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Jiménez-pacheco Pedro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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After planning, the production of radical social space in Barcelona : real-estate financial circuit and (De Facto) right to the city
'Cogitatio', 2018Co-Authors: Jiménez-pacheco PedroAbstract:This article is based on the premise that it is possible to apply Henri Lefebvre’s critical-Theoretical apparatus to complex urban processes as a pedagogical case study. From previous knowledge of Lefebvrian thought, the article provides an overview of what Lefebvre called “the science of the use of social space”, supported by a transdisciplinary methodological plurality. The starting point is that neoliberal social space is produced, prepared, and led to the imminent urban post-neoliberalism, in the midst of this movement, a sophisticated planning system appears, with the old promise of service Tradition, egalitarian ethics and pragmatic orientation. But in practice, it only reproduces the impotence of being inside a wave of localized surplus-benefits that expels human residues, avoiding any reaction. The Lefebvrian apparatus and a part of its Theoretical Tradition guide the research on Barcelona as a paradigm of global real-estate violence. This urban phenomenon is examined in central Barcelona, in order to rescue it from the pessimism of its own inhabitants, from the harsh perception that urban centrality no longer reproduces life. In this way, the article puts into operation an analytical tool designed to sabotage the real-estate circuit through a renewed right to the production of radical social space.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
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After Planning, the Production of Radical Social Space in Barcelona: Real-Estate Financial Circuit and (De Facto) Right to the City
'Cogitatio', 2018Co-Authors: Jiménez-pacheco PedroAbstract:This article is based on the premise that it is possible to apply Henri Lefebvre’s critical-Theoretical apparatus to complex urban processes as a pedagogical case study. From previous knowledge of Lefebvrian thought, the article provides an overview of what Lefebvre called “the science of the use of social space”, supported by a transdisciplinary methodological plurality. The starting point is that neoliberal social space is produced, prepared, and led to the imminent urban post-neoliberalism, in the midst of this movement, a sophisticated planning system appears, with the old promise of service Tradition, egalitarian ethics and pragmatic orientation. But in practice, it only reproduces the impotence of being inside a wave of localized surplus-benefits that expels human residues, avoiding any reaction. The Lefebvrian apparatus and a part of its Theoretical Tradition guide the research on Barcelona as a paradigm of global real-estate violence. This urban phenomenon is examined in central Barcelona, in order to rescue it from the pessimism of its own inhabitants, from the harsh perception that urban centrality no longer reproduces life. In this way, the article puts into operation an analytical tool designed to sabotage the real-estate circuit through a renewed right to the production of radical social space
Nick Cowen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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why be robust the contribution of market process theory to the robust political economy research program
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Nick CowenAbstract:How can liberal political theorists combine their normative commitments with realistic assumptions of human behaviour and capacities? This is an important question for scholars who wish to use their theories to evaluate existing political institutions and recommend practical alternatives. This chapter describes a particular approach to realism in political theory by using the notion of ‘robustness’ from the Robust Political Economy framework. Robust institutions are those that perform well even when people are neither omniscient nor perfectly motivated to follow the common good. I argue that these problems, of limited knowledge and self-interest, emerge from three assumptions about the constitution of human beings commonly found in the liberal Theoretical Tradition: methodological individualism, subjectivism and analytical egalitarianism. I propose a combination of public choice and market process theory as best suited to the task of evaluating the robustness of normative political theories because they allow us to apply these assumptions systematically to all domains of human activity. Compared to standard neo-classical methodology, this approach offers an enriched account of the epistemic challenge to social co-operation that individuals face and the role of institutions, including private property and voluntary exchange, in ameliorating this challenge. I show how this systematic evaluation of the motivational and epistemic properties of institutions can help critique and extend Rawls’ contractarian theory of justice and offer a new perspective on the role of realism in political theory.
Barbara Starfield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the utility of social capital in research on health determinants
Milbank Quarterly, 2001Co-Authors: James Macinko, Barbara StarfieldAbstract:Social capital has become a popular subject in the literature on determinants of health. The concept of social capital has been used in the sociological, political science, and economic development literatures, as well as in the health inequalities literature. Analysis of its use in the health inequalities literature suggests that each Theoretical Tradition has conceptualized social capital differently. Health researchers have employed a wide range of social capital measures, borrowing from several Theoretical Traditions. Given the wide variation in these measures and an apparent lack of consistent Theoretical or empirical justification for their use, conclusions about the likely role of “social capital” on population health may be overstated or even misleading. Elements of a research agenda are proposed to further elucidate the potential role of factors currently subsumed under the rubric of “social capital.”
