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The fates of social science journals in languages other than English: key issues for research communities and editorial policies, by M. Fernández-Esquinas

Introduction Scientific journals have been undergoing an important transformation fort the last two decades. Some of the main changes affecting them have been driven by digitisation, the globalisation of the publishing market, the emergence of metrics and the use of journals in research evaluation and science policy (Mackenzie 2007; Larivière et al. 2015; Moed 2006; Malsch and Tessier 2015). ...

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 ...

Editoriale (Editorial), di Marita Rampazi

Questo numero si apre con un saggio di Franco Rositi, che richiama l’attenzione della comunità sociologica su una questione di fondo, tuttora irrisolta: la definizione dello specifico «luogo» che la sociologia occupa nell’ambito delle scienze umane. A fronte dell’attuale crisi di prestigio, di fiducia, per certi versi persino di credibilità, che ha investito la nostra disciplina, l’autore ...

Intervista a Franco Ferrarotti (Interview with Franco Ferrarotti), di Francesca Colella

Franco Ferrarotti nasce il 7 aprile del 1926, a Palazzolo Vercellese, da una famiglia di medi proprietari terrieri. È un bambino pieno di curiosità e interessi, ma cagionevole di salute: verrà ritirato da scuola e inviato a San Remo, sul mare, in un clima più mite e darà poi gli esami finali – la licenza ginnasiale – nel 1940 e poi quella liceale, da privatista. Alla sua vita sono dedicati ...

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 ...

A conversation with American Maverick Sociologist and Criminologist, Lonnie Athens

During our interview with Lonnie Athens, we questioned him about both his theory of violentization and his ongoing efforts to develop what he calls a «radical interactionist» perspective, two intertwined strands of his research. Specifically, his early research on violence planted the seed for his later development of radical interactionism, which in turn, provided him with an interactionist perspective ...

Introduzione, di Carlo Pennisi

Contrasto alla povertà, mercato del lavoro e crescita economica. Quale governance per la ripresa

Contrasto alla povertà, mercato del lavoro e crescita economica. Quale governance per la ripresa I saggi proposti in questa sezione espongono sul mercato del lavoro e sulle politiche sociali le risultanze di ricerche e riflessioni che ben si prestano per mettere a fuoco le sfide che vengono alla sociologia dai cambiamenti in corso. Nel pieno della quarta ondata del SARS-CoV-2, la sociologia sta provando ...

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 ...