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The fifth issue of Volume 6 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published.

Volume 6, Issue 5 contains:

• The G’hals of New York and other Cities at Work and Play: A Flourishing Feminine Counterculture in Mid-nineteenth Century Urban America by Fred W. Viehe.
• The Meaning of Sports Participation in the Lives of Middle-aged and Older Women by Chelsea Litchfield and Rylee A. Dionigi.
• The Occupational Science of Women Faculty Work: A Qualitative Approach by Christine Privott.
• Lives in Times of Conflict: Locating Women and Accountability of the State in Kashmir by Sapna K Sangra.
• Landscape Alteration due to Renewable Energy Development: Agenda Setting in the Social Sciences by Susan McPartland.
• Politics, Stereotypes and Terrorism: The Politics of Fear in Liberal Democracies by Jade Evans.
• The Implication for Urban Sustainability of the Location of Paid Work and Transit Routes in Adelaide, South Australia by Lou Wilson and Kathryn Davidson.
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Disaster Management, Incorporating Economics and Social Psychology by Valerie Ingham, John Hicks, Mir Rabiul Islam, Ian Manock and Richard Sappey.
• Impacts of Foreign Investment and Sex Ratio on Women’s Status by Rifat Akhter.

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The fourth issue of Volume 6 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published.

Volume 6, Issue 4 contains:

• Nontraditional College Students: Assumptions, Perceptions, and Directions for a Meaningful Academic Experience by Lakia M. Scott and Chance Lewis.
• Culture and Learning through Constructive Technology: STEM, Digital Art, and Communications in an Evolving Context by John Flynt.
• At what Point is a Pizza no Longer a Pizza or a Book no Longer a Book? A Look at how new uses for Traditional Genres are Redefining Audience Expectation by Trisha Capansky.
• A Phenomenological Inquiry of Social Support in Relation to Health and Wellbeing among Rural Queer Female Youth by Erin E. Cusack and Matthew Numer.
• Women’s Empowerment As Determinant for Maintanance and Sustainability of Portable Water and Sanitation Facilities in Ekiti State, Nigeria by Catherine Ajoke Oluyemo.
• Voices on the Outside: Mass Incarceration and the Women Left Behind by Michaela Simmons.
• The End of the Alabama Frontier: Weatherford’s Perspective by Aaron Zeanah.
• Importing Foreign Labor and Human Rights Deprivation: The Case of the Catalonian Agricultural Union Unió de Pagesos by Olga Achón Rodríguez.
• A Review on the Development, Challenges and Contributions of Independent Film Activities in Malaysia Film Industry by Vimala Perumal, Hamisah Zaharah Hassan, Jusang Bolong and Mohd. Nizam Osman.

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The third issue of Volume 6 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published.

Volume 6, Issue 3 contains:

• Unequal Education: How the Brown v Board of Education Decision can be Applied in Rural West Virginia by Rebecka Flynn.
• An Analysis of the Relationship Between Political Blog Reading, Online Political Activity, and Voting During the 2008 Presidential Campaign by Mitzi Lewis.
• Risk Control of Coopetition Relationship: An Exploratory Case Study on Social Networks “Guanxi” in a Chinese Logistics Services Cluster by Yina Chai and Fan Yang.
• Is Organizational Learning about Conflict Management important or not in Organizational Effectiveness in Tertiary Education? by Uzma Mukhtar.
• Moving towards Gender Parity: Female Representation in National Legislatures, 2001 and 2011 by Kimberly S. Adams.
• Teasing in Schools: What Teachers have to Say by Debra Harwood and Sarah Copfer.
• The Way They See it: How do Adolescents Experience Life Following Parental Divorce? by Laura R Hartman.
• Bringing in the Customers: Regulation, Discretion and Customer Service Narratives in Upmarket Hair Salons by Tracey Yeadon-Lee, Nick Jewson, Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin.
• Building Social and Community Cohesion: The Role of Social Enterprises in Facilitating Settlement Experiences for Immigrants from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds by Eric Kong.
• Knowledge of Self in the History Classroom by Kelsey Halbert.
• Parental Stress in an Upbringing Situation and Giving Children Help: A Model of the Phenomenon by Agnieszka Szymanska.
• Pakistan at Crossroads: War against Terrorism by Muqarrab Akbar.

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The second issue of Volume 6 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published.

Volume 6, Issue 2 contains:

• Framework Identifying the Heterogeneous Resource Constraints Faced by Women Entrepreneurs at the Planning and Managing Stages by Meena Chavan.
• Organisational Structure: Some Observations on the Importance of Informal Advice and Trust Networks by Carmine Sellitto.
• An Inclusive Society for All: An Experimental Study among Elders with a Disability in China* by Honglin Chen and Wong Yu-Cheung.
• Do the Perceptions of the Family Heads Play a Significant Role in the Employment Decisions of Females in a Semi-urban Area of Pakistan? by Shafaq Hussain.
• An Abattoir Waste Water Management Through Composting: A Case Study of Alesinloye Waste Recycling Complex by Taiwo Babatunde Hammed, Azeez Ablor Soyingbe and Dorcas O. Adewole.
• Perceptions about Traditional Culture in the Solomon Islands and their Potential for Assisting in The Protection of Vulnerable Children by Lester J. Thompson and Dan Baschiera.
• Hyperlocal Referent Systems in Television Advertising by Manjula Sharma and P. J. Philip.
• Public Toilets for Visually Impaired Persons: Application of the Principles of Universal Design by Kin Wai Michael Siu.
• About the Surface of Complex Social System’s Successfulness by Stepan S. Sulakshin.

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