Vita e Pensiero

The recent pandemic as a widespread social crisis shows the social relevance of resilience, e.g. the capacity of deal with unfavorable events through a flexible approach. Recent studies on resilience underline the ability of the social context to activate resilience: that is the community resilience. A concept linked to the resilience is vulnerability, e.g. the presence of properties that make people and communities less able to cope with risks. In this paper, we will consider vulnerability and resilience as linked each other...

During the pandemic, the system of social and health services has been heavily put under pressure, while the widespread micro-network of individual and collective actors belonging to the third sector and informal volunteering has emerged as fundamental. Besides activating quickly, these actors managed to adapt to the use of digital technologies to develop remote proximity. The paper analyses the evolution of the Social Street Residents in Via Venti Settembre in Verona as a form of technologically-mediated sociality...

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) by the Italian Government represents an opportunity to develop innovative practices in the health sector. The article proposes a specific reflection on the future role of the “Case della Comunità”, subjects who will be entrusted with the task of integrating services (social, socio-health and health) at the territorial level, according to a logic that fully complies with the perspective of Welfare Responsible approach...

The paper opens with a brief analysis of national work-life balance policies in Italy during the pandemic period, with reference also to the role played by corporations. The focus is then placed on the local dimension because it is the one that demonstrates greater levels of social innovation...

The basic hypothesis of the article «The young people and the re-invention of the social» is that the new generations are the testimony – not necessarily aware – of a process of «re-invention of the social», that is, of a radical transformation of the relationships between individuals and society...

In order to analyze the representation of migrants in the Italian media, we focused on three months of the main Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, selecting all the articles with the keyword «migrants»...

This article presents the process of construction of a sociological instrument for the empirical study of social perception of religious freedom. In doing that, we examine existing theoretical perspectives of religious freedom analysis in social sciences and suggest the conceptualization model, which integrates five dimension of the meaning of religious freedom. We explore the structure of the concept of social perception of religious freedom and discuss its latent dimensions applying the exploratory factor analysis...

Using empirical evidence concerning catastrophes I show that the conception of inequalities dominant in social ethics is inadequate, that it misrepresent the reality it pretends to analyze and evaluate. Disaster studies make clear that catastrophes regularly entrench existing inequalities, making the poor and vulnerable poorer and more vulnerable, and the rich richer. In consequence, I argue, the distinction between legitimate and unjustified inequalities disappears...