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Origins of Capitalism and Jewish Ethics
This book focuses on the religious origins of the spirit of capitalism through the thought of Werner Sombart. It offers a critical analysis of the link he makes between Jewish ethics and the spirit of capitalism. Sombart’s exploration of this topic has not found, to this day, adequate representation in the literature. As such, this book analyses the origins of capitalism through a materialistic and spiritual approach, thus offering an unprecedented methodological and epistemological path. It brings to light a different, little-investigated, avenue of exploration followed by the social processes that have governed the relationship between economy and religion, in the belief that this can generate new cognitive and development perspectives for contemporary capitalism.
Smart Society
Increasingly, we hear of ‘smart’ cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an ‘intelligent’ connection with the ‘network society’. This book addresses the issues raised by the emergence of ‘smart’ dimensions and initiatives in society, critically engaging with questions surrounding the feasibility of what smart initiatives propose and the extent to which they can really offer solutions to the challenges we face. With attention to the notion of ‘smart’ as applied to the individual, the community, politics and the home, the authors consider the interconnections between these various facets of ‘smart living’ and their relationship to the notion of the smart society as a whole. Drawing on a concrete study of an attempt to concretize smart ideas in the design of a smart, solar home as part of an international project, Smart Society offers the first extended sociological engagement with the notion of smart living.
The Lab's Quarterly 20(2), 2018
Saggi Ilaria Iannuzzi, L’ebraismo nella formazione dello spirito capitalistico. Un excursus tra le opere di Werner Sombart; Nicolò Pennucci, Gramsci e Bourdieu sul problema dello Stato. Dalla teoria della dominazione alla sociologia storica; Rossella Rega, Roberta Bracciale, La self-personalization dei leader politici su Twitter. Tra professionalizzazione e intimizzazione; Stefano Sacchetti, Il mondo allo specchio. La seconda modernità nel cinema di Gabriele Salvatores; Giulia Pratelli, La musica come strumento per osservare il mutamento sociale. Dylan, Mozart, Mahler e Toscanini; Luca Corchia, Sugli inizi dell’interpretazione sociologica del rock. Alla ricerca di un nuovo canone estetico. Recensioni Letizia Materassi, Social media e comunicazione della salute, di Alessandro Lovari
Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing
This edited volume is the first to propose new readings of Italian and transnational female-authored texts through the lens of Trauma Studies. Illuminating a space that has so far been left in the shadows, Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women’s Writing provides new insights into how the trope of trauma shapes the narrative, temporal and linguistic dimension of these works. The various contributions delineate a landscape of female-authored Italian and transnational trauma narratives and their complex textual negotiation of suffering and pathos, from the twentieth century to the present day. These zones of trauma engender a new aesthetics and a new reading of history and cultural memory as an articulation of female creativity and resistance against a dominant cultural and social order.
The Processes and Theories of the Smart City
This book describes the phenomenon of the smart city in all its facets through sociological lenses. What is a smart city? What social challenges is it addressing? What are its limits and what are its potentialities? The concept of the smart city is still somewhat unclear, although the smart city project is currently at the forefront of society. Through a precise analysis of the concept of “smart”, the book provides a holistic definition of what constitutes a smart city. It will guide readers who want to analyse and describe the smart city, not only in the sociological field, but also in the technical-scientific field, and for those who want to explore its limits, its potentialities and its future developments.
CNDSS 2018
CNDSS2018 è la “III Conferenza Nazionale delle Dottorande e dei Dottorandi in Scienze Sociali” svolta presso la Sapienza Università di Roma (13-14 settembre 2018). Il Convegno, patrocinato dell’Associazione Italiana di Sociologia (AIS), è stato realizzato grazie alla collaborazione tra gli allievi del Dottorato in “Comunicazione, Ricerca Sociale e Marketing” del Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, e del Dottorato in “Scienze Sociali Applicate” del Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche. Questa terza edizione ha visto la partecipazione di laureati magistrali, dottorandi e neodottori di ricerca, provenienti da diversi Atenei italiani, configurandosi quale luogo ideale di incontro e di confronto tra esperienze di studio e di ricerca, ma anche di dibattito attivo su approcci teorici e metodologici, per “giovani” studiosi nell’ambito delle scienze sociali.
Towards Recognizing New Semantic Concepts in New Visual Domains
Despite being the leading paradigm in computer vision, deep neural networks are inherently limited by the visual and semantic information contained in their training set. In this thesis, we aim to design deep models operating with previously unseen visual domains and semantic concepts. We first describe different solutions for generalizing to new visual domains, applying variants of normalization layers to multiple challenging settings e.g. where new domain data is not available but arrives online or is described by metadata. In the second part, we incorporate new semantic concepts into pretrained deep models. We propose specific solutions for different problems such as multi-task/incremental learning and open-world recognition. Finally, we merge the two challenges: given images of multiple domains and categories, can we recognize unseen concepts in unseen domains? We propose an approach that is the first, promising step, towards solving this problem. Winner of the Competition “Prize for PhD Thesis 2020” arranged by Sapienza University Press.
Simulations of RF Beam Manipulations Including Intensity Effects for CERN PSB and SPS Upgrades
The LIU program at CERN is of paramount importance at international level. The program foresees a significant upgrade of the LHC injector chain to increase the luminosity of the LHC beam by a factor of ten after 2024, when the HL-LHC era will start. This thesis deals with longitudinal beam dynamics studies for two LHC injectors (PSB and SPS), the main goal being the analysis of beam instabilities in the HL-LHC scenario.
Sharing, data and smart mobility
Nel corso degli ultimi decenni, l’evoluzione tecnologica e lo sviluppo dell’ICT hanno permesso lo sviluppo di innovativi servizi di trasporto. Il presente lavoro mira ad investigare le nuove frontiere della “smart mobility”, e le soluzioni di governance, capaci di garantire i nuovi “diritti urbani”.
Tubulin and Microtubules as Drug Targets for Potential Cancer Chemotherapy and CNS-Directed Therapies
Microtubules are essential cellular constituents of eukaryotes formed by tubulin subunits. This book is a collection of medicinal chemistry research projects that utilizes microtubules as drug targets for human diseases of global health impact. The main chapters (2 – 4) include an in-depth description of different synthetic and biological approaches to characterize the therapeutic potential of novel synthetic molecules for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and neglected tropical diseases. This book also includes three short chapters (5 – 7) of additional collaborative projects focused on varied drug discovery topics, including SAR studies of new lead compounds targeting carbonic anhydrase enzymes, FAAH and TRPV1, and novel bioisosteres of the carboxylic acid functional group.
