Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2023.2187837
Massimiliano Ruzzeddu
ABSTRACT This short essay aims at introducing the International Review of Sociology monographic issue, devoted to the notion of sustainability. The topic is incredibly relevant in the contemporary scientific and political debate, in a time when environmental issues are overlapping the worldwide spread of demand for justice and equality. Within this framework, as a first step I try to list the numerous meanings of the notion ‘sustainability’ and highlight how the physical-biological scope necessarily intersects the social and political aspects of this notion. The second step consists of highlighting how sustainability is also related to innovation, both technological and social. Finally, I focus the other object of this issue: the role of welfare systems in achieving and defending environmental and social sustainability. This section of the work will include the presentation of the other papers, which focus either on theoretical studies on welfare systems or in case studies, which focus on welfare sustainable policies in the domains of health, migration and generational equity.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2023.2187835
A. Pitasi, Giovana Portolese, Emilia Ferone
ABSTRACT This paper is aimed at deconstructing a myth that damages every attempt to design effective, win-win public, specifically welfare, policies. Such a myth is named the ‘Welfare System Myth’ (WSM) and it is linked to three other lesser myths as corollaries. The WSM states that there is a specific welfare system, while welfare is a topic in the political system agenda. According to the evolutionary complex social system theory, welfare is just a form that belongs to the political system interfaced by structural coupling with its welfare form to the economic system. This interfaces its «public expense form with the welfare form to develop a structural coupling between the political system and the economic system. Welfare has no systemic properties». There are three further myths that are to a certain extent interconnected with the WSM, converging in a Supermyth. The corollaries are in brief: (1) The Myth that a multidimensional systemic strategy can cope with ecological challenges. (2) The Myth that social equality is always good and social inequality is always bad. (3) The Myth of innovation as the easiest one to debate by drawing a distinction between discourse and communication about innovation (overwhelming) and effective innovation policies (a very normal unlikelihood). The WSM and its corollaries together can also be shaped as a Supermyth: the social and political control on lifestyle by presenting as ‘science-based’ the mere common sense or political decisions that are not by presenting as socially emergent matters – which are not – mere decision-making of the political system agenda.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-14DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2147711
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2133405
Stellamarina Donato, Hande Eslen‐Ziya, E. Mangone
ABSTRACT So far, the focus on violence has been it as a concept and its evolution within contemporary societies. For instance, several studies consider violence to be influenced by singular cultural issues and perceptions, with the primary point being the presence of an authoritative presence capable of acting violently. Others instead focus on the degrees and typologies of violence and question the role of modernity in the execution of acts of violence by individuals, who are often both victims and perpetrators. In this article, we draw upon a theoretical reflection concerning the role of violence as a sociological concept. We highlight the transformations it has undergone considering the technological developments and its presence in online spaces. The aim is to stress the mutual shaping relationship between the online and offline realms regarding violence against women (although the subject could also involve other communities like the LGBTQI+, migrants, people with disabilities, etc.). Via our theoretical point of reference and examples, we highlight how the perception of the seriousness of violence is nuanced depending on the environment in which it occurs. Similarly, we argue that its acceptability or condemnation becomes the result of culturally metabolised principles and rules that characterise certain societies.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2139573
Çağatay Topal, Emir Kurmuş
ABSTRACT Capitalism today tries to take advantage of sleep while reducing its duration. The expansion of flexible work regimes into other fields of life spreads the effects of social acceleration. Acceleration is in line with deceleration. Sleep can be a limit to acceleration or can be a necessary deceleration of the body for further acceleration. On the one hand, due to the requirements and desires inside and outside work, sleep is more vulnerable to time pressure. On the other hand, lack of or unhealthy sleep is seen as an obstacle before enriched participation in waking life. The tension between the economic and cultural drivers of social acceleration is perpetuated by its structural motor, which generates an ambivalent position for the sleep of white-collar employees. This renders sleep both dispensable and indispensable at the same time.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2139574
Jonbita Prost, C. Lo
