Research Interests: Demography, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Obesity, Environmental Health, and 15 moreCommunicable Diseases, Medicine, Overweight, Humans, Developing Country, Female, Male, Middle Aged, Adult, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Cost of Illness, Logistic Models, Double Burden, National Nutrition Survey, and Economic indicator
Objective - This research primarily focuses on the subject of social integration and related issues. Social integration is interpreted as being the process of inclusion and acceptance of individuals in a system, the creation of... more
Objective - This research primarily focuses on the subject of social integration and related issues. Social integration is interpreted as being the process of inclusion and acceptance of individuals in a system, the creation of relationships among individuals and their subsequent attitudes towards society. It is the result of conscious and motivated interaction and cooperation between individuals and groups Methodology/Technique - This paper is based on information that came from a case study undertaken in 2014 on the Penghu Islands and in Taipei, Taiwan. Quantitative data was collected from the available literature and qualitative data derived from interviews and the observation of 31 people including Vietnamese women who married Taiwanese husbands; local government officers. Findings – Evidence from this research showed that social integration and related issues are highly influential in determining the success, or failure of cross-border marriages. The three types of social integ...
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The focus of this study is on the prevalence of mental disorders among the people aged between 18-64 years who are living in Saigon (HCMC), and an analysis of the sociological factors that affect the spread of these disorders. The... more
The focus of this study is on the prevalence of mental disorders among the people aged between 18-64 years who are living in Saigon (HCMC), and an analysis of the sociological factors that affect the spread of these disorders. The theoretical framework of this research is a synthesis of the sociological theory of Anomie of Durkheim and the Strain theory of Merton. To determine the prevalence of mental disorders, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) is used, and to determine their effective sociological parameters we prepared a second Questionnaire, the sociological one, comprising questions derived from Durkheim and Merton's theories. The sample size was 384, using Cochran formula, and sampling was a multi-stage cluster sampling. The results from the analyses of the data showed that the overall prevalence of mental disorder in Saigon is 10.2%: in men 5.5% and in women 12.8%. Moreover, the components of immigration, job status, social status, structural and social pressures,...
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Objective - This paper focuses on exploring the ways in which social capital is utilised to promote the integration of Vietnamese women who married Taiwanese husbands into host families and the host. Methodology/Technique - Data was... more
Objective - This paper focuses on exploring the ways in which social capital is utilised to promote the integration of Vietnamese women who married Taiwanese husbands into host families and the host. Methodology/Technique - Data was derived from a case study undertaken in 2014 on the Penghu Islands and in Taipei, Taiwan, with interviews and the observation of 31 people including Vietnamese women who married Taiwanese husbands, local people. Findings - Findings reveal the values and norms of responsibility of Vietnamese women in family that were educated themselves, have been practiced effectively by Vietnamese women married to Taiwanese husbands to integrate into their families. Research limitations/implications - The regulations and legal environment for immigrants have created favourable conditions for their integration into the host families. Traditional Vietnamese cooking skills are chosen by many Vietnamese women as a kind of social capital for their access to the Taiwanese job...
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Research Interests: Sociology, Cognitive Science, Alternative Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Knowledge, and 11 moreSustainability in Higher Education, Knowledge sharing, Intuition, History of higher education, Neoliberalism, Higher Education Management, Higher Education Policy, Internationalisation of Higher Education, Internationalization of higher education, University, and Educational Philosophy and Theory
Introduction to the special issue Education Philosophy and Theory. Innovating Institutions: Instituting Innovation, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/52/11?nav=tocList The critique of the university has had more than its share of... more
Introduction to the special issue Education Philosophy and Theory. Innovating Institutions: Instituting Innovation, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/52/11?nav=tocList
The critique of the university has had more than its share of professional, storied and sometimes harsh polemic, and many are well-versed in sounding out the crisis of education and research. Indeed, the ‘crisis’ has kept some in business for good and for ill. We have, for example, heard much about the way neoliberalism has traded scholarship for vocation, education for training, instruction for market, collegiality for competition, and turned academic commitment into asset-stripped, bureaucratic, managerialism. On the other hand, the administrative sections of the university have commissioned and produced reams of reports that deserve close analysis, as we shall see, as a way to clear a path to elsewhere. The number of times the crisis has been cured by new expansion exceeds plausibility, topped only by excessive statistical data purporting to explain away less positive consequences and questioning. As the higher education sector in Asia and Australia morphs yet again, this time tinted by intimations and imitations of policy from elsewhere, this special issue attempts to redirect discussion from the cul-de-sacs of innovation as policy, to new and innovative institutions, based on intuitions of institutional need and responsive changes within the world we have.
The critique of the university has had more than its share of professional, storied and sometimes harsh polemic, and many are well-versed in sounding out the crisis of education and research. Indeed, the ‘crisis’ has kept some in business for good and for ill. We have, for example, heard much about the way neoliberalism has traded scholarship for vocation, education for training, instruction for market, collegiality for competition, and turned academic commitment into asset-stripped, bureaucratic, managerialism. On the other hand, the administrative sections of the university have commissioned and produced reams of reports that deserve close analysis, as we shall see, as a way to clear a path to elsewhere. The number of times the crisis has been cured by new expansion exceeds plausibility, topped only by excessive statistical data purporting to explain away less positive consequences and questioning. As the higher education sector in Asia and Australia morphs yet again, this time tinted by intimations and imitations of policy from elsewhere, this special issue attempts to redirect discussion from the cul-de-sacs of innovation as policy, to new and innovative institutions, based on intuitions of institutional need and responsive changes within the world we have.