Mattia Vacchiano

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• PhD in Sociology
• Lecturer at University of Geneva

Social network research is well-equipped to help life course scholars produce a deeper and more nuanced approach to the principle of “linked lives,” one of the cornerstones of the field. In this issue on Networked Lives, nine original articles and two commentaries generate new theories, empirical findings and methodological applications at the inte...

Since Granovetter's seminal works, the influence of personal networks on the labour market has attracted widespread attention. This article analyses the role played by contacts in the context of the labour trajectories of young people in Spain, for whom the use of personal networks represents one of the most important job-searching methods. Using n...

While it is well known that sport and exercise are beneficial for physiological and neurological functioning, leisure has received less attention as a means of mobilizing social networks and cultivating relatedness as factors protecting mental health. Using a sample of 8148 cases from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), we built an autoregressive cros...

Through Nan Lin's social resource theory, network studies have demonstrated the importance of personal contacts for status attainment. Achieving better occupations, wages, or social prestige depends not only on individual skills and personal resources, such as social class or human capital. Personal networks are also important structural factors be...

Social network analysis has grown tremendously across a wide range of disciplines and is now regarded as a road‐map in strengthening links with the life‐course perspective. ‘Linked lives’ is often cited as a key principle of life‐course theory, but there is still much to be learned about the significance of these links for the life course. Network...

This systematic review summarizes the scientific evidence on the relations between remote work, social support, and well-being. Following the PRISMA guidelines,we searched through three databases (Web of Science, EBSCOhost, and ProQuest) for peer-reviewed articles on this topic in English or French published before June 2024. We included 32 high-qu...

Introduction Research on telework has grown dramatically in recent years, leading to a fragmented set of findings on its effect on workers’ well-being. One of the most studied social mechanisms concerns how telework alters the transmission of social support between family members and coworkers, which turns out to be a mediating factor between telew...

Introduction Teleworking is one of the most significant legacies of the pandemic. Great attention is now being paid to its effects on workers’ health. One of the arguments that emerged on this issue is that ‘working away from the office’ affects the time we spend with significant others. This calls into question all those processes that make relati...

Young people today are expected to navigate their precarious careers in an entrepreneurial way. Self-employment is gaining ground on wage labour as one attractive strategy for winning the battle with precariousness. From Granovetter’s studies to the present day, one of the most prolific lines of research on the factors influencing the strategies of...

Studies of teleworking and well-being increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article aims to provide an overview of this emerging body of knowledge. Following the PRISMA guidelines, we performed a scoping review using Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), Sociological Abstracts (PROQUEST), and SocINDEX with full text (...

This paper shows that greater engagement in offline leisure activities before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic-such as going to bars, restaurants and meeting friends-protected psychological health during the first lockdown in 2020. This result was obtained using structural equations on longitudinal data from a sample of 4,967 individuals (+14)...

Research offers evidence that younger generations suffered the most psychologically from the COVID-19 crisis. In this article, we look at the onset of the pandemic to understand the reasons for this increased vulnerability. We use the COVID-19 Multifaceted Threat Scale to explore potential mechanisms underlying generational differences in psycholog...

Vulnerability lies in the articulation of different levels. Constraints or opportunities, resources or stressors to people’ lives unfold at the intersection of micro-individual processes and macro-structural levels during the life course. This section explores five directions through which LIVES addresses these interactions across different meso-le...

This chapter introduces the most important concepts and methods used in social network analysis (SNA). With this aim in view, in a first section we introduce the main features and implications of the relational approach for the study of economic and social phenomena. Secondly, the chapter provides an overview of the key concepts and methods used by...

Two years after the first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), one fact seems to be emerging clearly: lockdowns affect mental health differently across generations. This article uses data collected before and after the first wave of COVID-19 on a sample of 5,859 respondents, showing that the first lockdown worsened the mental health of the...

While computers and smartphones have become pervasive in our lives, face-to-face interactions remain irreplaceable. This seems worth emphasising even more so today, as restrictions on social life have made online activities the primary means of being together with many of our most significant contacts. While online activities are known for helping...

