Vita e Pensiero
Il soggetto relazionale: definizione ed esempi
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Anno:
2012
P. Donati, The Relational Subject: Definition and Examples
In ordinary life, we, qua individuals, often speak in the plural by referring to a ‘We’. People say: we had lunch together, we went on holiday together, and so on and so forth. Usually, this ‘we’ is a term whose referent remains unspecified and serves only to indicate which people were involved in an event. Philosophers and social scientists agree that the ‘we’ cannot be a simple
aggregate of individuals who are supposed to share an idea, action or a purpose. There must be
more than that, but when they try to give an explanation of what lies behind the ‘we’, they also
differ greatly in how they account for it. It becomes essential to reach a clearer and sounder view
of what constitutes the ‘we’ as a social subject. The Author claims that most current explanations
of the ‘plural subject’ are both ill-founded and inadequate for the job and puts forward an
alternative sociological theory, which introduces the concept of the ‘relational subject’, as a more
complex and robust concept of what a ‘we-subject’ is.
Key words: relational subject, reflexivity, we-relation, relational goods, relational sociology
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Il mondo, ovvero il male di perder tempo
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Anno:
2012
L. Diotallevi, The world. That is: the evil of loosing time
This paper is the result of an attempt to look for the “after” within the social realm, and of an
attempt to take this challenge very seriously.
Equating time to space is the starting point. Such an equating is also seen as a dramatic characteristic
of the early modernity, of its phisics as well as of the state of its politics.
Then assuming the luhmannian analysis of the path followed by the social differentiation
during the course of modernization, up to the present primacy over that process exercised by
the functional differentiation of the society, makes observable both the reapparaisal of the variety
of temporalities and the planification and semplification of those temporalities planned and executesd
by the egemony project of the state organization.
So we are forced to account for the alternative remaining between saeculum – as paradigm
centred on the variety of the temporalities – and secularization – as paradigm shaped on the abolition
of that variety via spatialization –.
Key words: society, social differentiation, space / time, Luhmann.
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Leisure time giovanile e costruzione di capitale sociale: una rassegna
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Anno:
2012
F.M. Lo Verde, Leisure time and the construction of social capital: a review
The production of social capital in a specific area of everyday life such as leisure time and the
different socio-cultural contexts it is experienced in is a very interesting research issue, especially
in the light of certain specific meanings of the notion of social capital, such as Bourdieu’s or, more
recently, Putnam’s. Nonetheless, this research issue is scarcely taken into consideration in Italy.
Albeit inexaustively, this paper intends to introduce this issue starting from a brief review on the
generation of social capital in youth’s leisure
time contexts. In the first paragraph I problematize the notion of social capital as referred
to leisure time “contexts” as well as analyze either the social capital literature dealing with the
modes and experiences of leisure time, or the leisure time literature focusing on the construction
of social capital in leisure time contexts. In the second paragraph I discuss some studies regarding
the ways in which a particular age range – youth – produces social capital in leisure time
contexts. In the third paragraph I focus on some studies regarding the issue of youth’s leisure
time as a potential “antisocial” time. In the fourth paragraph I introduce the discussion about the
little importance given to public leisure in the service provision for youth’s leisure time and the
consequences determined by that in terms of social capital «erosion». The conclusion offers three
metaphors for understanding the trends of leisure time and sociability.
Key words: leisure studies; leisure time, Social capital
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Molecolarizzazione degli intellettuali e nuove tecnologie nella società in rete
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Anno:
2012
F. Antonelli - R. Castrucci, Intellectuals’ Molecularisation and New Technologies in the Network Society
In this essay we aim at analysing changes in the role of intellectuals in network society. After discussing how intellectuals have been a social and political élite during the first modernity, functioning as intermediaries, and enabling hierarchical and asymmetric order in industrial society,
the essay analyses the main factors towards disintegration of this social order: decline of
philosophy of Truth, rise of postindustrial and knowledge economy, spread of higher education,
development of mass communication, and thus of new media. These processes have stimulated
the emergence of new social subjectivities, namely knowledge workers, which have set in motion
powerful disintermediation processes through the internet. On the one hand, the classical
function of intellectuals has been partially absorbed by mass media, and on the other hand it
has been superseded by a multitude of intelligence and opinion niches directly produced by
citizen-consumers (intellectuals’ molecularisation). The resulting landscape consists in a strong
balkanization of social and political world – particularly along generational and educational lines
-, where, on one side you find a composite set of extremely fragmented intellectualities swarming
through the Net (citizen-consumers), and on the other side masses of people still depending on
mass media intermediation mechanisms (citizen-spectators).
