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The road to hell is paved with good intentionality
Get PDFThe dislocation of the pandemic caused social convulsions around the world. Well meaning members of the middle and rule class seem to have rediscovered humans – essential workers, employees, members of under-represented minorities, and children. In our rush to atone our sins and redress imbalances, we are not stopping to define words nor, as the pragmatists would want us to, think through what our moral precepts mean in practice. Teams that do not take the time to establish ground rules and common definitions often get a faster start, but don’t always have the most impact
ANALYZING CUSTOMER REVIEWS IN TURKISH USING MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE METHODOLOGIES
Get PDFDigital life, especially after the introduction of Web 2.0, has significantly altered
human relations, providing all people the “right of public speech”. Ideas, emotions,
and opinions on many topics are generously shared in virtual environments. A new age
global and digital Mouth of World is shaping the society where knowledge is the most
influential power. Being fed by social media data highly dynamic in either amount or
shape, automatic handling is indispensable.
Natural Language Processing, in cooperation with Machine Language techniques, has
an important say in analyzing written textual data. Traditional techniques exploited in
the literature are empowered when hybrid ones are applied, in accordance also with the
characteristic properties of the language used and the domain-specific data. Although
all the subsequent steps of the text classification chain are important, adequate feature
selecting has a notable huge impact on accurate classification prediction.
In this study, a simple classification of the sentiment polarity of comments in document
level of subjective texts in Turkish is done. Different domains include reviews of
customers towards company products, movies, and healthcare services, deciding on the
positivity or negativity of the comments. Another domain includes doctors’ notes on
patients’ symptoms aiming to predict and thus recommend some of the most often used
medical tests according to general doctors’ procedures.
The features used included a part of or all distinct words roots together with their
binary or frequency information. Linear or vector analysis of the feature sets was done
employing Machine Learning algorithms provided by the Weka tool. Hybrid features
set was proposed and found more efficient combining binary vectors and frequency
meta-features from nodes and leaves of J48 tree classifier for all or a set of correlation based selected features, improving both prediction accuracy and classification
performance
Introductory Remarks on Ideology and Sociology
Get PDFThe main contention of this paper is that the eventual decline of ideology would pave the way to personalism and piece-meal policy-making. In this respect, sociology should analyze the process of social evolution while the ideological goals tend to concentrate on the middle-range and distant future
Hopeful Provocations for a Dialogue with Critical Pedagogy
Get PDFIn respect for the tentative ways of knowing critical pedagogy, I choose not to define the notion, but rather discuss it from my point of view. It is easier to begin by discussion on what critical pedagogy is not: Critical pedagogy is not prescriptive way of teaching. It is not teacher-proof because it invites teachers to make their own decisions. It is expected to be student-centered but does not prioritize that the student has more to say than the teacher. It is respectful of different traditions, different ways of seeing the world. I would say that critical pedagogy is couched in literacies and, in a non-academic sense, it is couched in the notion of Paulo Freire’s notion of reading the world… the word becomes less important than the world, once one understands the world, cultures, societies, people actually do read the word better. For the purpose of this essay, I embed quotes from Freire’s work to include his voice within the text
The gender perspective for a changing city. Time, Space and Covid in Milan
Get PDFThe city has become a space of diversity. To be sustainable, inclusive and less unequal, urban policy and policies must therefore take these differences into account. In this moving film, the female component represents a fundamental aspect. For a heavy cultural question, in Italy there has been a delay in society with respect to the idea of equal opportunities between men and women. Italy remains far from the watchword - mainstreaming - which Europe, on the other hand, has begun to develop and disseminate. And it is a European document that for the first time introduces the theme of the “right to the city for women”. There is certainly no shortage of innovative cases also promoted by female figures in Italian local administrations. In practice, however, a systematic overview is lacking. Apart from the issue of sustainable mobility, temporal policies are particularly important for a gender sensitive territorial planning. The interesting and innovative aspect is the transversality of the temporal dimension, both in the lives of individuals and in the social organization of urban space. The lockdown canceled the diversification of the times of daily life and the use of urban space: “time” considered a certain fact, never questioned, has become a precious, quality asset; through new rhythms for a new urban livability and mostly for a better life of women. For this to happen, however, the city must change its skin, it must change its thinking and above all its rhythms. And this is precisely the perspective recalled in a document drawn up by the Municipality of Milan: “Milan 2020 - Adaptation strategy” (Municipality of Milan, 2020). Therefore, a new Territorial Schedule Plan, whose specificity is the transversality of the temporal dimension. A new city management tool through the organization of time, from timetables to accessibility with particolar attention to the prospect of a “city 15 minutes away”. Promoting women’s well-being satisfies collective and community interests and improves the quality of all: women and men
From the concept of Environmental Reason to a Global Ethics project
