Greti‐iulia Ivana
Biographic Data
| ID | 4276276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greti‐iulia Ivana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greti‐iulia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ivana |
| SIGNATURE | IVANA G I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sociology beyond computation? Alternative ways of researching digital life
It has been over 15 years since Savage and Burrows published their influential article about the crisis of empirical sociology. In the meantime, many authors have talked about how the rise of data science weakens the credibility of sociology and its mandate to produce knowledge about social realities in general, and emergent social phenomena in particular. Against that background, the mainstream methodological response from the social sciences ha…
This is a Popularity Contest
This article argues that the rise of financial capitalism and the development of digital infrastructures have had a profound and still insufficiently theorized effect on the political economy of attention in the cultural industries. Specifically, attention has become an asset for technological platforms through the quantification and management of user-generated data. This is a significant shift from previous conceptualizations of attention as (a…
Work-life balance for transnational skilled workers in Sweden
In the context of globalisation, increased mobility and transnational travelling, long-distance friendships, romantic partnerships and family ties are becoming more and more common. Against this backdrop, this article focuses on highly skilled employees coming from Romania to Sweden and how they construct their work-life balance there. It analyses the work-life systems of highly skilled migrants in relation both to their co-present and long-dista…
Impressions and affective practice
Despite the key commonalities between the affective and the practical turns, affect is still an underexplored aspect in practice theory. Proposing an analytical distinction between the sociological and the ontological levels of analysis, this article looks into schemes of appraisal as they appear in Bourdieusian practice theory, and highlights how beneath the unity of social conditioning, habitus creates fragmentation between embodied and cogniti…
Fake it till you make it
Social capital is one of the most widely used (in both scholarly and non-scholarly contexts) and one of the least critically examined concepts in Bourdieu's framework. This article aims at questioning the objectivist standpoint from which the concept of social capital has been developed, by looking into the interpretative processes which shape it. In doing so, it proposes a new understanding of the notion of imagined social capital, which has gai…
Present Contemporaries and Absent Consociates
Face and the Dynamics of Its Construction
This article proposes a new understanding of the concept of face as coconstructed and characterized by various and not always polarized dynamics, such as gain/loss. In elaborating on this conceptual frame, I revisit Goffman's work on social appraisal and argue it is marked by a shift from an expositional to a relational approach. Using this reading of Goffman, together with characteristics of the Chinese concept of face, I analyze interview data …
Nation as network. Diaspora, cyberspace, and citizenship
Nation as network. Diaspora, cyberspace, and citizenship, by Victoria Bernal, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2014, 208 pp., $25 (pbk), ISBN 9780226144818
Fake it till you make it
Social capital is one of the most widely used (in both scholarly and non-scholarly contexts) and one of the least critically examined concepts in Bourdieu's framework. This article aims at questioning the objectivist standpoint from which the concept of social capital has been developed, by looking into the interpretative processes which shape it. In doing so, it proposes a new understanding of the notion of imagined social capital, which has gai…
Face and the Dynamics of Its Construction
This article proposes a new understanding of the concept of face as coconstructed and characterized by various and not always polarized dynamics, such as gain/loss. In elaborating on this conceptual frame, I revisit Goffman's work on social appraisal and argue it is marked by a shift from an expositional to a relational approach. Using this reading of Goffman, together with characteristics of the Chinese concept of face, I analyze interview data …
Impressions and affective practice
Despite the key commonalities between the affective and the practical turns, affect is still an underexplored aspect in practice theory. Proposing an analytical distinction between the sociological and the ontological levels of analysis, this article looks into schemes of appraisal as they appear in Bourdieusian practice theory, and highlights how beneath the unity of social conditioning, habitus creates fragmentation between embodied and cogniti…
Present Contemporaries and Absent Consociates
Nation as network. Diaspora, cyberspace, and citizenship
Nation as network. Diaspora, cyberspace, and citizenship, by Victoria Bernal, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2014, 208 pp., $25 (pbk), ISBN 9780226144818
Present Contemporaries and Absent Consociates
Face and the Dynamics of Its Construction
This article proposes a new understanding of the concept of face as coconstructed and characterized by various and not always polarized dynamics, such as gain/loss. In elaborating on this conceptual frame, I revisit Goffman's work on social appraisal and argue it is marked by a shift from an expositional to a relational approach. Using this reading of Goffman, together with characteristics of the Chinese concept of face, I analyze interview data …
Fake it till you make it
Social capital is one of the most widely used (in both scholarly and non-scholarly contexts) and one of the least critically examined concepts in Bourdieu's framework. This article aims at questioning the objectivist standpoint from which the concept of social capital has been developed, by looking into the interpretative processes which shape it. In doing so, it proposes a new understanding of the notion of imagined social capital, which has gai…
Work-life balance for transnational skilled workers in Sweden
In the context of globalisation, increased mobility and transnational travelling, long-distance friendships, romantic partnerships and family ties are becoming more and more common. Against this backdrop, this article focuses on highly skilled employees coming from Romania to Sweden and how they construct their work-life balance there. It analyses the work-life systems of highly skilled migrants in relation both to their co-present and long-dista…
Impressions and affective practice
Despite the key commonalities between the affective and the practical turns, affect is still an underexplored aspect in practice theory. Proposing an analytical distinction between the sociological and the ontological levels of analysis, this article looks into schemes of appraisal as they appear in Bourdieusian practice theory, and highlights how beneath the unity of social conditioning, habitus creates fragmentation between embodied and cogniti…
Sociology beyond computation? Alternative ways of researching digital life
It has been over 15 years since Savage and Burrows published their influential article about the crisis of empirical sociology. In the meantime, many authors have talked about how the rise of data science weakens the credibility of sociology and its mandate to produce knowledge about social realities in general, and emergent social phenomena in particular. Against that background, the mainstream methodological response from the social sciences ha…
This is a Popularity Contest
This article argues that the rise of financial capitalism and the development of digital infrastructures have had a profound and still insufficiently theorized effect on the political economy of attention in the cultural industries. Specifically, attention has become an asset for technological platforms through the quantification and management of user-generated data. This is a significant shift from previous conceptualizations of attention as (a…
Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)