Showing papers in "International Review of Sociology in 2018"
TL;DR: In 2013, Australia launched a major disability scheme aiming to give participants greater choice and control over services as mentioned in this paper, which is based on the international trend towards personalisation, as part of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.
Abstract: As part of the international trend towards personalisation, in 2013 Australia launched a major disability scheme aiming to give participants greater choice and control over services. The scheme aim...
53 citations
TL;DR: From the early Frankfurt School through to the work of Manuel Castells, there has been a rich body of work on the cleavage between technological and social developments of the twentieth century in this paper.
Abstract: From the early Frankfurt School through to the work of Manuel Castells, there has been a rich body of work on the cleavage between technological and social developments of the twentieth century in ...
28 citations
TL;DR: The Bitcoin and its peculiar, decentralized transaction system have already ignited interest by professional and retail traders in search for profits and by economists and legal experts, looking for p....
Abstract: Bitcoin and its peculiar, decentralized transaction system, have already ignited interest by professional and retail traders in search for profits and by economists and legal experts, looking for p...
24 citations
TL;DR: The authors extend the discussions that confront the intersectionality of Black American feminists to the notion of the "consubstantiality of social relations" espoused by French materialist feminists....
Abstract: This article aims to extend the discussions that confront the intersectionality of Black American feminists to the ‘consubstantiality of social relations’ espoused by French materialist feminists. ...
16 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines and compares the MOW (Meaning of Work) among Jews and Arabs (Muslims and Christians) in Israel and attempts to explain the similarities and the differences between the two groups.
Abstract: This study examines and compares, for the first time, the MOW (Meaning of Work) among Jews and Arabs (Muslims and Christians) in Israel and attempts to explain the similarities and the differences ...
16 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored the political role of literature through the medium of three novels of terrorism: Francesca Marciano's Casa Rossa, Nicholas Shakespeare's The Dancer Upstairs and Ann Patchett'...
Abstract: This article explores the political role of literature through the medium of three novels of terrorism: Francesca Marciano’s Casa Rossa, Nicholas Shakespeare’s The Dancer Upstairs and Ann Patchett’...
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a section aimed at evaluating different personalised policies and drawing a clear map of opportunities and challenges for future implementations, based on evaluatat...
Abstract: This themed section is aimed at evaluating different personalised policies and at drawing a clear map of opportunities and challenges for future implementations. All the essays are based on evaluat...
14 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a strategic innovation policy by linking development and global citizenship, and evolve a scenario in which citizenship represents a key intangible asset to generate tangible wealth in open horizons where free circulation of tangibles or intangibles is strategic and linked to downsizing the bureaucratic burdens.
Abstract: A viable citizenship program is pivotal for state development, and to let official policy determine politics as taught by T. J. Lowi. National states based on national-state citizenship are weaker and weaker before the key challenges of our times. That is why citizenship programs are more and more focused on innovation policies to integrate ius sanguinis, ius soli, citizenship on investment and citizenship on performance. This paper provides a strategic innovation policy by linking development and global citizenship. Innovative law-making, citizenship policy innovation, and development are dramatically interconnected to evolve a scenario in which citizenship represents a key intangible asset to generate tangible wealth in open horizons where free circulation of tangibles or intangibles is strategic and linked to downsizing the bureaucratic burdens, the local power centers by evolving a much leaner and higher organizational standard of citizenship: legally, isotropically, and socially. This results...
12 citations
TL;DR: This paper presented the capability approach to democracy and showed its relevance for the sociological reflection and research on democratic processes conceived in Amartya Sen's writings, drawing on Sen's words.
Abstract: Drawing on Amartya Sen’s writings, this article presents the capability approach to democracy and shows its relevance for the sociological reflection and research on democratic processes conceived ...
12 citations
TL;DR: In Europe, and particularly since the 2008 Financial Crisis, new demands for tailor-made services came from different actors and perspectives: user-led organizations, intellectuals, policy make... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Across Europe, and particularly since the 2008 Financial Crisis, new demands for tailor-made services came from different actors and perspectives: user-led organizations, intellectuals, policy make...