Abstract Examining how social status factors, religion factors, and secularization factors affected attitudes about homosexuality held by residents of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, the present study also asked whether national origin moderated how the 3 factor groups were or were not associated with these attitudes. The study employed data drawn from Wave 6 of the World Values Survey. Measures for independent and dependent variables in that survey differed by nation; the most-positive attitudes belonged to respondents from Lebanon, followed by Bahrain, Iraq, Turkey, and Jordan. Respondents from Lebanon and Bahrain had higher incomes, more education, and higher class. Lebanese respondents’ values were the most secular of the 5 subsamples. A multiple regression model was developed to evaluate attitudes on homosexuality separately for each country involved. Overall results of the analysis showed social status factors, religion factors, and secularization factors to demonstrate an association with attitudes about homosexuality. Some associations took directions that differed from expected ones for some nations but not necessarily all 5; additionally, a moderating role for national origin was confirmed. This suggests that the countries of the Middle East do not represent a monolith. Each features cultural, political, and/or social differences that make it unique.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2145021
Raffaele Federici, C. Montesi
ABSTRACT Michels’ legacy is subject to innumerable interpretations and seemingly endless controversies specially in present times witnessing his rediscovery. The scientific starting point of this article is Michels’ Essay ‘Intorno al problema dei rapporti tra economia e politica’ which was published in his book on ‘Problemi di Sociologia Applicata’ in 1919. Our approach emphasize the innovative and evolutionary aspects of Michels’ thinking on the determinants of historical becoming. Michels argues critically that all expressions of human activity cannot be exclusively determined by extrinsic motivations and economic factors, but can also be equally influenced by intrinsic motivations and cultural factors. This has implications not only on the changes to be made to the historical method, but also on the criticism to be made to the neoclassical notion of economic science and to the elaboration of a wider notion of sociological science.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2133408
Simona Tirocchi, Marta Scocco, I. Crespi
ABSTRACT The article focuses on the results of a national empirical research on Generation Z’s perceptions and experiences of cyberviolence. This term refers to aggressive and intentional actions, carried out, through electronic tools by a single person or a group, which deliberately aim to hurt or damage another who cannot defend himself. The main aim of this study was to gather national data on cyberviolence in order to explore better how young people (aged 18–25) understand and experience this phenomenon and what maybe the most suitable actions to limit it. The data analysis explored three main issues: (1) The main platforms used by Generation Z on which cyberviolence can occur; (2) The level of knowledge and awareness that Generation Z has about the different forms of cyberviolence and their dangerousness; (3) The features of social media perceived as most dangerous by the respondents. The article also proposes a reflection on the actual level of awareness of young people about this issue and the need to consider digital literacy programmes that aim to teach young people how to analyse the media critically.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2139575
Fabrizio Pirro, E. Toscano, Daniele Di Nunzio, M. Pedaci
ABSTRACT To contrast the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, ‘home-schooling’ was adopted in most countries and the issue was studied in considering the effects of the crisis on educational and digital inequalities, and on families and gender relations. Nevertheless, very few studies have looked at the working conditions of teachers in this very atypical framework. This paper presents results from a survey with the aim of investigating these conditions, following the sociology of work approach. The survey was promoted by FLC-CGIL (the federation of knowledge workers of the main trade union in Italy), realised by a research group composed of researchers from Fondazione Giuseppe Di Vittorio, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Università Guglielmo Marconi, and Università di Teramo and was carried out in Italy using the CAWI technique during the first national lockdown (between April and May 2020). We present results about two specific issues: (1) the ways the new pandemic framework was organised, and (2) its consequences on the quality of work and living conditions of workers. Regarding the first issue, we found variations in accordance with different management styles and decision-making approaches. On the second issue, we found worsening working time, workloads and work-life balance given the absence of a clear regulation.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2022.2133406
N. Gorenc
ABSTRACT Freedom of expression is the cornerstone and the warrant of democracy, but like all other rights and freedoms we enjoy, also the right to free speech has its limits. Hate speech is one of the most resilient manifestations of cyberviolence, and is not to be equalled with free speech. This is partly related to our perception of the freedom of expression that has substantially changed through time; from the past focus on being able to freely express your opinion, to question, dissent and challenge the government, to today’s need to limit these rights in order to protect the targets of hate speech. The article first looks at how hate speech is defined at the level of the EU and at the problems connected with its regulation. It continues with an overview of relevant literature and research on the topic, and concludes by analyzing and interpreting the results of an online survey conducted among Slovenian university students in February 2022. Our goal is to understand the reasons behind the rise of hate speech and reactions to it; from its acceptability and underestimation to indifference and ignorance.
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