Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia
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Recensione a Michela Nacci, Strade per la felicità. Il pensiero politico di Bertrand Russell, Roma, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2012. Incredibile a dirsi ma scarseggiano anche in lingua inglese studi sistematici dedicati esclusivamente... more
È universalmente noto che la ricerca delle cause sociali del sui-cidio ha dato origine a uno dei più classici e controversi dibattiti nella storia della sociologia. Non può quindi non suscitare interesse il recente denso volume che Marzio... more
Within the so-called biographical movement (Bertaux 1981), which from the early 1980s has contributed to re-orient sociological perspectives to grasp the embeddedness of biographies in social macrostructures, mechanisms and processes,... more
Roundtable with and on Deborath Lupton's The Quantified Self, discussing the diffusion of personal Apps for Mhealth and the rationalization of self in the context of consumer culture
Abstract The essay analyzes the illness narratives a small sample (n= 50) of psychiatric patients living in Turin, each providing two long in depth interviews. The paper outlines the experience of biographical disruption that accompanies... more
L’articolo esamina i fattori alla base del successo dell’economia cognitiva-culturale (ECC) nell’area metropolitana milanese, focalizzandosi, in particolare, su interazioni e reti sociali tra professionisti e operatori del settore. Il... more
During the past forty years, biographical research, which had significantly declined in post-war sociological inquiry, has gained new visibility and has become an established field within scientific social research. This revival has... more
Discussion of Warde's Book "Consumption", stressing the need to consider normative notions of consumption and the consumer to complement theory of practice
In this article it is argued that many quantitative sociologists routinely misunderstand and, therefore, misuse regression analysis. To illustrate the main sources of such a bad habit and contribute to its amendment, in the first place... more
Fil: Gutierrez, Alicia Beatriz. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Cordoba. Instituto de Humanidades. Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. Instituto de Humanidades; Argentina
... I più vecchi, come Donald Roy, Albert Reiss, Morris Janowitz, erano già stati studenti a Chicago prima della guerra. ... «Quale parte della tesi?». «Prendi un'idea e qualsiasi cosa puoi connettere ragionevolmente a quell'idea... more
This paper explores the emerging forms of water socialisation promoted by civil society actors through grassroots initiatives. The analysis focuses on the case study of the Manifesto for the Po, a heterogeneous civic network established... more
Teh paper presents the main findings of an exploratory research focused on Fiat workers living on cassa integrazione (redudancy payment) in Turin. The large factory manual workers who are the subjects of in-depth interviews are unskilled... more
The article addresses the relationship between society and politics in Western European countries, focusing on Germany, France, and Italy. It is possible to appreciate some noticeable differences among these societies with regard to the... more
Starting from Hochschild's conceptualization of emotional labor in service work, emotions at work have become a classic issue, both for gender and organization studies. Moreover, the role of emotions and feelings as productive factors... more
Notwithstanding a growing interest on online politics in social research, Internet use for making social movements more democratic received little attention. When social movement organizations (SMOs) create their websites, they often... more
... Ringraziamenti particolari vanno a Giuseppe Parlato, diret-tore della Fondazione Spirito, eaLucia R. Petese, la quale ha catalogato e inven-tariato le carte Pellizzi e la cui preziosa consulenza ha accompagnato l'intero... more
The essay deals with the hypothesis of a global process of dislocation of the «abyssal line», adopting the concept of «abyssal exclusions» by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The Portuguese sociologist, inspired in particular by the... more
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia ISSN : 0486-0349. Numero: 4, ottobre-dicembre 2009, Indice. DOI: 10.1423/30974. G. Gobo, Doing Ethnography, 2008 Salvatore La Mendola, pp. 752-753 7 [pdf 172K ...
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia ISSN : 0486-0349. Numero: 2, aprile-giugno 1999, Indice. DOI: 10.1423/2514. Religione civile e contesti nazionali Enzo Pace, pp. 189-208 7 [pdf 962K ...
The article addresses the relation between society and politics in Western European countries, focusing on Germany, France and Italy. It is possible to appreciate some noticeable differences among these societies with regard to the... more
Although software for handling textual data has been available since the mid 1960s, it was not until the early 1980s that qualitative researchers discovered that the computer assist them working with their data (Kelle 1995; 2000). Today,... more
Il volume Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (CHA), a cura di James Mahoney e Dietrich Rueschemeyer, è uno dei più recenti contributi ad una discussione metodo-logica ed epistemologica che da alcuni anni si sta... more
Mental Health, Greimas, Narration, Illness narratives
Il volume affronta una questione centrale nella sociologia dell'arte: quando inizia, ma soprattutto quando finisce un'opera d'arte? Siamo abituati a pensare alle arti come a sistemi di produzione, classificazione,... more
The problem of identity has probably become the central theme of the socio-political debate in the course of the last decade. That despite, and perhaps also that's why, there are many unexplored areas or that however deserve a... more