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Year 12 - Issue 23. 2024. Themed Issue: Reflections on Childhood from Contemporary Social Research
• Challenges in measuring the impact of public investment in health.
• Longitudinal study on a group of adolescents in a middle-income country like Peru.
• Affiliation and Indigenous languages in Argentina.
• Assessment of the nutritional status of Qom and Wichí children in Argentina.

Year 12 - Issue 22. 2024. Themed Issue: Child Malnutrition in Argentina.
• Food consumption among Argentine children.
• Children's rights to healthy nutrition.
• Food insecurity and social protection systems.
• Agribusiness and the impact of malnutrition.

Year 11 - Issue 21. 2023. General Themes Issue.
• Transitional justice in contexts of criminal violence and state fragility; Mexico.
• Urban space (theoretical reflections).
• Preliminary inquiry into Giddens' ideas on the social, expressed in terms of modernity, basic trust, expert systems, and risk policies.
• Social interests of youth and choosing a university career.
• Barriers faced by universities in transferring research to public policy.

Year 11 - Issue 20. 2023. General Themes Issue.
• Good agricultural practices (GAP) and territoriality in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, 2002–2018.
• Banking processes involved in Conditional Income Transfer Programs in Buenos Aires City (CABA), Argentina.
• Social networks as communication systems in universities of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), Argentina.
• The society of work: reflections.
• The influence of UNRWA on the development of Palestinian nationalism.

Year 10 - Issue 19. 2022. General Themes Issue.
• Territorial reconfigurations in the Buenos Aires Atlantic Coast, Argentina.
• Mutual aid groups during COVID-19.
• Public space in post-Soviet cities.
• Current issues in university extension in Argentina.
• Environmental education and pedagogical experiences.
• Learning English during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Year 10 - Issue 18. 2022. Featured Issue: The Relationship Between Society, Education, and Politics.
• Political participation of women and public resource allocation to education and healthcare.
• Professional identity of the educational assistant, Mexico.
• Housing where children live with their families, Argentina.
• Pre-professional Social Work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Year 9 - Issue 17. 2021. General themes.
• Habitat in a neighborhood of the city of Tandil.
• Right to the city and living spaces of Trans people in Mar del Plata.
• Sociocultural integration of the immigrant population: assimilation and multiculturalism.
• Virtual worlds. Digital age.
• Organizational innovation of MSMEs in Mexico.
• Physical activity: between ethics and aesthetics. The Hippocratic conception.

Year 9 - Issue 16. 2021. Special issue: Problems of social life in Mexico, diverse perspectives of analysis.
• Food insecurity and quality of life.
• Effects on well-being from victimization and fear of crime.
• Rural quality of life and qualitative methodology.
• Considerations for qualitative research on irrational beliefs.
• Teaching and quality of life in higher education.
• Behavioral problems in children.
• Perceptions of excess weight according to the sociocultural context.

Year 8 - Issue 15. 2020. Special issue: Social problems in Latin America: An approach from the human capabilities framework.
• Capabilities and education.
• Child well-being - child abuse.
• Youth participation and collective capabilities.
• Multidimensional interventions to overcome poverty.
• Capabilities approach in sustainable development evaluation.
• The relational for empowerment in justice and truth in organizations of families of victims of political violence in Peru.

Year 8 -  Issue 14. 2020. General themes.
• Towards a deconstruction of the woman-mother union.
• Theoretical and methodological approaches to commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in Girardot, Cundinamarca.
• Castes in India.
• The perplexity of meaning: Daniel Bell's proposal.
• Land distribution in Central Mexico.
• Proposal for land use zoning in "Las Toscas", Lobería district, Buenos Aires province.

Year 7 -  Issue 13. 2019. Special issue: Contemporary political problems in Asia (also includes several works on diverse themes of general interest to the Social Sciences).
• Political representation of women in India.
• Diplomatic strategies of China and Japan towards Latin America.
• Relations and state policies of China with its diaspora.
• Differences in subjective well-being of Chilean adolescents by gender in the international context.
• Geography and quality of life in Argentina.
• Migrations, unequal development, and environment: the case of Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico.

Year 7 - Issue 12. 2019. General themes.
• The role of International Organizations in International Relations theory.
• Gender equality, education, and work: an approach to the situation in Chile, Cuba, and Finland.
• The internationalization of Higher Education. Analysis of the Alpha Tuning Project in Latin America.
• Gender stereotypes transmitted to children in the post-patriarchal family.
• Rethinking social workers' practices in schools from the adult-centered construction of youth.
• Maldives and the delicate balance between India and China.

Year 6 - Issue 11. 2018. Special issue: Policies of recognition of agency and participation from the beginning of life.
• The construction of the "child as a subject of rights" and children's agency.
• Deaf students: the importance of participating from childhood.
• Being a girl, indigenous, and migrant. Life course and agency in social contexts marked by gender violence and inequality. The case of a Tsotsil girl.
• Children's participation through art in a market in the State of Mexico.
• Right to participation in care and protection contexts.
• Motherhood as an individual and autonomous project. The case of solo mothers by choice.
• Water and sanitation governance and water conflicts in Latin America.

