LIBRI DI GIUSEPPE MORO

Le convergenze parallele. Il confronto di Achille Ardigò con la sociologia di Niklas Luhmann - This article presents some moments of the dialogue of Achille Ardigò with the thought of Niklas Luhmann. Ardigò shares Luhmann’s care about government crisis of post-modern societies, his opinions about irreducibility of subjective sense to systemic sense and his criticism against Parsons’s integrational approach. On the contrary, the sociology of Ardigò deeply differentiates from Luhmann’s on three topics: the reference to empirical world for explaining and to criticizing it, the transcendence of value criteria with respect to social systems, the research of a renewed transaction between social systems and persons.

Keywords: Ardigò, Luhmann, consensus, government, transaction, empathy.

Parole chiave: Ardigò, Luhmann, consenso, governabilità, transazione, empatia.

Valutare per decidere: un monitoraggio qualitativo degli investimenti pubblici - This paper suggests some considerations regarding the relationship between evaluation and making decision processes, through the description of an evaluation experience of some formative projects orientated towards unemployed young people living in Apulia Region. After the definition of evaluation question, made together with Educational Local Authority, we have preferred a qualitative research approach. Sharing a participative approach, we have chosen a multistakeholder research design as instrument to catch the representations of actors involved regarding the evolution of projects, the weak and strong aspects, through to focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews respectively administered to actuators and beneficiaries of these projects. Interviews have been analyzed first trough content analysis of relevance and in a second moment trough associations analysis between words, by the use of T-Lab software. Highlighting stakeholders’ suggestions and recommendations and giving back them to the decision maker confirms the utility of evaluation as instrument to supporting making decision processes, with the aim of improving policies.

Key words: partecipate evaluation, multistakeholder research design, utilization of evaluation Process

Il tema della distanza sociale, ovvero la chiusura relazionale di un soggetto nei confronti di altri percepiti come differenti sulla base della loro riconducibilità a categorie sociali. La ricerca è stata condotta in alcune importanti aree urbane italiane, proprio perché la città costituisce un osservatorio privilegiato rispetto alla dinamica dei rapporti tra spazio simbolico-culturale e spazio fisico, la cui dialettica è alla base dei processi di distanziamento sociale.

Il volume costituisce la seconda tappa di un percorso di riflessione sulla soggettività e la dimensione relazionale (la “trama sociale della soggettività”) che SPE intende proseguire, non solo per far fronte alle principali sfide che l’attualità pone al sapere sociologico e alla persona, ma anche per mostrare come la persona stessa possa considerarsi una fondamentale risorsa di senso all’interno del complesso scenario contemporaneo.