Showing papers in "Revista Internacional De Sociologia in 2015"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the role of religion in Spanish prisons and hospitals and explore the daily tensions and negotations between the Catholic Church, the religious minorities and the secular professionals working in these institutions.
Abstract: Based on a qualitative approach, this article analyzes the current role of religion in Spanish prisons and hospitals. More specifically, the article explores the daily tensions and negotations between the Catholic Church, the religious minorities and the secular professionals working in these institutions. The complexity of the micro religious/secular dynamics, together with the mono/multiconfessional tension and the religious/spiritual divide going on within these institutions, demonstrate the impossibility of drawing a single model to account for the way in which religion is being dealt with in contemporary Spanish public institutions.
18 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of family contacts during incarceration on recidivism and the mechanisms that relate these factors were explored, showing that both the stronger family ties (with parents and partners) and the weaker ones (with other family members) may have a significant effect on the desistance process, through the mechanism of bonding or social support.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of family contacts during incarceration on recidivism and explores the mechanisms that relate these factors. A two-wave mixed method design is applied on a sample of men given prison sentences for ordinary acquisitive crimes in the province of Barcelona. The analysis shows that both the stronger family ties (with parents and partners) and the weaker ones (with other family members) may have a significant effect on the desistance process, through the mechanism of bonding (in relation to strong ties) or social support (in relation to weak ties). However, the results also show the limitations of bonding when not coupled with the instrumental support needed for a successful reentry. Additionally to quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis has been conducted to detail explanatory mechanisms, taking also into account negative cases.
13 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the reconfiguration of the relation between governments and social partners in these two countries as a consequence of the economic crisis, and analyze the emergence of a new dynamic of corporatist political exchange which combines irregular and short-range dialogue with confrontation.
Abstract: In most European countries, the reform agenda on socioeconomic issues has been backed on social pacts throughout the last decades. However, the upsurge of the economic crisis has hampered this general orientation towards agreement and consensus. From 2008 and on there has been a transformation «from negotiation to imposition» which has been particularly severe in Southern Europe. In Spain and Portugal, the implementation of unilateral reforms by the governments under the surveillance of the European institutions has provoked the weakening of social pacts. The article evaluates the reconfiguration of the relation between governments and social partners in these two countries as a consequence of the economic crisis. It also analyses the emergence of a new dynamic of corporatist political exchange which combines irregular and short-range dialogue with confrontation.
13 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a gender perspective was applied to explore the relationship between the position of individuals within the household and the health-related quality of life (CVRS) among the population aged 30 to 64 living in Spain (N=13.258).
Abstract: This paper applies a gender perspective to explore the relationship between the position of individuals within the household and the health-related quality of life (CVRS) among the population aged 30 to 64 living in Spain (N=13.258). Microdata from the Spanish sample of the European Health Survey of 2009 are utilized for this purpose. Multivariate linear regression models for males and females are run which include the following controllers: age, labor status, educational level, social capital, nationality and variables approaching individuals’ objective health. Results show that, among females, the position within the household is more influential on CVRS than some other individual characteristics. This is not the case among males. One-parent family is the household position that penalize CVRS the most which stands especially for females. Among males, living (or not) in couple is the most influential factor on CVRS. Gender-related determinants are discussed.
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed empirically the multidimensional determinants (direct effects) of the perceived work quality in Spain through a representative sample of 8.755 employees in 2010, and using a structural equations model (SEM).
Abstract: Through a representative sample of 8.755 employees in 2010, and using a structural equations model (SEM), this article analyzes empirically the multidimensional determinants (direct effects) of the perceived work quality in Spain. The research concludes that the perceived work quality combines a broad set of explanatory dimensions that are linked with de workplace itself (intrinsic work quality, organization, access and inclusion, and compensations), but also with their environment and labor relations (social relations, work intensity, skills and training, and health and safety). Therefore, the public employment policies for ending the economic crisis should not only address the quality or workplace, but also meet the dimensions related to their environment and labor relations.