Get PDFThe contribution of the environmental philosophy to the XX and XXI centuries philosophy renovation and their capacity to be applied to all aspects of social life is the core of this essay. The history of philosophy on the West is focused on the human condition, the environmental philosophy drive its thought to a global view of biodiversity and geodiversity, enlarged by the concept of biosphere. The dominant perspective of the modern philosophy set the morale in the order of the rules and social conventions and leave the ethics on the field of personal experience. Analyzing the concept of Kantian reason, and its ethic’s corollaries, this essay propose develop them to a new concept, “Environmental Reason”. Conceptualized as a new categorical imperative to the men’s action, beyond the principle that prescribe that we must conform individual acts with a universal law, configuring the human conduct within the limits that safeguard the continuity of life, but also the intrinsic values of earth and its biodiversity and geodiversity. A new perspective ethics founded in the principles of the critique of anthropocentrism and the critique of ethnocentrism represent a new ontology, and a new epistemology, that could lead to a new ethics universal theory
The Undemocratic Future of 21st Century Liberal Democracy
Get PDFWhat is the future of liberal democracy? Is the “liberal” ingredient of 21st century democracy compatible with its “demos”? Are developed democracies more equalitarian and less stratified than other regimes? Or are present day democracies evolving into something different that needs a new definition? By the early 1990s liberal democracy appeared to have become the dominant system at a global scale. The hope of citizens, scholars, and observers was that the stride toward broader democratization and inclusion would continue. It did, but as this paper argues, the forms adopted by democratic regimes, especially under the fourth industrial revolution, are not necessarily democratic. Rather, liberal democracies have created a new aristocracy that includes high tech monopolies, extremely skilled professionals, and a selected intelligentsia that from social media, conglomerates, and many times Hollywood, supports this new stratified version of the democratic polity. Family dynasties, clientele networks, and mechanisms of reward and punishment reminds us of the pseudo democracies of the late 19th century. Surely the dwindling middle class in developed democracies still have some consumer power based on credit. Global markets offer many more available consumer goods than in the past, creating the illusion that all is going well. Comparatively, however, democracies are doing worse. As this paper shows, 21st century liberal democracies have concentrated wealth in fewer hands than in the recent past, have favored power centralization especially in the executive branch, have stimulated the formation of giant high-tech monopolies, and have generated more rigid forms of social stratification. Liberal democracies, therefore, are weaking, in many cases as the logical consequence of the natural evolution of the liberal doctrine, and in most cases because of profound changes at the global scale. Citizens’ confidence in their elected representatives has been in the decline for a long time. The increasing influence of populist nationalism is an indicator that confidence in traditional politicians continues to deteriorate. Democracy could not be democratic without the popular vote, but it has been precisely the popular vote that has empowered populist nationalist leaders, both from the right and the left. There is not very much that democracies can do about the coming to power via the ballot box of leaders who can rework the system in their favor and, in some cases, destroy it. As the paper shows, changes in the international system of power have not been favorable to liberal democracies, adding to its burdens. They are no longer the optimal model of choice, especially in the less developed world. Finally, I claim that the broken promises of political elites that have traditionally provoked voters’ apathy and loss of trust, have, In the 21st century, created new unintended consequences. They have generated illusions of entitlement and deservingness that, especially young voters, have converted into a sort anti-democratic culture that cares less for the collective and much more for themselves
NJË PARAQITJE E REZULTATEVE DHE ZBATIMIT TË SISTEMIT ZGJEDHOR PROPORCIONAL RAJONAL NË SHQIPËRI GJATË PROCESIT TË 2021
No full textThis thesis is focused to give an introduction on how the implementation of the electoral
proportional system adopted in 2009 in the Republic of Albania, with the support of the
EU delegation, is to implement in practice during the electoral process of 2021. During its
first practice up until the last, multiple changes have been made within the goal to provide
a system that can be able to translate the will of the population in proportion to seats in the
parliament. Through the thesis it is given a reason of the factors that impact the application
of the electoral system, that can be external and internal. The analysis of it is based on the
indices of representation, transparency, and inclusiveness factors as the main measures of
an election. Then, multiple reasons are provided on how the regulations indicate the
interdependence between main stakeholders and what competitive environment is available
to them
Has the USA Educational System Failed? Why it Has Failed and What can be Done.
Get PDFThis essay examines the reasons for the current education crisis in the USA, it analyzes and considers the matter and subject of the USA educational system, factors of failure and suggests potential solutions as remedies
The new Italian emigration between necessity and choice: “Cordless workers” in Athens
Get PDFStatistics show that the new Italian emigration presents a plurality of directions: alongside the resumption of flows in the direction of the more traditional destinations, there are now migratory currents in the most diverse directions, including areas that are weak or lagging behind Italy. This novelty opens new interesting questions for the sociology of migration. This contribution highlights the necessity to face the study of “mobility” through interpretative approaches capable of grasping the pluralistic material and immaterial “spaces” designed by the new migratory trajectories. Therefore, we explore the South-South direction, which has remained at the margins of research and debate, trying to add a new piece to the increasingly complex picture of the Italian presence abroad. In the first part of the paper we will focus on some theoretical and demographic aspects considered relevant for the study of the new Italian emigration, with the aim of bringing out the complexity of the phenomenon. In the second part, after a brief methodological note, the results of a qualitative research carried out on the new Italian emigration to Athens will be presented in order to grasp its specific aspects