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In certain contingencies, traumatic events intervene in breaking the continuity of the life of social communities or whole societies. Such events include natural catastrophes but also wars or revolutions. This article looks in particular at recollections of the Second World War.
“How is society possible?” The mirror image of Simmel’s famous question is: “How is individuality possible?” To answer this question Simmel developed a philosophy and sociology of individualism. The “tragedy of individuality” consists of the hiatus between the social structure offering freedom and individuality and the culture unable to provide the...
Five major themes are often addressed in the discourse of mobility in science: the definition and classification of the persons in mind (scholars, academics, researchers, etc); the frequency and the configuration of mobility; the roles mobility and migration play for the individuals; the roles they play for institutions (universities, research inst...
This paper discusses the reasons why Italian young people today are not in a position to develop a memory of their own regarding the fascist regime of the recent past. Neither families, nor schools and media, could transmit experiences and provide learning opportunities that enables young men and women to construct an adequate image of that period...
Despite the tendency to create a European Higher Education and Research area, academic systems are still quite different across Europe. We selected five countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and the UK) to investigate how the differences have an impact on a number of aspects of the working conditions of academic staff. One crucial aspect is th...
As with almost all of Simmel’s works, his essay on secrecy and secret societies is like an inexhaustible mine — each expedition
produces a cart full of precious findings and new ideas for research.1 Scholars interpreting this essay have focused mainly on aspects of interaction involving silence and concealment in interpersonal
communication.2 Readi...
The study of the European integration process offers a serious challenge for the social sciences. It is easy to understand why the disciplines of law, economics, and political science have made the most relevant contributions to the study of the Europeanization of our societies. From the treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community in May...
The first part of this article deals with the uses of the concept of generation in the historical and social sciences. Following Mannheim’s approach, generations are conceived as produced by the differential impact of socio-cultural change on different age cohorts. The concept of “crucial event” in the biography of individuals is discussed in the l...
"Mir sind keine Meinungsforschungsuntersuchungen darüber bekannt, wie die Einstellungen der europäischen Bevölkerung zur deutschen Einheit aussehen. In Ermangelung empirischer Daten ist man auf die Meinungen verwiesen, die in der Tagespresse erscheinen. Grundsätzlich können Meinungen und Einstellungen schwach oder stark begründet sein, aber auch sc...