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Toby Alice Volkman (ed.), Cultures of Transnational Adoption (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2005, £14.95). Pp. 22+232. ISBN 0 8223 35…
2006
The Samjiyon Orchestra as a North Korean Means for Gender Based Cultural Diplomacy
2020
In 2018 it appeared that a peace process on the Korean Peninsula had got underway. Lots of publicity was produced on inter-Korean relations and many types of messages and diplomatic actors started to move across the border with South Korea. One important element in this process was cultural diplomacy, conducted partly by athletes and cheering squads during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, and partly by musical ensembles. Selection of the Samjiyon Orchestra for the Pyeongchang events sheds light on the kind of image the North Korean leadership wanted to display of the country on the international stage. This article analyses the characteristics of the orchestra, where it came from, and …
Daños colaterales. Desigualdades sociales en la era global
2017
Daños colaterales, una obra estrenada hace un par de años por Zygmunt Bauman, sintetiza no sólo parte de su carrera profesional e intelectual, sino que pone el foco en las asimetrías causadas por el capitalismo avanzado, al cual el autor bautiza como modernidad líquida. Particularmente, la tesis central del trabajo de Bauman discute los alcances y los resultados de una gran desigualdad entre los que tienen y los que no. En parte, porque el estado nacional como protector de la ciudadanía, o como aquel organismo funcional a la seguridad general, dio paso a una nueva forma de estado, en donde lo social impone los riesgos y/o peligros que las personas deben afrontar en forma individual...
La Fotografía en Pierre Bourdieu y el problema de la integración social
2017
La siguiente reseña se orienta a la obra de Pierre Bordieu, Un Arte Medio: ensayo sobre los usos sociales de la fotografía, libro publicado por vez primera en versión francesa en 1965, y traducido en español en 2003 por Tununa Mercado. En este trabajo de inmensa calidad académica, la preocupación principal del autor radica en estudiar a la fotografía como forma o proceso ritual específico. Bordieu, comienza introductoriamente preguntándose: ¿Por qué la actividad fotográfica tiene tal predisposición a ser difundida que son muy pocos los hogares, al menos en las ciudades, que no poseen una cámara? Según el sociólogo francés, los recursos económicos y la fotografía están estrechamente ligados …
Why the Pirate Party Won the German Election of 2009 or The Trouble With Predictions: A Response to Tumasjan, A., Sprenger, T. O., Sander, P. G., &am…
2011
In their article “Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal About Political Sentiment,” the authors Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sandner, and Isabell M. Welpe (TSSW) the authors claim that it would be possible to predict election outcomes in Germany by examining the relative frequency of the mentions of political parties in Twitter messages posted during the election campaign. In this response we show that the results of TSSW are contingent on arbitrary choices of the authors. We demonstrate that as of yet the relative frequency of mentions of German political parties in Twitter message allows no prediction of election results.
Research methods for children
2014
Research on children has been burgeoning across social sciences and child development studies over the past decade. Seeing children as active agents shaping their own lives and the lives of the adu...
Review of Kessler (2014) Controversias Sobre La Desigualdad
2015
The importance of intangible assets in regional economic growth: a growth accounting approach
2022
Spain is one of the few countries in the world that has information on investment in intangible assets with a regional breakdown, so providing evidence of its importance as a factor in regional growth is the main value added of this paper. Series of capital stock in intangible assets are constructed by regions, which incorporate not only those the national accounts consider as investments and are therefore included in gross value added (GVA), but also the intangible assets not included in GVA, which the recent literature understand to be an important source of economic growth. Using the growth accounting approach, the results show that intangible assets explain 14.3% of Spain’s GVA growth, …
The Lost Social Context of Recovery Psychiatrization of a Social Process
2021
From being a concept questioning the core of psychiatric knowledge and practice, recovery has been adopted as a guiding vison for mental health policy and practice by different local, national, and international organizations. The aim of this article is to contextualize the different understandings of recovery and its psychiatrization through the emergence of an individualizing and de-contextualized definition which have gained a dominant position. It ends with an attempt to formulate a new definition of recovery which integrates people in their social context. Research results from various follow-up studies showing the possibility of recovery from severe mental distress have stressed the i…
Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation: A case study
2022
Social scientists generally take United Nations (UN) population projections as the baseline when considering the potential impact of any changes that could affect fertility, mortality or migration, and the UN typically does projections using the cohort-component method (CCM). The CCM technique is computationally simple and familiar to demographers. However, in order to avoid the exponential expansion of complexity as new dimensions of individual difference are added to projections, and to understand the sensitivity of projections to specific conditions, agent-based microsimulations are a better option. CCMs can mask hidden assumptions that are surfaced by the construction of microsimulatio…