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Alberto Pasquinelli
No full textBreve biografia e ricostruzione del profilo dell'attività scientifica e dei nuclei tematici principali attorno ai quali essa si è andata via via strutturando di Alberto Pasquinell
The Relationship Between the Civic Engagement of Parents and Children : a Cross-National Analysis of 18 European Countries
Full text linkAlthough previous research has suggested the existence of a positive association
between the political activities of parents and children, little is known about
other forms of civic engagement. In particular, the literature lacks an international
comparative study on the intergenerational transmission of civic involvement. Using
Bayesian multilevel models on data from the European Union Statistics on Income
and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2006 special module on social participation, this
article tests hypotheses on the patterns of civic engagement of parents and children
in 18 European countries with different political legacies. Our results show a positive
association between the participation in associational activities of parents and
children in all the considered countries, above and beyond individual and contextual
characteristics. In particular, we do not find an evident East–West gap in the
socialization process, suggesting that the Communist past of Eastern and Central
European countries has little influence on what can be considered a basic mechanism
of civic learning
The Best Is Yet to Come? Attitudes towards gender roles among adolescents in 36 countries
Full text linkIn the present article, we look at attitudes toward
gender roles among young women and men in 36 countries
with different levels of societal gender inequality. By applying
multilevel models to data from the International Civic and
Citizenship Education Study 2009, the study contributes to
our understanding of gender inequality by showing that (a)
both young women and young men (in 8th grade;
Mage = 14.39 years) display more gender-egalitarian attitudes
in countries with higher levels of societal gender equality; (b)
young women in all countries have more egalitarian attitudes
toward gender roles than young men do, but (c) the gender gap
in attitudes is more evident in more egalitarian contexts; and
(d) a higher level of maternal education is associated with
more gender-egalitarian attitudes among young women. In
contrast, no statistically significant association emerges between
maternal employment and young men’s attitudes.
Overall, the findings suggest that adolescents in different contexts
are influenced by the dominant societal discourse on
gender inequality, which they interiorize and display through
their own attitudes toward gender roles. However, the findings
also indicate that young women are more responsive to external
cues than young men are. This result, coupled with the fact
that young men in egalitarian contexts have not adopted
gender-egalitarian attitudes to the same extent as young women,
is concerning because it suggests a slowdown in the
achievement of societal gender equality that is still far from
being reache
O tutti o nessuno? Differenze regionali e di genere nella partecipazione politica e sociale intrafamigliare in Italia
No full textAlthough family ties are very important to understand political socialization, few studies have focused on the transmission of political and social participation from parents to children. By using the Multiscopo survey "Aspetti della vita quotidiana" (Istat), this article investigates the association between parents and children's political and social participation, with particular attention to gender and regional differences. Multilevel models indicate, first of all, the presence of regional differences in the levels of participation and, secondly, a strong tendency of intrafamiliar political and social "co-participation". In other words, sons and daughters have higher probabilities of being politically and socially active when both parents are active as well, regardless of their region of residence. Moreover, analyzing the children's behavior compared to their mothers and fathers' separately we find that mothers' participation has a stronger effect than fathers'. This difference in the effect of parents' participation is indeed small, yet geographically homogeneous. Put differently, having a politically and socially active mother increases the probability of children's participation more than having a politically and socially active father in all Italian regions. This result is particularly interesting in the Italian context where mothers are largely absent in the public sphere while they play a very important role within households
La prima inferenza: abduzione, conoscenza e azione
No full textIl saggio tratta dei rapporti fra la nostra attività inferenziale e la dimensione pratica, delle relazioni fra conoscenza e azione, di cui va intesa la complessa articolazione (di contro alle tendenze a parlarne come di settori separati)
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
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