This work contributes to animate the scientific debate on sustainability in a double sense: a) by placing the need of stripping the term of ambiguous concepts wrongly attributed by the interpretative processes of modernity; b) to start a process of cultural construction of sustainability based on the redefinition of the roles of knowledge and on […]
Voluntary work, a fundamental and essential component for the correct reintegration of detainees into society, has a widespread presence in prisons of Italy and France, even though it has different religious, ideological, and cultural roots. This research shows the two pivotal roles of voluntary work: the active and promoting dimension, evidence of civic commitment and
In his works, Pitirim A. Sorokin paid particular attention on the fluctuations of sociocultural systems. Fluctuations can be either long lasting and gradual or sudden and unexpected. Calamities are crucial factors able to change radically the bedrocks of a sociocultural system in relatively short time. Against this backdrop, this article aims at providing some interpretative