9 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Evaluation Survey for Secondary Schooling conducted by the Regional Government of Navarra in 2010 to study migrant-native differentials in the educational expectation of students.
Abstract: In this paper we use the Evaluation Survey for Secondary Schooling conducted by the Regional Government of Navarra in 2010 to study migrant-native differentials in the educational expectation of students. Our evidence confirms the existence of what the international literature has labelled “immigrant optimism”, in other words, the fact that immigrantorigin students are more ambitious than what should be expected according to their socioeconomic status or their prior school achievement. Once we identify this regularity, the paper explores the causes of this particular differential between migrants and natives suggesting that individual level characteristics (broadly speaking family level features) are the most plausible source of this optimism. The sorting of migrants in the Navarre school map and the school characteristics appears to be less relevant to understand this immigrant optimism.
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how the profile of voters of different state-wide political parties has evolved according to what they call the electoral footprints of Spanish nationalism, and the analysis of the degree of heterogeneity of this electoral footprint and its differences across autonomous communities over the last decades, along with other differences in socio-political attitudes among their constituents.
Abstract: In this paper we approach the study of Spanish nationalism (the nature of the identification with Spain) from the perspective of voters of different state-wide political parties. Our goal is to analyse how the profile of constituencies of these parties has evolved according to what we call the electoral footprints of Spanish nationalism. The analysis of the degree of heterogeneity of this electoral footprint and its differences across autonomous communities over the last decades, along with other differences in socio-political attitudes among their constituents, can help us to understand party’s positioning on this issue and its treatment in the electoral agenda. The empirical analysis is based on sixteen several general population surveys conducted by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS).
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the factors that affect the birth of the first child after migration, focusing on family conditions and socio-demographic characteristics of migrant women at the moment of arriving in Spain.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors that affect the birth of the first child after migration. In particular, we focus on family conditions and socio-demographic characteristics of migrant women at the moment of arriving in Spain. The general hypothesis is that reproductive behavior after migrating is closely related to the situation on arrival. At the same time, we consider that different family situations interact with individual characteristics generating different effects on the probability of having the first child. In the analysis discrete time survival models were estimated using data from National Immigrant Survey 2007.
Results show the importance of marital status and number of previous children on fertility after migration, although there is some interference between family background and personal characteristics of the migrant.
7 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the latest hypothesis that social networks and Internet social influence is spontaneous and accidental, which contradicts the old hypothesis of the initial programming of all social movements from a previously defined strategic influence.
Abstract: The article discusses the latest hypothesis that social networks and Internet social influence is spontaneous and accidental, which contradicts the old hypothesis of the initial programming of all social movements from a previously defined strategic influence. The discussion starts from analyzing of the most influential players in the movement #YoSoy132 on social network Twitter in Mexico.
6 citations
TL;DR: Second-order recognition as mentioned in this paper is a key concept in examining group inclusion in multicultural societies, which can be used as a means of understanding intercultural conflicts, as the sociology of intercultural relations often addresses claims of recognition of a specific identity that is different from that of the main society.
Abstract: Since the 1990s, the notion of social recognition has developed into a key concept for sociological theory. Recognition theory seems especially promising as a means of understanding intercultural conflicts, as the sociology of intercultural relations often addresses claims of recognition of a specific identity that is different from that of the main society.
The aim of this article is to show that recognition theory can be used as a key concept in examining group inclusion in multicultural societies. Nevertheless, the existing theoretical approaches to recognition are insufficient for that purpose. Therefore, I develop my own approach to the recognition of minority groups as second-order recognition .
The concept of second-order recognition helps analyzing, understanding and evaluating conflicts in multicultural societies. It allows conflicts within groups that involve a struggle for firstorder recognition to be distinguished from conflicts between cultural minorities and the main society that involve a struggle for second-order recognition.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the sociological and spatial risk analysis of urban sprawl in rural areas in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula (formed as a “comarca”, North of Huelva province) is considered.
