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The expansion of social media and networking has been remarkable. Since its inception in 1995 with Classmates.com, the landscape evolved to include Friendster in 2002, LinkedIn and MySpace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004. Today, social networking is a global phenomenon, with Facebook boasting nearly 2.95 billion active users worldwide (Statista, 2023a). The number of significant social media platforms has also increased, with the top sites in the United States accounting for most of the activity. This study explores a 2021 Pew Internet dataset through Two-Step Cluster Analysis to identify Social Networking User Groups. By combining usage data from top social media websites with pertinent demographic and sociographic information, we establish two distinct user clusters for social media in the US as of 2021. The implications for marketers, researchers, and society at large are also considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work reviews some of the contributions of Ion Clopoţel (1892-1986), an illustrious personality of the inter-bellum period, to the understanding of social and economic life in Romania. The work contains a biographical sketch of Ion Clopoțel, then representative elements of his methodological perspective are highlighted: sociography with a significant economic component. We will show how the sociographic perspective of Ion Clopotel is actually a monographic one, but applied at the regional level. Historical, economical and related to household life aspects as well as psychosociological and linguistic aspects are targeted. Moreover, the data collected and analyzed with scientific methods were directly intended to underpin policies for the modernization and development of Romania. The scientific foundation was necessary, as Ion Clopotel suggested, because of the wrong policies of the governors of the time. They neglected the rural world, its modernization and industrialization, even though they were aware of the importance of this world for the future of the country. The conclusions bring to reader's attention, among other things, some of Ion Clopoţel's socioeconomic considerations and themes of surprising actuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hungarian sociography describes society and social problems in an easily understandable way. Sociographic writings do not neglect the political purpose, which creates a specific knowledge about the society within a limited public. Despite the heterogeneity of the genre, the central element of sociographic work is the critique of the dysfunctionality of the existing social system, urging social change. Sociography has not had the conditions to become a science. It remained an area on the border of politics – science – literature. All three at once; however, neither of them. The problem of the institutionalization of sociography means that its importance can be determined through the examination of its task. Burawoy’s theory on public sociology argues that the knowledge of society expressed in scientific language needs to be adapted to the common language. Based on the characteristics of Hungarian sociography, the main goal is to adapt Burawoy’s approach on public sociology to sociography. This article presents the peculiarities of Hungarian sociographic knowledge production and transmission during the 20th century and attempts to place sociography in Burawoy’s system.

The study comments on two books of village studies by Zsigmond Zalabai (Mindenekről számot adok [I Recount Everything], Hazahív a harangszó [The Bells Call Me Home]) and other writings related to the topic, mainly from the perspective of ethnology (and its related disciplines). On the one hand, it attempts to place the historical and ethnographic tableau drawn by Zalabai in the context of country and landscape descriptions of similar perspective and method in historical terms (from the 18th century to the present day), and on the other hand, it examines what concrete lessons the data and observations published by Zalabai and the author's attempts to interpret them can provide for traditional ethnography, comparative ethnology, or cultural anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article offers a creative disjunctive feminist analysis of affective rhythms within a complexly bordered complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro. It explores the gendered atmospheric constitution of authority in the favela's violent border spaces, arguing that authority is partly embodied through a channelling of attention. Attention is conceptualised as involving not just conscious intentions, perceptions and emotions, but also non-conscious rhythms of autonomous affective self-regulation. The article is structured through a tripartite disjunctive form that expresses the bordering of city, body and experience. Drawing on qualitative interview data, quantitative electrodermal activity physiological data and creative writing, the article dwells with the materiality of words and the forms of affects to express material and physiological aspects of emotion and affect in journeys around the internal border-spaces of the city. Adapting the modernist tradition of 'stream of consciousness' writing, we style a 'stream of attention' form of writing that expresses multiple modes of embodied, conscious and preconscious attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. How we write up our research is of paramount importance: our language can be used in experimental and innovative ways to offer nuanced, critical commentary without foreclosing alternative viewpoints, and without excluding others from dialogue. Sociography offers spaces for new sensibilities and sensitivities; unresolved or incomplete argument; multiple, multi-dimensional and multiplying possibilities: for writing differently. As an intervention in writing the social, our collection works to resist the ideological promotion of dry, dispassionate, and seemingly 'objective' discourse, one which