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Suspended Autonomy: The Relational Reconstruction of Decision-Making in Chinese Women’s Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Treatment

Drawing on interviews with Chinese women undergoing IVF, this paper introduces the concept of "suspended autonomy" to describe how women's reproductive agency is relationally constituted yet constrained by structural mechanisms that prevent them from critically reassessing the legitimacy and unequal weight of familial and clinical forces shaping their decisions.

Ruoran Murphy Qiu2026-09-07

📄 social science

How Can Rationality Speak of Normativity?

By distinguishing between strong and weak constitutive norms, this paper argues that Davidson's theory of rationality, which links objective truth and maximal agreement to rationality, successfully reconciles his framework with the thesis of meaning normativity despite his apparent anti-conventionalist stance.

Yibin Dai2026-09-07

📄 social science

The Cost of Constant Availability: On-Call Work, Occupational AI Exposure, and Psychological Distress

Using China Family Panel Studies data, this paper demonstrates that constant availability imposes a distinct psychological burden on workers that persists despite higher income and is uniquely mitigated in high-AI-exposure occupations, suggesting that technological context reshapes how temporal intrusion translates into mental strain.

Chunyang Su2026-09-07

📄 social science

A phenomenological inquiry into occupational stress experiences among basic school teachers in Ho Municipality Ghana Running head: Stress in basic school teachers

This phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of occupational stress among basic school teachers in Ho, Ghana, revealing that resource constraints and institutional challenges cause significant physical and psychological distress that undermines teaching effectiveness, while highlighting the limited efficacy of informal coping strategies.

Anita Fafa Dartey, Francis Mawougnon Sagbo, Christian Ayisah, Emmanuel Dodzi Anyidoho2026-09-07

📄 social science

What Counts as Value-Imposition, and When Is It Justified? Lessons from Perimortem Sperm Retrieval

This paper argues that clinical ethics consultants should distinguish between the constitutive act of value-imposition—defined as displacing a party's ends with one's own—and the justificatory question of whether such imposition is permissible, demonstrating through a perimortem sperm retrieval case that directive counsel can be ethically justified if its grounds are robust across reasonable doctrines and proportionate to the interest served.

Jay Carlson, Collin Olen-Thomas, Angie Trejo2026-09-07

📄 social science

From Symbol to Sacrament: Losev, Bulgakov, and the Ontology of Eucharistic Ecclesiology

This paper explores how Aleksei Losev's ontology of the symbol provides the philosophical foundation for Sergei Bulgakov's sacramental theology, thereby clarifying the ontological basis of an eucharistic ecclesiology in which the Church manifests a divine-human reality through material participation without collapsing the distinction between the created and the divine.

Daniel Kisliakov2026-09-07

📄 social science

Fidelity, beauty, and accessibility: a triadic analysis of three English translations of the Qur’an

This article employs a triadic framework of semantic fidelity, aesthetic beauty, and comprehensibility to demonstrate that three canonical English translations of the Qur'an—by Pickthall, Arberry, and Khattab—each prioritize one dimension at the expense of the others, revealing translation of sacred texts as an act of interpretive prioritization rather than a purely linguistic operation.

Baharuddin Baharuddin, Kamaludin Yusra, Santi Farmasari, Siti Najwa Nizami, Nabila Mutia Cahyani2026-09-07

📄 social science

Overcoming Blind Spots in Humanitarian Needs Assessments: Interview Insights regarding Constraints and Solutions for Qualitative Methods

Based on interviews with 23 experts from 17 humanitarian organizations, this study identifies the operational constraints favoring quantitative methods in humanitarian needs assessments and recommends adopting a hybrid multi-method approach enhanced by artificial intelligence to better integrate and analyze crucial qualitative data.

Tino Kreutzer, James Orbinski, Lora Appel, Aijun An, Jerome Marston, Salomé Garnier, Patrick Vinck2026-09-07

📄 social science

Toxic Climate and Staff Exodus: A Case Study of High Turnover in a Predominantly African-American College Preparatory School

This case study reveals that despite demographic alignment between leadership, staff, and students at a predominantly Black college preparatory school, toxic interpersonal dynamics and leadership practices created a psychologically unsafe environment that drove significant staff turnover, challenging the assumption that shared racial identity alone ensures a healthy organizational climate.

Sheldon Sucre2026-09-07

📄 social science

Development of the IDEAS Collaborative Governance Framework to Manage Disposable-Diaper Waste

This article presents the development of the IDEAS Collaborative Governance Framework, an empirically grounded, five-phase model created through participatory engagement in rural South Africa to address the structural lack of disposable-diaper waste collection infrastructure rather than individual behavior.

Charlotte Maria Nell, Catherina Johanna Schenck, Martin Petrus de Wit2026-09-07

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