ScriptaWeb: Associazione Italiana di Sociologia Giovani Sociologi 2006 con Print on Demand

La pubblicazione di 'Giovani Sociologi 2006' é costituita dalla presente versione on line e da una versione a stampa. Le due versioni sono indissolubili.
Effettuando la procedura di registrazione e di acquisto, avrete subito a disposizione l'edizione on line. Per ricevere la versione a stampa é necessario che il pagamento sia stato effettuato a mezzo bollettino postale seguendo le indicazioni presenti nel sito e nella conferma dell'acquisto che riceverete via e-mail.

Entro tre giorni dall'acquisto, per consentire la spedizione della versione cartacea, é necessario l'invio del bollettino in posta elettronica (info@scriptaweb.it) oppure via fax (081.663365 dalle 8,30 alle 16,30 dei giorni feriali). In assenza di questa comunicazione l'acquisto sarà sospeso.

Al momento della registrazione e dell'acquisto é opportuno inserire con precisione i dati richiesti e l'indirizzo al quale si vuole ricevere la spedizione.
All'interno della versione cartacea c'è una Avvertenza per i Lettori che spiega le funzioni tra loro complementari della versione a stampa e di quella on line.

Chiara Agostini
The Piano di zona as an instrument for institutional innovation in the Italian social policy. The processes of change in the social policy are strongly conditioned by “path dependency” because the institutions tend to show a certain level of stability over time. But even if “path dependency” indicates that the costs of exiting from a given institutional structure are rather high, in the case of Italian social policy the introduction of “Piano di zona” (Area plan) – i.e. the service social plans established by law 328/2000 – represents the arrival of a tool that can foster institutional innovation. In particular the “Piano di zona” becomes an instrument for institution building, aiming at developing a new institutional space for policy planning and encouraging the emergence of new ways of planning and managing the services. From this point of view the “Piano di zona” can be thought of as an intermediate institution capable of bringing about changes in pre-existing institutional structures and of showing how responses to public policy can be developed at a local level.

Paul Blokker
The post-enlargement European order: Europe ‘united in diversity’? While the project of enlargement can be understood as one in which the EU has sought to defend an exclusive understanding of European identity, the combined process of enlargement and constitutionalisation can be said to have ultimately contributed to an opening up of the European project as well as rendering it more sensible to diversity. The theoretical argument of the paper holds that the tendency towards diversity and contingency is not reflected and difficult to deal with in some of the major theories on European integration. A substantive account analyses the actual transformation of the European project. I conclude that the post-enlargement situation can indeed be more adequately described as one of diversity and openness. Nevertheless, the incorporation of diversity still leaves much to be desired, not in the least because of a ‘procedural’ interpretation of the deliberative mode. Deliberation should include the recognition of difference and an emphasis on mutual understanding, rather than being focused on consensus-building.

Giangiacomo Bravo
The Evolution of Trust, Reputation and Reciprocity. Trust is an important concept that intersects a number of different disciplines, including economics, sociology and political science and maintains some meaning even in the natural sciences. Any situation where nonsimultaneous exchanges between living organisms take place involves a problem of trust. We used computer simulation to study the evolution of trust in nonsimultaneous exchange situations formalized by means of a trust game. We found that trust and reciprocity-based cooperation are likely to emerge only when agents have the possibility of building trustworthy reputations and when the information regarding agent past behaviors is sufficiently spread in the system. Both direct and indirect reciprocity play a role in fostering cooperation. However, the strength of the latter is greater under most of the examined conditions. In general, our findings are consistent with theories arguing for a positive feedback relationship between trust, reputation and reciprocity, leading together to higher levels of cooperation.

Micol Bronzini
Networks, social inequalities and health. Notwithstanding an increase of average life expectancy, in post-fordist societies health inequalities seem likely to increase.Health relies principally upon biological subjective risk, stress, healthy behaviours and accessibility to services, but it is influenced also by social determinants. Moving from these remarks the paper tries to investigate the heuristic potentiality which rises inside the conceptual framework of social capital. There are four different mechanisms which are at the root of the relationship between social networks and health outcomes: social networks offer support, convey norms and values which promote healthy behaviours, they further collective action initiatives for healthcare provision and stimulate the immune system. In brief social networks act as mediator of trust and transmit information, guidance, influence. Social capital also affects some health care determinants, in particular prevention and early diagnosis, and it explains differences in access to healthcare prevention services. To analyse the influence of social relations on health in an exhaustive way it is necessary to overcome the antithesis between different dimensions of social capital (micro, meso, macro) exploiting a broader view of social capital.

