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Tabaquismo activo y pasivo en personas adultas que viven con una pareja del mismo sexo en España
2018
Abstract Objective To assess the association between current active and passive tobacco smoking and living with a same-sex partner in Spain. Methods We analysed data from two cross-sectional national surveys of the Spanish population 15 years and older (2011-Encuesta Nacional de Salud en España and 2014-Encuesta Europea de Salud en España). Analyses included only people living with their partner. Associations were calculated using multiple logistic regressions adjusting for gender, social class and age. Results Current active and passive smoking were significantly associated with living with same sex partners (odds ratio: 2.71 and 2.88), and particularly strong among women. Conclusions Span…
Europejski wymiar regionalizmu
2016
Artykuł poświęcony jest analizie takich definicji jak „region” i „regionalizm" w perspektywie europejskiej. Regionalizm w tym kontekście nie stanowi zagrożenia dla jedności państwa, a jak wynika z jego definicji stanowi przejaw zaangażowania obywateli w życie społeczne i polityczne swojego miejsca zamieszkania, w tym przypadku regionu. Analizie zostaną poddane także czynniki kształtujące politykę regionalną w Unii Europejskiej. Regionalizm, kojarzony głównie z tendencjami separatystycznym i w Szkocji czy Katalonii, może mieć także inne wymiary społeczne i polityczne, a także wiązać się z sytuacją międzynarodową. Przykładem takiego zjawiska jest kwestia mniejszości narodowych zamieszkujących…
The New Moral Power of Minorities
2018
The model of three interrelated social entities proposed by Gabriel Mugny to account for the role of active minorities in social innovation and change retains all its relevance and heuristic value (cf. Mugny, 1982). However, the fight of the civil rights movements of the ’60s transformed the moral perspective from which the majority regards their own behaviors towards social minorities. This resulted in an immorality judgment of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors that had long been regarded as natural. Thus a change has been effected on the relationships between majority and minority groups, providing minorities with a new moral power. As a result of such a new moral representation of p…
"More or Less American: Sergio Leone's Vision of America in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' (1968)"
2012
This article focuses on the representation of the American West in Sergio Leone's fourth Western, which is the first to include several scenes that have been shot on location in the U.S. The author argues that Once Upon a Time in the West offers a critique not only of the classical Hollywood Westerns Leone adored, but also of his own brand of Italian Western, which may, in part, explain why members of the counter-culture were so enthused by the film at its release. The first section examines the way the use of American locations foregrounds the artificiality of Leone's spatial construction. The second explores the political implications of the inclusion of various minority groups, thereby r…
Wpływ Kościoła katolickiego na dzieje i rozwój Śląska. Przyczynek do dyskusji nad rolą chrześcijaństwa w historii Śląska
2013
The Importance of Multilingual Information and Plain English in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
Health is a common issue for all human beings. As a consequence, everyone in the world has in some way to cope with the language of medicine. This is true now more than ever due to the global health crisis caused by the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has introduced a great amount of terms, previously mostly used by epidemiologists and statisticians, but which now have entered the daily lexicon of many languages. As the medium of international scientific communication, English is the language of worldwide information about the pandemic, and the main source of terms and expressions for other languages. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on English lexicon has been so deep that the Oxford E…
Cardiovascular Health in Migrants. Current status and issues for prevention. A Collaborative Multidisciplinary Task Force Report
2014
OBJECTIVES: To review information on cardiovascular health and migration, to stress the attention of researchers that much needs to be done in the collection of sound data in Italy and to allow policy makers identifying this issue as an important public health concern. BACKGROUND: In Italy, the rate of immigrants in the total number of residents increased from 2.5% in 1990 to 7.4% in 2010, and currently exceeds 10% in regions such as Lombardia, Emilia Romagna and Toscana. METHODS: A consensus statement was developed by approaching relevant Italian national scientific societies involved in cardiovascular prevention. Task force members were identified by the president and/or the boards of eac…
"Masmari": ricostruzione di un microtoponimo siculoalbanese
2021
Sometimes local administrators, even when well intentioned, contribute to the destruction of some monuments tied to the collective memory of a community. This happens when they decide to cover streams or remove boulders and with them the names by which they have been known to the community. In this way they cancel significant references for local toponymy. This essay takes as an example a microtoponym of the Albanian community of Piana degli Albanesi ("Guri i masmarit"), whose referent - a large boulder placed in an important town location - was supposed to be removed in 1975. The essay is focused on the toponym whose official interpretation ('Pietra di Maria') is linked to a local legend a…
Arbëreshë
2019
The essay aims to illustrate the fundamental questions that, in the dialectological and sociolinguistic framework, have engaged and engage the communicative space of those Italo-Albanian communities that, having arrived in different migratory waves between the 15th and 18th centuries, have created a new linguistic and cultural facies of some southern Italian regions. After having illustrated the current distribution of the Albanian-speaking communities, some dialectical phenomena have been examined from a diachronic and diatopic perspective, in support of the hypothesis that each Italo-Albanian community is the result of re-combinations of groups from different origins from their very first…
Ethnicity, 2018/15 : Ethnicity: Diversity and Homogenization
2018
"Ethnicity" – a peer-reviewed journal was established by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (University of Latvia). The journal publishes original works about ethnicity in different fields of knowledge – sociology, history, social linguistics, social psychology, law, political science.