SocietàMutamentoPolitica
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<div class="row"> <div class="col-md-3"><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/cover_issue_479_en_US.png" /> <p>ISSN 2038-3150 (online)</p> <p><a href="https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/smp/about/submissions"><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/Submission_Button.png" /></a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-8"><strong>Società<em>Mutamento</em>Politica</strong> is a journal of sociology founded by Gianfranco Bettin Lattes. It includes theoretical and empirical studies of social phenomena in the belief that the interweaving of society and politics is of crucial analytical importance. Sociology is a form of knowledge that works alongside other social sciences and offers a rational tool for a critique of society and for the development of good government. The main aim of SMP is to encourage an exchange of views among sociologists by promoting open debate and encouraging the young to undertake new research.<br /><br />Editor-in-Chief:<br /><strong>Lorenzo Viviani</strong>, Università di Pisa, Italy <br /><br /><strong>Società<em>Mutamento</em>Politica</strong> is indexed in: <img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/Classe_A2.png" width="149" height="45" /><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/DOAJ_logo.jpg" width="142" height="43" /><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/ebsco.png" width="112" height="41" /><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/logo_Ulrichs1.png" width="141" height="32" /><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/Screen_Shot_2018-01-08_at_16.12__.17__.png" width="143" height="31" /><img src="https://oajournals.fupress.net/public/site/images/apierno/web-science_1_cus.png" width="132" height="46" /></div> <div align="left"> </div> </div> <hr /> <p><strong>Call for Paper | Special Issue "Gender in Youth Participation: Styles, Practices, Cultures" </strong></p> <p>Youth participation has become a focal point in political agendas and international academic research, reflecting a growing consensus on the imperative to delve into the intricacies of youth civic, public, and political engagement. As we strive to unravel the complexities within the"black box" of youth participation, an intersectional lens becomes indispensable for a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities encountered by young people.. </p> <p>Visit our <a href="https://journals.fupress.net/call-for-papers/?filter=450"><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS</strong></a> page or download the PDF (<a href="https://journals.fupress.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Call-for-papers-societàMutamentoPolitica-.pdf"><strong>ENG</strong></a>)</p> <hr />Firenze University Pressen-USSocietàMutamentoPolitica2038-3150<p>Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <strong>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</a>)</strong> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication.</p> <p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a></p>COMPLEX IS EASY. A Complex Evolutionary Social System Approach to Global Governance
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<p class="p1">The goal of this paper is to provide a research based and policy focused general view of a Complex Evolutionary Social System Approach to Global Governance. From this perspective, to frame complex system evolution and global governance it is pivotal to outline two key epistemological distinctions: the one between complex and complicate, and the one between easy and simple. These distinctions will be explained below. Complex is whatever horizon of alternatives whose possible adjacent points require contingent selection according to self-referential coding and programming, nevertheless expanding the self-reproduction of the horizon itself. Complicate means entropy at its highest speed and power – a zero value, time and energy waste organizational model, with an ineffective design, high cost and low return. Examples will be provided also linking these concepts to those of easiness and simplicity.</p>Emilia FeroneAndrea Pitasi
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2023-12-232023-12-231428112010.36253/smp-15008Democracy is Complexity. Social Transformation from Below
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<p class="p1">The temptation to find a working formula for transforming society into a highly regulated, sustainable world-system does not take into account two extremely relevant and interwoven aspects of reality, which can be understood by probing the deeper meaning of these two words: democracy and complexity. Beginning with what is arguably the most mysterious term of the two, complexity, the first point that must be clarified is that “complex” and “complicated” systems are diametrically different: complicated systems are man-made mechanical/artificial systems and as such are controllable, predictable, and possible to break down into their smaller parts. All living systems, instead, are complex, thus the exact opposite: uncontrollable, unpredictable, and impossible to break down into their highly dynamic, interconnected, and interdependent parts. If this sounds familiar, it may be because this is also a passable description of democracy. Complex systems, including democracies, therefore, are made up of an exceedingly large number of smaller, interactive subsystems, or subunits, arranged hierarchically, where the changes “from below” among smaller sub-units trigger changes in higher levels of units, changes which will affect the entire system and its interactions with other systems and with the environment, giving rise to self-organization and emergence. Social transformation is no exception: it must also begin from bottom-up events, from single individuals or grassroots communities, never from a top-down, hetero-directed imposition, even when this is attempted with the noblest of intentions.</p>Piero Dominici
