Informalized employment persists and emerges in new forms in advanced and developing economies alike despite its widespread costs in terms of precariousness, unfair competition, and […]
Category: Sociology
Woman Today. Comparative Sociological-juridical Research on Gender Inequality
Research on gender inequality uses limited and sectoral areas as a reference. A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen different countries – Cuba, […]
Society and the City: The Dark Sides of Social Innovation
Is there a connection between the increasingly widespread concept of social innovation and the success of today’s model of capitalist regulation? According to most studies […]
Choose Decide Change. Why the World Forgets to Do Things
Choosing, deciding and changing constitute the common thread of everything that we want and that we do. The deep transformation of all social system, in […]
Future Humanism
The theme of this pamphlet is the knowledge, reread in its own origins and in the transformations of the middle-global world where the deep meaning […]
Women and Peace. A new training model for a culture of inclusion
The book aims to propose a training model on peace mediation, with women as protagonists. One of the characteristics of this text is combining training […]
In-security. The Communication of Fear in the Mid-global Era
Mid-globality is the time of the “not occurring”. The uncertainty of not existing–in all its individual, social, institutional and economic aspects—is dizzyingly transforming the social […]
Solidarity Bodies. Workfare and Volunteering Policies
This book aims to investigate the phenomenon of volunteering as a workfare event, as a synchronous rewriting of territorial policy and advocacy, according to the […]
Modernization Development and Law. Gino Germani’s Contribution to a Sociology of Justice in a Global World
Since the 1960’s, developing countries in Latin America started a complex journey towards establishing new values, the ones of modernity. This volume considers the work […]