes as they evolve along with the currents of the community. Board members are invited to attend the annual conference with a complimentary registration and provide important insights on conference development, including suggestions for speakers, venues, and special themes. We also encourage board members to submit articles for publication consideration to The Social Sciences Collection as well as proposals or completed manuscripts to Social Sciences Books. The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Knowledge Community is grateful for the continued service and support of the following world-class scholars and practitioners. Patrick Baert, Selwyn College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Andreja Bubic, University of Split, Split, Croatia Norma Burgess, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA Hillel Goelman, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Peter Harvey, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia Vangelis Intzidis, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece Paul James, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Ivana Batarelo Kokic, University of Split, Split, Croatia Gerassimos Kouzelis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Massimo Leone, University of Turin, Turin, Italy José Luis Ortega Martín, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain Francisco Fernandez Palomares, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain Constantine D. Skordoulis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Sanja Stanic, University of Split, Split, Croatia 21

19 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Local Committee 2015 Local Organizing Committee - University of Split Scientific Board (Faculty of Philosophy) SANJA STANIĆ, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology MARIJA LONČAR, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology ZORANA ŠULJUG VUČICA, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology RENATA RELJA, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology IVANKA BUZOV, Assistant, Department of Sociology GORANA BANDALOVIĆ, Assistant, Department of Sociology JOŠKO BOŽANIĆ, Full Professor, Department of Croatian Language and Literature ANDREJA BUBIĆ, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology INA REIĆ ERCEGOVAC, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology GORAN KARDUM, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology IVANA BATARELO KOKIĆ, Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogy MAJA LJUBETIĆ, Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogy MARITA BRČIĆ KULJIŠ, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Organizational Board (Faculty of Philosophy) JOŠKO BOŽANIĆ, Full Professor, Department of Croatian Language and Literature SANJA STANIĆ, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology ZORANA ŠULJUG VUČICA, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology MARIJA LONČAR, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology IVANKA BUZOV, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology GORANA BANDALOVIĆ, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology VLAHO KOVAČEVIĆ, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology MARINA MARASOVIĆ ALUJEVIĆ, Full Professor, Department of Italian Language and Literature ANTONELA PIVAC, Assistant Professor, Department of Italian Language and Literature GORDANA GALIĆ KAKKONEN, Assistant Professor, Department of Croatian Language and Literature ENI BULJUBAŠIĆ, Department of Croatian Language and Literature EMIL KUŠAN, Assistant, Department of Philosophy JELENA NOVAKOVIĆ, Conference Coordinator MARIN SPETIĆ, Student Coordinator, Department of Sociology 22

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22 The Social Sciences Collection Committed to being a definitive intellectual resource on emerging trends in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge creation within and across the various social sciences and between the social and the natural and applied sciences

23 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Collection of Journals Indexing Academic Search Alumni Edition Academic Search Complete Academic Search Elite Academic Search Index Academic Search Premier Biography Reference Bank Cabell s OmniFile Full Text Mega OmniFile Full Text Select Scopus The Australian Research Council (ERA) Ulrich s Periodicals Directory Founded: 2006 Publication Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December) Community Website: thesocialsciences.com Bookstore: iji.cgpublisher.com About The Social Sciences Collection aims to examine the nature of disciplinary practices and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of real-world applications. It also interrogates what constitutes science in a social context, and the connections between the social and other sciences. The journals in this collection discuss the distinctive disciplinary practices within the sciences of the social and examine examples of these practices. In order to define and exemplify disciplinarity, the collection fosters dialogue ranging from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and practical. In considering the varied interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary work across and between the social, natural, and applied sciences, the journals in this collection showcase interdisciplinary practices in action. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical, to wide-ranging multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary practices, to perspectives on knowledge and method. Collection Editor Associate Editors Gerassimos Kouzelis, Department of Political Science and Public Administration University of Athens, Athens, Greece Articles published in the Social Sciences Collection are peer reviewed by scholars who are active members of the Social Sciences knowledge community. Reviewers may be past or present conference delegates, fellow submitters to the collection, or scholars who have volunteered to review papers (and have been screened by Common Ground s editorial team). This engagement with the knowledge community, as well as Common Ground s synergistic and criterion-based evaluation system, distinguishes the peer review process from journals that have a more top-down approach to refereeing. Reviewers are assigned to papers based on their academic interests and scholarly expertise. In recognition of the valuable feedback and publication recommendations that they provide, reviewers are acknowledged as Associate Editors in the volume that includes the paper(s) they reviewed. Thus, in addition to the Social Sciences Collection s Editors and Advisory Board, the Associate Editors contribute significantly to the overall editorial quality and content of the collection. 27

