Social Sciences

18 open-access papers in Social Sciences, free to watch.

Tech Mining with LLMs: Unveiling Trends from Corporate Websites

Tech Mining with LLMs: Unveiling Trends from Corporate Websites

Xavier Martínez-Barbero, Ana Pastor-Merino, Josep Domènech

A company's website may reveal where its technology is heading, but only if someone can separate real signals from polished marketing. This study turns those public pages into a moving map of industrial change.

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Singing Homer : Modern Greek songs, digital literacy, and the experiential reception of the epics in secondary education

Singing Homer : Modern Greek songs, digital literacy, and the experiential reception of the epics in secondary education

Βασίλειος Ι. Τσιότρας

Homer can feel like a locked room: important, famous, and very far away. In one Greek classroom, students found a key in an unexpected place, not another lecture, but modern songs.

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Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service

Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service

Z. Dickson, SARA BINZER HOBOLT, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi

A local doctor’s surgery closes, and years later, people affected by that closure are more likely to support the populist right. The surprising link is not just healthcare; it is trust in the state.

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Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there

Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there

G.J. Fooks, Killian Mullan, T. Mills, David Yates, Jennifer Willmott

During the pandemic, government support was meant to protect jobs and businesses. But companies receiving that support were also linked to a sharp rise in top executives’ pay soon afterward.

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Back in time: starting the KS3 history curriculum in the 2 nd century AD

Back in time: starting the KS3 history curriculum in the 2 nd century AD

Holly Mason

What if a child’s first lesson in secondary-school history began not in 1066, but nearly a thousand years earlier? One proposal says that starting with Roman Britain could make history more accurate, more inclusive, and open to more students.

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Travel Mode- and Purpose-Specific Origin-Destination Matrices for England and Wales from Fused Travel Survey and Mobile Network Data

Travel Mode- and Purpose-Specific Origin-Destination Matrices for England and Wales from Fused Travel Survey and Mobile Network Data

Bowen Zhang, Chen Zhong, Mingfei Ma, James Golding-Graham

Every transport decision depends on an invisible question: who travels from where to where? This study builds a detailed answer by combining the broad movement picture from mobile phones with the human details surveys can provide.

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An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department

An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department

Ashley Cleary, Frannie Kaczor, Maisie Finnegan, John Schimek, Abby Egen-Schimek, Erin O’Donnell, Marlene D Melzer-Lange

When a young person is in suicidal crisis, a safety conversation may not be enough. This emergency department added something families could take home immediately: a lockbox for a firearm.

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Harnessing Backlash: How Leaders Can Benefit from Antagonizing Foreign Actors

Harnessing Backlash: How Leaders Can Benefit from Antagonizing Foreign Actors

Kelly Matush

What if a leader angers a powerful foreign partner not by accident, but to prove loyalty to voters back home? This paper argues that a diplomatic backlash can sometimes be politically useful.

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‘Unprecedented injustice’: Digitalisation and the perceived accessibility of childcare benefits

‘Unprecedented injustice’: Digitalisation and the perceived accessibility of childcare benefits

Bryn Hummel, Mara A. Yerkes, Michèlle Bal

A benefit can exist on paper and still feel out of reach. In the Netherlands, parents with more education actually reported lower access to childcare benefits, a result that turns the usual story about inequality upside down.

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Ensuring a ‘Responsible’ AI future in India: RRI as an approach for identifying the ethical challenges from an Indian perspective

Ensuring a ‘Responsible’ AI future in India: RRI as an approach for identifying the ethical challenges from an Indian perspective

Nitika Bhalla, Laurence Brooks, Tonii Leach

India is rushing toward artificial intelligence, but the people most affected may not be the people deciding how it is used. This study asks a practical question: how can India spot the risks before they become everyday harm?

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Spatial Inequities in Life Expectancy in Small Areas of Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015–2017

Spatial Inequities in Life Expectancy in Small Areas of Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015–2017

Andrés Trotta, Usama Bilal, Binod Acharya, Harrison S. Quick, Kari Moore, Mónica Serena Perner, Marcio Alazraqui, Ana Diez Roux

Two people can live in the same city yet face dramatically different chances of reaching old age. In Buenos Aires, the neighborhood itself was tied to a gap in life expectancy of nearly fifteen years for men.

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Current and preservice teachers' views and beliefs regarding martial arts and the inclusion of martial arts in Australian school settings: A cross‐sectional study

Current and preservice teachers' views and beliefs regarding martial arts and the inclusion of martial arts in Australian school settings: A cross‐sectional study

Louis David Burt, Nicholas Riley, Narelle Eather

Schools may be missing an activity that teachers already see as valuable. The surprising barrier is not widespread opposition, it is that many teachers support martial arts in schools while feeling unprepared to teach it.

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