Dr Muhammad Shoaib

University of Gujrat | UOG · Department of Sociology

This study attempt to examine the risk reduction mechanism of the COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan. World Health Organization (WHO) declared the emergency and provided guidelines to reduce the risk of a pandemic. Thus, people tried to adopt multiple health safety measures to reduce the risk of a pandemic outbreak. Therefore, this study was designed to...

Purpose This paper attempts to explore possible contributing factors of females' outperformance and males' underperformance in the higher education in Pakistan from teachers' perspective. The central question of the study is what are the key factors that affect female and male students' educational performance at the university level? Using Artific...

Purpose-This paper aimed to examine the psycho-social aspects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Pakistan. The study was conducted in Pakistan by using an online survey technique. The rationale to opt for this method was mainly based on the country's lock-down situations, social distancing and for the care of respondents. Design/methodology/...

The current research examined the effects of teachers and classrooms environment on girls’ learning skills in girls’ high schools. The main objective of the study was to analyze the classroom as a key academic and learning site in which the nature of interaction between teachers and students and among peers have a strong impact on students’ learnin...

This article attempts to evaluate the library services and facilities during the pandemic situations in Pakistan. This study is fashioned in positivistic tradition of quantitative research design, and a cross-sectional research method was employed. The objective of the study was to examine the library services available to students and faculty memb...

This paper has been designed to analyze theoretical insights into gender-based academic performance in higher education through the lens of Bourdieu's cultural capital theory. A systematic approach to review the published and available documents in online databases. The researcher reaches the point of saturation by browsing 68 published documents....

This paper has been designed to unpack the determinants of illegal migration from Pakistan to European countries specifically focusing on the Gujrat region. It has been observed that there are several factors of illegal migration in the Global South and Global North. In Global South, various key factors involve, low wages and poor working condition...

This study has been outlined to examine the crime investigation in Pakistan specifically focusing on challenges and reforms faced by law and enforcement agencies. As agencies play pivotal roles in crime investigation, unraveling a tapestry of challenges, and impeding their efficacy. Investigative protocols, technological infrastructure, and communi...

This paper aims to inspect gender violence, sexual harassment, violence against women, and gender-based violence using bibliometric analysis from 1971 to 2020. Gender violence and sexual harassment are widespread, affecting millions of individuals globally. Women and girls are disproportionately impacted, although men and boys, as well as non-binar...

This study examines English language learning skills among students at the tertiary level, specifically in teaching spaces. A quantitative approach has been used in this study. The students of the BS (4 Years) program constitute the population of the study. Cross-sectional research was undertaken, and a structured questionnaire was used to collect...

This study has been designed to examine the nexus between classroom environment and English language learning skills among students in higher education in Pakistan. It has been observed that the classroom environment has a favourable effect on students' language learning not only at school and college levels but also at the university level. A quan...

This paper has been designed to examine self-fulling prophecy of learning skills among students in higher education. It has been found that study culture and self-fulling prophecy vary from student to student in the learning process at all educational levels worldwide. This study has been based on a systematic review of literature and data extracte...

This study has been designed to investigate classroom environment and English language learning skills among students in higher education through systematic review. Classrooms have impacted English language learning in higher education in developed and developing countries. This study is based on a systematic review. The review has been extracted o...

This study has been designed to evaluate teacher competency and inclusive learning classroom environment among female students at the territory level. It has been observed that teacher competency affects student learning in developed and developing countries and Pakistan has no exemption. A quantitative study was conducted at a public sector univer...

The importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in academia is to increase opportunities and expand access to quality education by facilitating the learning of the students. The use of ICT is also equally important to create a conducive environment and develop creative thinking among the students. The main objective of the study is...

This paper has been designed to evaluate teacher competency and inclusive learning classroom environment at the tertiary level. The main purpose is to consolidate published scholarship on teacher competency and inclusive learning classroom environments in higher education. This review paper seeks to give a laconic picture of teacher competency and...

This paper designed to examine family life during COVID-19 outbreak current situations align with social work and sociology discipline. The family life disturbed due to uncertain conditions prevailed over a long period during the pandemic outbreak. For the present research, a quantitative (n=1786) study design was opted to conduct an online survey....

Gender is a socially constructed and equally supported by the social constructionists, feminists, and gender-related theorist in the globe. As per social constructionists, no other characteristic exists than femininity and masculinity. It reveals that gender is not natural or inherited rather socially learned behaviour. Moreover, the social constru...

