Vita e Pensiero

Social relations are inevitably marked and defined by a previous interpersonal negotiation on the dynamics of authority that give them concrete form. The management of interpersonal and systemic authority has always been a “social problem”, although historically it has come to life in very different ways...

The article describes the birth and development of “Stregoni [“Sorcerers”] network, an Italian musical project founded by two native musicians which involves asylum seekers received in reception centers in musical workshops and live performances. Its aim is to encourage the creation of social bonds and to deconstruct stereotypical ways to see asylum seekers and their music...

The article describes Puzzle Puglia information system, a technological platform built, according to a participatory logic, by social researchers and practitioners “experts by experiences” to meet the recognized need for social innovation in the field of vulnerable children’s protection...

The definition of Trafficking in Human Beings in the Protocol of United Nations portays the adoption and the determination of the concepts of victim and trafficker by the international community. Despite the effort of the Protocol in providing an international definition of the phenomenon, the present article emphasizes the grey zone between vulnerability and proximity violence that permits the consensual exploitation of the victim by the trafficker...

In this article, I propose, first3,5 of all, to identify the passages in Max Weber’s works in which he makes more or less explicit reference to emotions and feelings (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the Intermediate Observations, Science as a Vocation, Politics as a Vocation, Economy and Society)....

The topic of borders has not been studied so much in sociology (Strassoldo 1971, 1976, 1987); this work deals with it in a multidisciplinary perspective. Although it can easily be linked to numerous and important sociological analysis of the migration dynamics (Ambrosini 2020; Cesareo 2015; Zanfrini 2015), here the reflection is focused on the transformative dynamics – not necessarily supported by migratory experiences – that social actors imagine to be feasible and try to put into action in order to improve their life conditions (van Gennep 1909; Turner 1972)...

This article presents the main results of a research – commissioned by UNICEF, UNHCR and IOM – on the factors that facilitate or constrain the transition to adulthood of the unaccompanied and separated children. The research has highlighted, first of all, the artificiality of a distinction between “children” (UASC) and “adults” (UASC who turned 18) that does not take due account of the transitional process of becoming adults, the cultural, social and gender differences that affect this process and the vulnerabilities to which this category of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are exposed to...

This article elaborates the sociological dimensions of religious freedom, drawing on the normative and political definitional frameworks. It discusses the challenges of normative, political, and socio-religious interpretations of religious freedom dynamics and the importance of sociologically driven perspectives for the further integration of religious freedom scholarship...