Project Tags: Sociology and Social Context

Promoting intellectual humility to curb ideological violence: A time-series study

Intellectual humility—the recognition that one’s knowledge is limited and that personal beliefs may be incomplete or flawed—has emerged as a promising means of reducing extreme political hostility. Our preliminary pilot…

Countering extremist ideologies through cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions: A novel approach

With the global threat of violent extremism on the rise, particularly in MENA countries, developing effective countermeasures has become imperative. Our team’s research (Adam-Troian & Bélanger, 2023) recently identified a…

Investigating the role of team design in enhancing collaboration

Organizations in every sector are increasingly using teams to perform many different functions, including to solve problems, create new products and deliver essential services. Teams are potentially valuable because they…

Citizenship lessons in educational spaces: Teaching history and civic duties to young South Asians in Qatar

South Asians form the biggest migrant community in Qatar, together they constitute almost 50-60% of the population. The South Asian diaspora is very varied, they practice multitudes of religious faiths,…

Unleashing the power of social commerce in the C2C platforms: A cross cultural analysis

Social media are widely acknowledged as having enabled many recent social, economic, and political transformations. These media, which include Facebook, Instragram, YouTube, Second Life, and Twitter, have become established as…

Cognition in context

Overwhelmingly, our knowledge about how the human brain perceives the world is based on WEIRD samples. WEIRD refers to participants from Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic societies. Due to…

Narrative, identity, and multiculturalism in a rapidly developing globalized city

This study explores the relationship between narrative, identity, and place in Doha by interviewing longtime residents about their life experiences. The diverse population and rapid pace of development in Doha…

Language policy in globalized contexts

This Research Report will serve as a call for policy makers to address the challenge of promoting societal multilingualism and a resource for meeting the challenge.

Transnational labor migration in Qatar: An empirical sociological analysis

This project seeks to significantly advance Qatar’s understanding of its large foreign workforce. To date, none of the GCC countries have successfully engaged in a quantitatively grounded analysis of foreign…

Images of Muslim women in translated Mideast media sources: A content and discourse analysis

Our project is designed to enhance “East/West” understanding by considering representations of Muslim women in Muslim media. Content analysis research in the west shows that western media images of Muslims…