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L'integrazione come "pratica sociale": un'etnografia delle seconde generazioni a Modena
Full text linkIl presente lavoro di ricerca affronta il tema delle nuove generazioni nella società modenese, ai fini di esplorare gli orientamenti che si vanno delineando riguardo all’integrazione, alla costruzione di legami sociali e alla formazione di identità e appartenenze. L’obiettivo principale è lo studio dei processi identitari messi in atto dagli adolescenti stranieri nel percorso di integrazione sociale nella città di Modena, mediante un’analisi etnografica delle dinamiche che si sviluppano nella relazione di questi con la società modenese, per evidenziare i meccanismi reali di inclusione ed esclusione delle minoranze in un contesto urbano. Gli aspetti indagati hanno così riguardato varie dimensioni dell’integrazione: quella istituzionale, attraverso la disamina dei percorsi di inserimento e riuscita scolastica dei giovani migranti nel contesto modenese; quella relazionale, mediante la riflessione sull’influenza delle reti familiari, comunitarie, amicali e amorose nella definizione del processo integrativo; quella identitaria e culturale, tramite l’analisi delle forme e degli usi dei riferimenti culturali nella vita quotidiana dei ragazzi stranieri; quella sociale, con l’osservazione delle forme di pregiudizio e discriminazione, latenti e non, nella società di accoglienza e, infine, quella soggettiva, attraverso le dichiarazioni dei soggetti di ricerca sugli stili di vita e sui comportamenti ritenuti devianti dal mondo adulto. Il risultato è una lettura delle relazioni interculturali e della supposta apertura del cosiddetto modello emiliano, che permette di osservare le dinamiche integrative come processi complessi, multidimensionali, ma soprattutto profondamente ambivalenti.This research addresses the issue of the immigrant youth, in order to explore the guidelines that are emerging on the integration, the construction of social bonds and the formation of identity and belonging. The main objective is the study of identity processes implemented by foreign teenagers in the process of social integration in the city of Modena, through ethnographic analysis of the dynamics which are developed in their relationship with local society, to highlight the actual mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of minorities in an urban setting. The investigated aspects concerned various dimensions of the integration: an institutional dimension, through the examination of the way to educational success of young migrants in the context of Modena; a relational dimension, through reflection on the influence of family networks, community, friendship and love in the definition of the integration process; a cultural dimension, through analysis of the nature and uses of cultural references in the daily life of foreign students; a social dimension with the observation of the forms of prejudice and discrimination, latent or otherwise, in the host society and, ultimately, an individual dimension through the declarations of research subjects on lifestyles and behaviors considered deviant from the adult world. The result is a reading of the intercultural relations and the supposed opening of the so-called “modello emiliano”, which allows to observe the dynamics of integrative processes as complex, multidimensional, but also deeply ambivalent
Modelli astratti e dinamiche reali di integrazione nelle seconde generazioni: il contributo sociologico.
No full textIl consumo di sostanze psicoattive tra immigrati: dalla mediazione linguistica alla mediazione socioculturale.
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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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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