Search results for "social space"
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Social Space for Self-Organising: An Exploratory Study of Timebanks in Finland and in the UK
2018
The article examines the challenges to self-organisation and upscaling of alternative economies from the viewpoint of defending and negotiating social space. Timebanks in Finland and the UK are presented as examples, analysing the difference of defending such social space in the contexts of a traditional welfare state (in the case of Finland) and an austerity-driven government with a “Big Society” ideology (in the case of UK). Both systems of government present different kinds of pressures on timebanks, pushing them to a given ontological categories and to action in accordance with pre-defined political goals. This difference, along with timebank reactions and the question of prospects of o…
The writer’s contest: manifestos and literary struggle in Catalonia (2014–2020)
2021
This article analyses the transformation of the Catalan writer’s social space, which intensified with the independence process against Spain during last decade. More specifically, we shall focus on...
Rural Society, Social Inclusion and Landscape Change in Central and Eastern Europe:A Case Study of Latvia
2009
The countryside of Europe is undergoing many social, economic and environmental changes as a result of depopulation and agricultural land abandonment. This trend, driven in part by the wide disparity of income levels between rural and urban inhabitants, is particularly evident in the Central and Eastern European countries such as Latvia, which joined the EU in 2004 and in 2007. Research was undertaken in Latvia in 2003, the year before it joined the EU, to explore this trend, as manifested in the relationship of people to the countryside, using focus groups and a questionnaire survey. The results showed that, although Latvians retain a strong regard for their traditional countryside landsca…
Cinq facteurs clés pour comprendre les territoires sportifs
2006
Pour expliquer la répartition spatiale des activités sportives et la création de territoires sportifs, cet article envisage cinq facteurs clés qui sont les fondements nécessaires de toute analyse. La répartition de la population introduit un effet de masse sous-jacent à toute pratique d’une activité sportive ; le milieu physique, s’il n’en demeure pas moins indispensable pour comprendre la localisation de certains sports, subit un processus d’artificialisation ; la diffusion spatiale introduit une dimension historique obligatoire ; même contestée, l’influence de l’espace social au sens large se fait ressentir à condition d’utiliser la bonne échelle d’analyse ; enfin, la dynamique spatiale i…
Growing in Mafia Territories
2015
As a theoretical extension of other previous studies, this work represents an improvement of the notions about the relationship between adolescence and Mafia. The research has been aiming at exploring teenagers’ universe within specific social contexts where the presence of criminal organizations is significant, focusing the attention on the modalities through which evolutionary tasks are coped with in contexts with high Mafia density and often characterized by a perception of social space that makes personal, financial, and political development problematic. The research has involved 93 teenagers who live in southern regions where the presence of Mafia organizations (Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, …
Nethnography and Social Network Analysis for Studying Online Social Space
2022
Author's accepted manuscript This chapter contributes to the current methodological debate on digital, internet-based studies in social research. Based upon an introductive analysis of the research's perspectives, trajectories, and stages that have brought the online social spaces into social research, the chapter focuses on the advantages of combining quanti-quali approaches for approaching online complexity. In particular, the authors offer a deep discussion concerning the value, the methodological, and ethical challenges of netnography and social network analysis (SNA) methods for inquiring online social research by proposing a possible emerging methodological framework guiding further e…
Reading and company: embodiment and social space in silent reading practices
2017
Reading, even when silent and individual, is a social phenomenon and has often been studied as such. Complementary to this view, research has begun to explore how reading is embodied beyond simply ...
El «nacionalismo metodológico» como obstáculo en la investigación sociológica sobre migraciones internacionales
2007
La globalizacion ha evidenciado la necesidad de cuestionar el ‘nacionalismo metodologico’ como presupuesto fundamental de la primera modernidad. Este cuestionamiento rompe la asuncion de que los contornos de la sociedad coinciden con los del estado- nacion, y supone un desafio epistemologico para la sociologia, que desde su nacimiento adopto un esquema de clasificacion del espacio social que podria denominarse isomorfismo estado-sociedad. En este articulo realizamos una reflexion sobre los desafios epistemologicos y metodologicos que las migraciones internacionales suponen para la sociologia y las practicas de investigacion social mayoritarias, que generalmente arrastran inercias y presupue…
Contenitori_Contenuti
2020
Scriveva Camilleri in “La forma dell’acqua”: «[…] L’acqua non ha una forma propria, ed è come tutti gli altri liquidi, che assumono questa in ragione del contenitore che li circonda, che li contiene […]». Nel suo romanzo del 1994, infatti, l’allusione è alla ‘verità’ e questa può assumere qualsiasi forma. Ma sarà proprio il contesto in cui viene cercata a definirne la sua forma, la sua dimensione. Quindi l’ambiente, le circostanze, le condizioni di un evento, possono aiutare a trovare la pura verità e questa sarà sempre più vicina alla realtà quanto più ne sono definite le circostanze, l’ambiente e lo spazio. Ma l’Architettura non dovrebbe seguire gli stessi principi? L’Architettura non dov…
Las redes sociales y la innovación educativa. La experiencia del Geoforo. Balance anual de 2012
2012
El aumento de la participación en los foros ha facilitado el intercambio de opiniones y argumentos sobre la innovación educativa. Podemos definir este momento como la creación de una red social con intereses profesionales coincidentes: la mejora del aprendizaje de los hechos sociales, en especial los que tienen una característica geográfica. Los datos que se aportan en este balance anual nos indican que se está asentando el Geoforo allí donde hay grupos locales, lo que nos confirma que este blog es una red de redes.