Vita e Pensiero
Achille Ardigò e la sociologia del territorio
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2010
G. PISI, Achille Ardigò and the Sociology of the territory.
My contribution focuses on three books: Female emancipation and urbanism, The metropolitan
area and The urban spread. My aim is stressing the intellectual path of Achille Ardigò, who
shifted from rural Sociology to urban Sociology. Female emancipation is considered in its several
elements, and all of them are connected to urbanism; in particular, the movements from rural
to urban areas are mentioned. Some elements from the Ecological Chicago School and the
Talcott Parsons’ theory are used as tools to deal with urbanization and urban spread trends,
which were studied by Ardigò since the middle of the 1960s. Some concepts like Dominance
and Planning are considered too; Ardigò used them to face the emergencies of the metropolitan
area as a social system: in this case, Parsons' functional prerequisites are used as a «compass» to define such concepts, and to combine theory and empirical research.
Key words: female emancipation, Talcott parson’s theories, metropolitan area, dominance,
planning.
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La globalizzazione della survey. Storia, limiti e opportunità
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2010
G. GOBO, The globalization of surveys: its evolution, weaknesses and opportunities
It is common to consider that the standardized interview and survey were born together, or
at the very least that their union is indissoluble. It is not true. Standardized interview met the
survey in the 1920s only, when the last was already mature, with almost a hundred years of
experience behind it. So the idea of standardizing the survey came along quite late.
It was only in the 1930s that the two were definitively linked, when the survey betrayed its
roots to become the methodology that we know today.
Survey, survey interview and standardized interview are not synonyms. The survey is a
methodology and may be identified with the entire process of research (from design to data
analysis); the survey interview is the method by which the survey gathers its data. Finally, the
standardized interview, which has become dominant in the last century, is a particular instrument
for collecting survey data. Unfortunately, most research practice and survey literature has
collapsed these three different terms and concepts into one and the same thing.
The central aim of this essay is to maintain the distinction and to affirm that the survey can
stand quite well on its own without the standardized interview, just as it did between the 1820s
and the 1920s. Indeed, abandoning the standardized interview would breathe new life into the
survey, putting it more in tune with the present.
Key words: interview, questionnaire, survey, globalization.
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Le difficoltà dei sondaggi politici
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2010
N. PAGNONCELLI, Talking about political poll’s problems
In recent years, forecasts based on political surveys have often been contradicted by electoral
results. This essay aims to review possible methodological and epistemological sources of
error related to pre-electoral forecasting. This question relates in the first instance to the use
that customers and the media make of polls. Some other possible bias is to be found in the role
of the media during electoral campaigns, in the relationship between the media and polls (and
politics), and in difficulties arising from specific topics covered by some political surveys.
Finally, some bias comes from epistemological problems innate to political studies themselves
and, above all, to methodological limits related to the choice of polling technique.
Key words: poll, election, response bias, social desirability, coverage error.
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La (non) quantificazione nello studio della società. Indicatori sociali tra controllo sociale e partecipazione democratica
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2010
P. PARRA SAIANI, The (non) quantification in the study of society. Social indicators between social
control and democratic participation
The social indicators movement seems to be regaining its appeal. It was an heir to the supporters
of quantification in the Social Sciences, as numbers were believed to be objective and scientific
per se. Echoing the London Statistical Society’s policy that was declared two decades earlier, the
newly created Statistical Society of Paris resolved in 1860 that «statistics is nothing else than the
knowledge of the science of facts». It was, their statutes continued, an indispensable science for a
liberal state: «It ought to provide the basis upon which society is governed». But the aspiration to
know the territory was not always the simple thirst for knowledge: initial attempts were conducted
by governments to carry out a policy of control and taxation. Only in the mid-18th century did
many initiatives flourish. These concerned the collection of information in a more democratic spirit:
information was now considered to be a citizen’s right. The study of society in its various dimensions
has stimulated the search for and construction of statistical indicators and indices. The search
for a better way of studying the progress of societies has often led to inappropriate uses of indicators
and measures. GNP, for example, has been commonly considered to be an indicator of wellbeing.
The lack of a conceptual frame for studying well-being is not the only problem, nor even the
greatest. Of similar importance are the meagre statistical skills of journalists and policy-makers. All
together, these elements facilitate limiting the use of data in public debate.
In this paper, I will consider the shift from political arithmetic to modern social reports (par.
1); the success of quantification in the Social Sciences (par. 2); the use of quantification (par. 3); the
validity of official statistics (par. 4); the current non-use of quantification and the search for contextual
conditions that interfere with the transformation of information into knowledge (par. 5).
Key words: social indicators, policy, democracy, quantification, well-being, knowledge.
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L'etica nelle ricerche di mercato
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2010
G. DI FRAIA, Ethics in the market research
In advanced societies, market research play a very important role within processes of production
of material and symbolic reality. This role makes the ethical issue relevant to every stage
of the production of marketing research and involving all stakeholders in the system. At present,
the reflection on the subject tends to remain confined within the system and to be undertaken
primarily at the level of professional ethics drafted in formal codes of conduct by the
industry associations. The development of new technologies is radically changing the detection
techniques, making observational processes increasingly invisible and «pervasive». The thesis
proposed in this paper is that this process, opening a whole series of new problems, make
urgent the activation of a broad debate on the subject able to increase widespread awareness
about the role of research market and its ethical implications.
Key words: market research; ethics; deontology of market research; innnovative marketing
research methods.
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Ricerca scientifica e ricerca di mercato. Sinergie e conflitti tra campo accademico e campo del coolhunting
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2010
M. PEDRONI, Scientific Research and Market Research. Synergies and Conflicts Between Academic
Field and Coolhunting
Within the market research it has been developed, in recent years, a set of research techniques
inspired by sociology and anthropology, known as coolhunting or trend research. The
aim of coolhunting is to intercept and document emerging trends in consumers’ lifestyles, providing
the enterprises with reports containing guidelines for planning future production and
communication. Starting from an empirical investigation based on 43 in-depth interviews to the professionals engaged in trends prediction, together with a participant observation of the Dutch
agency Science of the Time’s activities, the paper tries to identify: (1) the methodological features
of coolhunting and its links to the non-standard social research; (2) the relationship
between coolhunting and academic field: on the one hand, the benefits that coolhunting
obtains from the academic research (especially the symbolic legitimation); on the other, its
potential advantages for an employ in the explorative social research.
Key words: coolhunting; trend research; non-standard research; social research methodology;
market research.
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Sommario generale dell’annata
Gratis
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2009
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