This paper has been designed to examine gender disparity in academic performance in Pakistani higher education through the lens of Bourdieu's cultural capital theory. It reveals that female students outperform and male students underperform at all levels generally and higher education particularly. In this study, 253 university teachers participate...

This study attempts to analyze gender diversity in higher education in Pakistan using teachers' perspectives. Gender differentials in higher education in terms of female outperformance and male underperformance in higher education have not been received due to academic concerns in Pakistan. Hence, females and males' academic performance in educatio...

Girl and boy children learn through interaction and try to develop their stages of personality. They try to develop their gender identity starting their sensorimotor stage of personality development to the formal operational stage of personality. During these stages of personality development, girls and boys learn differently to play with toys, rec...

This article has been designed to examine the COVID-19 pandemic vaccination hesitancy among students at higher education institutions in Pakistan. The COVID-19 vaccination has been declared mandatory with the reopening of higher educational institutions and students feel hesitation based on multiple factors. This study has used a quantitative appro...

This study aims to explore the classroom environment and teacher effectiveness specifically to create an inclusive learning environment for female students at higher education institutions. The basic purpose is to consolidate the published scientific research documents on classroom-inclusive environments for female students and teacher effectivenes...

This paper intends to analyze the academic performance of students in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also focuses on measuring virtual classrooms, assessments, and co-curricular activities among students about their academic performance. A quantitative study has been conducted in two public sector universities. A total of 1106 st...

This paper has been designed to examine the spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction of social welfare workers in Pakistan. Several studies have been conducted to analyze spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction among workers in the Global South and Global North. It is evident that work environment job security and attitude of coworkers has b...

Biological determinism implies that social behaviour is an outcome of biological dissimilarities among boys and girls. Hence, the famous debate related to nature versus nurture biological determinism tends to accentuate the role of nature in explaining human behaviour. For instance, in explaining the role of elderly females in the moral upbringing...

This article attempted to examine research support services, information services, print collections, digital resources and information literacy using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. The main aim was to consolidate the published studies on the research support services in academic libraries in the Web of Science (WoS) indexed documents. Ho...

This paper has been designed to examine study culture, self-fulfilling prophecy, and learning skills of the students at the tertiary level. The study culture is very important for the learning of students at all levels including primary, secondary, and tertiary. In the same case, self-fulfilling prophecy also enhances the learning skills of male an...

In this paper, we highlight and present a nuanced picture of girls' outperformance and boys' underperformance in education in the urban centres of Pakistan. This is a very interesting and remarkable gender reverse trend in education performance in the dominated socio-cultural context of Pakistan. The paper takes into account the annual results of t...

This study has been designed to examine the awareness level of youth [students] regarding knowledge, attitude, and practice about disaster management and preparedness. For this purpose, research was conducted in a public sector university, and students of the faculty of arts participated. A mixed research method (MMR), both quantitative and qualita...

This paper aims to examine the severity of psychological violence against women in rural and urban areas of Muzaffarabad. A quantitative research design was employed, and a cross-sectional research method was used. A sample of 600 households was determined through the Taro Yamane formula, in which 300 respondents were selected from each rural and u...

This paper attempts to examine the e-libraries, digital libraries, electronic libraries, and online libraries employing bibliometric study techniques from 1971 to 2020. It focuses to consolidate the published documents on the library indexed in Web of Science. It has been observed that we found 4266 published documents employing bibliometric analys...

This paper attempts to analyze elderly psychological well-being in terms of modern technology and mass media in Pakistan. As the latest century witnessed phenomenological growth of technological advancement and the addition of scientific knowledge that changed the health of Pakistani people as well as in all over the world. Several number of social...

Despite the traditional trends in gender classification, people are suffering from a condition known as Gender Dysphoria (GD) in Asian countries generally and in Pakistan particularly. The study was intended to explore how young individuals with gender dysphoria define and interpret their gender identity. Through the purposive sampling technique, e...

Bourdieu (1990) is, perhaps, the best known among the sociologists for a comprehensive theoretical lens to explore the complex social structures of society. His main theoretical tools are habitus, fields, and different forms of capital. The purpose of developing the main argument is to understand the concepts and how they are used in the educationa...

This paper aimed to evaluate pedagogical skills, modern pedagogy, cultural pedagogy, online pedagogy, and learning environment using bibliometric visualization technique from 2001 to 2020. The main objective was to consolidate the existing available published documents on the subject of pedagogical skills in the field of sociology of education, lea...

