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What is the contribution of General System Theory to the macro-level understanding of economic, social and technological changes in our epoch from a multidimensional perspective? What is the contribution of Social Action Theory on a micro-scale? Can complex scenario analyses, although based upon uncertainty and unpredictability, offer a viable toolkit for managing these transformations? This book contains twelve chapters, dealing with these questions from various points of view. It brings together essays in sociology, economics, law and humanities to provide as complete a representation as possible of the current global situation. The theoretical framework adopted here is that the systemic approach provides the most effective tool both for understanding social phenomena and elaborating policy-modelling strategies for decision makers that are supposed to tackle social criticalities.
In the next twenty years, the convergence of robotics, informatics, nano-bio-technologies, genetics, information technologies, and cognitive sciences will have a significant impact on society. This convergence will lead to a revolution in the way that science, health, energy, resources, production, consumption and environment are conceptualised. However, these technologies will also pose new and specific challenges in terms of sustainability, ethics, and even expectations of the future. Indeed, today, the word “future” is often associated with pessimism and fear, much more than it was in the past. In order to face all these technological, ethical and cultural challenges, governments, industries and societies will need a robust cognitive framework, in order to grasp the complex dimensions of the technological convergence in progress, and must rapidly develop effective strategies to face the situations that will, unavoidably, take place. This book provides, through systemic and complexity theories, some of the theoretical tools necessary to tackle the opportunities and risks of the future.
This book represents one of the outcomes of the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA) Conference held in Rome in the Autumn of 2018, titled “Turbulent Convergence”. It reflects the fruitful discussions developed by a number of papers presented at the event by scholars from several different countries. In particular, the volume represents a great effort on the part of the WCSA to gather research carried out in Europe and beyond and to provide a forum for valuable discussion at international level in a cosmopolitan way.
This book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems. With contributions from experts world-wide, an array of healthcare management models, techniques, and integrative solutions are presented, drawing on econometric, system dynamics, and agent-based models as well as state-of-the-art empirical studies. As total healthcare spending (both total expenditures on health as a percentage of GDP and average spending on per capita) increases across most of the world’s economies, healthcare systems continue to face challenges in terms of cost, quality, and access, as a result of its fra...
Écrit en collaboration avec Natália Brasil Dib, Emilia Ferone et Sara Petroccia, cet essai en anglais comprend un ensemble de contributions qui analysent la méthode recherche sociologique relative à la notion de « Hypercitizenship », en se focalisant sur les questions du développement global, de la croissance technologique et du cosmopolitisme du point de vue du citoyen.
Il volume è ispirato ad un’analisi multidimensionale di temi sociologici e di tutti quei cambiamenti, sinteticamente definibili come culturali, che caratterizzano la società nel suo evolvere. Between Global and Local. Cultural Changes ha raggruppato alcuni di questi cambiamenti e li racconta in quattro differenti sezioni: Cultural Changes and Globalization, Cultural Changes in Education, Cultural Changes in Policy and Tecnologies, Cultural Changes in the Media. Il progetto editoriale è stato strutturato sull’idea che il mondo globale è diventato la cornice nella quale vanno inseriti tutti i fenomeni sociali, politici e culturali che la società, in costante evoluzione, continua a manifestare e su cui è bene riflettere, sia per affrontarli e supportarli, ma anche per contrastarli al meglio.
Il presente lavoro affronta gli aspetti che hanno contraddistinto il fenomeno assistenziale con particolare riferimento alla realtà italiana. La ricerca muove dalle prime forme di soccorso e descrive il percorso evolutivo dell’assistenza, fino a giungere al moderno sistema integrato. Il ruolo attribuito alla società civile apre verso nuove prospettive, anche di integrazione e di inclusione, delineando un modello di welfare che ruota su un sistema sussidiario degli interventi. L’ elevazione di nuovi principi a rango costituzionale e l’ emanazione del Codice del Terzo settore fanno da cornice al nuovo sistema di sviluppo della persona all’interno delle formazioni sociali.
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Nel fascicolo ordinario del 2021 della «Rivista internazionale di sociologia giuridica e diritti umani» vengono affrontati temi quali l'ermeneutica costituzionale, i disastri ambientali, le emergenze e le criticità che sta vivendo l'Unione europea. lRiflessioni specifiche si concentrano sull'annoso dibattito tra scienza e religione e su Weber oltre il postmoderno. Ad aprire il fascicolo l'editoriale del direttore Bruno Maria Bilotta.