Ilenya Camozzi
Forms of Migrants’ Associations. The Case of Milan. The considerations put forward in this paper revolve around three basic concepts: identity, recognition and solidarity. The relation between these notions represents an issue of central concern in contemporary western societies. In this research female and male migrants, whose relation with Italian society unfolds through participation in volunteer associations active in the area of migration, are considered key actors in contemporary processes of identity construction and recognition. The associations considered in the research operate in an interstitial space between civil society and institutions, which reminds of Durkheim’s les corps intermediaries. Such a form of space is also characteristic of the Italian migrant integration model. The field of voluntary associations offered an interesting ‘stage’, in which people can be viewed as social actors. Furthermore, the goffmanian ‘role games’ between migrants and Italian volunteers resulted in an attractive ground of study. This research focused, in particular, on the specific figure of volunteer migrants, offering insight into their multiple belongings and self perceptions.
Andrea Ciarini
The changes of welfare regulation in Europe: a comparison between Italy and Sweden. The actual work starts from the debate on the changes of the European welfare systems. According to a neo-institutionalist approach, the comparative analysis, carried-out in Italy and Sweden, aimed at adopting a perspective of analysis that, keeping together the statistical level with those of processes, could put emphasis to these ongoing social changes. As regards the policy sector, the analysis has been focused on the care for frail elderly. The study focused on the relations between the welfare system, the families and the Third sector organisations within local governance networks.

Giuliana Costa
In the balance: severe care needs and social vulnerability. To become disabled and to lose autonomy is one of the most shattering events or processes for human beings from a biographical viewpoint. It is an experience that challenges the material, organisational and symbolic structures of everyday living and the way in which we conceive them. This experience also “wounds” the existence of those who are part of it, not as ill or disabled persons, but as witnesses and caregivers that are heavily involved on both a practical and emotional level. A biographical vulnus caused by a family member no longer functioning properly, affects both those who need care and those who take on the task of giving it. The thesis of this paper is that dealing with severe care needs on a continuous basis in contemporary society (and even more so in future societies) constitutes a specific factor of “social vulnerability” for individuals and their families because when the need for care is serious and long termed and when provided mainly in the family, it sometimes requires radical changes in the organisation of everyday life that threat the life opportunities of individuals and alter their way of “functioning” and existing in the world.

Mafalda D’Onofrio
Interorganizational Approach and Network Analysis on the Employment Services System. This contribution aims to inquire the configuration that the Employment Services Network assumed after the labour market and occupational policy’s reforms that took place during the last decade, that were characterized by the explicit will to spread the network model of interaction among social, economic and institutional actors. The analysis leaded to identify actors, their role and the resources’ management dynamics among public employment service and private agencies as an interorganizational network, according to the IOR theoretical approach and to the Network analysis methodology. The originality of the Italian employment service system imposes the selection of a specific case study, identified in the Province of Rome system for its particular and peculiar organization. This study showed that the relationship between private actors and public ones do not shape automatically as the norms suggest. Indeed, in a loosely coupled system, the actors’ high autonomy, not supported by the agreement among participants regarding the appropriate role and scope of an agency, the values and the nature of the tasks, and without coordination pattern, determined the position of the private actors at the edge of the network. The legal mandate, in this case study, do not seem to be a sufficient motivational force to interact.
Edoardo Della Torre
The modernization of work: first evidences from a longitudinal survey in the Milan area. This study deals with some aspects related to the changes in the organization of work that took place with the supposed shift from the ‘taylor-fordist’ paradigm to new productive models. Based on data regarding a longitudinal sample 90 firms of manufacturing industry in the Milan area, this study sets itself as a contribution to the current that analyzes High Performance Work Practices, with an approach in part crosswise to the ones identifiable in literature. The economic effects of HPWP on firms seem quite evident, so that, although some points are still disputed, we can assume that their limited expansion isn’t caused by employers’ scepticism on their effectiveness. After an analysis of the tendencies in the adoption of HPWP by Milan companies, the final objective of this paper stay in the identification of firms’ structural variables that can distinguish firms classified as ‘innovative’ from those classified as ‘conservative’.

