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Grounded Theory, Sensitizing Concepts, and Computer-Assisted Theory Building, di Roberto Cipriani

Introduction The presence of many – sometimes contradictory – theories is arguably considered a strength in the social sciences. The multitude of available theories today makes it seem impossible to have a grand theory, a specific unique theory that may be applied to all situations at all times in order to explain social phenomena. Therefore another solution becomes more and more reliable: ...

Online textual data and political communication analysis. Methodological issues and research perspectives (Online textual data and political communication analysis. Methodological issues and research perspectives), di F. Marrazzo e G. Punziano

1. Is it the time for hybrid and mixed approaches? During the Twentieth century, the analysis of the texts produced by political communication has been one of the busiest areas of research for many social sciences scholars (Laswell and Leites 1949). However, the use of online social text data becomes more and more essential for understanding and analyzing new forms of participation in the communication ...

Beyond the obvious. Suggestions to empower critical discourse analysis (Beyond the obvious. Ways to empower critical discourse analysis), di Fiammetta Corradi

The essay discusses some of the theoretical and methodological criticism against Critical Discourse Analysis, focusing especially on the charge of belaboring the obvious, of providing empirical findings that were already implicit in the research premises and/or that were attainable by the average lay reader of the texts without the application of peculiar analytical techniques. Instead of following ...

A case of inequality in the labour market: the situation of EU and non-EU migrants

Recent studies have shown that the economic crisis of 2008 has heavily affected migrants, thus exacerbating a disadvantage already present in many countries and further weakening the position of migrants in the labour market. This paper focuses on two distinct groups of migrants: EU citizens and those from third, «non-EU» countries. In our opinion, the legal status of «European» should provide ...

Trajectoires vers l’illégalité politique : l’Italie des années 1960-1980 (Trajectories towards political illegality: Italy in the 1950s-1960s), di Caroline Guibet Lafaye

--- « Je viens d’une famille de prolétaires, donc militer, c’est dans mon ADN. Quand tu nais, soit tu nais fasciste, soit tu nais militant, il n’y a rien à faire. » (Paolino) Introduction Des mouvements contestataires de 1968-1969 à l’enlèvement puis à l’exécution d’Aldo Moro le 9 mai 1978 jusqu’à l’attaque de la base américaine d’Aviano le 2 septembre 1993 par ...

Personal budgets for people with disabilities: A systematic review of the literature, di Marco Terraneo, Mara Tognetti Bordogna, Concetta Russo

Introduction The aim of this article is to discuss the efficacy of the welfare action commonly known as the «Personal Budget», which stands for the development of reforms reorganising the funds for social and health benefits, allocated directly to people with disabilities, allowing them to choose and pay for needed supports. To serve this purpose, we will conduct a systematic literature review ...

Fathers in (Italian) TV Commercials: Between New Intimacy and Hegemonic Masculinity, di Maddalena Cannito, Eugenia Mercuri

Introduction Fatherhood is alleged to have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades, and is described in public and academic discourse with several labels such as «intimate», «new», «involved» (Dermott 2003, 2008; Henwood and Procter 2003; Miller 2011; Dermott and Miller 2015). Although the practices of fatherhood are changing slowly, the figure of the involved father is increasingly ...

Overcoming Public Policy Indifference and Fostering Timely Responses to Domestic Violence in Italy: The D.i.RE Network Methodology, di Maria Lucia Piga

1. Cultural and social conceptions of domestic violence The term domestic violence includes every type of physical, psychological, economic and/or sexual abuse that occurs within the internal workings of a couple’s relationship and which in almost all cases consists in acts committed by a man against a woman. This violence manifests itself in various forms and combinations that have dramatic ...

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Focus. Tra visibile e invisibile. Per una sociologia dell’immaginario e del profondo

I saggi che seguono sono una scelta tra le relazioni presentate al convegno di metà mandato della sezione «Immaginario» dell’Associazione Italiana di Sociologia, che si è svolto nel novembre del 2019 a Roma, presso le sedi di palazzo Baleani e del museo Macro.

Changing the Female Biocapital Market via Reproductive Technologies: A Potential Future with Genome Editing, Ectogenesis, and In Vitro Gametogenesis

1.Introduction 1.1Key Definitions Susanne Lettow (2018, 13), a German Philosopher, explains that biocapitalism can be defined as the valorisation of materials derived from human bodies and non-human living beings, i.e. biocapital. Examples of biocapital include organs – such as ovaries and uteri, genes, and cells – such as blood, skin, and gametes. Lettow argues that the valorisation ...