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2023-12-232023-12-231428213210.36253/smp-15009Social Conflicts and Citizenship in the Context of Societal Complexity
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<p class="p1">This article addresses the issue of the legal expansion of citizenship in the context of increasing societal complexity. Social conflict has historically played a driving role in the enlargement of citizenship, but in the current phase it no longer seems to fulfil this function. The contribution aims to reflect on the conceptual tools needed to analyse social conflict related to the emergence of new forms of citizenship at a global scale. In the first part of this article, I focus on the inadequacy of classical analytical tools for the study of social conflict and the desirability of expanding the sociological canon with new concepts including its relation to social change. In the second part, I put forward the proposal to use some analytical tools – in particular the concepts of <em>ius nexi</em>, scale and lateral oscillation – to reconnect social conflict and the expansion of citizenship in social and legal terms.</p>Laura Leonardi
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2023-12-232023-12-231428333910.36253/smp-15010Dispute Resolution Methods, Fundamental or Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
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<p class="p1">The analysis of modern political-institutional systems, democratic-constitutional of a liberal mold, if it clarifies the reasons for the presence and diffusion of dispute resolution methods (state awards), of fundamental and human rights (general) attributable to the new elites of power and government, therefore to the bourgeois class, in the context of a monistic and statistic conception of legal systems, then does not explain the reasons for the diffusion and progressive multiplication of alternative methods of resolving disputes, such as fundamental or human rights in more recent eras. It is therefore necessary to analyze the processes of change that have affected the State, the law, the judicial systems, therefore the fundamental and human rights and the methods of resolving disputes in the light of the phenomenon of legal pluralism.</p>Enrico Damiani di Vergada Franzetti
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2023-12-232023-12-231428414810.36253/smp-15011From Mathematical Theory of Communication to Network Society: a Sociological Transformation
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<p class="p1">An increasing pace of innovation in telecommunications, information technology has facilitated our society’s transition into what is called the “Information Age”. This work is intended to offer a means of understanding current directions in digital innovation. In 1948, the general theory for electronic communications (Shannon 1948), contributed to a substantial reorganization of our society; some fifty years later, Castells attempts to grasp the relationships between emerging technical, economic, political and cultural trends and helps us understand the processes of change triggered by the convergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this work, starting from the interdisciplinary literature, the main theoretical and practical contributions leading to technological convergence are investigated in order to open a window on the contemporary landscape in semantic web, algorithmic reasoning and social intelligence (Esposito 2022). The resulting framework, although due to the dynamism of the phenomena under consideration, is not meant to be an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between digital tools and society, it rigorously summarizes many of the major technical and social issues open today and, in view of the future expansion of the ICT ecosystem, underscores the urgent need for conscious citizen participation in the information society.</p>Sara Petroccia
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2023-12-232023-12-231428495910.36253/smp-15012The Smart Society and Its Enemies. Meanings and Limits in the Criticism of Smartness
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<p class="p1">Distancing myself from unreflective appropriations, in this article, I trace a brief history of smartness by dwelling mainly on the differentiation of smartness itself from intelligence, digitization or simple competitiveness to propose an idea that focuses on the integration of people, environment, and technologies. Moreover, after analyzing some not insignificant misgivings about the delimitation of places and relations, I offer some useful elements to distinguish progressive criticism, which aims at the empowerment of the majority, from merely regressive and ultimately unhelpful criticism. I conclude by pointing out that smartness, in addition to helping the social sciences, particularly sociology, frame fundamental and still unresolved issues in new ways, is now an unavoidable topic for researchers.</p>Emanuela Susca
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2023-12-232023-12-231428616810.36253/smp-15013The “Playful Paradigm”. A Smart Transformation for the Contemporary Society?
