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An Introduction to the Symposium on Narratives, Temporality and Sociology
No full textDuring the Eighties, and still more the Nineties, a handful of sociologists have begun to talk and write about the possibilities and the promises of a novel manner of practicing social research. That is, a specifically narrative mode, able to merge the claims to generalization and theory-building typical of (historical) sociology with a strong sensitivity for temporality, events and contingencies, also encompassing individualities, traditionally at the centre of historiography and ethnography. The aim of this symposium is to present, discuss and compare some of the most interesting and seminal paths in contemporary research on the narrative foundations of sociological analysis, chosen in order to represent different epistemological visions, different generations and also distinctive ways of integration between theory and methods. In the choice of authors and visions two issues have been privileged: the microfoundation of social analysis and the quest for formalization
Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology Online
No full textBorn in 2007, Sociologica" is an on line journal published in English which offer scholars and students the possibility to discuss quickly and seriously the more relevant topics of the discipline. All the articles submitted are subject to a peer review process. The journal publishes essays - usually followed by invited comments by experts - and shorter articles invited as contributions to edited Symposia. Special attention is devoted to the history of sociology, with the publication of articles which reconstructs past debates about books or issues.
One of the main aims of "Sociologica" is to establish a close dialogue between sociology and society, between sociological knowledge and public debate. This is the intention behind Forefront (Primo Piano), that is built with inputs by the journal's editorial staff and readership, who may react to articles published in the journal by posting their contributions on the website.
The international editorial committe - which includes many of the most influential and respected sociologists in the world - is a guarantee of the high standards of scientific value the journal aims to achieve.
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Edita da una casa editrice prestigiosa come il Mulino, Sociologica è la prima rivista italiana di sociologia completamente on line, e una delle prime a livello internazionale. Sociologica è nata nel 2007 con la volontà di aprire uno spazio pubblico di tipo nuovo, in cui tutti possano discutere, criticare e apprezzare pubblicamente e in modo paritario le diverse questioni che interessano la disciplina sociologica. Le potenzialità dell’on line, infatti, offrono a tutti i membri della comunità sociologica – soprattutto a chi è nelle fasi più delicate e importanti della propria formazione scientifica – l’opportunità di discutere da pari a pari i temi del proprio lavoro di ricerca. Anche per questo la rivista ha scelto di uscire solo nella modalità digitale, pur essendo Sociologica una pubblicazione registrata a tutti gli effetti di legge. Questa modalità permette infatti non solo di scaricare comodamente gli articoli nell’usuale formato pdf o in quello html, ma anche di interagire con la redazione e contribuire in modo diretto e in tempi rapidi alla rivista, inviando commenti e partecipando ai dibattiti che essa periodicamente promuove. Come appare chiaro sia dall’ampio comitato editoriale internazionale, sia dalla scelta di pubblicare anche in inglese, Sociologica non si propone soltanto al pubblico italiano, ma cerca di contribuire al dibattito internazionale: per questo essa ha attivato sin dall’inizio una fitta rete di comunicazioni e di scambi intellettuali con studiosi stranieri, i cui risultati possono apprezzarsi dai contenuti dei primi numeri pubblicat
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
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