📄 social science

The Incorporation and Transformation of Spiritual Education within the State Ideology of the People’s Republic of China

This paper argues that spiritual education in the People's Republic of China has been conceptually transformed and incorporated into state ideology, shifting from a focus on holistic inner development to a state-directed framework of moral-political education designed to reinforce socialist values, patriotism, and cultural confidence under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

Muhammad Ramzan Ali2026-10-16
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Rhetorical invocation: a four-layer computational analysis of discourse vocabulary in institutional art writing

This study employs a four-layer computational framework to analyze 62,400 institutional art texts, revealing that while they mimic academic syntax, they structurally lack the argumentative operations of academic writing, thereby defining a phenomenon termed "rhetorical invocation" where formal markers of rigor are deployed without their underlying logical support.

Haram Choi2026-10-16
📄 social science

Women’s Lineages and Their Territories: Long- and Short-Term Histories in the Ribeira De Iguape Valley, Brazil

This article combines genealogy, archaeology, and documentary sources to trace the multi-ethnic lineages of women potters in Brazil's Ribeira De Iguape Valley, demonstrating how their enduring kinship and territorial ties since the 16th century support contemporary land tenure recognition and the visibility of historically erased Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities.

Marianne Sallum, Francisco Silva Noelli, Marina Gomes da Rosa Cordeiro, Wendel Alexander Daliesi Costa, Lucia Aparecida (…)2026-10-16
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Digital Distress in Higher Education: Problematic Internet Use, Cyberbullying, and Technostress Among Chilean University Students

This study of 755 Chilean university students reveals that while problematic internet use directly drives most dimensions of technostress, cyberbullying involvement plays a selective mediating role only in perceived technological inefficacy, suggesting distinct intervention targets for digital well-being in higher education.

Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Beatriz Sora, Joan Boada-Grau, David Chávez-Herting, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda2026-10-15
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Making the Buddhacarita visible: visual translation, sacred temporality, and Buddhist visual vulture in contemporary Bali

This article examines a 2024 contemporary Balinese Kamasan scroll illustrating the *Buddhacarita* to argue that its visual translation of Buddhist biography into a continuous, spatialized narrative constitutes a dynamic process of knowledge production that synthesizes universal Buddhist themes with local Javanese-Balinese aesthetics to generate sacred temporality.

Siaw Hung Ng2026-10-15
📄 social science

Birth Interval Trajectories during Fertility Transition in India, 1992–2021: Socio-Demographic Correlates and Regional Heterogeneity

This study analyzes India's fertility transition from 1992 to 2021 using NFHS data and complementary log-log models to reveal that while the Total Fertility Rate has declined significantly, birth intervals have increased only marginally with pronounced regional disparities, highlighting an unfinished agenda in maternal health and reproductive agency driven by a sterilization-centric approach.

Sonam Priya, Srinivas Goli2026-10-15
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Intellectual Migration and the Spatial Redistribution of Academic Human Capital under External Shocks

This study analyzes how Ukraine's full-scale war has intensified the spatial inequality and hyperconcentration of academic human capital in safe regions like Kyiv while eroding frontline scientific centers, as evidenced by rising Gini coefficients and shifting Location Quotients between 2019 and 2024.

Viktoriia Yanovska, Olena Tsvirko, Iryna Udovychenko, Iryna Lomachynska, Halyna Kryshtal, Viktoriia Tvoronovich2026-10-15
📄 social science

Citizen Distrust of Prosecutors and Support for Citizen Reviews of Prosecutors’ Decisions Not to Prosecute in South Korea

Based on a 2021 survey of 1,000 Korean citizens, this study finds that distrust of prosecutors and the belief that citizen involvement enhances transparency are key drivers of public support for citizen reviews of prosecutors' decisions not to prosecute, suggesting such mechanisms are vital for curbing abuse of power and increasing fairness.

Don Soo Chon2026-10-15