11 citations
TL;DR: Cooperatives and trade unions are the oldest organizations of democratic participation, founded nearly 200 years ago as discussed by the authors and are the main challenges for the world and especially for the trade unions.
Abstract: Co-operatives and trade unions are the oldest organizations of democratic participation, founded nearly 200 years ago. For sure the main challenges for the world and especially for the trade unions...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempted to explain the subnational variation in gender egalitarian values across Muslim-majority countries and its effect on key individual-level variables like gender, and found that whether provinces are more urban positively influences gender equality.
Abstract: In global value research, Muslim-majority countries emerge not only as consistently more patriarchal but also as a rather homogeneous cultural cluster to that effect. We, however, know little about the variation within Muslim-majority countries in these values through comparative analysis of subnational units. This limits the possibility of identifying ‘localized pockets of transformation’ in support for gender equality in what the global research depicts as a relatively stagnate region. This manuscript is a first attempt at explaining the subnational variation in gender egalitarian values across Muslim-majority countries and its effect on key individual-level variables like gender. We model province and individual-level variance across 64 provinces in Egypt, Iran and Turkey with multilevel analysis (Hierarchical Linear Modeling HLM 7.0). Results show that whether provinces are more urban positively influences gender egalitarian values. At the individual level, we find that whether provinces are m...
TL;DR: The crip has completed the gesture of the queer entering fully into the field of the body, denaturalizing categories (deficiency and disability) and interpreting it as radically interdependent.
Abstract: The dominant thought in the Western Culture, put the soul first and despised the body, generating distinctions and hierarchies in which the spiritual or immaterial was considered superior to the corporeal or material. But the bodies have not allowed themselves to be reduced to these dichotomous patterns. The queer discovered the body, worked with it, but returned to the field of immateriality in which the identity is lodged. The crip has completed the gesture of the queer entering fully into the field of the body, denaturalizing categories (deficiency and disability) and interpreting it as radically interdependent. However, in the absence of tradition in dealing with the body, both in reflection and politics, we are inspired by other cultures that always put corporeality in the foreground. The Native American Indians are explicit in terms of contrast between humans and non-humans, because for them there is a unique culture with multiple natures, as opposed to Western, because we believe in plurali...
TL;DR: Democracy is again under attack as mentioned in this paper, and 19 out of 167 countries can be regarded as full democracies and only a small minority of them can be considered full democracies, i.e., they are full democracies.
Abstract: Democracy is again under attack. Only a small minority, i.e. 19 out of 167 countries can be regarded as full democracies. This themed section with its six contributions is addressing the ch...
TL;DR: This paper argues that Systemic Innovation, as an emerging field of praxis in its own right, provides an integral and actionable framework for the curation of human initiatives that span human, technological, environmental, and generational concerns with lifelong learning and creative design initiatives.
Abstract: Innovation comprises an area of human activity that bridges disciplinary boundaries in epistemological domains as well as action frameworks in ontological domains. It involves a complex system comp...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how professions behave in periods of social change and explore the relationship between professions and broader social discourse, and consider whether professions take positions vis-a-vis broader social dialogue.
Abstract: This article examines how professions behave in periods of social change. The article considers whether professions take positions vis-a-vis broader social discourse, and explores the relationship ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how suicide bombers are framed in terrorist communication, focusing on the empirical case of al-Qaeda's suicide campaigns and relying on the concept of media of communication in so...
Abstract: This paper examines how suicide bombers are framed in terrorist communication, focusing on the empirical case of al-Qaeda’s suicide campaigns. Relying on the concept of media of communication in so...
TL;DR: The main reference for twentieth century politics is the Nation-state, whose territory-citizens were the unique and only target of norm production as mentioned in this paper. And the function of norm producing was commitment of public bodies, whose legitimacy depends on the ‘people.
