Vita e Pensiero
Istituzioni, multiculturalismo e costruzione dell’identità europea. Verso un’impossibile intesa?
digital
Anno:
2006
The historical events which marked the last decades process toward an effective European
Union give many suggestions to understand the role of the institutions in order to build a large
integration among political and social actors, their interests and cultures, i.e. three conditions so
that european identity may be acknowledged. The identity acknowledgement arises from a permanent
negotiation among many social actors, in the same time it assures the legitimation to the
institutions themselves. The theoretical and practical issues connected to this circular process
are examined in relation with a specific Preambulum devoted to a solemn definition of cultural
and religious origins of Europe. The insuccessfull acknoledgement of the cristian root of
Europe is considered as a symbolic question which reveals deeper dilemmas in the present
European theoretical debate on identity, pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance. This symbolic
question is re-examined throught the idea of civil religion, communitarism, multiculturalism,
suggesting the need of new intercultural approaches. Finally, the attitudes toward the so called
“Social Europe” are considered, in order to verify how some political and economical goals – as
development and equity – may help the construction of the european identity.
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Le istituzioni europee, i media e l’opinione pubblica
digital
Anno:
2006
Based on data of eurobarometer and of a research on the noticiability of the European
Union in Italy and France, the author delineates an interpretation of the change of attitude of
the European citizens towards the Union. The process of European unification, that initially
enjoyed a wide consent of opinion, but a content of surface, has become more problematic
because of increasing evidence of difficulties and contrasts of interest. In order to exceed such
situation the author proposes a deliberative democracy, that uses all the shapes of communication
and consultation of the public, in order to activate it and put it in a position to expressing
itself on controversial and shared problems.
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Disoccupazione e società: nuovi significati e nuovi profili nell’epoca della flessibilità
digital
Anno:
2006
With the end of modern society, new issues arise and link to unemployment: the growing instability
that brings about (and entwine with) uncertainty and modifies the relationship subject-society;
new inequalities and new terms of social protection; the elements of integration and social bonds that
are under discussion and ask the subject new types of responsibility in and towards the society. The
article aims at analysing unemployment with reference to social change by discussing its new characters
and defining the new work-life balances which are under construction at individual and societal
level.
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Comunicazione interculturale e analisi sociologica: come e perché?
digital
Anno:
2006
This essay concerns some new concepts that can help sociological theory interpret globalisation
and multicultural societies. Its key-concept is intercultural communication, largely used in communication
studies, studies on intercultural relationships, and linguistics. The essay proposes an integration
of a sociological theory of communication with some of these studies, explaining and analysing
the different forms of intercultural communication which can give a more precise meaning to the
processes of globalisation and to multicultural contexts. The historical background of these processes
and contexts is the expansion of modern European society, which is interpreted as functionally differentiated,
following Luhmann’s social systems theory. In contrast with the dominant forms of ethnocentrism
which have continuously shaped intercultural communications between the functionally differentiated
European society and the other societies in the world, new theories propose a form of
intercultural dialogue. The meaning of such a dialogue is defined in two versions, transcultural and
cosmopolitan: the comparison between these versions enlightens their different features and problems.
Finally, the reasons for a sociological interest in these theories are discussed, with reference to
explanations of globalisation and multicultural society.
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Oltre il Panopticon? Foucault e la videosorveglianza
digital
Anno:
2006
Foucault’s figure of the Panopticon has exercised a considerable influence over the surveillance
studies in the past decades. The article explores, both theoretically and empirically, the applicability of
the Foucault’s Panopticon to the practices of public video surveillance. In particular, the paper aims to
understand if the metaphor of the Panopticon is still useful to explain contemporary surveillance.
€ 6,00
Amici per guarire: i Gruppi Anonimi dei 12 Passi
digital
Anno:
2006
This article presents a case study that considers a particular self-help mutual-aid group:
Alcoholics Anonymous. On the empirical level, the research is conducted through the partecipant
observation method. Starting from a briefanalysis of these types of associations, both from the point
of view of their evolution and from the point of view of the sociologists, the author tries to analyse
how the Twelve Steps groups specifically work and what their cure method consists of. This study
aims at demonstrating how the recovery method used in these groups (and in general in all groups
that use Twelve Step Programs) could be considered, to every extent, an effective alternative therapy.
