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SAGE is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and we were founded on the premise that high-quality, rigorous social science creates better societies. The killing of George Floyd in 2020 put the spotlight on how much work there still is do to eradicate the scourge of racism from our society, and the world stood-up and paid attention.
Read MoreFor several years now, I have explored the role of sedentary behavior in disease, particularly as it relates to diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk. We now spend more time sitting that in all other activities combined. With rapid expansion of a ‘work from home’ culture, most recently driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, this has potential implications for health. Intriguingly, sitting increases risk for these diseases independent of physical activity and body mass index.
Read MoreThe routes and schedules of public transit, the presence or absence of sidewalks, the availability of different transportation options, and the design of highways that have divided cities—these are examples of aspects of transportation systems that can profoundly impact underserved communities’ access to basic needs like jobs, healthcare, education, and even food.
Read MoreToday, this blog post isn't about highlighting the work SAGE is doing to create a fairer and more equitable society, rather it is to highlight the important work other organisations are doing that we feel privileged to be able to promote and support.
Read MoreWhen SAGE Publishing was founded, we committed, as a business and as an ethos, to the lifelong pursuit of an improved global society on the easel of science. An undeniable basis of doing so with success is to challenge the systems that create barriers – most urgently, for marginalized and underserved communities.
Read MoreFour years ago, we, four Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) female social workers, researched experiences on anti-Asian violence as demonstrated in Twitter posts using the hashtag #thisis2016. We published our findings in the feminist social work journal, Affilia, in March 2021, the same week as the Atlanta spa shootings involving the murder of six Asian American women.
Read MoreSAGE’s mission is building bridges to knowledge – supporting the development of ideas through the research process. We continually aim to disseminate high-quality, impactful research with robust methodology, and we want to ensure researchers can easily find and access our content.
Read MoreUnderstanding how to promote peace in the region is perhaps more pressing now than at any time in the post-Cold War era. The region faces a myriad of security challenges including the rise of extremism, proxy wars at the regional level, and the negative effects of climate change
Read MoreThe disgust that we experience toward things like feces, blood, and tuna salad gone bad is clearly valuable: an important line of defensive against pathogens that may harm us. But things are more complicated when we turn to disgust about moral matters. When we’re disgusted by racism or those who take advantage of the elderly, the emotion seems fitting—a powerful and valuable response morally polluting behavior.
Read MoreVirtual engagement of lives has been made possible with the advent of social media. Almost 80% of the day are spent virtually on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, etc. Usage of social media to connect to and communicate with the ones we care about is always healthy, termed as social networking. Social dysfunction occurs when the constant communication leads to the point where our real or offline life gets replaced by virtual or online life..
Read MoreWhat happens at work, and in workplaces, clearly has a lot to do with different jobs, occupations and class more generally, but workplaces are much more than that. Workplaces are also places of age, where age is “done”, is constructed and reconstructed, is experienced, celebrated and denied. At work, people are routinely assessed by age, sometimes in terms of being a certain number of years, more often through some form of cultural assessment of occupational or professional age – is this a young worker?
Read MoreLife has been tough for everyone during the pandemic. We have all experienced fear, loneliness and a longing for normality. As adults, we could rationalise what was happening, but for children, particularly the very young, being suddenly unable to see Granny or attend playgroup has been perplexing and upsetting. However, the loss of play time is more than just a disappointment, it represents a notable loss of learning experiences and, due to inequality of access, it is children born into disadvantage who have lost out most of all.
Read MoreAs you are getting ready to publish your manuscript and are narrowing in on your journal of choice, you might face a variety of terminology in the submission guidelines about various costs associated with publication. Business models vary journal by journal and publisher by publisher. Here we breakdown the definitions of possible fees you may encounter as you decide to which journal you should submit.
Read MoreFrom developing vaccines to nudging people to eat less, scholars conduct research that could change the world, but most of their ideas either are misinterpreted by the public or never escape the ivory tower. Why does most academic research fail to make an impact? A new study in the Journal of Marketing suggests that ideas in scholarly research get lost in an attic of abstract, technical, and passive prose.
Read MoreAs a founder of a working group committed to advocating for the rights of transgender scholars to be correctly named within the scholarly record, I am keenly aware of the risks and harms that trans authors endure, and the challenges faced by academic publishers seeking to adopt and enact inclusive policies.
Read MoreSAGE Publishing has recently implemented a post-publication name change policy, which allows updates to an individual’s name for any reason, without requiring provision of supporting documentation and without publication of a correction notice.
Read MoreThere’s a well-known Yiddish saying ‘Mann tracht und Gott lacht’ meaning Man plans and God laughs. It isn’t unusual for people to live under the illusion (or delusion) that life will be good or get better, and this sense of optimism (or is it entitlement or perhaps hope?) may favor the propensity to plan for a future blessed by comfort, happiness, close friends and family, and good health.
Read MoreWhy do some second language (L2) learners attain a native-like pronunciation in the L2 while others have a noticeable foreign accent? More than six decades of research has sought to answer this question, with much of this research focusing on the role of the learner’s first language (L1); this is referred to as L1 transfer and is widely accepted to have a significant influence on L2 pronunciation development.
Read MoreWe are witnessing the largest vaccination campaign in history. Although the number of doses that have been administered so far are enough to fully vaccinate about 5% of the global population against COVID-19, the distribution has been highly unequal.
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