Vita e Pensiero

The contribution intends to present the results of a research – included in the national program “Redesign – frail elderly, intergenerational solidarity and aging friendly communities” – which analyzed the local program of the Zone Plans (ZP) of some territories of our country with the aim of verifying whether and how much the issue of the frailty of the elderly is taken into consideration. After an introduction that focuses on the issue of fragility, as it is addressed by international literature, the contribution proposes the demographic framework of the Italian population and the extent of the phenomenon of population aging, and then focuses on an analysis of the content of the ZP of the municipalities of Milan, Brescia, Abbiategrasso (MI), Verona, Ponte di Piave (TV), Larino (CB), Isernia and Lecce...

The essay examines four identity profiles representing four ways through which a sample of young Italian Americans living in the greater New York City area identify with their Italian heritage. The reflections presented in the paper come from the results of a survey conducted in 2013 designed to gather the opinions, attitudes, behaviors and perceptions of young people about Italian descent and culture...

Abbonamento annuale alla rivista STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA

In organization studies (OS) paradigm thinking seems to have abated over the past fifteen years, notwithstanding the enduring use of the paradigm concept within the field. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the relevance of paradigm debating to OS still remains high and should be cultivated...

Georg Simmel set himself the goal of defining the origins and character of modern society, evaluating the meaning it takes on for individuals. His sociology is open to dialogue between disciplines and develops the individual and collective levels together. With this approach, he studied society as a dichotomous, contradictory, and syllogistic world without arriving at a conclusive synthesis. This aspect makes his perspective very current in a world that radicalizes traits of modernity (Giddens 1990) and for which an interpretative key may be in abandoning all attempts at synthesis...

Although incomparably richer than it has ever been before, ours is still a world of tremendous deprivation and disturbing inequality. In addition to being composite and irregular, inequality is also “slippery”, both due to the multiplicity of terrains, often inaccessible and unknown in which it is born, and the way it evolves and is perceived...

Emotions are an extremely relevant issue in the practice of social work. Nevertheless, this issue is not always adequately examined, both within social services and institutions and in the scientific literature, and often the management of emotions is responsibility of the professional alone. Through a qualitative exploratory research, carried out through the use of an interview with 30 professionals working in as many municipal social services in Veneto Region, the article discusses some emerging issues in this field...

Some sociologists contributing to the foundations of relational sociology on the international stage have been recently remarking a kind of affinity between both notions of social relation and social life: hey particularly refer to the pioneering views of Georg Simmel, who is largely mentioned and concerned in the following paper. The interaction among social subjects generates unexpected and emergent forms which sociologist must detect and inquiry: the interactive feature of any relation refers to the “content” of the social relation itself...