303 research outputs found
Intellectuals, Pragmatism, and the Craft of Sociology. Matteo Bortolini in Conversation with Neil Gross
No full textIn this interview with Matteo Bortolini, Neil Gross talks about pragmatism in sociology, the sociology of intellectuals, and his work on the police. The interview also addresses some points of a sociologist’s professional life and its different stages, starting from the hypothesis that sociologists of ideas and intellectuals should be particularly exposed to continuous moments of reflexivity
Introduction: The Interpretation of Cultures at Fifty
No full textIntroducing the symposium “The Interpretation of Cultures at Fifty,” editors Andrea Cossu and Matteo Bortolini reflect on the dynamics of the iconicization of texts and the paradoxical quality of so-called “classics”: their being present while being rewritten and forgotten. A brief illustration of the papers by the contributors to the symposium — Joan W. Scott, Anne Taylor and Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ann Swidler and Ronald Jepperson, Simon Susen, and Monika Krause — completes the introduction
Intellectuals, Pragmatism, and the Craft of Sociology: Matteo Bortolini in Conversation with Neil Gross
No full textIn this interview with Matteo Bortolini, Neil Gross talks about pragmatism in sociology, the sociology of intellectuals, and his work on the police. The interview also addresses some points of a sociologist’s professional life and its different stages, starting from the hypothesis that sociologists of ideas and intellectuals should be particularly exposed to continuous moments of reflexivity
Embryons desséchés Freestyle su un monumento poco monumentale, cinquant’anni dopo.
No full textIl progetto si avvale di testi e immagini per riflettere sul carattere non monumentale del monumento a Pasolini. I testi sono di Luca Martignani e Matteo Bortolini con fotografie di Serena Dibiase. Il freestyle è pubblicato su Il Tascabile, Treccani, https://www.iltascabile.com/linguaggi/embryons-desseches
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
No full textRobert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of religion as both a cultural phenomenon and a way to fathom the depths of the human condition. A Joyfully Serious Man is the definitive biography of this towering figure in modern intellectual life, and a revelatory portrait of a man who led an adventurous yet turbulent life.
Drawing on Bellah’s personal papers as well as in-depth interviews with those who knew him, Matteo Bortolini tells the story of an extraordinary scholarly career and an eventful and tempestuous life. He describes Bellah’s exile from the United States during the hysteria of the McCarthy years, his crushing personal tragedies, and his experiments with sexuality. Bellah understood religion as a mysterious human institution that brings together the scattered pieces of individual and collective experiences. Bortolini shows how Bellah championed intellectual openness and innovation through his relentless opposition to any notion of secularization as a decline of religion and his ideas about the enduring tensions between individualism and community in American society
INTRODUCTION: ON BEING A SCHOLAR AND AN INTELLECTUAL
No full textIntroduzione a un volume di saggi su Robert N. Bellah da me curat
Writing, Reading, and Interpreting a Rorschach Text. An Attempt at Fourth-Order Observation and Reflexivity
No full textA rejoinder to the papers on A Joyfully Serious Man. The Life of Robert Bellah (AJSM) written by Andrew Abbott, Federico Brandmayr, Charles Camic, Andrea Cossu, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Laura Ford, Harlan Stelmach, and Rhys Williams. Conceived as an exercise in self-reflection, the paper addresses five wide areas: specific critiques of AJSM; an assessment of the relationship between AJSM and the research project whence it came; the connections between author and critics; a clarification of some fact regarding the main character of AJSM, that is, Robert Bellah; and the analysis of particular experiences which the author, Bellah, and his critics share as sociologists
In ordine sparso. Avvertimenti e ipotesi sul non sapere della sociologia
No full textSociology does not know much about itself. Most empirical research about sociology focuses on American sociology and presents the discipline as a multi-paradigmatic and loose pseudoscientific endeavour. All available explanations of this state of affairs, moreover, leave little hope of a major breakthrough. While some sociologists vociferously call for a Copernican, if unlikely, revolution, the great majority seems to opt for a mix of loyalty and exit, playing the part of the “social scientist” inside, and for, diverse non-scientific environments (i.e. political, social, and activist groups, policy making agencies, State funded research councils, etc.). The author’s hypothesis is that sociologists do not see themselves as “intellectuals”, i.e. people who put cultural concerns above social ones in performing their primary role. This makes the average sociologist an unlikely debater and a poor scientist. While calling for an empirical test of his hypothesis, the author declares his personal preference for a deeper understading of the role of the intellectual on behalf of sociologists
Will Atkinson. Beyond Bourdieu. From Genetic Structuralism to Relational Phenomenology. Polity, Cambridge [etc.] 2016. vi, 175 pp. £64.95. (Paper: £22.95.)
No full textBook Review: American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the PresentGorskiPhilip, American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 320 + i–xi
No full textRecensione di volume P. Gorski, American Covenan
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