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Introduzione alla sessione plenaria “Dove vanno le nuove generazioni? “
2020
Cosa significa narrare le infanzie in una prospettiva interdisciplinare ed interculturale? L'introduzione alla sessione plenaria ipotizza risposte a questa domanda, focalizzando l'attenzione sulla relazione adulto-bambini e sulla relazione tra bambini, sula costruzione congiunta di significativa attraverso la comunicazione e processi simbolici e immaginativi condivisi. Approfondisce quindi le ragioni per una consapevolezza degli adulti rispetto alla propria immagine di bambino e sottolinea l'importanza del lavoro di comunità per lo sviluppo di una cultura dell'infanzia What does it mean to narrate childhoods in an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective? The introduction to the plen…
Imagery and Religious Conversion. The Symbolic Function of Jonah 1:13
2018
Jonah 1:13 has a delaying function in the narrative, introducing a pause between Jonah’s demand to be thrown in the sea (1:12) and the event’s occurrence (1:15). Most commentators discuss only the events of 1:13 and their causes. In this article, I suggest an interpretation of Jonah 1:13 based on the imagery of the narrative. An analysis of the use of metaphors and symbols does not replace the message of the verse; such an analysis simply augments it with motives of the seamen’s conversion. Beside the narrative level, there is a hidden level suggesting a deeper understanding of the story where symbols and metaphors have a consolidating function. Distance, directions, and movement in Jonah 1…
The Continuation War as a metanoic moment : a Burkean reading of lutheran hierocratic rhetoric
2012
Intorno alla sociologia dei problemi sociali
2019
Il saggio ricostruisce le diverse prospettive di ricerca sociologica che si sono sempre interrogate sulle cause, le condizioni, le conseguenze e le soluzioni dei problemi sociali, a partire dalla categorizzazione medesima del concetto. The essay reconstructs the different perspectives of sociological research that have always questioned the causes, conditions, consequences and solutions of social problems, starting from the very categorization of the concept.
Fanonian analysis of racism and postcolonial structures of othering
2023
The paper explores how boundaries affect the search for identity in the context of racism and colonialism. Colonized individuals often experience a sense of alienation and inferiority caused by the limitations imposed by colonial power structures, leading to a quest for personal identity. However, the binary division between the colonizer and colonized affects everyone involved, making searching for personal identity more complex and reinforcing systemic racism. The first section of the article examines how race, a socially constructed concept, plays a crucial role in defining the difference between oneself and others, impo-sing structures of othering based on Fanonian analysis. The second …
La costruzione sociale dei suicidi
2020
Il saggio presenta le principali prospettive di ricerca costruzioniste sul tema del suicidio. Le sociologie costruzioniste – e, in particolare, interazionismo simbolico, etnometodologia, fenomenologia – hanno operato la resa dei conti con gli approcci positivisti. I saggi analizzati offrono una summa di grande interesse dei modi originali con cui le sociologie costruzioniste hanno re-immaginato lo studio dei suicidi andando oltre la rigidità dello schema “cause e cure” degli approcci positivisti ed arricchendo di sfumature la nostra comprensione del fenomeno. Di fronte a un panorama sociologico per cui lo studio del suicidio è ancora sinonimo di analisi durkheimiana e di dati statistici, i …
The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Influences on Vietnamese Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Ho Chi Minh City
2020
In the new era, the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for business organizations is a matter of primary concern and has been researched by scholars around the world. Interest in CSR in business enterprises is often neglected due to its high-cost factor and the enterprises only focused on its operations and profitability for the existence of a business. If the enterprises have a good CSR policy within their development strategy, they will attain greater success. It was deemed that the empirical study adopted a descriptive survey method, 103 data samples were selected from the SMEs for analysis. The results indicated that SME management who adopted and implemented CSR polici…
Das ritual der unterwerfung Stefan Nemanjas unter Maunel I. Komnenos (1172)
2013
This article investigates the ceremonial of the subjection of the Serbian zupan Stefan Nemanja to the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1172) and compares it with similar events of the period in question. It argues for a strong influence of western forms of conflict resolution (?deditio?) in the ceremonial.
Retoryka ciągłości: o dziedzictwie prawnym II Rzeczpospolitej i rządów komunistycznych
2017
The aim of the article is to establish whether the continuity between the Second and Third Polish Republics officially declared by the Polish elites is based on facts. The authors analyse the question with regard to three areas: symbolic events (handing over of the presidential insignia in 1990 and the 1998 resolution of the Senate of the Republic of Poland on legal continuity), judgements of ordinary courts and the Constitutional Court as well as legal scholarship. In their conclusion they point out that the rhetoric of continuity between the Second and the Third Polish Republics on the legal level hides real continuity between the communist regime and the normative system in force in Pol…
Managing the paradox of unwanted efficiency : The symbolic legitimation of the hypermarket format in Finland, 1960–1975
2018
Occasionally, organisations are forced to adopt new practices that are inconsistent with the expectations of their stakeholders. An immediate adoption of the practices would risk the organisation’s legitimacy, but as previous research has noted, the perceptions of organisational stakeholders can be managed through symbolic actions. In this article, I examine how actors from four retail organisations symbolically legitimated the adoption of the hypermarket format within their individual contexts by means of internal professional magazines. The analysis suggests that the organisations buttressed their legitimacy by reversing Meyer and Rowan’s idea of loose coupling – adopting the new practice…