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    Pierre Bourdieu e l'epistemologia del pensiero sociologico. Campi di riflessione e ruolo dei movimenti sociali: tra struttura e individualità

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    Il convegno nasce dalla volontà di riflettere sulla situazione di parziale stasi della disciplina, basata sul dualismo epistemologico che la caratterizza, per cui a una sociologia della struttura si contrappone una sociologia del soggetto. Ciò che si vuole proporre è un tentativo di sintesi tra queste due dimensioni antitetiche, uno sforzo necessario affinché la sociologia possa essere in grado di interpretare contemporaneamente tanto i fatti sociali quanto le azioni sociali. Se la sociologia non può e non deve infatti trascurare l’analisi delle interazioni tra i soggetti, allo stesso tempo, non può e non deve mai sganciare questa analisi dallo studio del campo nel quale esse si producono. Diviene così necessario ricostruire una conoscenza sociologica che possa dar conto del rapporto tra soggetto e struttura non più in termini di opposizione, ma di dialogo, di relazione dialettica. Per tale motivo, in queste due giornate, ci si confronterà sulla possibilità di individuare i presupposti di un’analisi sociologica in grado di ragionare sul rapporto tra struttura e soggetto e capace di recuperare entrambe le modalità di ragionamento. Per intraprendere questo percorso si partirà dalle riflessioni e dalle analisi compiute da Pierre Bourdieu, il cui pensiero consente di riprendere dalle fondamenta le questioni relative all’epistemologia del pensiero sociologico. Attraverso le categorie interpretative di campo, habitus, capitale/i, violenza simbolica Bourdieu cerca infatti di sviluppare una sintesi tra le due dimensioni rimaste separate in tutta la storia del pensiero sociologico: soggetto-società, azione-struttura. La sua sociologia si propone cioè come elaborazione di una scienza del mondo sociale che non si riduce né a una fisica sociale né a una fenomenologia sociale. Le chiavi interpretative che egli elabora divengono così centrali nel suo progetto teorico di costruzione di una teoria della pratica che possa includere insieme strutturalismo e costruttivismo. E d’altra parte questa nuova impostazione viene sostenuta da Bourdieu attraverso la relazione dialettica che si stabilisce tra le regolarità dell’universo materiale e gli schemi di percezione e classificazione, ossia tra campo e habitus, tra capitali e schemi di azione. Così, partendo da una rilettura critica dei concetti della sociologia di Bourdieu, si ragionerà sul rapporto che si instaura tra soggetto e struttura, al fine di comprendere e di analizzare il mutamento sociale e la sua genesi, strettamente connessi al ruolo dei movimenti sociali che sembrano divenire i soggetti capaci di proporre un’alternativa al sistema attuale. Tali elementi di riflessione verranno articolati su tre campi specifici della sociologia di Bourdieu: lo spazio fisico, sociale e simbolico; la relazione tra la dimensione culturale e quella politica; il rapporto tra la struttura e il soggetto sociale

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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