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La strada che abbiamo davanti. Giovani e identità tra formazione e aspettative lavorative
No full textStudiare le giovani generazioni significa porsi delle domande sul futuro e sul mutamento socioculturale delle società. In tal senso, la ricerca qualitativa presentata in questo volume ha studiato il processo identitario della cosiddetta Generazione Zeta, intenta a progettare la propria vita e a strutturare il proprio domani tra percorsi universitari sempre più specializzati e prospettive lavorative incerte e precarie. Si è tentato, perciò, di ricostruire l'attuale assetto valoriale connesso all'istruzione e al lavoro, prestando ascolto alle esperienze e alle aspettative formative, nonché lavorative, di giovani studentesse e studenti italiani, approfondendo i loro vissuti biografici e il loro background familiare, con una particolare attenzione ai processi di socializzazione al lavoro implicati nella trasmissione della cultura del lavoro.
Ne emerge un doloroso confronto intergenerazionale in cui il lavoro di ieri - descritto in termini di sicurezza, serenità e facilità di accesso - si contrappone alla dura valutazione della realtà occupazionale odierna, ma soprattutto futura, che si prospetta davanti ai più giovani e che diviene sempre più critica. Questo il punto di vista di una generazione che non teme di definirsi "iper-specializzata" e che offre al mercato del lavoro i suoi elevati titoli di studio senza ricevere in cambio un equo riconoscimento né dal punto di vista sociale né economico
La diversità nei sistemi complessi: dimensioni, implicazioni e prospettive future tra stereotipi e riconoscimento sociale. Voci esperte italiane e portoghesi
Full text linkIl presente lavoro di ricerca muove dalla volontà di indagare e approfondire, dal punto di vista sociologico, le questioni relative alla gestione e all’inclusione delle diversità legate all’età, al genere e alle identità di genere, all’orientamento sessuale, alla provenienza etnico/culturale, alle abilità e molte altre all’interno dei sistemi organizzativi complessi di natura pubblica, privata e no profit, in prospettiva nazionale e internazionale – europea e, nello specifico, portoghese – e di individuare e descrivere i relativi impatti nella società contemporanea in senso più esteso. La ricerca si inserisce nell’interesse che la disciplina sociologica rivolge ai molteplici processi che descrivono la complessità sociale della contemporaneità, attraversata innanzitutto da mutamenti demografici e investita dalle conseguenti trasformazioni in senso sociale, normativo e politico, specialmente in ambito lavorativo e, eminentemente, organizzativo, le quali determinano continui e costanti incontri e confronti con modelli culturali contrastanti, inserendosi nel più ampio e profondo rapporto dialogico e dialettico tra identità e alterità.
Obiettivo principale è stato quello di esplorare le numerose dimensioni di carattere sociologico che ruotano intorno ai concetti di diversità e inclusione nei sistemi organizzativi complessi, a partire da un’approfondita analisi di documenti e materiali normativi europei e di dati di contesto sul tema, che costituiscono la cornice all’interno della quale il fenomeno si inserisce nei due Paesi presi in esame. La parte empirica della ricerca è caratterizzata da un approccio qualitativo, utile a collezionare ed elaborare materiali empirici attraverso strumenti interpretativi in grado di rispettare la complessità, la dinamicità, la continua mutevolezza, la trasversalità e la profondità dell’oggetto d’indagine. In particolare, la ricerca si è avvalsa dello strumento dell’intervista focalizzata rivolta a dieci testimoni italiani e dieci testimoni portoghesi, esperti di tematiche sociologiche, organizzative, normative ed economiche
Agile work and gender gap in Italy. An empirical sociological study on downsides and future scenarios
Full text linkThe article discusses an empirical study on agile work (remote working) in Italy, with a sociological perspective.
As is well known, the COVID‐19 pandemic shock has led to a significant increase in the attention paid to this issue, as
long as it has “forced” millions of people to experience this kind of work. This great social experimentation has also
triggered a reconsideration of important concepts of everyday life such as those of time and space, among many
others. Starting from this preliminary assumption, a national empirical study on agile work was conducted at the
Department of Human Sciences at the Italian University of L’Aquila resorting to a qualitative approach. The research
was achieved by conducting 64 in‐depth interviews with women across the country, highlighting and exploring the
multiple critical elements and strengths of the agile work experience from March 2020 lockdown to September 2021. It is clear from the research that emergency strategies on the topic of agile working are not adequate: a paradigm shift is needed
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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