Authors: Cinzia Ciardi, Alessandro Balestrino Abstract The paper investigates the extent to which the role of social ties and social networks matters for a fundamental issue within Sen’s human capability approach, namely the question of how and why different individuals have different abilities to translate resources into functionings. Building on the contributions of economic sociologists […]

Authors: Lino Rossi, Enrico Orsenigo Abstract This article intends to examine the position that the school can acquire as a means of orientation, that is, an intermediary agency and mediator with the task of sup-porting its users (students, teachers, but also families) in the difficult work of con-scious participation in the network of knowledge. and