Vita e Pensiero
Ignazio di Loyola e Carl Rogers per la formazione degli osservatori partecipanti e per la conduzione di ricerche «centrate sulla persona»
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2009
The object of this paper is training sociologists in «person-centered» ethnographic research,
i.e. centered upon the social actor, protagonist of the cultural contexts to study. A training
model is proposed, based on two cultural approaches: one being spiritual and the other psychological.
More precisely, we refer to the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the
Society of Jesus) and the psychological approach of Carl Rogers (psychologist of the humanistic
approach). The goal is to provide useful operational tools in various stages of ethnographic
research, enabling researchers to: a) choose the identities through which to have the best access
to the field of study, b) establish face to face interactions that are based on the respect of the
social actors involved in the study, c) transform those who are called «subjects» of research, in
the classic approach of participant observation, into «collaborators of the ethnographer», d)
adapt quickly to sudden changes of the field that often characterize studies of «other» cultures.
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Etnicità e politica nello Stato brasiliano del Maranhão
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Anno:
2009
This paper aims to report a resistance process that was carried on by black quilombolas
community (slave descendant) in the Alcântara region (Maranhão-Brazil). These communities
have been in contrast through the times with the military institutions which ordered them to leave their traditional lands. Basing themselves on the international, federal and national
legislation, and rediscovering their cultural ethnic heritage, and economic specificity, the
different communities have carried on experiences of community opposition and cohesion, of
political association, and have introduced new identity pronouncements, on which they have
built their social and cultural ransom paths, as well as those of leadership recognition. The
theme offers the opportunity to discuss some political anthropology issues, such as identity
politics, the concept of power, and the social relationships.
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Sulla sociologia delle emozioni di Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Anno:
2009
Despite the undoubted relevance emotions have for the social action and for society itself,
Sociology started to deal with them directly only around the half of Seventies in the last century;
the United States, therefore, have up for lost time: the Sociology of emotions has by now earned
the statute of an autonomous scientific and academic doctrine. In this article, after a quick
introduction to the Sociology of emotions and its main theoretical perspectives (Positivism,
Constructionism and Interactionism) I’ll take into consideration the sociological theory of
emotions by Arlie Russell Hochschild. She should be certainly considered as one of the main
autoritative theorist of the interactionist approach, even deemed by someone as the founder of
the Sociology of emotions; by surveying some of the main theoretical assumptions, I’ll try to
select those thematic cores (emotional control, emotion labor, feeling rules, emotional devienza,
emotional culture) which supply the conceptual and lexical framework for the understanding of
the more general sociological reflection about emotions.
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Il genere sul campo: alcune riflessioni metodologiche
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Anno:
2009
The Phenomenology says that every knowledge is a perspective knowledge, because every
knowledge is situated in a time and in a space. The human’s embodiment discloses a perspective
overview on the world. The paper claims the aim to analyze how the sexual and gender
dimensions, which are incarnated in a determinate body, are present in the qualitative research,
specifically into the ethnographic observation. First for all, we hypothesize that the gender is a
border for the access into a field and not in other, so to be man or woman is not neutral for the
knowledge of a specific social context. Moreover, the performative dimension of the gender,
which shows the norms that pre-exist and that conduct the role’s interaction (i.e. the role’s gendered
content and the role’s gendered language) is another tie in the participant observation.
The awareness that all the knowledge is gendered, requires to the fieldworker to play a double
competence (ability). The researcher must use the self reflexivity to point out his gender identity
and his background on this theme: he must point out his background frame relatively to the
gender, his gender behaviour’s expectations in the interaction, and his correlated opinions. The
researcher, moreover, must know that exist a cultural mainstream about the gender, but that the
concrete gender playing is based on the interaction in a concrete frame. So, we have a lot of
concrete ways in which the gender is embodied. The researcher on the field, so, must enter in a
knowledge’s circulation in which must point attention to: the epistemic interdependence, i.e.
the knowledge borns in the symbolic interaction between the researcher and the subject; the
gendered nature of the communicative interaction between the researcher and the subject; the
negotiable nature of the concrete managing of the gendered role in the interaction.
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Sociologia per la persona
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Anno:
2009
Working towards a «sociology of the person» and «for the person» is the fundamental
inspiration and programmed purpose of the SPE group. In this sense, the concept of «person»
is the foundation and aim of a study that seeks to be primarily both scientific and critical. The
following document, or manifesto, is intended as a stimulus for reflection on ourselves, to reopen
the debate on the centrality of the person, both with reference to the nature of sociology, in
its epistemological state, as well as in reference to the capacity to interpret and maybe even
tackle the main challenges of today: it is the latest stage of a path began in 1994 that is certainly
not over.