€ 6,00
Senso e non senso della scuola tra istituzione e organizzazione
digital
Anno:
2006
This article analyses the current relaity of schooling, highlighting some of the major changing
factors: factors of turbolence (i.e. the reform processes) and negative attitudes towards the change,
expressed by teachers, headmasters, parents and extra-school agencies); processes of de-structuration
of the institutional stability; processes of fragmentation and lost of motivation within the social actors
within the school establishments. It follows the interpretation of this frame on the base of the
ambivalence “institution versus organisation”, that can explain part of this increasing complexity.
Finally, to cope with the complexity it is proposed a model of solution as process of “institutionalization
bottom-up”, based on th sense making capability of the social actors in school.
€ 6,00
Comportamenti socio-religiosi nei confronti dei defunti. Persistenze e cambiamenti in un’area de-secolarizzata
digital
Anno:
2006
This article offers some data and reflexions collected by two sociological researches led in an
area of North Italy: Bologna and its land (2001-2002). In the first research the object was the socioreligious
practices of piety to the tombs in four cemeteries of the Diocese (one cemetery in the town
of Bologna, two in the country and one in the mountaine). In a second time a survey about the ways
to celebrate funerals was led in all the parishes of the town, which is the most secularized area in the
Diocese. The collected findings show the persistence in the bolognese population of the social practices
to commemorate the deads, and the large diffusion of christian simbols; yet one can note a lot of
difficulties in the transmission to children of these practices, so that visit to the cemetery of young
people are infrequent. Furthermore one can note a differentiation in the funerals: less people asks the
mass celebrated in its parish and more people prefers the simple blessing, given to the dead in the
chapel of the hospital or of the cemetery. These difficulties in the socialization arise some questions
on the future of the cult of deads in this secularized area, while one can note a lot of socio-cultural
changes, as the «naturalization of the death», or its rimotion from the “post”-modern culture, and the
presence of religious minorities, as muslims; and all these tendences are new challenges to the
Catholic church.
€ 6,00
La tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche in Italia. Il caso del Friuli
digital
Anno:
2006
The revival of ethnic/regional/language minorities within European national states, one of the
components of the oppositional “identity movements” of the sixties and seventies, has attracted wide
attention from several disciplinary quarters: political science ( e.g. A. Smith,) sociology (A. Touraine),
sociology of language (J. Fishman) and others. More recently, it has been linked to the theory of globalization (“glocalism”). In Italy, for a number of reasons, regional/ethnic issues have long been
neglected by “mainstream” sociology, and considered only as a peculiarity of some remote Alpine
border areas. However, in 1999, a national bill (n. 482) was passed in the national parliament, recognizing
the existence throughout Italy of 12 “historical language minorities” (Albanians, Catalans,
Croats, Greeks, Occitans, Franco-Provençals, and others) beside the ones already constitutionally
recognized (French, Germans, Slovenes) and granting them some rights, guarantees, and token financial
support. By far the largest groups are the Sardinians ( pop. 1.650. and the Friulians (pop.
900.000). After a general-theoretical introduction, the paper briefly sketches the history of
ethnic/regional/linguistic/ minority movements in Italy, the history and structure of Law 482/99, and
finally focuses on the case of Friuli, where since the early seventies a tradition of sociological studies
on these matters have been established, and many empirical surveys have been carried out, making
this by far the best researched language minority in Italy. In the conclusion, the results of such
research are put in the context of the “reversing language shift” theory advanced by Joshua Fishman,
and questions are raised on the possibility to save Friulian, as many hundreds or perhaps thousands
other threatened minor languages, by legal decrees, in the face of the powerful socio-economic and
cultural forces (nationalisation, globalization “homologation”) pushing them toward extinction.
€ 6,00
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