This paper aimed to examine social work education, school social work, and social work curriculum employing scientometric analysis from 1971 to 2020. The purpose was to consolidate the documents on social work education in the science citation index and web of science database indexed publications. We extracted 4351 published documents and presente...

This article intends to examine academic library resources and research support services for English teachers at higher education institutions. A sample of 318 English teachers from the public sector universities has been selected through the proportionate random sampling technique. A cross-sectional survey has been conducted to collect data using...

Forced Marriage, Negative Social Control, and Domestic/Honour based Violence

This paper attempts to examine teachers' perspectives on the factors affecting English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching skills at higher education institutions in Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey has been conducted. The data have been collected from 634 university teachers (private and government). The respondents have been selected using a c...

The present study has been designed to analyses moral literacy and Islamic values among students in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Pakistan. Moral literacy and Islamic values are taught in all educational institutions in Pakistan directly and indirectly. A sample of 1512 university students of the BS program (4 Years) has been selected thr...

The main purpose of this paper was to evaluate the literature on social welfare, social casework, social group work, and community organization employing bibliometric analysis from 1971 to 2020. We extracted data from the science citation index database, web of science (core collection) extracted at 08:35 PM, PST on May 09, 2021. A total of 4015 pu...

This research paper attempts to examine the adaptation of preventive measures of COVID-19 among students at the tertiary level align with sociological lenses. As several preventive measures were opted to minimize the risk of current pandemic situations. A cross-sectional study was conducted and a sample of 1226 was taken from students study at the...

This paper aimed to examine higher education institutions, classroom environment, the role of teacher, and student academic performance using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. The main aim was to consolidate the published researches on the students’ academic performance in higher education in the Web of Science indexed documents. There was a...

This paper attempted to examine suicidal ideation among adolescents in terms of bullying victimization and emotional intelligence. It had been observed that adolescents have to face the challenge of suicidal ideation through bullying and reduce it through emotional intelligence. A sample of 1017 adolescents was sampled from public sector primary sc...

This article attempted to evaluate digital research support services in the context of higher education institutions in Pakistan during COVID-19. Researchers opted quantitative study design to conduct an online survey. A well-structured questionnaire was sent to 6200 university students through an email address. A total of 3122 students participate...

This paper is an attempt to determine the factors which influence the willingness of the students to use academic libraries after lifting the COVID-19 lockdown. A quantitative study design has been opted to conduct a cross-sectional survey from students of the BS (4 Years) program of five public sector universities in the Punjab province, Pakistan....

Material evaluation is a key concern of English for specific purposes program. This paper highlights the evaluation of Eight class textbooks of English to check its strengths and weaknesses. McDonough and Shaw (2012) framework has been used to evaluate the textbook for better assessment. The data analysis shows that the students are not satisfied w...

This article asserted the findings from the study of intention to leave a job at a public sector university among university teachers in terms of a bad work environment. It had been observed that several teachers had the intention to leave a job based on multiple interlinked factors. A cross-sectional survey had been conducted among 436 teachers fr...

This study is aimed to evaluate the academic performance of the students during the COVID-19 pandemic focusing on the virtual classroom. The main objective of the study is to examine the online academic activities and academic performance of students amidst the pandemic. A quantitative study design has been opted to conduct the study. A sample of 1...

Shoaib, M. (2022). “Academic Performance of the Students at the Higher Education Institutions during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case of Virtual Classrooms” presented on “International Conference on the Role of Social Sciences in the Achievements of Sustainable Development Goals 2030” (May 31, 2022 at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad).

This qualitative study aimed to highlight parents’ and teachers’ perspectives on school reforms during 2013-2020 in Balochistan. This study is informed by the epistemological cannons of interpretivists’ tradition. In this research, qualitative research design is used, and exploratory research method is employed. A sample size of 20 participants was...

The main purpose of the research paper is to examine the role of academic library facilities and online academic activities to online academic modes to students at university. A quantities study design has been optic to conduct are a cross-sectional survey from the university student. A sample of 131 students from the University of Gujrat has been...

This paper attempts to examine the English language learning skills of the students at the tertiary level in terms of the classroom environment and interactive demonstration. These aspects along with other interlinked factors are very important for learning generally and for English language learning specifically. This study has been conducted usin...

This paper attempted to examine the academic library facilities and satisfaction of university library patrons at higher education institution in Pakistan. It is evident that library staff has also been trying their best level to facilitate the library users through different procedures in global south and global north. A quantitative study design...

Purpose This paper aimed to examine the sources of information and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. The COVID-19 pandemic affected at a large level of all social institutions including the healthcare system of the countries. Design/methodology/approach The study was conduc...