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<p class="p1">This article aims to offer a critical examination of the current gamification process existing in contemporary society. One example of this process is the “Playful Paradigm”, a European-level project aiming to help cities – considered increasingly smart – to develop pragmatic solutions that are new and sustainable and that integrate urban economic, social and environmental topics. What critical issues hide behind prevailing gamification? In terms of general theorisation, discussion will be hinged on the conceptual category of the “<em>homo ludens</em>” and, more generally, the “casino culture”, so as to thrown new light, through a sociological examination, on the potential and critical issues of an increasingly invasive and capillary process.</p>Ilaria Iannuzzi
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2023-12-232023-12-231428697610.36253/smp-15014Smart Working and Remote Working: Innovation within European Union
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<p class="p1">Alongside the drastic closure of many production sectors, the Covid19 emergency has forced a wide range of businesses to reorganize using the possibilities offered by ICT. Private and, surprisingly, even public sectors have organized themselves with considerable speed, sometimes even circumventing certain legal constraints, to ensure the maximum possible performance through remote working. Employees, teachers, lawyers, consultants and other professionals have, in fact, begun to coordinate online work among colleagues, users and customers, so as to be able to guarantee, at least in part, the performance necessary for their work. The purpose of this study, on the other hand, is to examine the remote working phenomenon which, although easier to identify, implies very significant social changes, which in turn imply rather complex epistemic problems.Namely, I will try to respond the following Research Questions: a) how much is the phenomenon widespread across EU? b) is the introduction of RW only a consequence of the pandemic, or does it depend on a propensity for innovation?</p>Massimiliano Ruzzeddu
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2023-12-232023-12-231428778510.36253/smp-15015The Smart Society Between Semantic Indefiniteness and Efficientistic Reductionism
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<p class="p1">The article aims at the construction of an annotated bibliography on the smart society. the impression, and therein lies the cognitive hypothesis, is that the bibliography on the subject is technical and sectoral. the consequences of this technicality and the semantic difficulty that smartness brings, seen to result in a strong impoverishment of the social.</p>Melissa Sessa
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2023-12-232023-12-231428879410.36253/smp-15016Hard and Soft Smart Cities: An Integrated Approach
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<p class="p1">This contribution aims to critically analyse smart city processes. The distinction between soft and hard smart cities goes in this direction. On the one hand, the smart city appears to be the result of a sustainable transition; on the other, it seems to live only thanks to technologies. This dichotomy, as will be seen, leaves out a whole series of social processes that also make up the smart city. Where then is the social dimension within this reasoning? The social dimension seems to be rediscovered not so much and not only in the interaction between all the actors of smartness, but also and above all in the complex interpretation offered by smartness, which does not seem to be referable only to technology and sustainability.</p>Gianluca SenatoreMelissa Sessa
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2023-12-232023-12-2314289510210.36253/smp-15017Poised Between Order and Conflict: What Future for the Smart City?
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<p class="p1">The aim of this study is to reflect on how the longstanding contradiction between order and conflict in urban contexts is now articulated in the context of smart cities. Apparently, smart cities are the best place to live in order to enjoy greater capacity for choice, self-determination, well-being and independence. But is this really the case? Are smart cities and their technological drift towards increasingly wider spaces of order and control really able to guarantee wide spaces of freedom? What role does or can conflict play? Through the analysis of various case studies (Qatar, China and Ukraine), we will try to improve our understanding of the dichotomous relationship between order and conflict both from an internal perspective within the city and from an external perspective (i.e. when attacks from outside occur). The study will proceed through a preliminary analysis of the state of the art on the smart city literature in order to grasp what are the “promises” that this model of development brings with it and the criticalities connected to its development. At a later stage, we will proceed to focus on issues related to the problems of social order and conflict both from an internal and external perspective.</p>Romina Gurashi
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2023-12-232023-12-23142810311210.36253/smp-15018Materiali per una sociologia dell’amicizia
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<p class="p1">The excessive individualisation that characterises our age deprives and deforms social relations, and gives rise to painful loneliness and other forms of malaise. The sociological study of friendship, which is unfortunately still underdeveloped, makes it possible to analyse in depth the complexity of contemporary subjectivity and the problems it faces. This essay revisits the contributions of a classical author, Georg Simmel, and two contemporary authors, Birgitta Nedelmann and Francesco Alberoni. The interweaving of their analyses, based on different methodologies, shows how friendship remains a fundamental and indispensable resource for human existence, even in so-called modernity. The analytical elements described here are intended to stimulate further studies towards a more systematic sociology of friendship.</p>Gianfranco Bettin Lattes
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2023-12-232023-12-23142811312510.36253/smp-15019Costituzione, ieri e oggi
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<p class="p1">Constitutions represent an answer to a problem that derives from the nature of human beings and from their co-living together in a common social and political space. The root of the “constitutional problem” can be summed up with the following double question: how to create a stable and safe human/political community for <em>zoon politikon, </em>inside of a given territory, under a political organization flexible enough to adapt to internal and external changes which can threaten stability and security of collective coexistence? And how to do it between order and freedom, between power and law, between consent and dissent, between majority and minority? The present essay examines conceptual, empirical and historical profiles concerning the constitutional matter which has engaged the Ancients as well as the Moderns and Contemporaries. The essay emphasizes, on one side, the transformations of constitutions, on the other side, the intrinsic nature of constitutions in terms of “sociopolitical contract” and the normative <em>telos </em>that characterizes them. In contemporary societies, the Occidental ones <em>in primis</em>, the constitutional <em>telos</em> stay wrapped up, more than in the past, in an intimate (and conflictual) interweaving between formal (or encoded) constitution and “material” constitution “practiced” in social, cultural and political life. One might say that men do their constitutions, but not at will: systemic dynamics and structures (social and cultural, economics and technological, juridical and political) matter.</p>Gaspare Nevola
