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The Social Exclusion Bench Tool (SEBT): A visual way of assessing interpersonal social exclusion
2021
People usually prefer to appear with an inclusive and positive attitude to others’ eyes. For this reason, the self-report scales assessing social exclusion intentions are often biased by social desirability. In this work, we present an innovative graphical tool, named Social Exclusion Bench Tool (SEBT), for assessing social exclusion not influenced by social desirability. The tool is based on the consistency between social distance and physical distance evaluation. The results showed that in two samples of adults from Italy (N = 252) and the UK (N = 254), the SEBT positively correlated with self-report measures of social exclusion, but not with the social desirability measure. The tool has …
Élites di governo e «mastre» ad Agrigento fra Trecento e Quattrocento
2002
ITALIANO: Sebbene le comunità demaniali siciliane acquisiscano un peso centrale ed inedito nei regni di Martino e di Alfonso V, a parte poche eccezioni mancano ricerche monografiche e comparate delle dinamiche sociali cittadine. Questo articolo prende in esame la città di Agrigento, in particolare la formazione dei raggruppamenti sociali, il loro differente ruolo politico e gli equilibri di potere tra i gruppi di governo, con riferimento alle istituzioni delle liste di eleggibili per l'elezione alle cariche locali. È opinione comune che le istituzioni di tali liste rappresentino l'affermazione della aristocrazia, sugli altri raggruppamenti sociali, nelle dinamiche urbane sin dalla seconda m…
Unequal access to food during the nutritional transition: evidence from Mediterranean Spain †
2020
Unequal access to food is one of the main issues in nutritional history, but scarcity of sources has hampered the quantification of this phenomenon. This study uses hospital diets to address this gap. It uses records from between 1852 and 1923 concerning hospital diets in the psychiatric section of the Hospital General de Valencia (Spain), from which it is possible to infer the actual intake of nutrients for six groups of patients and members of staff. The results reveal considerable differences in terms of diet and nutrition. While the most favoured groups (nuns and well‐off patients) had by 1852 reduced their relative intake of cereals and increased that of meat, in line with the general …
Palermo si cura. Pratiche culturali di mutuo soccorso come risposta alle fragilità della città (post)pandemica
2023
In un quadro di riferimento in cui la crisi è globalizzata ma diseguale e in mancanza di un sistema di welfare capace di rispondere alle urgenze dei contesti e dei gruppi sociali più marginalizzati, una risposta ai nuovi bisogni sociali ed individuali è stata offerta da reti solidali e da pratiche di mobilitazione dal basso che svolgono un ruolo di agency territoriale, spesso indipendentemente o in assenza di Istituzioni. Nel contesto palermitano un impegno agito da una pluralità di soggetti culturali già attivi sul territorio, riuniti in un’assemblea pubblica (Palermo si cura), durante il periodo del primo lockdown hanno dato vita ad azioni di mutuo soccorso per rispondere all’emergenza ec…
Studying micro-communities in Facebook Communities
2018
In the visionary view of the future Internet, named the Next Generation Internet, a current idea is to have a user-centric approach where human behavior models will be used to define the networks or to manage services. During the last years, a great trend in current Social Media platforms is to offer the opportunity to establish and join groups of people online. Despite human behaviour in current Online Social Media have been studied in depth, characteristics of these aggregations of people in content-based communities are still unknown. In this paper, we propose an evaluation of micro-communities of users inside the big network of Facebook groups to understand how and when users are active…
Predicting social integration in the community among college students
2004
This article aims to examine determinants of social integration in the community among college students. Two-wave panel data from an undergraduate student sample (N 310) was used to explore the effects of multiple sets of variables (personal, interpersonal, and situational) on social integration in the community. Structural equation analysis showed that personal (self-esteem and perceived stress) and situational (undesirable life events) variables made significant contributions to changes to social integration in the community. Implications of these and other findings are discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The expansion of social networks beyond relationships with family and peers is…
Peer group homogeneity in adolescents' school adjustment varies according to peer group type and gender
2009
This study investigated whether the members of adolescents' peer groups are similar in terms of their school adjustment and whether this homogeneity varies according to peer group type and gender. A total of 1262 peer group members who had recently moved to post-comprehensive education filled in questionnaires measuring their academic achievement, satisfaction with their educational track, school engagement, and school burnout. They also gave positive peer nominations on the basis of which 360 peer groups were identified and categorized as cliques, loose groups, and isolate dyads. The results showed that the members of adolescents' peer groups particularly resembled each other in terms of …
Independence and interdependence of group judgments: Xenophobia and minority influence
1991
A first experiment examined the effects of two methods of dividing resources between Swiss nationals and foreign residents in a study involving 118 subjects. Subjects gave judgments involving either interdependent allocation (resources allocated to the outgroup cannot be allocated to the ingroup) or independent allocation. The results indicated that the socio-cognitive functioning preferred by subjects varies as a function of their view of outsiders. Interdependence of judgments was more characteristic of the most xenophobic subjects, whereas the least xenophobic were more likely to reason in terms of independence. On the other hand, intermediate subjects (those who were clearly neither for…
On the ideological consistency between right-wing authoritarianism and social domince orientation.
2007
Abstract The authors argue that cross-national variation in the association between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) depends upon the degree to which political systems are organized along a single explicitly ideologically articulated left–right dimension. In societies where the political system is ideologized along a single dimension, RWA and SDO should be strongly positively correlated, and the magnitude of this association should be moderated by political identification. This hypothesis was tested in Italy, a society where the political system is highly ideologized, using analyses of concurrent data from student (N = 148) and community samples (N = …
¿Campo artístico o tótems de un grupo de estatus? Ritual tradicional, innovación estética y reproducción social en las Fallas de Valencia
2020
¿Pueden ser analizadas las fallas de Valencia con el concepto de campo artístico de Pierre Bourdieu? Esta cuestión ha sido abordada otras veces, pero ha obtenido una respuesta axiomática, considerando sólo su vertiente artística. Sin embargo, entendemos que, a diferencia de los campos artísticos modernos, en las Fallas y otras fiestas tradicionales no podemos constatar una dinámica de autonomización social ni una dinámica de oposición entre arte burgués y arte puro o la sustitución de vanguardias. Por el contrario, el dominio de los Fallas de la elite refleja la heteronomía del mundo fallero respecto del campo económico y social. Por ello a partir de datos cuantitativos y cualitativos el ar…