Maria Adelasia Divona
Social capital: an attempt for measurement in the agricultural and zootechnical sector of the province of Enna. The observation of life and job of people involved in agricultural activity in the province of Enna (Sicily) recalls to mind some mechanisms activated by social capital (SC). After an exploration of the theoretical orientations on social capital in the extant literature, the concept has been faced from an individualist perspective. A standardized questionnaire has been built and administered to a sample of farmers of the province in order to detect the presence of SC.Afterwards, an item analysis has been applied to the database so as to verify the reliability of the questionnaire. Finally the data have been submitted to a principal components analysis, with the purpose to estimate the dimensions subtended to the concept of SC. The questionnaire used can be considered an useful tool for an exploratory survey, although it needs further adjustments, Nevertheless the research has shown that the reality perceived through observation is weakly confirmed by the surveyed reality.

Angela Genova
Health inequalities: the governance of prevention in the rescaling of health policies in Italy. On the basis of an empirical analysis, the paper introduces a theoretical reflection on the theme of geographically-based inequalities in the access to essential health services in Italy, considering this aspect as one of the elements that determine inequalities in the state of health of the population. The empirical research concerned the implementation of programmes of secondary prevention of breast tumours in woman (mammographic screening programmes). The paper investigates the causes of differences in the implementation of these programmes, examining the role of the various actors involved in such programmes, and therefore placing at the centre of discussion the topic of governance in the prevention policies, in the context of a rescaling of health policies. The empirical research confirmed the hypothesis that the institutional milieu appears to favour the emergence of determined models of governance, but at the same time revealed that no direct and deterministic relationship exists between models of governance and implementation of the politics.

Gianpaolo Iannicelli
Memory and oblivion at work: the massacre of train 904. On December 23rd, 1984 because of an act of terrorism to the train 904 riding from Naples to Milan, 16 persons died and 267 were seriously injured. Despite of its social, political and historical significance, this event seems to be weakly rooted into collective consciousness. This paper aims to investigate the reasons of this partial oblivion, asking many different questions: what are the social processes that subtend the construction of a collective memory? Why are memory and oblivion tied so closely? And in our instance: why and how is a massacre commemorated? The theoretic framework used refers to two different disciplinary fields: on one hand, we have resorted to the sociological categories concerning memory; on the other hand, the paradigms of the Sociology of Cultural Process and the Sociology of Communication have proved very useful. Data have been gathered through various survey techniques: open interview, ethnographic observation and documentation analysis. The results show how several social, cultural, political – such as the existence of a feeble “community of memory” and the shortage of symbols of memory – interact to determine the aforesaid partial oblivion.

Valentina Orsucci
Telling oneself through the things": a method for studying the individual identity. The aim of this research was to construct a methodolgy that, based on the proposals of the narrative approaches in sociology, could allow to exceed some of their limits: the excessive focalization on biographic narratives and their still specifically methodological nature. Our methodology consists in a "narrative interview through the things": we asked to a sample of 40 interviewed to tell about themselves through three packages, that respectively contained 5objects from which they were felt represented, 5 objects from which they would have desidered to be represented, and 5 objects from which they will have been represented after 15 years. The interpretative model through which we propose the risults of the search is a classification model of the objects, articulated on four levels that correspond to four increasing complexity criteria through which we have analyzed the collected material: the nature of the objects, their meaning, their biografic function and their narrative role.

Emanuela Rinaldi
Young-adult and money: economic socialization and transition to adulthood. Contemporary social research states that getting economic independence from the family of origin is a fundamental step in the transition from teenager-hood to adulthood. According to the symbolic-interactionist perspective, furthermore, a child’s “detachment” from parents takes place gradually through socialization patterns that helps him in getting an adult role within the family, where different type of inter-generational economic exchanges can be observed. The present paper tries to explain some mechanisms underlying these exchanges by showing the results of an exploratory qualitative study carried out on 26 Italian young-adults (aged 27-34 years) and 20 of their parents. Results suggest that parents, when organizing money exchanges during their children’s adolescence,, use different levels of control and give different degrees of autonomy to children. The typology of families described indicates that in Italy some parents seem to put off children in getting autonomous source of money when they are teenagers and even later.

Barbara Saracino
A negotiated communication. My paper’s supposition is that an interactive methodology is more useful understanding science than an unidirectional communication. My work’s purpose is to recognize if science’s perception changes in subjects that have taken part to an interactive debate in a science centre. The research has been realized with citizens that have attended at the projects Meeting of Minds and Decide inthe Science Centre of Naples,on May 2005. Both of the projects allowed the subjects’ deliberative participation and so they have been a good context for the research. From data analysis has resulted the subjects of the research believe that science is interesting. The majority of them haven’t problems to acquire scientific information, before the experience they have a clear idea of what science, technology and scientist mean; nevertheless the debate between them and with the experts has produced in the subjects new curiosities and problems. Those people have acquired more awareness and they have expounded the question of social responsibility.

