📄 social science

Pathways Linking Family Sports Environment to Negative Emotions in Chinese Junior High School Students: The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience—A Cross-Lagged Analysis

This longitudinal study of 628 Chinese junior high school students reveals a bidirectional relationship between family sports environment and negative emotions, where a supportive environment reduces negative emotions over time through the mediating role of psychological resilience, while negative emotions subsequently weaken the family sports environment, particularly among girls.

Xiao Hua Gan, Yue jiang, Cheng Gui Xu, Xiang Yu Gu, Jing wang, Bao Gen zhang2026-10-12
📄 social science

The future of humanity in the face of artificial intelligence progress: possible scenarios, risks, and the role of governance

This study analyzes the socio-economic and existential implications of rapid AI development through three prospective scenarios, identifying critical gaps in current legal frameworks and advocating for a globally coordinated regulatory approach grounded in human rights to ensure AI aligns with human safety and collective welfare.

Faztudo Languisse2026-10-12
📄 social science

From Taboo to Compliance: The Structural Origins of Experiences of Dehumanisation in Capitalist Modernisation

Drawing on Lévi-Strauss's theory of the incest taboo, this article argues that capitalist modernization transforms ethical boundaries into quantifiable compliance mechanisms, thereby institutionalizing dehumanization through pervasive commensuration, and proposes that restoring human dignity requires protecting irreplaceable relationships and empowering subjects to participate in institutional decision-making.

Bingxin Zhou2026-10-12
📄 social science

From Shelfmark to Platform: Provenance, Description, and Digital Access to Jawi Manuscripts in European Repositories

This article analyzes how European repositories mediate the provenance, description, and digital access of Jawi manuscripts through a netnographic study of major institutions, arguing for a reciprocal-description model that integrates source-community terminology and acquisition histories to transform digitized surrogates into more equitable archival interfaces.

Allif Syahputra Bania, Berlin Sibarani, Isli Iriani Indiah Pane2026-10-12
📄 social science

Task-Based Learning in Education (1976-2025): A Bibliometric Analysis of Publication Trends, Citation Impact, Collaboration and Research Themes

This bibliometric analysis of 1,055 Scopus-indexed publications from 1976 to 2025 reveals that Task-Based Learning has experienced significant growth in volume and influence, primarily within language education, while highlighting opportunities to expand its research scope across diverse disciplines, educational levels, and contexts.

GOPI KUPUCHITTY2026-10-12
📄 social science

Moral Values and Modernization: A Phenomenological Study of Religion and Moral Education Teachers’ Efforts to Strengthen Students’ Moral Formation in Dili, Timor-Leste

This phenomenological study of seventeen teachers in Dili, Timor-Leste, explores their perceptions of how modernization and digital technology impact student moral formation and details their multifaceted strategies—ranging from personal guidance to community collaboration—to address associated challenges while leveraging educational opportunities.

Pedro dos Santos2026-10-12
📄 social science

Staying in Kahramanmaraş after the Earthquakes: Moral Meaning, Relational Anchors and Institutional Conditions in Primary-School Classroom Teachers’ Accounts 1st

Through reflexive thematic analysis of interviews with 12 primary-school teachers in Kahramanmaraş, this study reveals that staying to teach after the 2023 earthquakes is a morally charged, ambivalent practice anchored in relationships and professional duty, yet often hindered by limited institutional recognition and material support.

Emine Doğan, Merve Karataş2026-10-12