24 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Collection Titles The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review ISSN: (print) Indexing: Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Index, Academic Search International, Academic Search Premier, Cabell s, OmniFile Full Text Mega, OmniFile Full Text Select, Scopus, The Australian Research Council (ERA),Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review examines the nature of disciplinary practices and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of real world applications. It also interrogates what constitutes science in a social context, and the connections between the social and other sciences. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies ISSN: (print) (online) Indexing: Cabell s, Political Science Complete, Scopus, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies investigates the processes of governance and the nature of citizenship and invites case studies that take the form of presentations of practice, including the documentation of socially-engaged practices and exegeses analyzing the effect of those practices. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies ISSN: X (print) (online) Indexing: Cabell s, Scopus, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies explores and exemplifies disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices in the study of human cultures and cultural interactions. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies ISSN: X (print) (online) Indexing: Cabell s, Education Source, Scopus, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Educational Studies explores the processes of learning about the social and social learning. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies ISSN: (print) (online) Indexing: Cabell s, Environment Complete, Environment Index, Scopus, Sustainability Reference Center, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies offers social sciencebased interpretations and interdisciplinary explorations of the connections between human and natural environments. iji.cgpublisher.com 28

25 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Collection Titles The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies ISSN: X (print) (online) Indexing: Academic Search Index, Academic Search International, Cabell s, Scopus, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies investigates the dynamics of globalization and the transformation of the local. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organizational Studies ISSN: (print) (online) Indexing: Business Source Corporate Plus, Business Source Index, Business Source International, Cabell s, Scopus, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organizational Studies explores the social dynamics of public, community, and privately owned organizations. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies ISSN: (print) (online) Indexing: Cabell s, Scopus, SocINDEX, Sociology Source International, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies presents studies of society that exemplify the disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices of the social sciences. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication ISSN: (print) (online) Indexing: Cabell s, Communication Source, Scopus, Ulrich s Periodicals Directory About: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication offers social science-based interpretations and interdisciplinary explorations of the representation and communication of human meanings. iji.cgpublisher.com 29

26 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Submission Process Journal Collection Submission Process and Timeline Below, please find step-by-step instructions on the journal article submission process: 1. Submit a conference presentation proposal. 2. Once your conference presentation proposal has been accepted, you may submit your article by clicking the Add a Paper button on the right side of your proposal page. You may upload your article anytime between the first and the final submission deadlines. (See dates below) 3. Once your article is received, it is verified against template and submission requirements. If your article satisfies these requirements, your identity and contact details are then removed, and the article is matched to two appropriate referees and sent for review. You can view the status of your article at any time by logging into your CGPublisher account at www. CGPublisher.com. 4. When both referee reports are uploaded, and after the referees identities have been removed, you will be notified by and provided with a link to view the reports. 5. If your article has been accepted, you will be asked to accept the Publishing Agreement and submit a final copy of your article. If your paper is accepted with revisions, you will be required to submit a change note with your final submission, explaining how you revised your article in light of the referees comments. If your article is rejected, you may resubmit it once, with a detailed change note, for review by new referees. 6. Once we have received the final submission of your article, which was accepted or accepted with revisions, our Publishing Department will give your article a final review. This final review will verify that you have complied with the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition), and will check any edits you have made while considering the feedback of your referees. After this review has been satisfactorily completed, your paper will be typeset and a proof will be sent to you for approval before publication. 7. Individual articles may be published Web First with a full citation. Full issues follow at regular, quarterly intervals. All issues are published 4 times per volume (except the annual review, which is published once per volume). Submission Timeline You may submit your article for publication to the journal at any time throughout the year. The rolling submission deadlines are as follows: Submission Round 1 15 January Submission Round 2 15 April Submission Round 3 15 July Submission Round 4 (final) 15 October Note: If your article is submitted after the final deadline for the volume, it will be considered for the following year s volume. The sooner you submit, the sooner your article will begin the peer review process. Also, because we publish Web First, early submission means that your article may be published with a full citation as soon as it is ready, even if that is before the full issue is published. 30

27 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Common Ground Open Hybrid Open Access All Common Ground Journals are Hybrid Open Access. Hybrid Open Access is an option increasingly offered by both university presses and well-known commercial publishers. Hybrid Open Access means some articles are available only to subscribers, while others are made available at no charge to anyone searching the web. Authors pay an additional fee for the open access option. Authors may do this because open access is a requirement of their research-funding agency, or they may do this so non-subscribers can access their article for free. Common Ground s open access charge is $250 per article a very reasonable price compared to our hybrid open access competitors and purely open access journals resourced with an author publication fee. Digital articles are normally only available through individual or institutional subscriptions or for purchase at $5 per article. However, if you choose to make your article Open Access, this means anyone on the web may download it for free. Paying subscribers still receive considerable benefits with access to all articles in the journal, from both current and past volumes, without any restrictions. However, making your paper available at no charge through Open Access increases its visibility, accessibility, potential readership, and citation counts. Open Access articles also generate higher citation counts. Institutional Open Access Common Ground is proud to announce an exciting new model of scholarly publishing called Institutional Open Access. Institutional Open Access allows faculty and graduate students to submit articles to Common Ground journals for unrestricted open access publication. These articles will be freely and publicly available to the whole world through our hybrid open access infrastructure. With Institutional Open Access, instead of the author paying a per-article open access fee, institutions pay a set annual fee that entitles their students and faculty to publish a given number of open access articles each year. The rights to the articles remain with the subscribing institution. Both the author and the institution can also share the final typeset version of the article in any place they wish, including institutional repositories, personal websites, and privately or publicly accessible course materials. We support the highest Sherpa/Romeo access level Green. For more information on how to make your article Open Access, or information on Institutional Open Access, please contact us at support@commongroundpublishing.com. 31