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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 ...

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Il governo della follia nel nostro paese, così come in altre parti del mondo, ha a lungo previsto la segregazione dei corpi abitati dalla follia, più per proteggere la società da questa forma perturbante di alterità, che per offrire una cura al male mentale. La riforma del 1978, che il volume a cura di Patrizia Guarnieri prende in esame analizzandone i molti rivoli destinati a risultare secondari ...

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.

Participant observation and evaluative thinking: the case of an Italian software house

The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to an ever-increasing number of sectors lays the foundation for evaluating the social implications of AI systems. This article presents research within an Italian software house developing an AI system that combines the ethnographic approach with evaluative thinking. This work aims to understand the practices implemented by developers and their willingness ...

Online research to capture the essence of social relationships in digital society?

1What We Talk About When We Talk About Social Relations Social relationships have perennially occupied the heart of sociological theories since the scientific birth of the discipline. Numerous sociologists have dedicated their studies to this subject, each from their distinct viewpoints, underlining that the analysis of social relationships is foundational to comprehending society’s structure ...

The Esports phenomenon and its evolution: a systematic literature review

Introduction The term «Esport» refers to a cultural phenomenon that covers all recreational competitive activities conducted through the use of electronic technology. The word «Esport» was first used by the Online Gamers Association in 1999. In the past, the Professional Computer Gaming Championship made an application to the English Sports Council to recognize gaming as a Sport, but without ...

Open Science and ethical concerns: exploring controversies building a social science research infrastructure

Open Science is reshaping how research is carried out and shared, driving a global movement that’s particularly gaining momentum in Europe. At the same time, ethics is becoming increasingly important, as Open Science introduces new challenges that require thoughtful and responsible management. Integrating these two areas is crucial, especially when building e-infrastructures for social sciences, ...

Questions of reliability and validity of social media data and of research and decision-making based on social media data

This research is an overview of the frameworks and research explaining the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) can play in the dissemination of cultural content. Several theories are explored to understand how cultural content is transmitted online and in physical format between cultures which have no historical contact prior to the advent of IoT and AI. Moreover, this review investigates how the ...