This article is aimed to examine the psychosocial impacts faced by the people of Mirpur city during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective was to determine the nature of psycho-social impacts faced by the people during the outbreak. Thus, we conducted this research in Mirpur city of Pakistan-administered Kashmir due to its second-highest prevalence r...

This paper aimed to examine the digitalization of academic libraries in higher education institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the current pandemic named the COVID-19 outbreak affected all the educational institutions in the global south and global north and Pakistan has no exemption. For this study, a quantitative stud design was opted to...

This study has been designed to inspect the library resources and services at higher education institutions during the covid-19 pandemic in terms of students' satisfaction. A quantitative study design to conduct an online survey from the students of public sector universities of Pakistan. A sample of 1823 respondents had been sampled through a prop...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine online library resources during the COVID-19 pandemic situation at higher educational institutions in Pakistan. During the current pandemic situations, all the educational activities have been postponed and transformed into online latterly. A cross-sectional study consisting of a sample of 2378 from libr...

An interview with Dr Shoaib: Voices Series of TASA, Voices Sociology of Media, Australia. Dr Shoaib is a Sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Gujrat. In this interview, Dr Shoaib discusses his findings of his PhD on gendered outcomes in higher educational settings in Pakistan. Highlighting a number of ke...

This paper aims to evaluate the teaching skills, learning skills, learning outcomes, and academic performance using scientometrics analysis from 2001 to 2020. The scientometrics method and a total of 7536 published documents were found. The results reveal that the topic of academic performance and article as a type of published document was highly...

This study attempted to evaluate the scholarly publications on COVID-19, social distance, physical distance, social isolation, and self-isolation employing the scientometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The main purpose was to consolidate the published scholarship on the COVID-19 in the Web of Science indexed documents. A total of 635 publ...

This paper designed to examine research published in PubMed indexed journals of different treatment modalities to treat COVID -19 infection employing bibliometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The purpose was to consolidate the published scholarly work in the PubMed database on different treatment modalities including vaccine, oxygen supple...

This study focused to evaluate the published articles on PubMed whose focus was to study the different relations between COVID 19, and different complications caused due to it. The main complications that were used to formulate this study are Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT), Stroke, Pulmonary Embolism, Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC), Myo...

The main objective of this research is to inspect the classroom environment, student learning, interactive learning, class participation, higher education institutions using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. For the scientometric analysis, we extracted data from the Science Citation Index database, Web of Science (Core Collection) using a se...

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate English teaching, English language, English learning, and higher education institutions in terms of academic libraries employing bibliometric analysis from 2011 to 2020. We try to consolidate the published researches on the teaching and learning of the English language in the Web of Science indexed publi...

The main purpose of this research was to examine gender differences in academic performance in higher education in Punjab. The main focus was to unpack the reasons for female students' outperformance and male students' underperformance in higher education in Pakistan. In this study, I used a quantitative approach to examine gender reversal change a...

Presented my Ph.D. dissertation titled, “Sociological Analysis of Teachers’ Perspective on Students’ Academic Performance in Higher Education in the Punjab” at Department of Sociology, International Islamic University Islamabad on April 09, 2021.

To analyze primary data collected from the target population, I opted three statistical analysis software i.e. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 24, Statistica 7, and Amos-analysis of a moment structure 24. Data entry, univariate analysis, bi-variate Artificial Neural Network (ANN) analysis was done using SPSS. Statistica was used to c...

For content analysis, a comprehensive datasheet for the top three position holders of master/s programme on two campuses of the University of the Punjab, Lahore (Quaid-i-Azam Campus, and Allama-Iqbal Campus) was developed. This data sheet consisted of the followings items; Faculty Name, Name of Institute/ College/ Center/ Department, and Degree Pro...

For the survey, a well-structured questionnaire was administered to collect primary data from university teachers. It consisted on different parts including identification, the socio-economic profile of teachers, household determinants, the role of social media, the role of the peer group, the role of the social construction of educational self, ed...

This section presents content analysis data that comes from the top three position holders of MA/MSc level programmes in the University of the Punjab, Pakistan. I employed content analysis techniques on the examination results books of the University of Punjab from 2006-2015. Using a content analysis approach, I analyzed female and male students' p...

This paper is designed to evaluate sociology of knowledge, sociology of education, educational sociology, sociology, and education using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. The main purpose is to consolidate the published scholarship on the sociology of education in the Web of Science indexed documents. There was a lack of measurable quantitie...