Year 6 - Issue 10. 2018. Special issue: Work, Quality of Life, and Health. What is different for women? (also includes several works on diverse themes of general interest to the Social Sciences).
• Women's employability in the Spanish labor market.
• Measuring health in the European labor market: a gender perspective.
• Informality and job insecurity among domestic workers in Santiago del Estero.
• Class, gender, and emancipation in Erik Wright and Pierre Bourdieu.
• Argentine sports institutions for youth and women: links to human rights and social inclusion.
• The polysemy of the concept of sport: the possibility of building a thesaurus.
• The National Happiness Index: the case of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Year 5 - Issue 9. 2017. Special issue: Studies on India (also includes several works on diverse themes of general interest to the Social Sciences).
• The "modernity" of imagination in Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja.
• The Bhils in the jungles of Western Rajasthan.
• Territorialization of the seas: the case of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
• Contemporary international politics of India and China.
• Cultural diplomacy between India and China.
• A brief historical review of Cambodia.
• University community and quality of life in Venezuela. The case of Universidad Metropolitana.

Year 5 - Issue 8. 2017. Special issue: Public affairs (also includes several works on diverse themes of general interest to the Social Sciences).
• Government and politics.
• The evolution of relations between MERCOSUR founding members and their counterparts in the CCG.
• Rural social participation in mitigating vulnerability derived from climate variability in Colombia.
• Governance networks and organizations involved in local public water management: water committees in the municipality of Xalatlaco, Mexico.
• New generations and employment.
• Relationship modalities between separated or divorced parents and children in the crisis of patriarchy.
• Domestic violence as an invisible phenomenon.

Year 4 - Issue 7. 2016. Special issue: Socio-spatial problems.
• Urbanization and the Argentine urban network: an analysis of the 1991-2010 period.
• Well-being in Castilla and León.
• Technological development as human development in extreme poverty contexts.
• Governance and habitability in General Pueyrredón district. An approach to urban sustainability from local management.
• Socio-environmental vulnerability in Monte Caseros, Corrientes.
• Regime differences and integration perspectives in South America.
• Impact of the Monsoon phenomenon on agricultural production in India.

Year 4 - Issue 6. 2016. Special issue: Social Sciences and Literature.
• Cultural management and its impact on the emergence and construction of collective memory in indigenous peoples.
• The space of the reductions of the Jesuit Province of Paraguay as a symbolic construction of religious and socio-cultural adaptation.
• Evil as a political problem: the "Dostoevsky paradigm" and the birth of dystopia.
• Semiotic approach to Weimar cinema.
• Spectacle, theater, and political patronage in Renaissance Italy.
• Carlo Levi's book as a period document and other issues—characters, magical thinking, thanatophilia, the Southern problem, migration, gender—that complicate its reading.

Year 3 - Issue. 5. 2015. General themes.
• Youth.
• Discrimination and transgender people.
• Catalan nationalism and relative autonomy of the state.
• Religious re-signification in contemporary Nigeria.
• Issues surrounding Indian philosophy.
• Intercultural dialogue and language contact in early 20th-century China.
• History, precursors, and current studies on Southeast Asia in Argentina.

Year 3 -  Issue 4. 2015. General themes.
• Contributions to the revaluation of rural life and quality of life from General Pueyrredon district.
• Collaborative action in regional integration contexts.
• Japanese migration and war: Fernando Hiramuro, a Mexican hibakusha.
• Motivational values and subjective well-being in Chilean professionals.
• The discomfort of the subject in consumer society.
• Approaches to social capital in Argentina.
• Quality of life and poverty in Argentina (2010). Provincial-scale approach.

Year 2 - Issue 3. 2014. General themes.
• Methodology of complex systems applied to research in physical activity and health.
• Social policies, anti-poverty, and social development: the Universal Child Allowance.
• Postmodern society and family life.
• Robert K. Merton, Erving Goffman, and the role resource.
• Identity and counterfactual history in Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America.
• Nationalism in the Balkans and the creation of states.

Year 2 - Issue 2. 2014. General themes.
• The diaspora in the context of the articulation between the local and the global.
• Symbolism in pre-Hispanic art from the 16th to 20th centuries.
• Russian foreign policy.
• Institutional conditions and transparency.
• Social skills from school.
• Programs for the prevention of child labor: the "Spaces for Growth" network in Barranquilla (Colombia).

Year 1 - Issue. 1. 2013. General themes.
• Research in Social Sciences: the challenge of scientific analysis.
• Defining and measuring well-being.
• Youth policies in Mexico.
• Protest and organization of social movements based on collective action theories.
• Social program for the historic center of Asunción.
• Urban land in Brazil.
• Spatial experiences in General Pueyrredón district, Buenos Aires.