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Articolo rivista (AIS - 2024/26) Halford Susan, Southerton Dale

Sociodigital Futures? An agenda for sociological research and practice

Digital technologies, devices and data are woven into the fabric of contemporary societies: the digital and the social are co-evolving in a «sociodigital» world. This raises significant and pressing questions about sociodigital futures: how these are made and what might be done to intervene in them. Sociology is well-placed and – at the same time – faces significant challenges in addressing ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2025/27) Marrazzo Francesco

Doing Digital Research with Online Platforms: a regulatory perspective

Introduction The collaboration between online platforms – owning a huge amount of data released by the daily activities and interactions of users (Andrejevic, 2009; Fuchs, 2010; Terranova, 2012), the so-called big data (Andrejevic, 2014; Stefanizzi, 2021; Kitchin, 2022) – and the academic world is an increasingly relevant topic for the evolution of (digital) research in the social sciences ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2024/26) Aragona Biagio, Stefanizzi Sonia

Società digitale: interrogativi, aree di ricerca e ruolo della sociologia

La verità è ciò che noi cerchiamo di scoprire in un determinato modo, e che noi riconosciamo come verità per come la scopriamo. Ma come facciamo a sapere che il metodo è buono? Perché persegue la verità.(Ian Hacking)

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2014/3) Cerulo Massimo

Intervista a Laura Balbo (Interview with Laura Balbo), di Massimo Cerulo

Laura Balbo (Padova, 1933) è una delle più note sociologhe italiane. È stata due volte parlamentare: nella IX Legislatura (1983) come indipendente eletta nelle liste del PCI, nella X Legislatura (1987) in quelle della Sinistra Indipendente. Dal 1998 al 2000 è stata ministro per le Pari Opportunità nel Governo D’Alema. È stata preside della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia all’Università ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2013/2) Salisci Mario

Prayer as Relationship. An Analysis of Padre Pio Prayer Group Leaders, di Mario Salisci

Introduction: prayer, a brief literature analysis Prayer was for a long time a substantially unknown subject, often considered a superstition, a repetition of empty verbal formulas and therefore not worthy of scientific study. However, it is difficult to deny that it is a primary cultural object and a very common form of behavior. As Wuthnow says: «Our emphasis on prayer stemmed from the fact that ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2016/8) McNay Ian

Imbalancing the academy: the impact of research quality assessment, di Ian McNay

Introduction It is thirty years since the first national approach to assessing research quality in a university system was introduced. The pioneer was the United Kingdom, in 1986, within a context where the Thatcher government had an agenda of «value for money» in public services, of containing the autonomy claimed by professionals, and increasing the accountability for the use of public funds. ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2012/0) Gellert Claudius

Recruitment Processes to Teaching and Research Positions in Institutions of German Higher Education: Basic Features, Historical Perspectives and Present Problems, di Claudius Gellert

Introduction The structural and functional changes occurring within the Western university systems have been manifold and considerable. However, many of these changes have largely remained dubious and opaque. For instance, the notion of the universities being above all research centres is sometimes treated almost like a sacred principle. Apart from the fact, however, that the European university ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2013/2) Cipriani Roberto

The Italian Sociological Tradition, di Roberto Cipriani

1. The far off beginning The vigour and rigour of Italian sociology’s development can only be explained by going back to the past, to the time of the Enlightenment in the 17th century, a movement begun in 1600 by Galileo Galilei, by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento («trying again and again») and by the Accademia degli Investiganti in Naples. In addition, a number of Italian scholars ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2012/0) Borrelli Davide

Intervista a Luciano Gallino (Interview with Luciano Gallino), di Davide Borrelli

Inauguriamo la rubrica «l’intervista» pubblicando l’intervista che Luciano Gallino ci ha rilasciato nel gennaio 2012 in occasione della sua nomina a Presidente onorario dell’Associazione Italiana di Sociologia. In questa intervista il Professor Gallino tocca molti temi e affronta diverse importanti questioni. Ripercorre le tappe più significative della sua prestigiosa carriera di studioso, ...

Articolo rivista (AIS - 2014/3) Bartoletti Roberta

Critical Nature: Regenerating Human Experience and Society Through Gardening

Introduction Nature and society have traditionally been separate in modernity, where the identity of the latter was founded on the exclusion of the former from its boundaries. This separation is rooted in the history of Christianity and modern science, as well as in the affirmation of both the industrial society and the discipline that was born in the nineteenth century in order to understand its ...