Abstract: Rural tourism is generally recognized as a booster for sustainable development of inland areas, but two researchactions would be necessary in advance: a local diagnosis of touristic processes and a risk assessment for those processes in affected areas. This article concerns the sociological and spatial risk analysis of urban sprawl in rural areas. As a case study, 29 municipalities in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula (formed as a “comarca”, North of Huelva province) are considered. Urban sprawl has been identified by specific literature as a threat for sustainable development in touristic areas, in coastal zones and in rural areas too. Based on the results of previous diagnosis, and the literature on socioenvironmental risks and impacts of residential tourism, two specific risk indicators are selected and analysed, in relation to local touristic models.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the sociological paradigm of Social Reproduction, proposed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, to explain the wage gap in Chile, in opposition to the Neoclassical economic paradigm, currently hegemonic in the analysis of wage differentials.
Abstract: We use the sociological paradigm of Social Reproduction, proposed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, to explain the wage gap in Chile, in opposition to the Neoclassical economic paradigm, currently hegemonic in the analysis of wage differentials. We expose and compare both theoretical paradigms and describe the case study highlighting the peculiarities of the Chilean neoliberal model. We estimate the salary of the Chilean population in order to explain the explanatory capacity of both theoretical approaches. We estimate two statistical models using the National Socioeconomic Characterization survey (CASEN 2009), firstly, the Neoclassical model based on Mincer equations and, secondly, a model that tries to empirically capture the explanatory factors specific to the paradigm of Social Reproduction. The results indicate that, in the case of Chile, the Reproductive model has greater explanatory power than the Neoclassical model, both for the whole group of workers, and for each of the generations of this group.
TL;DR: In this article, a cluster analysis of the Time Uses Survey 2009-2010, conducted by Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, has found four groups or media diets.
Abstract: Television remains the most consumed media by the Spanish. However, after this first statement we find a society with significant differences when it interacts with the media. A cluster analysis of the Time Uses Survey 2009-2010, conducted by Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, has found four groups or media diets. Every media diet articulates different amount of time of television consumption, use of digital media (computer and internet) and other media consumption in everyday life. This work also shows the importance in setting such diets of household income, type of household, relation to activity and age. Finally, gender appears not so much as a criterion to differentiate media diets as a criterion to explain the time spent on other activities within each media diet.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of the circumstances in which interviews took place and the missing variable values due to said circumstances on the non-response rate of face-to-face interviews.
Abstract: Face-to-face interviews using structured questionnaires constituted the most common survey data collection method in Spain up until the year 2000. Interviews conducted in private at the respondent’s own pace, using visual aids (cards) to facilitate understanding of the questions produce a very low non-response rate.
This paper attempts to challenge the above claim based on the evaluation of two factors: the circumstances in which interviews took place (as reported by the interviewers), and missing variable values (due to said circumstances). Interviewers reported that 14 % of in-the-home interviews took place in the presence of others as well as the respondent, 10 % of respondents rushed to complete the interview, and 21 % answered the questionnaire without using the visual aids. As far as partial non-response rates are concerned, four of the six surveys considered produced an average rate of more than 6 % in the «don´t know» «no answer» response categories. The rate of missing responses increases notably when respondents ignore the visual aids and/or rush to complete the interview.
TL;DR: In this article, a correspondent analysis of 50 Spanish philosophers between the late francoism and the democratic transition of Spain is presented, using the same sources, in order to put emphasis on reliability over validity.
Abstract: The latest research about the Spanish philosophical field between the late francoism and the democratic transition, pointed out the existence of two intellectual networks. On the one hand, an «official» section including the most scholar philosophers (e. g. Sergio Rabade). On the other hand, an «alternative» segment composed by the most vanguard thinkers (e.g. Lopez Aranguren). La filosofia espanola. Herederos y pretendientes. Una lectura sociologica (1963- 1990) (Vazquez Garcia 2009) employed a qualitative approach. Our goal, using the same sources, is to employ a correspondent analysis in order to put emphasis on reliability over validity. More than 15 variables about 50 Spanish philosophers have been measured. The conclusions explores the differences and similarities between the results obtained with the qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
TL;DR: In this article, the main labour policies that are used by Spanish enterprises and their effects on working and employment conditions are identified based on sociological research works carried out in the last fifteen years.
