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Social sustainability: what implications for social work?
Full text linkThis paper addresses the lack of clarity regarding social sustainability and the scarcity of guidance on how social workers may achieve it in their daily practice. The research delves into the concept from the viewpoint of 140 Italian social workers, presenting findings from exploratory research conducted between September 2022 and January 2023. The research aims to answer two questions: 1) How do social workers perceive the link between social sustainability and social work? 2) What conditions favour or hinder the social sustainability of social work in its daily practice? The study employed a structured online interview with closed and open-ended questions, investigating the social sustainability definition and its implications for social work. The results shed light on equity and social justice as the main elements of socially sustainable social work. They also highlight the importance of inter-sectoral collaborations and organisational interventions to contribute to social sustainability.Questo contributo mira a colmare la mancanza di chiarezza sulla sostenibilita sociale e la scarsita di indicazioni su come gli assistenti sociali possano raggiungerla nella loro pratica quotidiana. La ricerca approfondisce il concetto dal punto di vista di 140 assistenti sociali italiani, presentando i risultati di una ricerca esplorativa condotta tra settembre 2022 e gennaio 2023. La ricerca mira a rispondere a due domande: 1) Come gli assistenti sociali percepiscono il legame tra sostenibilita sociale e lavoro sociale? 2) Quali condizioni favoriscono o ostacolano la sostenibilita sociale del lavoro sociale durante la pratica quotidiana? Lo studio ha utilizzato un'intervista strutturata online con domande chiuse e aperte, indagando la definizione di sostenibilita sociale e le sue implicazioni per il lavoro sociale. I risultati evidenziano l'equita e la giustizia sociale come elementi principali per un servizio sociale socialmente sostenibile. Inoltre, evidenziano l'importanza delle collaborazioni intersettoriali e degli interventi organizzativi per contribuire alla sostenibilita sociale
Innovazione sociale e sviluppo territoriale. Quando la strada si fa comunità
No full textSocial street: citizenship and civic engagement
This work is focused on the concept of Social Innovation (SI), defining it as a practice of alter-native territorial development. In this sense, the SI stands out in particular for the importance that gives to the local dimension as a source of shared identities. Taking the Social Street Fondazza in Bologna as a case study, this paper aims to show how SI projects activate civic engagement practices, capable of shaping a participatory citizenship on the boundaries between the private and public spheres producing new interpretive schemes able to redefine the society at the local level
Presentazione
No full textL’indagine che presentiamo nasce nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca europeo intitolato CoSIE – Co-creation of Service Innovation in Europe1. Il progetto CoSIE ha impegnato i ricercatori dei diversi team europei, nella riflessione, consulenza, analisi e valutazione necessari alla realizzazione di dieci progetti pilota2. Tali progetti sono tutti finalizzati alla co-creazione di servizi pubblici mediante la cooperazione di attori della Pubblica amministrazione, della società civile e del mondo economico. In particolare, i progetti pilota sono stati pensati per includere gruppi vulnerabili e “difficili da
raggiungere”, per affrontare sfide sociali rilevanti e per testare politiche pubbliche innovative rivolte alle diverse fasi del ciclo di vita personale e familiare degli utenti (bambini e giovani, adulti in età lavorativa e persone anziane). I gruppi vulnerabili hanno incluso: immigrati, rom, disoccupati di lunga durata, carcerati, persone che vivono in aree geografiche svantaggiate e persone con particolari problemi di salute. Il progetto CoSIE ha perciò perseguito due obiettivi: i) promuovere il ruolo attivo – nella individuazione delle priorità dei servizi oggetto della sperimentazione – degli utenti finali e delle loro reti di supporto informali; ii) coinvolgere i cittadini nella progettazione collaborativa di servizi pubblici locali
The right to housing in the digital era: emerging trends in Southern Europe
No full textThis paper analyzes the effects of digitalization on the inclusivity of right to housing in Southern Europe. We examine the impact of digital capitalism on the housing market, the use of social networks by social movements to give visibility to housing needs, and the promotion of digital platforms by public authorities to reduce the digital gap and consolidate the right to housing, especially for the most vulnerable people. Drawing on qualitative data collection in Madrid, Bologna, and Athens, key dimensions of discussion include: the impact of digital transformations on the public housing and real estate market, the importance of digital literacy and resources, the role of non-governmental actors in shaping public opinion through digital social networks, and the most impacted
social groups by the recent digital acceleration. The impact of digitalization on the right to housing is found to depend on factors such as the population groups, the digital gap, the territorial context, and the type of digital platform
Het doorgronden van de dynamiek van sociale cohesie en vervlochten beheer van onderuit. Sociale straten in Trente, Verona en Ferrara
Full text linkToday's urban public spaces seem to be confronted with numerous issues. The speed and the extent of evolving phenomena, such as social and economic exclusion, safety and crime, neighbourhood fragmentation, degradation of the built environment, individualization, migration, technological development, to name a few, have become increasingly problematic, complex and interrelated in many cities of Western European countries. This research focuses mainly on two criticalities: a) pressure on sociability and b) the lack
of common places supporting public life and living together.
