Collection(s) : Teoria sociologica applicata
Paru le 16/03/2018 | Broché 94 pages
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preface Andrea Pitasi
This book is clearly titled Cosmopolitan Sociology. It might sound descriptive nevertheless cosmopolitanism is not a mere « subject » and topic of sociological research. It was a great and misleading scientific error to consider cosmopolitanism as a sociological subject.
The authors provide a stimulating reading and an important step towards a cosmopolitan sociology as a paradigm, methodology and working style although it still implies to fight against « zombie concepts » (as Beck defined them) as « culture » and « identity » replaced by memetics and evolutionary contingency, for example. The challenge is huge and the two coauthors are solid and strong enough to drive the road ahead (from the « Preface » by Andrea Pitasi).
Andrea Lombardinilo is a tenured lecturer and Assistant Professor in Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at Gabriele D'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He carries out researches on cultural communication and sociology of literature, with particular reference to the narrative and symbolic representations of modern identity. His interests also include sociology of higher education, with a focus on innovation reform and institutional communication within the university system. His last book is : McLuhan, Symbolist Communication. The Shock of Dislocation.
Sara Petroccia, PhD, is a Research Fellow at Gabriele D'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy). She is visiting instructor and recruiter partner at Iacocca Institute Programs, Lehigh University, PA (USA) since 2011 and vice-president of World Complexity Science Academy. Globalization, Multiculturalism, International Migration, Citizenship and Identity are the core of her research activity. Her last book is : International Migrations. Towards A New World Order.