has traditionally upheld a set of dominant, privileged voices. And in so doing, our collection explores the potential of new ways of writing the social for both a trans- and post-disciplinary academy and a wider reading public; and seeks forms of writing that do justice to the critical curiosity that animates sociology. In sum, the challenge embraced by this collection is to argue for and showcase a praxis that activates sociological knowledge and enlarges the sociological imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, the author argues for an extension of David Bordwell's historical poetics in order to better understand cinema's politico-discursive dimension. Against too narrow a conception of filmmaking, which focuses exclusively on stylistic and narrative questions, cinema's social semantics should also be taken into consideration. Taking two films as examples, Kirsten demonstrates how a political poetics might can proceed without losing sight of formal devices. He demonstrates how découpage and montage work together in the first part of Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow, 1932) to suggest a certain reading of the young unemployed worker's suicide. Furthermore, he argues how the ordering of events - the early placement in the film of the suicide scene - is politically meaningful. Kirsten's second example, the Spanish film Los lunes al sol (Fernando Léon de Aranoa, 2002), also deals with the theme of unemployment, however the two films differ in both their historical context and in the chosen means of cinematic discourse. Less explicitly political than Kuhle Wampe, Arranoa's film nevertheless implies a fairly clear assessment of the protagonists' situation and its causes. Kirsten shows that the film, on the one hand, achieves an « sociography of unemployment in fictional-filmic form » with the help of a multiple protagonist ensemble, where each character stands for a different attitude towards their situation. On the other hand, however, it makes the most prominent and most sympathetic character the inner diegetic commentator of the events, thus suggesting a political evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents some of the results of the first study on the universe of authors in Portugal, conducted for the Portuguese Society of Authors (spa), the only institutional representation of authors in the country. With the aim of making a sociography of these authors, the research was methodologically based on a quantitative approach in the form of a questionnaire survey, administered to spa Cooperators and Beneficiaries. The results highlight some patterns of an "author culture" in Portugal, but raise several issues that indicate the relevance of greater autonomy of authorship as a sociological field of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study examined students' and teachers' awareness of climate change and their willingness to adopt pro-environmental behaviour in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State Nigeria, using sociographical variables. Participants were drawn from Senior Secondary 1–3 students, as well as their teachers, all from secondary schools across the rural and urban geographical divide. Sociographical factors that have considerable effects on awareness of climate change and willingness to adopt pro-environmental behaviour were ascertained using the instrument "Awareness of Climate Change and Pro-Environmental Behaviour Willingness Questionnaire (ACCPEBWQ)," made up of 44 items on a 4-point Likert type format. A sample of 312 students and 56 teachers was used for the study with descriptive, mean, t test, ANOVA statistics, and correlation techniques employed in data analysis. Gender of students shows a significant difference in awareness of climate change and willingness to embrace pro-environmental behaviour, with male students showing both higher awareness and willingness to engage in pro-environmental behaviour. For teachers, though no significant effects were established for different variables tested in the study, they had a significantly higher awareness of climate change mean scores than students. There was a high positive and significant relationship between the level of awareness of climate change and the level of willingness to adopt pro-environmental behaviour. The study calls for increased dissemination of climate change information among females and the association of climate change issues pto prevalent environmental conditions, for better comprehension by art students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to examine the emergence and connections of two non-fictional genres, the report and sociography. Modernization forms the background for both genres: the report is a product of urbanization, while sociography was created by the need for the modernization of the village and the necessity of the peasantry's emancipation. The study describes the parallels between the two genres based on the work of the first noteworthy Hungarian journalist- reporter, Kornél tábori, and the activities of the sociographists of the 1930s, touching on their connections to literature and sociology as well. The study also discusses the literary report, as cultivated by both Polish and Hungarian writers at the turn of the century and during the interwar period. The closing remarks point out the parallels between sociography in Polish and world literature (the Przedmieście group, Neue Sachlichkeit, LEF, Novij LEF). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been successful for ten years. This article aims to explore the reasons of such success, using original means. The way the J-PAL (which the main laboratory in the field) works explains the spread of the method. I made a database of J-PAL affiliated to show how their studies and their professional positions in universities could be an explanation of the RCTs success. The legitimacy of the method comes partly from the fact that the affiliated hold, for most of them, PhD from prestigious universities and work in Ivy League universities.

