Alessandro Cavalli

Paolo Jedlowski

Carmen Leccardi

In this book leading sociologists explore how in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current 'temporal crisis' of social life and sociological debates.

A Conversation Between Memories and Futures

Exploring New Temporal Horizons

In this book, leading sociologists explore how, in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, they highlight the crucial role of the past elaboration processes in freeing the future from the weight of trauma and renewing the ability to hope. Offering a sophisticated and innovative social theory in a burgeoning field, this is a much-needed intervention to the current ‘temporal crisis’ of social life and sociological debates.

A Conversation between Memories and Futures

Alberto Martinelli

The EU is to-day at a crossroad: either it becomes a great supranational union or it goes back to being an array of separate independent states. Alberto Martinelli and Alessandro Cavalli draw a grand fresco of the society in which the European Union is taking shape.

European Society

Antonio De Lillo

IARD.

secondo rapporto Iard sulla condizione giovanile in Italia

Giovani anni 80

indagine Iard sulla condizione giovanile in Italia

Giovani oggi

Questo volume raccoglie testi scritti in varie occasioni nell’arco di circa mezzo secolo. Riunisce saggi, articoli, introduzioni e prefazioni alle traduzioni italiane di classici più o meno noti, oltre a relazioni e interventi tenuti durante svariati convegni. Testimonia l’incessante attenzione di Alessandro Cavalli nei confronti delle molteplici tematiche inerenti la storia del pensiero sociologico.Quattro personaggi occupano la scena: Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart e Norbert Elias.Coi primi due, in particolare, l’autore non ha mai smesso di “dialogare virtualmente”. Fonti inesauribili di riflessione, ne hanno influenzato – sia direttamente sia indirettamente – l’attività di ricercatore empirico, anche su argomenti in apparenza lontani dall’attenzione dei suoi referenti.Questi scritti, sebbene in parte superati dalla letteratura specialistica più recente, sono un invito rivolto alle giovani generazioni di ricercatori sociali a non trascurare i classici della loro disciplina, al fine di non appiattirsi sulla contemporaneità e sulla contingenza.

Alessandro Cavalli

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