Vita e Pensiero

This paper is part of the field of critical consumption studies, sketching a portrait of fair trade consumers in Italy today. The study adopts an original approach from three perspectives: 1) studying consumers within the World Shops, the traditional channels of fair trade consumption; 2) analyzing their actual purchasing practices; 3) considering consumers as historical subjects depth. The research project, which adopts a mixed-methods approach through the use of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic observations, identifies a typology of COMES consumers...

This contribution highlights the care management strategies and resilience of families during the pandemic in reconciling work and childcare through a qualitative study of working parents aimed at investigating in depth the experiences and reconciliation strategies used to cope with the pandemic...

Both Dario Antiseri and Franco Ferrarotti have frequented the field of religious experience for many years with approaches that are both philosophical and sociological, but with different results. The former arrives at results that see a strong pre-eminence of the discourse of faith, while the latter prefers to move on a more secular level, seeking answers to the mystery of human and divine existence...