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Capturing daily family dynamics via text messages: development of the mobile diary
2010
In this paper we introduce a new tool, the mobile phone, for use in diary research. We demonstrate, with reference to two family studies conducted in Finland, how daily family dynamics can be captured by using the mobile diary. In both studies family members sent text messages (SMSs) in answer to structured diary questions three times a day over a one-week period. The participants kept also paper-and-pencil diaries. Two mobile diary items measuring mood (stressfulness and feelings of competence) both at home and at work are reported here as examples. For both items we found statistically significant daily and weekly variation as well as individual fluctuation. The data gathered by the mobil…
The foundations of decision theory: An intuitive, operational approach with mathematical extensions
1985
A new axiomatic basis for the foundations of decision theory is introduced and its mathematical development outlined. The system combines direct intuitive operational appeal with considerable structural flexibility in the resulting mathematical framework.
Crónica de una pandemia: confinamiento en Castelló de la Plana, España
2021
Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación comenzada a raíz de la declaración del estado de alarma en España (Real Decreto [RD] No. 463/2020, de 14 de marzo) después que la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declarase la enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) como pandemia el día 11 de marzo de 2020. Este decreto limitaba la libre circulación de las personas, así como el derecho de reunión, tanto en lugares públicos como privados, además de imponer la obligatoriedad de mantener una distancia de seguridad entre los individuos y la limitación del aforo en aquellos establecimientos que permanecían abiertos, entre otras medidas. Todo ello supuso un cambioen las rutinas d…
The dialectics of spatial performances: The interplay of tensions in activity-based organizing
2019
Navigating organizational workspace is often plagued with tensions that emerge from the interplay of intended designs with organizational activities and lived experiences. These tensions are evident in research findings, such as inconsistencies in the ways that employees react to new workplace designs. They call on scholars to rethink organizational space, not as a concrete, static, or ready-made ‘thing’, but as a set of ongoing performances that enact particular practices, clashes among opposites, and organizational tensions. Based on research in a Nordic company, this study reveals how tensions and responses to them in an activity-based office generate creative alternatives that enhance …
Dialogic Feminist Gatherings: Impact of the Preventive Socialization of Gender-Based Violence on Adolescent Girls in Out-of-Home Care
2020
Gender-based violence is a social scourge with an increasing incidence at younger ages. Many studies have focused on finding effective solutions for overcoming this problem
Exclusión discursiva. Hacia un nuevo concepto de la exclusión social
2011
The term “social exclusion” has been converting into a buzzword in European social sciences in the last decade. But the double use of the notion, as a concept of social politics as well as a sociological concept is producing a blurring of its contents. The aim of this article is to offer an approach which is able to satisfy the theoretic requirements for an analytical sociological concept by making use of the concept of discursive exclusion. Therefore the text develops the notion of discursive exclusion based on the most recent findings about sociological discourse theory and its contributions to the understanding of the construction of social reality. The process of social exclusion has to…
Axiomatic characterization of the weighted solidarity values
2014
Abstract We define and characterize the class of all weighted solidarity values . Our first characterization employs the classical axioms determining the solidarity value (except symmetry ), that is, efficiency , additivity and the A-null player axiom , and two new axioms called proportionality and strong individual rationality . In our second axiomatization, the additivity and the A-null player axioms are replaced by a new axiom called average marginality .
La participación en asociaciones de los inmigrantes africanos. Vías de interpretación del distanciamiento asociativo
2013
This article is focused on the reasons for non-participation of African population in immigrant associations. To understand this question, we conducted semi-structured interviews with persons who decided consciously no to participate in associations and organizations that worked with immigrants. All this work was developed in Catalonia, Valencia and Navarra, from a multilocal research perspective. We interpret the associative detachment, as a voluntary distancing based on the absence of information, lack of time, disenchantment, proprietorship activism, passively waiting, or because they are the only user population. Nevertheless, there are other factors of greater significance, as the poli…
Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management
2021
The notion of social licence to operate (SLO) has become a widely applied concept for companies in mining and resource extraction industries to manage their social and community relations, in the face of local criticism and opposition. SLO literature and practice have highlighted earning the trust of the local community as a key requirement for an SLO. This article addresses three weaknesses in how the current SLO literature addresses trust. The arguments are illustrated via examples from nuclear waste management in Finland, France and Sweden–three forerunners in implementing high-level nuclear waste repository projects. Nuclear waste management constitutes a relevant case for analysis, as …
Le diplôme et la profession : deux composantes de la classe sociale en France et en Allemagne
2021
A travers une comparaison franco-allemande, cet article s’attache a montrer comment les classements scolaires et professionnels s’articulent, et quelles nuances nationales cela produit dans les modalites d’acces et d’identification aux classes superieures. L’analyse se fonde sur un usage reflexif de la nomenclature socio-economique europeenne ESeG et des Labour Force Surveys conduits en 2011. En France, l’allongement des etudes associe a l’instabilite du marche du travail a conduit a un affaiblissement du lien entre le diplome et la profession chez les femmes, ainsi qu’a une accumulation de titres scolaires par les cadres des deux sexes. En Allemagne au contraire, les femmes et les hommes d…