2016 Recent Research in Social Sciences International Conference (SOCSIC 2016)

Track 1 : Social Sciences

• Teaching and Learning the Arts
• Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
• Arts Theory and Criticism
• Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
• Visual Arts Practices
• Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
• Literary Arts Practices
• Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
• Other Arts
• Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
• Aesthetics, Design
• Language, Linguistics
• Knowledge
• Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
• History, Historiography
• Literature/Literary Studies
• Political Science, Politics
• Teaching and Learning
• Globalisation
• Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
• Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
• First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
• Sexuality, Gender, Families
• Religion, Spirituality
• Cyberspace, Technology
• Science, Environment and the Humanities
• Other Humanities
• Sociology: concepts and practices
• Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows
• What are the behavioral sciences?
• Psychology of the social
• Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice
• Economics as social science
• Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony
• Philosophy’s place in the social sciences
• Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice
• Health in community
• Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences
• Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences
• Social sciences for the professions
• Social sciences for social welfare
• Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion
• Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence
• Social sciences addressing social crisis points
• Technologies in and for the social
• Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards
• Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions
• Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’
• The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health
• Political science as disciplinary practice
• Investigating public policy
• Law as a social science
• Criminology as social science
• Public health
• Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards
• Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics
• Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion
• Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare
• Politics in, and of, the social sciences
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality
• Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror
• The neo-liberal state and its critics
• Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness
• Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts
• Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging
• Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology
• Ethnographic methods
• Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text
• Cultural studies as a constitutive field
• Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism
• Where humanities and social sciences meet
• Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences
• Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic
• Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism
• Religion and the human sciences
• Health, wellbeing and culture
• Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants
• The dynamics of globalization, diaspora and diversity
• Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free’ and ‘fair’ trade
• Developed and developing worlds
• Inequalities in international perspective
• Poverty and global justice
• Human rights in global perspective
• The local and the global
• The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies
• Human environments
• Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study
• Health and the environment
• People, place and time: human demography
• Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity
• Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment
• Management as social science
• Culture in organizations
• Technology and work
• The social dynamics of organizations
• Human resource management
• Workers’ rights
• Corporate governance
• Organizational and social sustainability
• Corporate social responsibility
• Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting
• Tacit and explicit knowledge
• Private and public knowledge
• Scenario building and futures forecasting
• Organizational change
• Education as a social science
• The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor
• Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science
• Teaching and learning the social studies
• History teaching and learning
• Economics teaching and learning
• Geography teaching and learning
• Technology in learning and learning about technology
• Media studies as social science
• Communications as a social science
• Information and communications technologies
• The social web: the internet in its social context
• Human-computer interactions
• Literacies as a social learning experience

Track 2 : Business and Management

• Social and Environmental Impact of Business & way towards sustainability
• Accounting
• Advertising Management
• Business & Economics
• Business Ethics
• Business Intelligence
• Business Information Systems
• Business Law
• Business Performance
• Management
 Business
• Statistics
• Change Management
• Communications Management
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Consumer Behavior
• Corporate Finance and Governance
• Corporate Governance
• Cost Management
• Decision Sciences
• Development Planning and Policy
• Economic Development
• Economic Methodology
• Economic Policy
• Economic Systems
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance & Investment
• Financial Economics
• Global Business
 Growth;
• Aggregate Productivity
• Household Behavior and Family Economics
• Human Resource
• Information Technology Management
• International Business
• International Economics
• International Finance
• Labor Economics
• Labor Relations & Human Resource Management
• Law and Economics
• Management Information Systems
• Management Science
• Market Structure and Pricing
• Marketing Research and Strategy
• Marketing Theory and Applications
• Operations Research
• Organizational Behavior & Theory
• Organizational Communication
• Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles 
 Product Management
• Production and Organizations
• Production/Operations Management
• Infrastructure for tourism
• Hotels and resorts
• Conference facilities
• Casinos and gaming facilities
• Visitor attractions
• Medical tourism
• Dark tourism
• Agro tourism
• Eco tourism
• Indigenous tourism
• Environmentally-friendly operations
• Master plan development
• Tourism forecasting
• Attracting investment
• Strategic partnerships and alliances
• Minimization of foreign exchange leakage
• Tourism performance analysis
• Natural disasters and climate changes
• Crisis management
• Quality assurance
• Heritage tourism
• Culinary tourism
• Sports tourism
• Special event tourism
• Community based events
• Community tourism
• Gaining support from rural communities
• Empowering local communities
• Homestay accommodation
• Domestic tourism
• Positioning strategies
• Unique brand images
• International media relations
• Creative tourism packaging
• Regional / bi-national tourism marketing
• Market segmentation
• Market distribution channels
• Repeat visitation and destination loyalty
• Tourism e-marketing
• “Applied” education
• Program pathways
• Structured internships
• Industry led certifications
• Practical training need assessment
• Training and development
• Attracting and retaining quality employees