📄 social science

Sustainability of Learning at Work: A Typology of Learners in an ICT Organisation

Through a sociocultural analysis of interviews with employees in a Finnish ICT organization, this study identifies three distinct learner typologies—enthusiastic, exhausted, and uncertain—to demonstrate how sustainable workplace learning varies among individuals based on their experiences with knowledge sharing, management support, and the anticipation of future learning needs.

Mia Turpeinen, Kaija Collin, Soila Lemmetty, Susanna Paloniemi2026-10-22
📄 social science

Algorithmic Governance and India's Constitutional Duty toward Outbound Students Facing Foreign AI Visa and Surveillance Decisions

This paper argues that India must establish a new "Sending-State Algorithmic Protection Doctrine" to fulfill its constitutional duty of protecting outbound students from foreign algorithmic visa and surveillance harms, addressing a critical gap in current scholarship and responding to empirical evidence of widespread distrust in existing legal frameworks.

Jakey Khan, Jayashri Rajbangshi2026-10-22
📄 social science

“We Are All Sick”: Sanitation, Structural Neglect, and the Embodied Politics of Informality in Cape Town

Drawing on interviews and theoretical frameworks like urban political ecology, this paper argues that in Cape Town's Khayelitsha, systemic sanitation neglect and the "temporary" classification of informal settlements produce embodied suffering and political marginalization, transforming residents' private illness into a collective demand for infrastructure as a fundamental right of citizenship.

Alex Kihehere Mukiga2026-10-22
📄 social science

Navigating the Nerve in Sensitive Research: Ethical and Structural Frameworks for Designing Sensitive Surveys

This paper proposes a theoretical framework that integrates sociology, trauma-informed cognitive theory, and bias mitigation to redesign sensitive surveys, thereby eliminating respondent defensiveness and data distortion through mechanisms like decoupled verification and calibrated semantic priming while cautioning against the risks of uncalibrated generative AI.

Muhammad Umair Ashar2026-10-22
📄 social science

Health anxiety and online health searching in a synthetic study of uncertainty and digital health literacy

This study utilized a reproducible synthetic dataset to demonstrate a statistical model where health anxiety predicts cyberchondria through intolerance of uncertainty, with digital health literacy acting as a significant negative moderator, while emphasizing that these findings serve as a methodological proof-of-concept rather than independent confirmation of psychological mechanisms in real populations.

arhama faridi2026-10-22
📄 social science

Beyond knowledge gains: remembering, reconstructing, caring, and the limits of action in animation-based industrial heritage education

This mixed-methods study of 452 Chinese students demonstrates that while place-based animation effectively boosts short-term knowledge retention and fosters positive stewardship intentions regarding industrial heritage, it does not guarantee deep causal understanding or translate into action-oriented learning outcomes.

Xin Bian, Andre Brown, Bruno Marques2026-10-22
📄 social science

Psychological resilience and social adaptation among college students facing stressful events: a moderated mediation model

This cross-sectional study of 910 Chinese university students reveals that psychological resilience partially mediates the negative impact of stressful events on social adaptation, while a self-reported intervention measure moderates the direct effects of stress on both resilience and adaptation, suggesting that distinct pathways should be targeted for support.

Tingting Qian, Hui Zhu, Binyan Jia, Jingfangzhou Li, Luoyi Zeng2026-10-22