http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3294 ll ruolo delle scienze sociali / The Role of Social Sciences Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:21:54 GMT 2026-04-20T12:21:54Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3322 Limiti e opportunità delle scienze sociali Mangone, Emiliana The knowledge of social sciences - while not denying the autonomy of the single disciplines but abandoning the excess of self reference - must become reflective knowledge that promotes the construction of connections in the environments of life of individuals, and between individuals overcoming the “social physics” of Comtian memory. That lays the foundations (theoretical / empirical) for interventions that can lead to positive transformations both at individual and social level. We can therefore no longer speak of the contrast between theory and operability. We need to talk about a continuum of interdependencies that goes from theory to operability. In this logic sociology (in particular) and other sciences of society and humanity (in general) must take on a fundamental role in the institution (first) and maintenance (then) of the integration of these aspects. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3322 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3321 Sull'utilità e il danno della conoscenza sociologica Riccioni, Ilaria The discipline of sociology observes the intertwining of social dynamics and social tendencies in relation to institutional power. How this observation becomes social knowledge concerns different areas: from empirical methodologies to philosophical reflexivity that can orient the starting question. However, sociology is not only a descriptive kind of science, but also a critical one. Through hermeneutics and activity, as well as active observation, sociology fulfill its role among other sciences. My thesis here is that in order to keep up with this role, in order to be able to absolve this role also in contemporary society, sociology has to become again the study of large-scale historical processes and structures, starting from the historical context in which are situated also in a comparative way. Also, problematizing the social sciences paradigm to which sociology itself is referring to so to relate it to the big changes in politics and economy from the ‘70s up to now. This essay will try to develop a critical view towards sociological knowledge recurring to some modern sociologist of the American and European tradition. http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3321 http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3320 La scienza delle proprietà emergenti. Un approccio circolare alla relazione attraverso Escher Lampredi, Giacomo This article has the aim to discuss the ways through which takes place the auto-organizations of social forms, and how this can represents a redefinition of the role of social sciences. The idea is to be able to trace a sociology as “science of emergent proprieties”. In fact the social phenomena aren’t the results of individual proprieties, and neither the outcomes of impersonal structures, but are the results of structural coupling between these two elements. The article is giving a new likely definition of “social relation”, meant as a “a co-regulated, co-adaptive and co-evolutionary coupling where every agent influences another, giving life to a relational and self-organized domain”. This definition is partly influenced by autopoiesis theory and its possible connections with the thoughts of Georg Simmel, Gregory Bateson and Pierpaolo Donati. Also, it can be useful in order to trace a new sociological path that looks at the observed phenomena as “ongoing social phenomena”, discussing interventions of welfare. In the frame of discussions of relational phenomenon, the concept of “economic flexibility” of Bateson’s Thought will be introduced for explain the homeostatic capacity of relationship as circularity interaction. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3320 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3319 Per una sociologia critica delle migrazioni. Alcune notazioni teorico-metodologiche Marra, Claudio In this essay we intend to offer a critical analysis on the relationship between the most widespread conceptions about immigration and those that give the social sciences. In the wake of the most recent studies of the sociology of migration, the aim is to show the importance of a closer relationship between the first and the second. We try to show how Pierre Bourdieu's sociological critique can be effective for an analytical journey of migration that compares with the criticism of the same conceptual categories that have so far led researchers, often using those of political discourse and common sense. A greater interaction between the results of empirical research and conceptual tools allow an elaboration that, broadening the perspective, at the same time considers the search for a general theory of migration ineffective. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/3319 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z