Many discourses link media with generations, ascribing particular appetence for the use of new media to youth, in contrast with older generations. This article aims to give an account of the empirical regularities but also differences found in a longitudinal quantitative analysis of Internet users, uses, and media preferences among different Portuguese age cohorts. Making use of questionnaire surveys with representative samples, the importance of generational belongings in structuring different types of relationships with media is demonstrated, as youngsters seem to prefer new media. However, this variable does not hold in itself complete explanatory power. The importance of formal education, besides other sociographic variables, is clear, indicating the existence of social disparities within age cohorts, with repercussions on the mediated access to resources and opportunities. The diversity and inequalities found through the statistical analysis help to combat the rhetoric of a supposedly innate, all-encompassing digital nativity. By adopting a social constructivist approach, with a more holistic scope, this article also aims to reconstruct part of the complexity and multidimensionality of the relationship between and within Portuguese generations with media, thereby deconstructing more essentialist and homogenising notions of youth and generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Teaching strategies have been proven to influence the academic performance of students, as well as group sociometrics have been proven to be directly related to group performance. Although in the literature there are examples of teaching strategies and the resulting sociograms, there is not any detailed technique, tool or simulator that predicts the influence of a new teaching strategy on group sociometrics. The current work is aimed at covering this gap in the literature, by providing a framework for programming teaching strategies to simulate their influence on group sociometrics. In particular, this framework is called FTS-SOCI (Framework for simulating Teaching Strategies with evolutions of SOCIograms). This framework includes an agent-based simulator that simulates the evolution of sociograms taking five models of the literature into account. In this framework, students and teacher are modelled as agents, and the teacher agent can have any teaching strategy defined by the user. In order to test the current approach, this work simulates existing teaching strategies in (1) nursing education and (2) sport lessons. The resulting sociograms of FTS-SOCI for these strategies have been compared with the corresponding real sociograms reported in the literature. This works shows that the group sociometric values provided by FTS-SOCI are quite similar to the real cases. For instance, the mean squared error of the group cohesion sociometric (i.e. IAg metric) is only 0.00024 and 0.00068 respectively for the teaching strategies of both fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Initiatives, like the UK ESRC’s RDI/CI programmes and the Q-Step Centres, have a long-term aim of addressing the well-documented decline in the pool of academics able and willing to teach quantitative methods (QM). However, these initiatives will take time to make an impact; therefore, the upskilling of current staff is a vital strategy if we want to maintain QM in curricula. This paper draws on findings from the ESRC RDI project, ‘No More Pointy Clicky, numbers stuff; building staff quantitative skills’. This project focussed on upskilling staff in a large Sociology department. The project was committed to delivering training to develop staff competence in QM; however, it became clear that this alone would not be sufficient to build staff confidence. Therefore, the project rolled-out a more complex strategy that addressed a range of central issues, including, pedagogy, infrastructure, Departmental resourcing and strategy, and staff worldviews, which this article explores. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Social networks play a critical role in people's responses to influence attempts, determining whether a person seeks the support of others as an alternative to compliance or as a way to cope with being the target of an influence attempt. In 2 experiments (N = 458 and N = 105), sociograms were used to represent social relationships and to investigate the social network member who would be sought for social support after an influence attempt. Results showed that targets were seen as likely to seek social support in more threatening situations and from more useful (e.g., powerful, connected) network members. Differences found in the 2 experiments appear to represent differences between intergroup and intragroup networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article demonstrates a new methodological approach to recognize, analyze and write about discrimination against the buraku, which is one form of social discrimination in contemporary Japan. The structural discrimination proposed in this study is based on the concept of relational discrimination, which is derived from fundamental criticisms of the conventional concepts of material and psychological discrimination. Relational discrimination occurs when we are placed in a certain type of relationship and may become accomplices to discrimination or cause it, regardless of whether or not there is any individual prejudice or discriminatory consciousness at work. From this perspective, this article tries to fundamentally re-examine the binary thinking assumed in conventional sociology that there are minorities (those who are discriminated against) and majorities (those who discriminate against the minority). I focus on the complex ways of being human, and in particular on the transformations that accompany changes in particular relations such as from a person who does not discriminate to one who discriminates against others; from a person who is discriminated against to one who discriminates against others and from a person who is not discriminated against to one who is discriminated against. By focusing on the meaning of the deep suffering of a man who made discriminatory remarks to people living in a buraku community, and of a woman who married into a family living in a buraku community, I try to understand life ethics for people who discriminate and who at the same time are discriminated against. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The book by Reinhard MÜLLER deals with the well-known study "Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community" by Marie JAHODA, Paul F. LAZARSFELD, and Hans ZEISEL (1933, 1971). The author presents interesting socio-historical details about the study itself as well as about the community and factory. More than half of the book is dedicated to the development of the workers' settlement of Marienthal, starting with the founding of the village and then the textile factory. The author describes historical events, important people' and developments in the community. Also additional information—portraits and memories—about the well-known study is presented. The book not only enables a deeper insight into the classical study and the settlement of Marienthal, it also illustrates (Austrian) history by way of a community and a study. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0903206

