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"It's all in the game" è il nome di una scommessa, quella tra un docente, due ricercatrici e studenti e studentesse del corso di Sociologia delle comunità e dei quartieri urbani dell'Università di Bologna. Nel 2020, infatti, un "esperimento didattico" ha dato vita a un lungo lavoro laboratoriale sull'analisi della serie tv americana The Wire, ambientata in un ghetto di Baltimora. Un'analisi realizzata adottando le lenti della sociologia urbana e dei neighbouhood studies in particolare, ma non solo. Un'analisi che voleva mettere alla prova le tecniche di indagine tipiche dell'etnografia urbana, utilizzando la serie come un vero e proprio campo in cui realizzare il fieldwork. The Wire, infatti, offre un campo interessante ed empiricamente analizzabile su temi come il capitale sociale, la cultura della povertà e del ghetto, il rapporto tra agency individuale e structural forces. I temi trattati nelle cinque stagioni hanno una chiara significatività sociologica che, in virtù di una contestualizzazione nella città di Baltimora, si fa urbana, dal momento che viene privilegiata una rappresentazione della complessità intrinseca e delle dinamiche multifattoriali che caratterizzano le povertà e le diseguaglianze in cui the space matter. Il volume è l'esito di un esperimento con un preciso obiettivo: creare un laboratorio che sapesse essere spazio di analisi critica, non fermandosi alla lettura dei fenomeni sociali urbani proposta dalla serie, ma collocandola nel panorama del dibattito accademico che si è sviluppato sulle diverse tematiche che emergevano anche nella serie. Dunque non un manuale scientifico sulla vita nelle inner cities, ma piuttosto la concretizzazione di un processo di analisi e apprendimento che ha riguardato tanto studenti e studentesse quanto i e le docenti ...

Social capital (Sociology)

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Happiness --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Social networks --- Trust

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"What is 'social capital'? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work of critical media studies, Social Capital Online examines the idea within the new 'network spectacle' of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how such phenomena as online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new theoretical understanding of how the spectacularisation of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas - alienation and accumulation - new conceptions of which he argues are vital for understanding today's digital society."

Information technology --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Social media --- Social aspects.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is leading a pioneering effort to advance a culture of health that "enables all in our diverse society to lead healthier lives, now and for generations to come." The RWJF Culture of Health Action Framework is divided into four Action Areas, and civic engagement (which RWJF defines broadly as participating in activities that advance the public good) is identified as one of the three drivers for the Action Area, Making Health a Shared Value, along with mindset and expectations, and sense of community. Civic engagement can serve as a mechanism for translating changes in a health-related mindset and sense of community into tangible actions that could lead to new health-promoting partnerships, improvements in community health conditions, and the degree of integration among health services and systems for better health outcomes. The authors of this report seek a closer focus on the causal relationship between civic engagement and health and well-being — that is, whether better health and well-being might promote more civic engagement, whether civic engagement might promote health or well-being, or perhaps both. In this report, authors conduct a structured review to understand what the scientific literature presents about the empirical relationship between health and civic engagement. The authors specifically examine whether health is a cause of civic engagement, a consequence of it, or both; what causal mechanisms underlie this link; and where there are gaps in knowledge for the field.

Social capital (Sociology) --- Social participation --- Well-being --- Health behavior --- Health promotion --- Social Capital. --- Social Participation. --- Health Behavior. --- Health Promotion. --- United States.

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Pionering study of the deployment of social capital to evaluate the cohesion and integration of three generations of Moroccans living in London.

Moroccans -- Cultural assimilation -- England. --- Psychology -- Social psychology. --- Social capital (Sociology) -- England. --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Moroccans --- Children of immigrants --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Cultural assimilation --- Social conditions --- Capital, Social (Sociology) --- Ethnology --- Sociology --- C6 --- Europa [werelddeel] --- Marokko [land in werelddeel Afrika] --- migratie --- onderzoek --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- Opvoeding, onderwijs, wetenschap --- Social conditions. --- popular science --- wetenschap algemeen