Abstract: This paper pursues a double aim. First of all, to identify the main labour policies that are used by Spanish enterprises and their effects on working and employment conditions. This diagnosis will be based on the sociological research works carried out in the last fifteen years. Secondly, to stand up for the thesis that these policies can only be fully understood if we analyse them in a particular economic, social and political context. This context would be made up of the articulation between several sets of social practices, which can be expressed by the concept of Social Employment Regime.
TL;DR: Ocampo et al. as discussed by the authors, Pignuoli Ocampo, and Sergio Pignoullier Occhiara, 2014. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina
Abstract: Fil: Pignuoli Ocampo, Sergio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the population aged 65 and over who do not live with a partner, in ten European countries participating in the four editions of the “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe”, from 2004/5 to 2010/1.
Abstract: This paper analyses the population aged 65 and over who do not live with a partner, in ten European countries participating in the four editions of the “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe”, from 2004/5 to 2010/1. Logistic regression for panel data is used to analyse the ratio between living with others and living alone (not considering institutionalised people). Controlling for age, sex, country of residence and observation wave, it shows the effect of educational level, number of children, limitations in activities of daily living and level of income. A clear regional division arises, being southern Europe the area with the lowest probability of living alone, central Europe in an intermediate position and the highest in Nordic countries. Coresidence is associated with the loss of functional autonomy, educational attainment and number of children. In contrast, a significant link with income level has not been found.
Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this article, a content analysis of Spanish news programs confirmed the regular broadcasting of anniversaries, which legitimizes television as witness to history and as history narrator, thus allowing television to get involved in the management of collective memory.
Abstract: Mass media relationships with collective memory are the subject of ongoing debate; either they are blamed for immersing the audience into a fleeting amnesic present; or they are hailed as crucial mediators of remembering and forgetting in contemporary society. This article contributes to the discussion with a research about one of the ways television has to remember: anniversaries. The content analysis of Spanish news programs confirmed the regular broadcasting of anniversaries. These news narrate a version of history highly dependent upon the news program format, reshaping the borders of the subjects, countries and facts worthy of remembrance while legitimizing television as witness to history and as history narrator. Far from promoting social amnesia, this commemorative journalism allows television to get involved in the management of collective memory.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that if time shortening is aimed at the salvation of the world in the apocalypse, where does the acceleration point, that is, the secularized notion of Time Shortening, that justifies the increasing speed in the realization of tasks that formerly took considerable time and today are made in a few hours?
Abstract: The term «time shortening» is related to the Judeo-Christian tradition that announces the end of time as the moment when God, honoring the elected, will shorten the days and hours, for without doing it no one would be saved. While salvation is, in this sense, associated with the divine intervention, the thesis of acceleration reverses the above formula by blaming the human being for having narrowed the time. However, if time shortening is aimed at the salvation of the world in the apocalypse, where does the acceleration point, that is, the secularized notion of time shortening? What justifies the increasing speed in the realization of tasks that formerly took considerable time and today are made in a few hours? How to justify the frenzy to get what is intended in the shortest time possible?.
TL;DR: In this article, the role of knowledge about the environment, values and intentions played in the realization of an ecological behavior has been analyzed, in particular, the role that knowledge and values are able to generate, indirectly, environmental actions mediated by intentions.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explain the ecological behavior of individuals. In particular, the role that knowledge about the environment, values and intentions played in the realization of an ecological behavior has been analyzed. Previously, the measurement scales of each construct have been validated. A structural equation modeling was used to a sample of 497 individuals. The tested model explained 87 per cent of the variance of ecological behavior. Our results show that knowledge and values are able to generate, indirectly, environmental actions, mediated by intentions, while intentions have a direct influence on behavior.