Key words: intellectuals, new technologies, public sphere, knowledge, long tail
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Micro - meso - macro: la social network analysis come insieme di tradizioni e programmi di ricerca
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Anno:
2012
S. Vergati, Micro – meso – macro: social network analysis as a set of research traditions and programs
The article analyses first the disciplinary and epistemological contexts of SNA; after, it compares
the different theoretical approaches referable to SNA: the structural, the formalist, and the
interactionist one. Then, two main methodological approaches are being compared: the «hard
SNA» and the «soft SNA», the first one – typical of the micro-analysis -- which considers the relational
structure as the goal of research; the second one, which uses relational data as a tool for
the theory building at the meso and macro levels. Further, SNA is proposed as an interdisciplinary
and multi-purpose way-out from the theoretical dualism holism vs. individualism, particularly
according to the structural interactionist approach. Finally, the four different explicative theories
integrated in SNA (the theory of weak ties, the theory of the structural holes, the theory of clusterness,
and the theory of relational coordination) are discussed as middle-range theories.
Key words: social network analysis, micro-meso-macro level, structural interactionism, methodological
individualism, holism.
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Sé ed emozioni nell’interazionismo simbolico
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Anno:
2012
P. Iagulli, Self and emotions in symbolic interactionism
The idea which inspires this essay is to enquire on the place of emotions within what is
probably the most «subjectivist» sociological perspective: symbolic interactionism. I will try to
demonstrate that there was substantially no space for emotions in what can be defined «classical»
symbolic interactionism, that of George H. Mead and Herbert Blumer: this is surprising, but
only to a certain point. Symbolic interactionism began to thematize emotions starting from the
generation of scholars that can be defined post-blumerian (Shott, Scheff, Heise). The reason for
this «delay» is also cultural: this scientific field was, at least in part, a child of its time, i.e. the expression
of an «emotional culture» which began to assert itself in a significant manner, especially
in the United States, starting from the second half of the Seventies.
Key words: self, emotions, Mead, Blumer, post-blumerian symbolic interactionism.
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Campo e mondo sociale. Definizioni e applicazioni a confronto
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Anno:
2012
G. Toscano, Field and Social World. Definitions and applications in comparison
The aim of this paper is to compare the notion of «field» by Pierre Bourdieu e the sensitizing
concept of «social world» by Anselm Strauss. Bourdieu and Strauss start from different theoretical assumptions: the former from a conflictual conception of society, the latter from a Symbolic
Interactionist perspective. Nevertheless, both their concepts share the same stance, as they avoid
a knowledge of social phenomena seen as «things in themselves» and they both reject an image
of society fractured into units lacking mutual relations. Furthermore, both concepts emphasize
a constant feedback between structure and action and assume the point of view of social aggregates.
The issue has been analyzed considering problems of field and world visibility and the
definition of their boundaries.
Key words: field, social world, symbolic interaction, visibility, boundaries.
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Vita e linguaggio degli oggetti. Alcune ipotesi antropologiche
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Anno:
2012
A. Caforio, Life and language of objets. Some anthropological hypothesis
Some markings by very well known authors about object-centered love in Western societies
and traditional ones have been well brought out in this article. For instance, Margaret Mead’s
observations on the issue of the social role of object love teaching in first childhood bringing up
have been properly seen into. Besides, Claude Lévi-Strauss’ sharp markings of symbolic object
importance in regard to all societies have been looked into to a great extent in the same essay.
Key words: objet, western societies, role, symbol, traditional societies.
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Il problema dell’uomo e la sociologia: le fonti giovanili di Filippo Barbano
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Anno:
2012
D. Simon, The Problem of Man and Sociology: Filippo Barbano’s juvenile sources
Filippo Barbano, one promoter of the ‘sociological renaissance’ in Italy after World War II,
discussed as a student a thesis (1947) upon Personalism in the legal and christian philosophy. His
main source was Norberto Bobbio’s historical personalism which concerned the Person as ‘relationship’
and normative value with a fundamental attitude to communication. Barbano enphasized
then the role of the person as concrete agent, to whom Christianity provided a foundation
for a joint and several living-together.
Afterwards Barbano met american sociology and was confronted in particular with its attempt
toward an ‘integrated science of man’ with special attention to the concept of ‘basic personality
type’.
This was declined in an anthropological sense at a high level, which recalled Marcel Mauss’
‘total man’, concrete and far from the speculative trends of classical european sociology.
All this lead Barbano to formulate (1955/58) a program for theory and research, which had
to combine thought and experience, along the lines of the most recent american sociology, seeing
man in action within a moving social context.
Key words: person, science of man, action, communication, basic personality tipe, theory and
research.
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