Davide Sterchele
A kick at the war. Sports rituals, collective identities and political conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Post war Bosnia-Herzegovina is a sort of “neo-feudal” system in which the rights of citizenship are secondary compared to the particularist-clientelist links. Political and economic power is in the hands of nationalist elites of three groups – Serb, Croat, and Bosniak. Such power depends on maintaining the antagonism between the groups and therefore the relevance of the ethno-national identity. Consequently whatever process that creates or renders relevant alternative identities or belongings (trans- or super-ethnic) could alter the current socio-political equilibrium and constitutes therefore a potential menace for the elites in power. By means of ethnographic research I studied football rituals in Bosnia-Herzegovina, seeking to understand in what way and under what circumstances such events contribute to making relevant transversal or alternative identities and belongings as opposed to ethno-national ones.

Chiara Agostini é dottoranda in Sistemi sociali Organizzazione e Analisi delle politiche pubbliche presso il Dipartimento Innovazione e società dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Collabora con la cattedra di Analisi delle politiche pubbliche della Facoltà di sociologia di Roma “La Sapienza” e si occupa principalmente di processi di trasformazione del welfare. Nel 2005 con la casa editrice Aracne ha pubblicato il saggio Fra politiche e istituzioni: quale eredità per i nuovi modelli di welfare?

Paul Blokker ha conseguito un dottorato in scienze politiche e sociali all’Istituto universitario europeo, Firenze, ed è laureato in scienze politiche all’università di Amsterdam. È collaboratore di ricerca e insegna presso la facoltà di Sociologia, università degli Studi di Trento. Fra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti è: “Post-Communist Modernization, Transition Studies, and Diversity in Europe”, 8(4) European Journal of Social Theory (2005), 503–525.

Giangiacomo Bravo è ricercatore e docente di Sociologia Economica presso la Facoltà di Economia dell'Università di Brescia. La sua attività di ricerca verte principalmente sulla gestione di risorse naturali condivise, sul rapporto tra attività antropiche e sostenibilità ambientale e sui fattori che favoriscono la cooperazione in situazioni caratterizzate da problemi di azione collettiva. È autore di Gli alberi o le statue: risorse comuni e sostenibilità ambientale (Aracne, Roma, 2006).

Micol Bronzini è dottore di ricerca in Sociologia Economica e assegnista presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali dell’Università Politecnica delle Marche. I principali interessi di ricerca sviluppati spaziano su due distinte aree tematiche: i problemi dello sviluppo locale e la sociologia sanitaria, con particolare riferimento allo studio di genere delle professioni sanitarie e al tema delle disuguaglianze di salute. Ambito di ricerca trasversale, che ispira l’impostazione metodologica seguita per entrambi i filoni di studio, è la teoria del capitale sociale, così come si è venuta declinando a partire dal contributo di Coleman.

Ilenya Camozzi è Dottore di ricerca in ‘Sociologia applicata e metodologia della ricerca sociale’ presso l’Università di Milano-Bicocca. Attualmente è assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Sociologia e ricerca sociale dell’Università di Milano-Bicocca. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca comprendono: i fenomeni culturali (processi di innovazione culturale, società multiculturali, costruzioni identitarie), i processi migratori (‘seconde generazioni’ di migranti e associazionismo migratorio) e le teorie della modernità.

Andrea Ciarini è Dottorando di ricerca in Sistemi Sociali, Organizzazioni e Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche presso la Facoltà di Sociologia dell’Università di Roma, La Sapienza. Si è laureato nel 2003 con una tesi sullo sviluppo per piccola e media impresa in Romania. Attualmente conduce attività di ricerca nel campo del mutamento della regolazione del welfare in Europa. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti: Per una modellistica delle forme partecipative alle arene deliberative, Quaderni di Ricerca del Dipartimento Innovazione e Società, n. 6, Università di Roma, La Sapienza.

Giuliana Costa è docente a contratto in Politiche di Welfare Locale presso la Facoltà di Architettura e Società del Politecnico di Milano. Laureata in Economia all’Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi di Milano, ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di ricerca in Sociologia presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano. Svolge attività di ricerca, formazione e consulenza presso il Laboratorio di Politiche Sociali del Politecnico di Milano dedicando particolare attenzione ai temi della progettazione delle politiche sociali.

