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Some aspects of the social transition processes in Hungary and East Germany: income inequality and poverty
No full textSIGLEAvailable from Bibliothek des Instituts fuer Weltwirtschaft, ZBW, Duesternbrook Weg 120, D-24105 Kiel W 620 (104) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman
Andorka, Rudolf: Einführung in die soziologische Gesellschaftsanalyse : ein Studienbuch zur ungarischen Gesellschaft im europäischen Vergleich
No full textVorw. der Ed.: Manfred Garhammer ; Zsolt Spéder ; Laszlo A. Vaskovic
Income dynamics in three societies: an investigation of social dynamics using "old" and "new" types of social indicators
Full text link"This paper sets out to offer new insight into social change, especially social transformation. The authors have drawn up new types of social indicators to encapsulate the nature of social change, with the Intention of widening its meaning. The investigation draws an longitudinal panel studies: the German Socio-Economic Panel Study 1990-96 (GSOEP) and the Hungarian Household Panel 1992-96 (HHP). The single, albeit crucial social dimension examined is the income position of families, including the mobility of families within the income structure. The analysis takes a comparative and a longitudinal approach. Hungary and East Germany, as societies in transition, are compared with West Germany, as a case of 'usual' social change, while the income mobility of individuals is traced over time. Both these aspects are examined in relation to modernization theories. White classical measures such as the Gini Coefficient show a remarkable stability of income inequality, the indicators elaborated here reveal a high degree of individual movement behind the macro stability." (author's abstract)Dieser Beitrag bietet neue Einsichten über Prozesse des sozialen Wandels, insbesondere in Transformationsgesellschaften. Die Autoren benutzen dazu "neue" Sozialindikatoren, mit denen Prozesse des sozialen Wandels besser als bisher abgebildet werden können. Die empirische Untersuchung basiert dabei auf vergleichenden Längsschnitt-Panel-Studien: dem deutschen sozio-oekonomischen Panel 1990-96 (SOEP) und dem ungarischen Haushalts-Panel 1992-96 (HHP). Die Einkommenspositionen von Familien unter Berücksichtigung ihrer Mobilität innerhalb der sich verändernden Einkommensstruktur stehen als entscheidende, soziale Dimension im Mittelpunkt. Die Analysen der Einkommensmobilität erfolgen vergleichend und im Längsschnitt. Ungarn und Ostdeutschland, als Transformationsgesellschaften, werden mit Westdeutschland verglichen, wobei Westdeutschland als Beispiel für "normalen" sozialen Wandel steht. Beobachtbare individuelle und strukturelle Mobilitätsprozesse werden in Beziehung zu Modernisierungstheorien untersucht. Im Gegensatz zur Untersuchung anhand klassischer Meßinstrumente wie dem Gini-Koeffizienten, die eine hohe Stabilität der Einkommensgleichheit dokumentieren, zeigen die hier verwendeten Indikatoren ein hohes Maß an individueller Bewegung hinter der Makro-Stabilität auf. (HH
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
Armut in der Transformation - das Beispiel Ungarn
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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
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