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This issue of the BMS includes three research articles, all in English, and three research notes, of which two are in English and one in French. The first research article, “Inside the Ghetto - Using a Table of Contingency and Cladisitic Methods for Definitional Purposes”, by Dominique Raynaud, takes the unclear notion of ghetto as a test-case and applies successive tables of contingency to various defining properties. Then cladistic methods make the relationships between all ghetto-like situations explicit.
The second research article, “Ties that Bother - Ties that Matter”, by Renáta Hosnedlová, shows that it is necessary to consider the negative, latent and lost ties, and those with the quality “zero” when studying the formation, change and reaffirmation of residential intentions and decisions, by using the case of Ukrainian immigrants residing in Spain.
The third research article, “Big Text Corpora and Mixed Methods - The Roman Five Star Movement Blog”, by Loris Di Giammaria and Maria Paola Faggiano, analyzes the blog of political communications of the Rome branch of the Five Stars Movement with textual analysis, visual analysis (because images are included in the blog) and social network analysis methods.
The first ongoing research report, “Conference Report - Empirical Investigation of Social Space II, University of Bonn, 12-14 October 2015”, by Jörg Blasius and Andreas Schmitz, looks at the construction of social spaces, in line with the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and focuses on correspondence analysis and its application within the social sciences.
The second ongoing research report, “Agent Cultures and Zombielands - 23-25 June 2016 Leuphana Conference”, by Fabrizio Li Vigni, reports on this agent-based modelling conference with participants from philosophy, sociology, history, politology, epidemiology, and other areas where agent-based models are employed.
The third ongoing research report, in French, “What about Becker?”, by Julie Blanc, Guillaume Hartemann-Piollet and Hadrien Le Mer, presents Becker’s meeting at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and discussion of case-based reasoning and the profession of sociologist as a praxis, along with some Becker’s tricks of the trade.