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La governance «ibrida»
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Anno:
2009
The transformation of the welfare system contains incoherencies with the characteristics of
the governance process. The diversification and the fragmentation of the system has made evident
the increase in its complexity and its consequent inability to govern regulation processes
based on hierarchy or on competition. The competition, the hierarchy and the social network
are not necessarily alternative governance processes, but in practice they overlap. The competition,
the hierarchy and the social network have to be integrated in a hybrid governance process.
The distance between the system and its regulation requires a redefinition of governance process.
Such realignment must be found on the strengthening of the authority, the thrust and the
social capital.
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«Perché dobbiamo dirci cristiani»
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Anno:
2009
Term of reference is the thesis of M.Pera in Why we have to profess christians. Christianism
contributes decisively to the building of western identity, that means modernity and liberalism.
This thesis is elaborated starting from weberian assumptions on Entzauberung and rationalisation
as biblical Weltanschauung: a determinant root of western identity. Christian revolution
upsets the worldview from the «naturality» of ancient cosmocentrism, particularly of Greeks
and Romans, to the «unnaturality» of radical theoanthropocentrism, that is to subjectcentrism,
conceived as embryo of modernity. This «unnaturality» of Christianism is present in two features:the axioogical priority of inner life and the «inverse glorifications» in thr Sermon of the
mountain. These features are realized in many areas and situations typical of western civilisation,
particularly in the Middle Age.
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Prendersi cura dei bambini di strada di Nairobi. Buone pratiche family e community oriented di accoglienza, riabilitazione e reinserimento
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Anno:
2009
The present study represents a qualitative in-depth research, aiming at pointing out and
analyzing, in the light of a more specific theory of social capital, relational good practices of
family-based and community-oriented intervention for the rehabilitation and the reintegration
of street children in Nairobi, Kenya. Aim of the study will be to explore the existing culture of
the care for the street children and re-think it as a multidimensional and complex process that
rests upon family and community relations and promotes innovative strategies, able to take into
consideration the specific needs of the families and the local communities, and providing a relational
answer to such needs. The research rests on a major theoretical framework called «relational
sociology», which allows a deeper understanding of the street children phenomenon as a
family and community-related issue, whereby macro and meso causal factors have an impact on
the micro level of the family, contributing to the raise of the phenomenon itself. Accordingly, in
terms of recommendations for social measures, the street children issue can be addressed and
tackled only by a family-based and community-oriented approach. The present study, at an
empirical level, highlights significant experiences of family-based and community-oriented care
for the rehabilitation and the reintegration of street children in Nairobi. The approach hereby
employed is that of the so-called «best practices», a research method aiming at drawing theoretical
notions from the most effective interventions. A huge work of operationalization of social
indicators for both the concept of social capital and good practice was done. From a methodological
point of view, three case studies were conducted. They represent three significant examples
of good practice in family-based intervention as they are highly innovative; careful of the
relational dynamics of the care; addressed to the family as a unit; able to sustain the distinctive
manner the family responds to the needs of its members (family empowerment); capable to produce
solidarity instead of individualism (intergenerational equity); focused on the family within
the local community (community empowerment); sustainable; reproducible; adopting social
governance strategies (vertical and horizontal networking with institutional and civil society
organizations).
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Non solo «quel che resta del giorno»... Un’analisi comparativa del consumo di tempo libero in Europa
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Anno:
2009
The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the role of leisure studies in social change
analysis and in comparative sociology studies. In the first part of the paper, we briefly review the main definitions of leisure time. Then we focus on methodological problems related to comparative analysis on leisure time use. In the second part, we compare the structure of leisure time in different european countries studying some analogies and differences among them.
Eurostat data constitute the empirical basis of this comparative analysis. In the third part, we underline that counting «who does something», «how often people do something», «in which period of the day, of the week, of the month or of the year people do something» and «how much time people spend to do something» just isn’t enough for studying leisure time. Therefore, new questions should be asked: what does leisure mean in individual experiences? And how does leisure time become «institutionalized» in shared social practices? Then, an appropriate method is proposed to answer these questions.
Key words: leisure time, social change, comparative analysis.
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Scommettere sui giovani a partire dalla sociologia
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Anno:
2009
The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, it offers a wide overview of the Italian sociological research about young people condition from the 50s to the first decade of XXI Century. As a second aim, this article sketches out an analysis of social and cultural change by observing how social representations of youth transform themselves from generation to generation – Baby Boomers’ generation, X Generation and Y Generation. Last it tries to argument for the institution of a real and more specialized «sociology of youth» as a new and autonomous field of research.
Key words: sociology of youth, social representations, generations, social and cultural change, life courses.
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