Digital ethnography: ethics through the case of QAnon
IntroductionDigital ethnography is a relatively new practice with unclear standards and guidelines. As a result, the ethics of the practice remain unclear. Scholarly debates have emerged surrounding...
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The intersections between aging, social minority status and housing needs in later life is a neglected area of sociological exploration, even more so for older people who identify as lesbian, gay,...
View ArticleSheltering difference: (un)doing the migrant/volunteer divide through...
While acknowledging the important role of shelter organizations in protecting migrant rights, recent debates point to the thin line between care and control practices within shelters. This study seeks...
View ArticleMeasuring digital capital in Italy
IntroductionThis paper aims to theoretically and empirically investigate the concept of digital capital in the Italian context. Digital Capital can be conceived as independent individual capital whose...
View ArticlePaving a pathway for large-scale utilization of genomics in precision...
Having worked with two large population sequencing initiatives, the separation between the potential for genomics in precision medicine and the current reality have become clear. To realize this...
View ArticleThe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ethnic minorities in...
This review summarizes the economic impacts of the pandemic on ethnic minorities, focusing on the city of Manchester. It utilizes multiple reporting sources to explore various dimensions of the...
View ArticleFugitivity and marronage and the study of sex work
Campaigns against female prostitution used slavery as a rhetorical device to characterize the condition of sex workers, and sex work features prominently in contemporary campaigns against “modern...
View ArticleTransformative community projects in East Germany's rural spaces: exploring...
Increasingly people experience alienation in educational institutions, in work life, and fragmentation in their personal life. This study explores more self-determined, healthy, and sustainable forms...
View ArticleWomen and cities. The conquest of urban space
In the city of the Nineteenth-century, transformed by the values of the French revolution and by the modernity, women did not have yet full citizenship. The public space was still strongly a male space...
View ArticleDynamic work trajectories and their interplay with family over the life course
This review examines major bodies of literature, interrelated but usually considered separately, focused on work trajectories and their intersections with family dynamics through the life course. It...
View ArticleNot just political parties: Robert Michels as a critic of mainstream economics
Best known for his contribution to elite theory through the formulation of the principle of oligarchy, Robert Michels pursued a critique of economic reductionism for decades. In this paper, I examine...
View ArticleThe several faces of the medicalization of birth. Italy and its peculiarities
BackgroundMedical-scientific advances in maternal care gradually improved the health of mothers and new-borns. However, this has contributed to increasing levels of medicalization, defined as the...
View ArticleFailed in aging? Queering in living with dementia
This article explored the ways in which living with dementia brings potentials to queer the concept of “successful aging” and associated notions of being human. Regarding the progressive development of...
View ArticleThe African Gender and Development Index: an engendered and culturally...
In 2004 the African Union adopted an innovative gender index, the Afriacn Gender and Development Index (AGDI). It is composed of the quantitative Gender Status Index (GSI) and the qualitative African...
View ArticleWhat is ethnographic about digital ethnography? A sociological perspective
When COVID-19 health guidelines vastly restricted or shut down in-person ethnographic research in 2020, many researchers pivoted to forms of online qualitative research using platforms such as WeChat,...
View ArticleChanging gender norms around female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C): a key...
“Female genital mutilation/cutting” (FGM/C) refers to procedures that involve altering the external female genitalia with the aim of reinforcing gendered body norms. The literature has consistently...
View ArticleThe relationship between social life and emotions. Adam Ferguson and sociology
Adam Ferguson has a leading position among those who have developed a sociological interpretation of modernity that dismiss metaphysics without following the echoes of rationalism. Ferguson outlines a...
View ArticleEthnography and the digital scenario: a typological scheme of differences and...
The ethnographic method has been a feature of the social sciences since its inception, and for some disciplines, it is markedly characterized by a strong aptitude for physical field research over...
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