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Vilfredo Pareto
No full textIn this chapter we will introduce and synthetise the sociology of emotions of Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian sociologist whose work is now forgotten, but who played a fundamental role first in the development of sociological positivism, and then later in structural functionalism. Indeed, Talcott Parsons included Pareto among the four classical thinkers (together with Marshall, Durkheim and Weber) whose work has made it possible to overcome the hermeneutical limits of utilitarian philosophy (Parsons, 1937).
As is typical of classic sociologists, Pareto did not dedicate a systematic analysis to the sociology of emotions. But, unlike other classical thinkers, he considered emotionally driven actions as the most relevant part of human behaviour. The main thesis in his famous treatise on The Mind and Society (1935) is that there is “a group of constant and generalized sentiments” determining human life. Consequently, he tried to offer an embryonic sociological analysis of how people experience “collective sentiments” (called residues) and how they hide their manifestation through different forms of verbal justification (called derivations).
In the discussion, we will show how Pareto’s approach to emotions is important because it is focused on the social construction of feelings and emotions, and because it clearly distinguishes instincts, feelings and emotional displays. Nevertheless, given the historical and intellectual context, Pareto’s sociology of emotions has its limits, in terms of: imprecision of terminology; contrast between logic and emotions; and the consequent inattention to the dimensions of subjectivity, the cultural definition of emotions, and their situational regulation
Massimo Cerulo and Adrian Scribano (Eds.), The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology. A Study in Social Theory, New York: Routledge, 2022
Full text linkThis book, edited by Massimo Cerulo (ordinary professor of sociology at Federico II University in Naples) and Adrian Scribano (researcher and sociologist at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina) offers a fresh and new look at the role of emotions in classic sociological authors such as Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Gabriel Tarde, Charles Horton Cooley, Harriet Martineau, Karl Marx, Norbert Elias, Vilfredo Pareto, George Herbert Mead, Ibn Khaldun and, of course, Georg Simmel. Cerulo and Scribano’s text is not only innovative in its content but also in the way the book is structured. The editors have had the sensitivity and attention to bring together men and women who are researchers, scholars and professors from different countries around the world who engage in dialogue with classic authors from various historical periods. This effort also allows us to see the richness of dialogue between the global south and north through terms, concepts and theories that have accompanied classical sociology from its beginnings to the present day
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Sociología de las emociones: albores, obstinaciones y persistencias de una tradición moderna
Full text linkThis review reviews the list of classic authors of modern sociology proposed by its compilers. Specifically, the book underlines the centrality that emotions have been able to occupy since the constitution of the field, as an unavoidable dimension for the understanding of all social phenomena.
Book review: “The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology. A Study in Social Theory” / Edited by Massimo Cerulo and Adrian Scribano. Abingdon, Oxon; New York,La presente reseña repasa la enumeración de autores clásicos de la sociología moderna, que proponen sus compiladores. Puntualmente, en el libro se subraya la centralidad que las emociones han sabido ocupar desde la constitución del campo, en tanto dimensión ineludible para la comprensión de todo fenómeno social.
Reseña del libro: “The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology. A Study in Social Theory” / Edited by Massimo Cerulo and Adrian Scribano. Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Sociología de las emociones: albores, obstinaciones y persistencias de una tradición moderna
Full text linkThis review reviews the list of classic authors of modern sociology proposed by its compilers. Specifically, the book underlines the centrality that emotions have been able to occupy since the constitution of the field, as an unavoidable dimension for the understanding of all social phenomena.
Book review: “The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology. A Study in Social Theory” / Edited by Massimo Cerulo and Adrian Scribano. Abingdon, Oxon; New York,La presente reseña repasa la enumeración de autores clásicos de la sociología moderna, que proponen sus compiladores. Puntualmente, en el libro se subraya la centralidad que las emociones han sabido ocupar desde la constitución del campo, en tanto dimensión ineludible para la comprensión de todo fenómeno social.
Reseña del libro: “The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology. A Study in Social Theory” / Edited by Massimo Cerulo and Adrian Scribano. Abingdon, Oxon; New York
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