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2023-12-232023-12-23142812714210.36253/smp-15020Un dialogo possibile? Teoria delle organizzazioni e studio dei partiti
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<p class="p1">Literature devoted to party organizations rarely relies on Organization Theory. With the exception of the fundamental contribution by Panebianco, which dates back to 1982, limited efforts have been made towards a mutual contamination between the study of party organizational development and the vast body of theories, approaches and analytical frameworks that crowd Organization Theory. Moreover, while Organization Theory has recently paid attention to the study of political parties, party scholars are still committed to accumulating empirical knowledge or, at best, elaborating ideal-typical models. The aim of this contribution is to favour a cross-fertilization between these two literatures, by building on the premises of organizational institutionalism and on the organizations as multi-dimensional rational open systems perspective. Despite our effort is primarily conceptual, our arguments are conceived to be properly translated into empirical observations.</p>Eugenio Pizzimenti
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2023-12-232023-12-23142814315710.36253/smp-15021Comunicazione autorevole e disintermediazione. Mutazioni prossemiche del post-pandemia
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<p class="p1">The pandemic has not only affected our bodies (biological dimension) and our minds (psychological dimension): it has also left a profound mark in our relationships (social dimension). Daily life in lock down seems to be a distant and now faded memory, even if a few months have passed since we were barricaded in our homes: yet certain habits have been, perhaps irrevocably, changed. It is our intention to try to identify these micro-traumas that have occurred at the level of communication practices in this last year and a half in order to be able to interpret them as traces of new possible social configurations: that is, we want to reflect on the turmoil that has occurred in daily interactions between people, between systems and between people and systems and hypothesize their possible developments on some essential aspects of social and, more specifically, communicative relationships. In particular, it is useful to focus our attention on two aspects of our daily life that have suffered an attack (almost in a chemical sense), proposing new reasons of high criticality and uncertainty to the already complex postmodern life: on the one hand (the macro-social one), the authority / credibility of the information sources, on the other hand (the micro-social one), the management of spaces and communication channels.</p>Pier Paolo Bellini
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2023-12-232023-12-23142815917010.36253/smp-15022Le due vie weberiane del patrimonialismo. Potere personale e reti politiche
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<p class="p1">Weberian categories provide a wide array of tools for understanding the phenomenon of political clientelism. They are useful not only for classifying forms, behaviors, and relationships, but also, from a diachronic and processual perspective, for comprehending the transformations affecting personalistic systems. Starting with the distinction between bureaucratic neo-patrimonialism and ceto-patrimonialism, this essay presents some theories and interpretative models that are useful for investigating even the more recent forms in which monocratic-type of personal power and political networks based on circuits of resource exchange are manifested.</p>Luciano Brancaccio
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2023-12-232023-12-23142817118210.36253/smp-15023Réflexions de nature conceptuelle sur la sociologie du droit de Max Weber au regard de sa Wissenschaftslehre
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<p class="p1">That Weber’s essay on Stammler provides insights and concepts for the sociology of law is self-evident. In the following we will examine whether this is also true of his epistemology as a whole. First, we will present Stammler’s basic assumptions, which are in part contradictory (because they confuse being and ought to be), on the basis of Sinzheimer, following Coutu (2013). We refer to Sinzheimer because he presents the main criticisms of Stammler in a clear and pertinent way, which is confirmed by a reading of Stammler’s Wirtschaft und Recht. We then make a brief detour via Heinrich Popitz’s 1980 study Die normative Konstruktion von Gesellschaft. Finally, we extend the significance of Stammler’s critique of Weber’s sociology of law, highlighted by Coutu (2013), to other components of his theory of science.</p>Hubert Treiber
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2023-12-232023-12-23142818319210.36253/smp-15024Processi di self-digital identity building dei protagonisti della politica locale: narrazioni social nel caso dei candidati sindaco a Napoli
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<p class="p1">Starting from the assumption related to the personalization of politics (Castells, 2008; Barile, 2014) that open to those disintermediated ways in which build relations with the electors, this paper is focused on those identity building processes digitally held. The digital-self that politicians self-build on digital media and on the social media-sphere thanks to specific narrative frames. The case study adopted delas with the local election in Naples in October 2021. It retraces the narrations self-built by the candidates on Facebook and Twitter. The empirical work is projected to a digital-mixed content analysis (Punziano, 2022) oriented to define profiles and trajectories of the self-identity building process of candidates, the features of those identities, the configuration of the relations with the connected electors and the impacts of their communication strategies on the electoral results. In line with these objectives, we intend to comprehend if the digital self-constructions of candidates have been pushed by the same electoral event, how they were different before the candidates’ nominations and if they shut down later the electoral campaign.</p>Gabriella PunzianoGiuseppe Michele Padricelli
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2023-12-232023-12-23142819320910.36253/smp-15025Appendice bio-bibliografica su autori e autrici
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2023-12-232023-12-23142821121410.36253/smp-15026World Complexity and Global System: An intriguing debate
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