This article provides an insight into the academic learning skills acquired by students in higher education institutions across the globe. A bibliometric study was designed to consolidate the published scholarship of the academic learning skills in the Web of Science indexed documents from 1981 to 2020. The data were extracted on March 18, 2021, at...

Resource Person for Training Workshop on Data Analysis Using SPSS

This paper attempts to examine the research support services in university libraries of higher education institutions in the Punjab, Pakistan. University libraries are providing traditional and as well as modern facilitation to scholars, students, and teachers for face to face and online learning in the globe generally and in Pakistan specifically....

This study aimed to examine the research support and availability of print resources to university students during COVID-19 in Pakistan. Along with other pandemic related issues during the lockdown, university students faced study issues as all the teaching activities were shifted to online, and they faced unavailability of print resources. A quant...

This study has been aligned to examine the effect of the role of the academic library on students' learning at the university level. The administration of academic libraries has been found to facilitate university students in the global south and global north. For this study, a cross-sectional survey has been conducted at the Hafiz Hayat Campus, Un...

This paper was intended to evaluate electronic collections, digital collections, digital resources, e-books, e-resources using bibliometric exploration from 2001 to 2020. The main purpose is to associate the available scholarship on the electronic and digital collections in the Web of Science indexed documents. There was a lack of computable quanti...

This study aims to evaluate whether the English textbook taught in government schools at class three-level is satisfying students' objectives, needs, and wants according to literacy and numeracy drive (LND). The study carries two main purposes; the first purpose is to investigate the objectives of the book whether it attains to students' needs or n...

This study aims to examine library resources and research environment in higher education institutions in terms of students’ satisfaction. The library in university has a central role in higher education in multiple ways. As the online web of knowledge is providing free of cost. However, the similar nature of services is subscribed and paid at stud...

Presented my Ph.D. dissertation titled, “Sociological Analysis of Teachers’ Perspective on Students’ Academic Performance in Higher Education in the Punjab” at the Higher Degree by Research (HDR) forum at The University of Queensland, Australia on July 30, 2020.

The recent decades have observed a variation in the females and males educational performance across Pakistan. There is a trend of females' outperformance and males' underperformance in tertiary education. Females tend to outperform males in several important level of examinations from matric to university education. The current study, thus, focuse...

The current research tries to examine the relationship between classroom environment and girls learning outcomes in two schools (one private and one public). The main objective of the study is to analyze classroom as a key academic site in which regimentation and flexibility have strong impact on the learning outcomes. Class environment is very imp...

Shoaib, M. & Ullah H. (2018). “The Social Environment of Classroom and Girl Students’ Learning Outcomes” presented on 1st National Conference on “Social Discrepancies and Their Remedies in Sociological Perspectives”. (April 10, 2018 at Quaid-i-Azam Auditorium, International Islamic University Islamabad).

Purpose This study aims to examine the associations between socioeconomic status, types of rigging (pre- polling-day and post-), politics and voting behavior, vote casting and perceptions of rigging in Pakistan’s most recent elections, and attitudes toward electoral integrity. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from students at three...

Sociology in Pakistan has struggled to proclaim itself and yielding space to discipline including political and economic science with institutional link to donors agencies and governmental institutions. The job market for sociology graduates is rapidly changing in near future due to changing global trends and Pakistan has no exemption. For the pres...

The main aim of the present research is to examine the effects of family values and media attitudes through democratic attitudes on humanity's respect attitudes. Pakistani society is experiencing social changes with changing family structure and values through media. Modernization has changed the human thinking and motivates people to think analyti...

Every society has a set of beliefs, norms, values, folkways, mores and laws. All the principles, customs, traditions and procedures of societies are directly or indirectly related to the religion of the society and changed with the passage of time by the mediation of democratic values attitudes and mass media influence. The main objective of the pr...

The present study aims to analyze the impact of male and female labor force participation and resultant impact on fertility rate. Three South Asian countries including Pakistan, India and Bangladesh have been selected for conducting the present study focused on year 1984 to 2013. Secondary data analysis was done and regression analysis was run for...

Societal norms and values exert great influence on the lives of members of any society. These norms and values provide guidelines and help in social control. The elements of modernization are modifying norms and values which in turn influence human attitude and behavior. A study was conducted to explore impacts of modern lifestyle on religious valu...

The present study aims at understanding the economic contribution and decision making of working women at household level at District Bhimber-AJK. Economic contribution changes the decision making of working women in different activities at household level. Mostly women are contributing in household economy by doing job, business and some other eco...