Abstract: The main reference for twentieth century politics is the Nation-state, whose territory-citizens were the unique and only target of norm production. Furthermore, the function of norm production was commitment of public bodies, whose legitimacy – at least in democratic countries – depends on the ‘people’. i.e. the citizens that were the target of the law production itself. An important fact, is that national production of norms slowly shifted from the legislative to the executive power. Too many were the decisions to be made in a brief term, and too fast were people’s emotional reactions, to let this commitment to an impersonal and procedural institution like the legislative power. In a globalized world, things have changed under many aspects. The multiplicity of decisional levels, e.g.: on one side, supranational bodies and entity are more and more frequently assuming this function; furthermore, more and more frequently, national commitments have shifted towards more restricted levels, such as regi...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on Bourdieu's topological conception of social space to expand on it and develop an alternative model, which is based on the topology of social spaces.
Abstract: This article focuses on Bourdieu’s topological conception of social space to expand on it and develop an alternative model. Bourdieu describes social space as topological because it consists of a s...
TL;DR: With the objective to eradicate disability related discrimination and promote choice, control, independence and inclusion for all individuals, the personalisation agenda paved the way for a transferential agenda.
Abstract: With the objective to eradicate disability related discrimination and promote choice, control, independence and inclusion for all individuals, the personalisation agenda paved the way for a transfo...
TL;DR: The 80/20 principle was first formulated by Vilfredo Pareto as mentioned in this paper, who called it the secret to achieving more with less, also referred to as the 90/10 principle.
Abstract: Since, Vilfredo Pareto formulated what later became Pareto’s principle (also referred to as the 80/20 or 90/10 principle, see Koch [2008. The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report findings from an evaluation of a personalization approach for the UK social care sector and compare it to other sectors, such as health care and education.
Abstract: Various approaches to personalisation are well-established in the UK social care sector and are now starting to ‘travel’ to other sectors. In this paper we report findings from an evaluation of a p...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical framework for the systemic approach to innovation studies, highlighting the complex and multidisciplinary aspects of each innova cation in the context of innovation studies.
Abstract: This short essay aims at presenting a theoretical framework for the systemic approach to innovation studies. Namely, the work will highlight the complex and multidisciplinary aspects of each innova...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a few conclusive considerations on theoretical approaches to innovation studies, from the scope of the works that appeared in the monographic issue of International Review (IR).
Abstract: This short note provides a few conclusive considerations on theoretical approaches to innovation studies, from the scope of the works that appeared in the monographic issue of International Review ...
TL;DR: The acceleration and integration of everything (AIE) is discussed, i.e. of all forms of electronic devices into a distributed communications grid that will, inexorably, ubiquitously change the way the authors exist towards a convergent singularity of robotics, informatics, genetics and nanotechnology.
Abstract: This essay discusses the acceleration and integration of everything (AIE), i.e. of all forms of electronic devices into a distributed communications grid that will, inexorably, ubiquitously change ...
TL;DR: The authors revisited the development of Basil Bernstein's theoretical armories and reinvigorated its relevance to social class analysis in education, while identifying some of the challenges and pro-blems.
Abstract: This paper revisits the development of Basil Bernstein’s theoretical armories and reinvigorates its relevance to social class analysis in education, while identifying some of the challenges and pro...
TL;DR: The emerging globalization policies are underlining the key importance of international and supranational regulations and standards as mentioned in this paper, and digitalization has reframed the free circulation of intangible a...
Abstract: The emerging globalization policies are underlining the key importance of international and supranational regulations and standards. Digitalization has reframed the free circulation of intangible a...
TL;DR: A suite of technical tools developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) which aim to monitor the prevalence and impact of a new invasive inse....
Abstract: This paper introduces a suite of technical tools developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) which aim to monitor the prevalence and impact of a new invasive inse...
TL;DR: The most popular form of public participation in SA is public protest, which, as a result of historical continuity, represents a direct response to the humiliations e... as mentioned in this paper argued that public protest is the most popular public participation form in SA.
Abstract: The article contends that the most popular form of Public Participation (PP) in SA is public protest, which, as a result of historical continuity, represents a direct response to the humiliations e...
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of HIV-related stigma on children made orphans by AIDS and other children made vulnerable by HIV are analyzed, and the authors identify the process of devaluat...
Abstract: This paper analyses the effects of HIV-related stigma on children made orphans by AIDS and other children made vulnerable by HIV. HIV-related stigma is usually identified as the process of devaluat...