Le “quasi” due vite del sociologo Camillo Pellizzi

Mariuccia Salvati dedicates the last chapter of the volume to the “almost” two lives of Camillo Pellizzi, the first characterized by militant adherence to fascism, the second by the “pure” study of society. This article mainly deals with this last phase, the phase of maturity, which coincides with the first decades of the second post-war period. The role of sociologist played by Pellizzi, in many ways original and innovative, was however not always recognized and appreciated by the Italian sociological culture which, more generally, supported the irrelevance of sociology in the Fascist period. The article asks some questions about the reasons for this lack of consideration and underlines elements of continuity, as far as the sociological approach is concerned, between the two phases of Pellizzi’s biography.