1,720,971 research outputs found
Seven propositions on the Homo Agapicus: a research project for social sciences
No full textWe offer elements for a definition of the concept from the theoretical point of view and to discern at least a few of its characteristic dimensions. To such an end, we propose to discuss a few propositions on Agape. A reflection on the level of empirical operationalization should be added to this work, on the capacity of interpretation of historical facts and the sphere of use of the agape paradigm, but which will not be present in this session. Starting from the observation that in empirical reality multiple forms of social behaviour co-exist, which sociological literature has many times highlighted through their typology, we will try in this work to define a few traits of the Homo Agapicus, that is, of the behaviour of an Ego whose sense is characterized by the attitude of self-giving unconditionally toward the Alter and by the seeking of the good and the happiness of the latter, independently from the will and/or the effective restitution of the counter-gift
Il dialogo sociale in Europa
No full textOrmai da alcuni anni, l'Unione Europea indica il dialogo sociale come lo strumento principe per promuovere, insieme, crescita economica, coesione sociale e sostenibilità ambientale dei processi di sviluppo. Specie nelle regioni che accusano ritardi, come il Mezzogiorno d'Italia, il coinvolgimento delle parti sociali, ma anche delle istituzioni e delle organizzazioni della società civile, rappresenta non solo un'opportunità ma sempre più una necessità, per realizzare tali obiettivi.
Tuttavia a tale centralità nell'agenda politica europea, non sembra corrispondere un coerente impegno sul fronte della formazione degli attori locali; uno sforzo che appare invece oggi indispensabile per mettere a frutto le potenzialità del dialogo sociale sui territori.
È questa la sfida alla base del disegno della ricerca qui presentata: attraverso l'analisi di esperienze di dialogo sociale sia della «vecchia» sia della «nuova» Europa, il volume offre una serie di proposte utili alla progettazione formativa e all'utilizzo efficace dei Fondi strutturali 2007-2013
La sociologia per la persona di Achille Ardigò e l'attenzione per i poveri
No full textAchille Ardigò si è dimostrato in tutta la sua
produzione scientifica particolarmente sensibile
al tema della povertà che ritorna in numerosi
suoi contributi. Il saggio intende evidenziare la
centralità della persona nella sociologia della
povertà che nelle letture più recenti tende
sempre più ad essere dimenticato. La lettura
della povertà proposta dal sociologo bolognese è
stata spesso dimenticata a volte del tutto
ignorata. Il contributo intende riportare al
centro della riflessione, sulla scorta della
lezione di Ardigò, la figura del povero e le sue
traiettorie biografiche, condizione questa per un
accompagnamento sociale in grado di ridare
attaccamento alla vita alle persone in condizione di grave emarginazione
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
- …
