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Antifascism and Sociology
In this fascinating account of the master social scientist and policy innovator, Gino Germani, written by his daughter, the reader will find a rich social and intellectual history. Germani's life traversed Italy under Mussolini's fascism, Argentina under Peronism, and North America during the glorious days of the social sciences' postwar expansion. With high irony, the biography concludes with Germani's return to Naples, Italy, as what Ana Germani correctly calls "an outsider in the homeland." This is a volume that should be uniquely appealing to area specialists, social psychologists, and those concerned with the cross-currents of politics and society. From his youth in Italy, which he left...
The Transnational Unconscious
This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined the Twentieth century.
Marginality and Modernity
This book traces the major stages in the evolution of the sociological concept of marginality, highlighting in particular the contribution made by Gino Germani. Its purpose is to analyse, starting with the sociological theory of the early 1960s, the progressive maturation of the scientific status of the concept of marginality, and to test the theoretical premise that gave rise to Germani's theory of marginality.The author begins by examining the contribution of the Chicago School. He explores the complex relationship between the theory of marginality and modernization by analysing North American theses and the criticisms mainly generated in Latin America. The goal is to reconstruct Germani's...
Varieties of Social Imagination
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent’s short, informative, and analytic essays engaged with long traditions of social thought across the globe—from India, Brazil, and China to South Africa, Turkey, and Peru. . . and occasionally the United States and Europe. Sociologist and AJS editor Andrew Abbott edited the Celarent essays, and in Varieties of Social Imagination, he brings the work together for the first time. Previously available only in the journal, the thirty-six meditations found here allow readers not only to engage more deeply with a diversity of thinkers from the past, but to imagine more fully a sociology—and a broader social science—for the future.
Per Gino Germani
L’autoritarismo va consideriamo come un problema della contemporaneità, che non è affatto scomparso dal nostro orizzonte con la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, perché rappresenta una delle possibili risposte ad alcune contraddizioni insite nella società moderna e nella democrazia moderna e che può fare nuovamente la sua comparsa nel mondo storico di oggi. E occorre sempre distinguere tra le varie forme di autoritarismo se vogliamo realmente capire da dove vengono volta per volta gli specifici pericoli e come realisticamente fronteggiarli.
Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends
Candor, breadth, judiciousness-all these are attributes Irving Louis Horowitz possesses as a scholar. Under his leadership there is no academic publication from which I have learned as much as Transaction-Society."David Riesman, Harvard University "We are all happy benefi ciaries of Horowitz's acutely perceptive and (often) devas-tatingly plain-spoken self as sociologist and sage, broad-gauged scholar, dedicated teacher, tough-minded editor and publisher with an ingrained sense of fairness."Robert K. Merton, Columbia University.
Neither Peace nor Freedom
During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and freedom led them to organizations sponsored by the governments of the Cold War powers: the Soviet-backed World Peace Council, the U.S.-supported Congress for Cultural Freedom, and, after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, the homegrown Casa de las Américas. Neither Peace nor Freedom delves into the entwined histories of these organizations and the aspirations and dilemmas of intellectuals who participated in them, from Diego Rivera and Pablo Neruda to Gabriel Gar...
Postcolonial Reconstruction: A Sociological Reading of Octavio Paz
This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’ sociological ideas to contemporary debates, arguing that Paz’ sociology is linked very closely to his assessment of what could be called the post-colonial condition that Mexico has been experiencing. The book thus advances the understanding of the differences between post-colonial experiences in Latin America and those of other areas of the world. In addition to revealing Paz’ sociology, the book focuses on Modernity and examines Paz’ critique of Modernity and his “project of Modernity”. It shows that a close examination of the works of Octavio Paz helps redefine Modernity from a Latin American perspective as an experience in which the global and local are intertwined, and helps to point in the direction of a new kind of humanism.
Le crisi della contemporaneità. Una prospettiva sociologica
Il libro affronta le pluralità delle crisi soggettive, culturali, politiche e istituzionali che attraversano la società contemporanea. A seguito della trasformazione del sistema Fordista, del declino del Welfare State e della crisi finanziaria del 2008, non solo la povertà, l’emarginazione ma anche altre forme di tensioni e asincronie sono emerse all’interno della modernità destrutturando il mito e la narrazione della crescita e del progresso razionale. Il volume, attraverso una prospettiva sociologica e interdisciplinare, passa in rassegna le diverse articolazioni che le crisi hanno assunto in seno alla modernità. Particolari attenzioni sono conferite da una parte ai temi del razzismo, alle vittime della crisi quali gli adulti senza fissa dimora e i giovani, al fenomeno del populismo e dall’altra alla nuova forma di governamentalità, al rapporto tra criminologia e crisi economica attraverso la ricerca sui colletti bianchi e alla questione dell’interdipendenza tra diritto penale e devianza sociale.