Modernity, indeed, is eroding solidarity, boosting social and political exclusion, closing spaces of socialization, contestation, and negotiation, and preventing parts of the population from exercising any political power. In order to contribute to the current model of democracy, by re-signifying individuals' social lives with collective political meanings, showing a way to empower citizens and presenting pathways to possible solutions to retake control of their territory, the research aims to understand the mutual dynamics of social cohesion and the governance of public space. The analytical framework is built after a review of the concept of social cohesion: the identified limits in the literature leads to bring in three concepts - commons, citizenship and governance - that contribute to fill the missing dimensions of care, politics and governance. Afterwards, the Social Innovation perspective is used to enrich social cohesion as a problèmatique and to organize the mobilized concepts under the same lens. The importance of actors and institutions in triggering innovative and transformative power is then explained by the strategic-institutionalist approach. The latter allows to overcome the poor understanding of neoliberal approaches, by shifting from a top-down normative approach to an analytical overall perspective that includes the complexity of dialectical dynamics between social cohesion and governance of public space.
Using various qualitative research techniques, the project focuses on three cases of the Italian Social Street phenomenon, in the cities of Trento, Verona and Ferrara. The Social Streets are a new form of neighbourhood communities, whose initial purely social practices in some cases cross the subtle border between private and public life, by promoting inclusion of citizens into spheres of society and giving a "voice" to groups that are traditionally excluded by the governance of urban places. The three different developments of the Social Streets allow to zoom respectively on different parts of the analytical framework, highlighting the dialectic dynamics between social cohesion, commons, citizenship and governance. The entire analysis, eventually, shows the inadequacy of the rationalist and structuralist approach in addressing the pressure on sociability and the lack of common places supporting public life and living together. The real complexity of society is much more complicated and both social cohesion and governance of public space are embedded in wider dynamics.status: Publishe
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
Coesione sociale e pratiche di urbanità innovativa. Una ricerca sulle Social Street tra sociologia e narrazione
No full textQuesto libro è un viaggio, in molti sensi: attraverso i valori di concetti importanti per la sociologia, come coesione sociale e governance; alla scoperta di tre Social Street, a Ferrara, Verona e Trento; negli strumenti e nei significati della ricerca sociale.
La partenza corrisponde a due problemi delle città contemporanee: l'isolamento sociale; e la carenza o la crisi di spazi pubblici che supportino pratiche collettive di urbanità. Le tappe del percorso portano ad approfondire una concettualizzazione di coesione sociale che considera l'inclusione (o l'esclusione) della diversità, il conflitto e le interdipendenze tra i vari livelli a cui essa si sviluppa. La ricerca applica, poi, questo quadro a pratiche di urbanità innovativa, che iniettano nuovi significati nei luoghi pubblici e nelle appartenenze a comunità urbane. La conclusione del viaggio permette di riflettere sulle condizioni che contribuiscono alla produzione di coesione sociale, culturalmente e politicamente, introducendo il ruolo fondamentale delle interfacce riflessive.
La particolarità del libro consiste nella presenza di due stili di scrittura, uno scientifico e uno narrativo. Scelta che risiede nella volontà dell'autrice di accompagnare in questo viaggio pubblici diversi e dare maggiore senso alla ricerca sociale
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