The sociological school of Bucharest was the pinnacle of interwar Romanian sociology. While on the face of it, the Romanian sociology of the period under discussion was almost entirely identified with monographic sociology, inside its field there were several "schools, groups or trends" advocating irreconcilable theories and unwilling to collaborate. This explains in part the dim impact of D.Gusti's monographic school on the other Romanian, chiefly academic, centers. In the case of Cluj, the response of academic sociology to D. Gusti and his sociological school oscillated between almost complete disregard (Virgil I. Bărbat) and critical analysis of sociological monograph in its twofold aspect of theory and method (George Em. Marica), accompanied by E. Sperantia's rather balanced perspective. The latter valued Gusti's extensive program of understanding social reality, emphasizing the new elements it contained in relation to the previous trends in sociological research, but also "recorded" the criticism of the method, and concluded that Gusti's work was "manifold useful socially and nationally". D. Gusti and his monographic school enjoyed a better reception among some intellectual circles of Cluj involved in sociological research. One of them, the « group around "Societatea de mâine" journal », distinguished itself by a sociographic approach and certain scientifically noteworthy results in the field of rural social research. Sociographic research was conceived as an approach adjacent to monographic sociology. In spite of the fact that I. Clopoţel, the mentor of the group, applauded the monographic paradigm, he suggested and practiced another research approach with a purposely-asserted applied objective. Thus, according to the « group of "Societatea de mâine" journal », far from being a "preamble" to sociology, sociography was in fact an autonomous discipline, at the crossroads of sociology and politics. Whereas this group wished to be independent of D. Gusti's school, the group around the journal "Gând Românesc" (edited by "Astra") explicitly adhered to the monographic trend. The group distinguished itself in the field of sociology by the monographic campaign of Măguri (Cluj county), carried on following an agreement between D. Gusti and Iuliu Haţieganu, the president of the Cluj department of "Astra" Society. Other less ample researches of the group around "Gând Românesc" were the campaigns of Borlovenii Vechi and Pătaş (Caraş county), where Gusti's monographic "pattern" was not entirely pursued due to objective reasons, as well as the "field trips" in the Apuseni Mountains, with the view to investigate the social, economic and cultural situation of their inhabitants. Later on, the Social Service Bill integrated this group in the Cluj Branch of the Social Research Institute of Romania. In conclusion, we believe that whereas in what concerns his doctrine D. Gusti was perceived differently in various cultural-scientific centers of our country or even within the same center, the impact of his personality and his monographic school on social research in the interwar age was obviously positive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is Walter Benjamin a sociographer of collective memory ? A comparison between the morphological, phenomenological and political topics of Halbwach’s sociology of memory and Benjamin’s writing on Paris allows us to answer this question. Morphological: it is mainly a question of seeing how collective memory can crystallize in its urban setting. Phenomenological: the process of recollection supposes an encounter between a temporal pluralism and collective representations in images from which that urban space is not disconnected. Political: a type of recollection must be put to use by this image for the progress of civilization, especially against Fascism. At the end of this process, the role of the meta-theory appears decisive for the theory, showing up the major difference between our two authors that the epistemological struggle had brought closer. For if collective memory is reified in the city, this happens according to a singular representation of time from which it itself arises. However it is precisely in the name of a representation of time that the French sociologist and the German philosopher wanted to found, science on the one hand, action on the other.

The purpose of this study is to describe leisure constraints as perceived by residents of the Chinese cities Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Chengdu, and Shenzhen. Rather than relying on lists of leisure constraints developed in other contexts, we used the common ethnographic technique of free listing, which allows informants to indicate what they perceive as constraints on their leisure. A second sample of informants rated the importance of 37 constraints determined through the free listing procedure. Constraints in these cities can be categorized, based on their perceived importance, into eight distinct types. These relate to several demographic and sociographic variables. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article examines the social relationships developed between deaf students and their hearing peers, educated in mainstream secondary schools with an oral mode of communication. The study focuses on a sample of twenty deaf and twenty hearing adolescents. Using a sociogram, the selection and rejection of students in the sample by their classmates is analysed, as well as the reasoning behind these choices. The results show that deaf students, in general, have an integrated social position, though they do not take leadership roles. It is not until the end of adolescence that there appear cases of non-integrated deaf adolescents. Finally, this study has educational implications for improving social interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]