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Manager, bracconieri e jazzisti: l'esperienza del tempo e del ritmo nell'era della comunicazione digitale
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Anno:
2011
The rise of the network society and the digitalization of communication processes changed
modern experience of time and rhythm; notwithstanding a lot of theories account timeless time,
real time and network time as a consistent and typical kind of temporality of internet and mobile
communication devices, forcing our everyday experience of time and rhythm in a very deterministic
way, technical affordances, cultural forms and users’ practices describe a more complex,
pluralistic and flexible kind of temporality. Users’ everyday practices of CMC and ICT look like
a jazz performance, that includes qualities such as «swinging», improvising, group interaction,
developing an «individual voice» on the basis of their social position, habitus and moral economy.
Key words: time, rhythm, communication, internet, mobility.
€ 6,00
Fuori dall'ombra delle forme. Memoria della Resistenza e commemorazioni conflittuali
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Anno:
2011
The sociological analysis of the commemorative practices represents nowadays a well defined
branch of research into the wide and many sided fragmented area of memory studies. Much of the
work conducted in this field has followed the path traced by Emile Durkheim theory. Nevertheless,
in the course of the last two decades, scholars have tried to move away from the Durkheimian
orthodoxy in order to find more appropriate ways to account for the complex variety of the commemorative
universes. The most valuable efforts conducted in this direction are represented by
the concept of multivocal commemoration elaborated by R. Wagner-Pacifici and B. Schwartz,
and by the concept of fragmented commemoration, developed by V. Vinitzky-Seroussi. Drawing
on some empirical stimuli provided by an on-going research on the commemoration of the
partisan victims of a massacre perpetrated in the village of Cornalba (northern Italy) by a fascist
militia, our paper tries to show that multivocal and fragmented types of commemoration don’t
fulfill the typology. In our opinion there is still room for another kind of commemorative rite that
we would define conflicting commemoration. That is a specific kind of ritual that witness the
emergence, during its own execution, of two or more conflicting representations of the same past
that it tries to commemorate. In describing this kind of commemoration, we argue that it is more
likely to show up in societies marked by pasts of deep social divisions, where a full reconciliation
is still not accomplished.
Key-words: memory, difficult pasts, commemoration practices, italian resistance, reconciliation.
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Il linguaggio verbale nel teatro: le parole prendono forma nel ritmo e nel tempo-ritmo
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Anno:
2011
The words «rhythm» and «time» define two important characteristics of psychomotion, but
they are, at the same time, two significant aspects of theatrical communication languages. They
give sense and significance to the body and image, to movement and sound, and they allow
theatre, where actors use all these means of expression, to be heard and understood. The theatre
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makes sense just through a rhythmic score, a gesture, a short series of words or a music, and it can
show that hidden whole composed by motivation and emotion, that the performers has turned
into an understandable form of expression that can be seen or heard; for example, the feeling
of happiness will have a fast and intense rhythm, which will produce a series of quick and light
movements and will characterize in the same way the verbal language too. To assert that a feeling
has its own rhythm we have to analyse our heartbeat and our breath, that are our so-called
«natural rhythms», when that particular emotional state occurs. Every human being has his own
«natural rhythms», that characterize the way he thinks and moves, for example the way he raises
his arm, he walks, he works or he organizes his own time.
Key-words: time, rhythm, theatre, communication, emotion.
€ 6,00
Ricerca sociale applicata e policy making: una pluralità di approcci metodologici
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Anno:
2010
L. MAURI, Applied Social Research and Policy Making: multiple methodological approaches
This contribution deals with the cognitive and methodological issues that involve applied
social research in its relation with policy design and political decision making, showing some
exemplifications of empirical options considered effective to produce good knowledge for facing
social changes and all the new needs and questions it produces. In this prospective, surpassing
the dichotomy within «academic research» and «applied research», the essay on one hand
wants to focus on the techniques and tools addressed to improve a knowledge-based decision
making in the field of welfare policies and on the other hand to discuss the role and the ethical
commitment of social researchers in the policy community, their responsibility in contributing
of the best «social organization of future».
Key words: social research, social survey, indicators, customer satisfaction, social design,
methodology.
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L'uso delle reti sociali per la costruzione di campioni probabilistici: possibilità e limiti per lo studio di popolazioni senza lista di campionamento
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Anno:
2010
A. VITALINI, The use of social networks for the construction of probability samples: opportunities
and limitations for the study of populations without sampling frame
Populations without sampling frame, usually called hidden populations, are inherently
hard to sample by conventional sampling designs. Often the only practical methods of
obtanining the sample involve following social links from some initially identified respondents
to add more research partecipants to the sample. These kinds of link-tracing designs
make the sample liable to various forms of bias and make extremely difficult to generalize the
results to the population studied.
This article describes some attempts to build a statistical theory of link-tracing designs and
illustrates, deeply, the Respondent-Driven Sampling, a link-tracing sampling design that should
allow researchers to make, in hidden populations, asymptotically unbiased estimates under certain
conditions.
Last, the article discusses some features and problems of the Respondent-Driven Sampling
which deserve further investigation and study.
Key words: snowball sampling, link-tracing sampling, sampling hidden populations, responentdriven
sampling, Markov chain.
€ 6,00
Sociologia dell'essere e ontologia del sociale. Note intorno alla Lettera sull'«inesistente» di Andrea Bixio
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Anno:
2010
T. MARCI, Sociology of Being and Ontology of Society. Notes around Andrea Bixio’s Lettera
sull’«inesistente»
The aim of this paper is to underline the sociological meaning of the book of Andrea Bixio,
Lettera sull’«inesistente» (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2010); a book that revalues the experiences of the sacred and religion as fundamental horizons in order to think the real quality of
our age and the complex condiction of the contemporary world.
In fact, in order to consider the fundamental dialectic that crosses the relationship between
social immanence and religious transcendence, this book opens again the possibility to run
throught an able new sociological perspective to pointed out the necessity of a change of paradigm
to the reflection of the social scientists. A change that returns to the originality of the sociological
reflection, bringing back the thought to its essential historicity, that is, to the historical
concreteness of a opened and indeterminated social experience.
Key words: sacred, religion, sociology, ontology, transcendence.
€ 6,00
Valutazione universitaria e mutamenti istituzionali in Europa
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Anno:
2011
S. CHESSA - A. VARGIU, University evaluation and institutional changes in Europe.
The paper deals with the theme of university evaluation in the light of institutional changes that
European academies are presently facing. Some key factors of those changes as well as critical elements
concerning them that are to be found in literature are discussed. In the paper, a distinction is
made between macro, meso and micro levels at which changes are taking place. As to the macro
level, the role of the European research and higher education policies is taken into account with a
particular emphasis on the Open Method of Coordination. At the meso level, the main directives of
National policies carried out in the different European member States are presented and discussed
particularly by referring to accountability and autonomy. Whereas what is here defined micro level
is dealt with by briefly discussing the links between the diffusion of new public management, university
governance and evaluation. Following such premises, some proposals are made as to the
ambits and modes of university evaluation that do not appear sufficiently developed.
Key words: Higher education, Research, Europe, Evaluation, Accountability.
€ 6,00
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