Boado Martínez Marcelo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cleavage and lineages in social mobility: an approach to the development of a demanding Theoretical Tradition
'Universidade da Coruna', 2016Co-Authors: Boado Martínez MarceloAbstract:[Resumen] Los estudios de movilidad social son de los más exigentes, ambiciosos, y polémicos de la sociología, porque en general atacan problemas muy sensibles del punto de vista teórico, metodológico y público. Los estudios de movilidad son estudios propios de la sociología, porque interpelan la “calidad” de la sociedad en su conjunto para generar oportunidades o para consagrar desigualdades para sus integrantes. Los conceptos de linaje y clivaje aplicados a los estudios de movilidad permiten reflejar los resultados empíricos, pero también las secuencias teóricas dominantes. Esta forma de plantear el examen de la investigación sobre la herencia y la movilidad social, conduce al análisis de los cambios y las inercias conceptuales que han proliferado en esta temática, básicamente en los países noratlánticos. Es importante como el propio análisis del cambio social genera sus continuidades y rupturas. Por eso el presente será un artículo teórico, que revisa y reordena conceptos, tareas y desafíos para la investigación sociológica en movilidad social. Sin duda hay otras formas de hacerlo como mostraron Erikson y Goldthorpe (1993), Ganzeboom y Treiman (1996), Hout y Di Prete (2004), o Breen y Luijkx (2004). Pero nuestra preferencia por identificar la continuidad o abandono, de problemas, ideas y métodos, con las nociones de linaje y clivaje, nos permiten la equidistancia, y la recuperación de cierto diálogo, que es condición sine qua non, para ilustrar y convencer[Abstract] Studies of social mobility are among the most demanding, ambitious and controversial in sociology, because they generally attack very sensitive problems from a Theoretical, methodological and public point of view. Mobility studies are studies of sociology, because they challenge the "quality" of society as a whole to generate opportunities or to establish inequalities for its members. The concepts of lineage and cleavage applied to the mobility studies allow to reflect the empirical results, but also the dominant Theoretical sequences. This way of examining research on inheritance and social mobility leads to the analysis of the changes and conceptual inertia. that have proliferated in this area, mainly in the North Atlantic countries. It is important how the analysis of social change itself generates its continuities and ruptures. Therefore the present will be a Theoretical article, which reviews and reorders concepts, tasks and challenges for sociological research in social mobility. There is no doubt that there are other ways to do this, as shown by Erikson and Goldthorpe (1993), Ganzeboom and Treiman (1996), Hout and Di Prete (2004), and Breen and Luijkx (2004). But our preference for identifying continuity or abandonment, problems, ideas and methods, with notions of lineage and cleavage, allow us to equidistance, and the recovery of a certain dialogue, which is a sine qua non, to illustrate and convince
Shoshanah Inwood - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the case for integrating household social needs and social policy into the international family farm research agenda
Journal of Rural Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Florence Becot, Shoshanah InwoodAbstract:Abstract Some farm scholars have contended that agricultural policies are seldom designed with the well-being and social needs of farm households in mind, even though the challenges experienced in the farm sector directly impact the farm household. Surprisingly little is known about how farm households meet their social needs and the role of social policy in the agricultural sector. As a first step towards a holistic understanding of the interactions between social policy, farm viability, and farm persistence, we conducted a cross-national comparative document review of government-sponsored social safety net programs available to farm households in two countries on opposite sides of the social policy continuum: France and the United States. In particular, we developed a foundational framework of social safety net programs to be used in future empirical work, identified four factors that may shape farm households’ use of social safety net programs and potential consequences on family farms, and propose a research agenda to move the literature forward. By grounding our article in the farm persistence Theoretical Tradition, our article offers an opportunity to reframe and broaden approaches to study family farms by highlighting the critical need for understanding the ways in which institutional social supports may play a role in supporting them.