Degree transfer is understood as the increasingly common phenomenon among students of changing university degrees or university, especially after the first or second years of the degree. The profile of students who transfer (3,861students, 8.3% of students) is constructed based on microdata from the University Pre-enrolment Register of Catalonia and an explanatory model is validated by means of Multivariate Logistic Regression.Transfer refers to both changing the area of knowledge or the university and occurs most frequently in engineering, experimental sciences and social sciences degrees. The profile of the student who transfers is male, does not balance paid employment with studying, has completed baccalaureate in a private or a statefunded private school, and is upper middle class with both parents with a higher-level education working in higher management positions or liberal occupations. His level of use of social networks and digital communication tools is very high.
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Low levels of Physical Activity (PA) and sedentarism are associated with the onset of different pathologies and health problems. Regular physical activity has been linked with being beneficial to the health of the general population. Within this framework of analysis, the aim of the present study was to analyze the association between the time spent doing physical activity and the expressed motives for doing so, from which the innovative aspect of the paper emerges: the use of the time spent doing PA as a study variable of the phenomenon. The data analyzed come from the latest special Eurobarometer survey about the sport and physical activity done in Europe. Using an exploratory factorial analysis and a structural equations model, a six-dimensional factorial model was found that explains the reasons for doing PA, demonstrating that there is no relationship between the reasons for and time spent doing PA. The motivation is not a variable that explains the time spent doing PA, and another type of variable must be used to explain the phenomenon if PA is to be incentivized. Weaknesses of the study are that it works with individuals as a group and that the fundamental dependence on age is not introduced, which could determine interest in practicing PA. Similarly, the impact of the conditions of implementing PA, education, and family history should also be introduced into the model.
Este artículo desarrolla una reflexión conceptual y una propuesta metodológica para el estudio de desigualdades sociales con perspectiva comparada. La propuesta incorpora un acercamiento teórico conceptual al análisis cualitativo comparado, revisando algunas tradiciones sobre análisis y producción de estudios comparados, casos comparados y perspectiva biográfica comparada en ciencias sociales. Esta reflexión permite en primera instancia la formulación a nivel conceptual de una propuesta teórica de Perspectiva Biográfica comparada (PBC), la que posteriormente se revisa y discute a partir de un diseño metodológico específico de casos comparado en Argentina, Chile y España. El análisis empírico del modelo teórico permite ajustar elementos de la propuesta inicial y analizar sus alcances y posibilidades para otros estudios más amplios a la experiencia desarrollada preliminarmente por un grupo de investigación de INCASI. En los resultados se presenta un análisis de las particularidades de la perspectiva biográfica comparada como una articulación entre los estudios de caso, la aproximación biográfica y los métodos comparados. Se sostiene así que esta perspectiva ofrece la potencialidad de articular y tensionar las escalas macro, meso y microsociales, dando lugar a comparaciones en cuatro niveles o escalas: intraescalar, intraconfigurtiva, interescalar, interconfigurativa. La dimensión temporal presente como eje clave en los estudios biográficos, permite aporta dinamismo y perspectiva longitudinal al seguimiento de los casos en el tiempo y que se recoge especialmente de la prueba empírica del modelo. La prueba piloto del modelo teórico de perspectiva biográfica comparada permite observar las diferencias entre países (casos), entre clases sociales (servicios, intermedias y trabajadoras) en tres ciudades de los tres países seleccionados, recuperando las escalas macro, meso y micro sociales, sus articulaciones en la temporalidad y sus posibles comparaciones en investigaciones futuras. El estudio concluye señalando las potencialidades y limitaciones que posee la perspectiva presentada, enfatiza en los desafíos para la consolidación de la propuesta de análisis comparado, al mismo tiempo que aporta insumos teóricos y empíricos para el debate y avance de la metodología comparativa. This article presents a conceptual reflection and a methodological proposal for studying social inequalities from a comparative perspective. The proposal incorporates a theoretical-conceptual approach to comparative qualitative analysis, reviewing a number of traditions that inform the analysis and production of comparative studies, comparative cases, and the comparative biographical perspective in social science research. First, this reflection makes it possible to formulate, at a conceptual level, a Comparative Biographical Perspective (CBP), which is then reviewed and discussed considering a specific methodological design for comparing cases in Argentina, Chile, and Spain. The empirical analysis of the theoretical model makes it possible to adjust elements of the initial proposal and analyze its scope and possibilities for more wide-ranging studies, thus extending the preliminary experience led by an INCASI research group. In the results section, an analysis is presented of the particularities of the comparative biographical perspective as an articulation of case studies, the biographical approach, and comparative methods. It is asserted that this perspective has the potential to articulate and add tension to the macro-, meso-, and micro-social scales, leading to comparison at four levels: intra-scalar, intra-configurative, inter-scalar, and inter-configurative. The temporal dimension, as a core element of biographical studies, incorporates dynamism and a longitudinal perspective into case follow-up processes. This was mainly revealed by the empirical testing of the model. The piloting of the theoretical model presented in the article –based on the comparative biographical perspective– made it possible to observe differences between countries (cases), social classes (high, middle, and low), and subjects (within each class) in three cities of the three countries selected, shedding light on the macro-, meso-, and micro-social scales, their articulations with temporality, and their possible comparisons in future research. Lastly, the article outlines the potential and limitations of the perspective discussed, emphasizing the challenges that must be addressed to consolidate the comparative analysis proposal advanced and providing theoretical and empirical materials for enriching debate and contributing to the progress of comparative methodology.
RESUMEN El presente trabajo busca analizar el papel que los activos derivados de la participación de la población migrante de origen brasileño en redes sociales desempeñan a la hora de definir sus estrategias de movilidad social. Para ello, esta investigación aborda el efecto que la composición y naturaleza de las redes transnacionales −en las que las familias transnacionales participan a lo largo de un proceso migratorio que tiene España como principal destino− ejerce sobre su posición en la jerarquía social. A partir de una metodología de naturaleza cualitativa basada en la aplicación de una etnografía multisituada en Galicia y Cataluña como contextos receptores, se realizó trabajo de campo con diferentes hogares transnacionales originarios de Brasil, entrevistando a distintos miembros del grupo doméstico a lo largo de los años 2011-2018. Los principales resultados muestran la importancia de las redes transnacionales como parte de los proyectos de movilidad espacial y movilidad social de la población migrante.
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