LIBRI DI GABRIELE POLLINI

Il volume analizza e commenta i dati desunti dalla survey “Il mutamento dei modelli di ‘civismo’: cittadinanza, identità e valori in Italia”, la parte italiana della World Values Survey (WVS). L’analisi ha permesso di dare risposta ad alcuni interrogativi circa il senso civico degli italiani che molto spesso è stato considerato scarso se non del tutto assente, almeno secondo quella locuzione, divenuta purtroppo ormai celebre, del “familismo amorale”.

Il volume, considerando la sociologia come sociologia analitica, sociologia teorica o sistematica e sociologia generale, propone un percorso di analisi focalizzato sia sugli oggetti di studio, sia sui metodi o sulle prospettive di analisi. L’esito è quello di evidenziare i concetti fondamentali dell’analisi sociologica, compararli fra loro, formulare schemi di riferimento e coglierne lo sviluppo cumulativo senza il quale vana è ogni impresa scientifica.

In view of the extension and indeterminacy of the metaphor of social capital, the aim of the paper is to provide a preliminary, theoretically valid foundation for the concept of social capital. It does so first by restricting the term’s semantic range to social relations of communitarian type (communitarian capital) and then by entirely abandoning the metaphor of capital and replacing it with the Parsonian concept of ‘generalized symbolic medium of interchange’. The conclusion of this process is that the medium of influence, institutionally based on prestige, is the concept corresponding to that of communitarian capital.

This paper deals with the relation between immigration and citizenship taking into account both the point of view of national society of arrival and the point of view of immigrants. According to the first point of view, in addition to the dimension of citizenship as belonging to the national society three further dimensions (territorial location, ecological participation and cultural conformity) are individuated. According to the point of view of immigrants, the author maintains that the system of manifold and interdependent belonging is one of the macro-variables more significant for the determination of positive propensity towards citizenship. This last point is supported by empirical data resulting from a survey on a sample of seven hundred individuals belonging to seven different national groups settled in seven different territorial areas of Italy (Senegalese, Tunisian, Moroccan, Ghanese, Philippine, Chinese and former Jugoslavian).