Argentina and Brazil report the highest incidence of the fear of crime across Latin America. Although the spread of crime and victimization may explain these trends initially, the focus in this paper is on the significance of non-criminal factors in explaining the fear of crime, such as socio-economic vulnerability, educational level and trust in p...

Depression and psychological distress have high incidence rates among young people. Leisure is a known determinant of health and well-being and can help mitigate these phenomena through a variety of mechanisms. While it is known that sport and exercise provide benefits for neurological functioning, leisure has received less attention as a means of...

Depression and psychological distress have high incidence rates among young people. Leisure is a known determinant of health and well-being and can help mitigate these phenomena through a variety of mechanisms. While it is known that sport and exercise provide benefits for neurological functioning, leisure has received less attention as a means of...

This study cross-sectionally examined the associations among (i) leisure activities, (ii) social capital indicators of support from relatives and friends and (iii) depressed mood among a sample of 891 young adults born between 1988 and 1997 who grew up in Switzerland (LIVES Cohort Study). We identified a simplified structure of online (instrumental...

This paper uses a life-history grid to collect narrative data on the labour market transitions of young people aged 20 to 34 (N = 98) in order to analyze the support provided by relatives in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. Drawing on social capital theory, we explore these mechanisms by analysing the flow of resources within family networks (one-s...

This paper uses a life-history grid to collect narrative data on the labour market transitions of young people aged 20 to 34 (N = 98) in order to analyze the support provided by relatives in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. Drawing on social capital theory, we explore these mechanisms by analysing the flow of resources within family networks (one-s...

How young job seekers mobilize their contacts in the labour market? We look at mobilization of personal networks of young adults in Barcelona. We consider the strength of ties and status homophily as mechanisms of personal networks as for the consolidation of social capital. Our qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with job seekers explores their...

A large body of sociological literature has been accumulated regarding the role of personal networks on job insertion. On this topic, the «social resources theory» formulates the proposition that acceding (and mobilizing) better contacts enhances the chances of obtaining higher qualified jobs. Although it is reasonable to claim that job seekers ben...

Este artículo propone una breve introducción al análisis multinivel. El objetivo del texto es facilitar algunos principios teóricos y metodológicos básicos para el uso de esta técnica de análisis en la investigación sociológica. La potencialidad de esta técnica se fundamenta en una lógica que permite medir la importancia del contexto en el que se g...

This article presents the results of a study on the association between personal contacts and employment in a sample of 250 young adults between 20 and 34 years of age, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. The analysis, based on data from a survey of personal networks, shows that the weight of personal contacts on young people’s insertion in the lab...

En un contexto laboral profundamente marcado por la incertidumbre y la transitoriedad del empleo, esta tesis centra su objeto de estudio en las desigualdades generadas por las redes personales a lo largo de las trayectorias formativo-laborales juveniles. Los contactos personales — familia, amigos/as, docentes, compañeros/as de trabajo o de estudio...

Con este articulo proponemos una aproximación teórica de los estudios sobre los juegos de azar (Gambling studies), planteando una mirada cultural hacia un fenómeno que, hoy en día, ha adquirido un carácter masivo. Nuestro objetivo es, precisamente, desvincular el análisis de los aspectos patológicos inherentes al juego problemático —ludopatías— con...

L'article presenta l'analisi de tres questions de gran rellevancia per a l'estudi de la situacio de la poblacio juvenil al mercat de treball: l'evolucio de les trajectories laborals considerant la simultaneitat d'activitats que les componen, l'impacte de la crisi economica sobre l'articulacio d'aquestes mateixes activitats, i l'us del capital socia...

Actors have “good reasons” to use their personals contacts during the job search process. According with Boudon (1989, 1993), the shift from a narrow to a broad conception of rational action drive us to overcome both the utilitarian tradition in economic theories of rational choice (Homo oeconomicus), as well as the “causal” model of explanation fa...