Mafalda D’Onofrio ha conseguito nel 2006 il dottorato di ricerca in Sistemi sociali, Organizzazione e Analisi delle Politiche Pubbliche dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Attualmente svolge attività di ricerca presso l’Isfol, Area “Ricerche sui sistemi del lavoro”, su temi legati allle politiche e ai sistemi per l’occupazione. Tra le sue pubblicazioni più recenti “Gli utenti e i centri per l’impiego”, con G. Baronio, per la collana Isfol “Monografie sul mercato del lavoro e le politiche per l’impiego”.

Edoardo Della Torre, laureato in Scienze Politiche all’Università degli Studi di Milano, sta concludendo il Dottorato di ricerca in “Scienze del Lavoro” presso il Dipartimento di Studi del Lavoro e del Welfare della medesima università. Svolge la sua attività di ricerca anche presso il Centro Studi dell’Associazione degli Industriali della Lombardia (Assolombarda), dove si occupa prevalentemente delle trasformazioni e delle tendenze evolutive del mercato del lavoro.

Maria Adelasia Divona è laureata in scienze politiche presso l’Università di Palermo. Attualmente è dottoranda in Sociologia, Territorio e Sviluppo Rurale nello stesso ateneo. Ha conseguito il titolo di esperta in politiche pubbliche al Master Internazionale in “Politiche pubbliche e sviluppo territoriale” dell’Università di Palermo e dell’Universidad de Deusto (ES). Si occupa in particolare di sviluppo rurale, politiche locali di sviluppo e differenze di genere.

Angela Genova è docente a contratto presso la Facoltà di Sociologia dell’Università di Urbino. Laureata in Sociologia presso lo stesso ateneo, ha conseguito un Master in Sociological Research Methods presso l’University of Essex, UK e il titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in “sociologia delle istituzioni giuridiche e politiche” presso l’Università di Macerata. Autrice di “The path dependent nature of urban governance: new emerging modes in Finland and in Italy”, The Greek review of Social Research, 2006.

Gianpaolo Iannicelli si è laureato in Sociologia all’Università di Napoli “Federico II”, dove ha conseguito anche il titolo di Dottore di ricerca in “Sociologia e ricerca sociale”. È Cultore della materia in “Comunicazione e processi culturali”. Tra le sue pubblicazioni: Spazio, tempo e identità nella società della comunicazione (Atti dell’Accademia di scienze morali e politiche, CXV, 2004). È co-traduttore del libro Pensare sociologicamente di Z. Bauman e T. May (Ipermedium libri, Napoli, 2003).

Valentina Orsucci è dottoranda in Comunicazione e Nuove Tecnologie all’Università Iulm di Milano. Attualmente collabora alle attività di ricerca e di didattica dell’Istituto di Comunicazione della stessa Università.

Emanuela Rinaldi è Dottore di Ricerca in Sociologia e Metodologia della Ricerca Sociale. Lavora presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore e l’università IULM di Milano e ha condotto diverse ricerche anche presso l’Università di Exeter (UK) e l’Università di València (ES). Si occupa principalmente di sociologia generale e sociologia dell’educazione, con particolare interesse per i processi di socializzazione e l’educazione ai consumi.

Barbara Saracino, laureata in Sociologia presso la Facoltà di Sociologia dell’Università Federico II di Napoli con una tesi in Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali dal titolo “Partecipazione e percezione: una scienza negoziata”, attualmente è dottoranda di ricerca in “Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali” presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Firenze. Il suo interesse di studio riguarda l’epistemologia e la sociologia della scienza. Ha partecipato di recente (9-10 giugno 2006) al convegno “Le forme dell’innovazione tra società e tecnoscienza prospettive ed esperienze di ricerca” promosso dall’Associazione STS Italia con una relazione per il workshop “Comunicazione pubblica della scienza e della tecnologia”.

Davide Sterchele insegna Sociologia generale e Sociologia della comunicazione presso le Facoltà di Scienze Politiche e di Lettere e Filosofia all’Università degli Studi di Padova. Ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca in “Sociologia: processi comunicativi e interculturali nella sfera pubblica” presso il dipartimento di Sociologia dell’Università di Padova, dove attualmente svolge attività di ricerca.