Joselle Dagnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 146959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joselle Dagnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joselle |
| FAMILY NAME | Dagnes |
| SIGNATURE | DAGNES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9024-5594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ordinary vulnerabilities and antimafia intervention. A case of municipal dissolution beyond mafia strongholds
The dissolution of municipal councils for mafia infiltration is a key instrument of Italian antimafia policy. While most dissolutions have occurred in regions of long-standing mafia presence, less attention has been paid to cases emerging in territories not traditionally associated with mafia dynamics. This article examines the 2020 dissolution of the municipal council of Saint-Pierre, a small municipality in the Aosta Valley (Italy), as a revela…
Gender Segregation in Medicine: The Impact of Stereotypes on Speciality Perceptions and Choices
This study examines the role of gender stereotypes in shaping the perceptions and specialisation choices of medical students in Italy. Although women are increasingly entering the medical profession, strong gender segregation persists across medical specialities, with surgical and technological fields remaining male‐dominated and people‐oriented specialities female‐dominated. Using a survey of 502 senior medical students, the analysis explores wh…
What Is Anti-work All About? Exploring the Meanings Behind Hostility towards Work
The growing disenchantment with working careers – commonly referred to as the ‘anti-work’ sentiment – has emerged as a form of critique of the current economic system. However, this phenomenon remains under-explored, particularly with regard to the subjective meaning of hostility towards work. This article proposes a conceptual map of the themes related to anti-work from the workers’ perspective, drawing on an empirical study of content posted wi…
Escape from Work? Distinctions within the Realm of Anti-Work
How can the diverse manifestations of anti-work be conceptualized? This paper examines the question through an empirical analysis of the most popular posts from the world's largest anti-work online community, hosted on Reddit. It identifies distinct categories of anti-workers, defined by their stance on work/anti-work and whether their actions are individual or collective. In doing so, the paper highlights the interplay between structural grievan…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping
How do economic elites react to global shocks? Here, global shocks refer to events that disrupt both the economy and society, such as economic crises, political regime collapses, natural and climate disasters, and collective health emergencies, including pandemics. These events have varied impacts across different geographical regions and population groups, including social classes and age cohorts. We argue that examining the relationship between…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks
Bringing dissent to shareholders’ meetings: An investigation into critical shareholding
This article deals with critical shareholding, that is, the action of non-profit organizations that resorts to involvement in corporate ownership as shareholders to promote socially responsible corporate behaviours. Based on the combined use of sociological and anthropological tools, I focus on the attendance of annual general meetings (AGMs) as a gateway to understand the potential and the limits of the transformative power of marginal actors in…
La finanza alla prova dell’emergenza sanitaria: Continuità e trasformazioni in tempi di crisi
No abstract
A tale of two epicentres: Lombardy and New York City at the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic
The paper explores the tale of two 'epicentres’ – metropolitan New York and Lombardy – and seeks to depict the socio-demographic patterns that characterise the worst cases of infection, hospitalisation, and death during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. By drawing upon secondary data concerning sub-territorial units within the two regions – ZIP-code level and counties in New York and municipalities in Italy – the paper compar…
La précarité dans l’université italienne: Mise en perspective depuis la sociologie économique
L’université publique italienne est dans une situation difficile. En raison de problèmes structurels et des réformes récentes – qui ont aggravé la situation au lieu de la transformer –, le système universitaire italien est aujourd’hui sous-financé. Il accuse en plus des déséquilibres inquiétants par rapport à sa composition interne et sa dimension territoriale
Debito, finanza, rischio e crisi: O la sociologia della moneta che non c’è
Starting from the events that led to the 2007 financial crisis, interest in the contribution of social sciences to debt analysis has grown steadily. The book The Sociology of Debt edited by Mark Featherstone aims to provide the reader with the map of the most recent perspectives and issues on this topic, focusing in particular on the social embeddedness of debt and its effect in the debtor-creditor relationship, both at the micro-level (individua…
Participation for what? Organizational roles, quality conventions and purchasing behaviors in solidarity purchasing groups
Social class and wealth inequality in Italy over 20 years, 1993–2014
Italy is facing its worst economic crisis since the Second World War. As many studies have already shown, the crisis is affecting the country’s social class structure, thus accentuating several inequality tendencies. In this connection, the empirical purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to analyze whether accumulation and inequality in wealth are growing or declining in absolute terms; and (2) to investigate the relationship between social c…
Undisciplined, selfish big babies? The cultural framing of the Italian financial crisis
In the public debate played out in the media, the financial crisis in Italy is often depicted through a culturalist frame; the country’s difficulties are traced deterministically to an ethos, supposedly widespread among Italians, of amoral familism and a limited sense of civic engagement. This paper illustrates three issues that exemplify the country’s financial problems, and which are often seen through this type of culturalist lens: i) a lack o…
The Italian way to financial accumulation. Personal networks and informal practices of the Italian economic elites
This paper challenges the belief that Italian capitalism is a static and unchanging one. Italian capitalism has retained some unique characteristics: an elitist structure, close personal relationships, a high degree of informality. However, far from being just the characteristics of an unchanging capitalism, these peculiarities were the resources that Italian capitalism exploited to change its mode of action. First, we identify the network of int…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Social class and wealth inequality in Italy over 20 years, 1993–2014
Italy is facing its worst economic crisis since the Second World War. As many studies have already shown, the crisis is affecting the country’s social class structure, thus accentuating several inequality tendencies. In this connection, the empirical purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to analyze whether accumulation and inequality in wealth are growing or declining in absolute terms; and (2) to investigate the relationship between social c…
Participation for what? Organizational roles, quality conventions and purchasing behaviors in solidarity purchasing groups
Escape from Work? Distinctions within the Realm of Anti-Work
How can the diverse manifestations of anti-work be conceptualized? This paper examines the question through an empirical analysis of the most popular posts from the world's largest anti-work online community, hosted on Reddit. It identifies distinct categories of anti-workers, defined by their stance on work/anti-work and whether their actions are individual or collective. In doing so, the paper highlights the interplay between structural grievan…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping
How do economic elites react to global shocks? Here, global shocks refer to events that disrupt both the economy and society, such as economic crises, political regime collapses, natural and climate disasters, and collective health emergencies, including pandemics. These events have varied impacts across different geographical regions and population groups, including social classes and age cohorts. We argue that examining the relationship between…
The Italian way to financial accumulation. Personal networks and informal practices of the Italian economic elites
This paper challenges the belief that Italian capitalism is a static and unchanging one. Italian capitalism has retained some unique characteristics: an elitist structure, close personal relationships, a high degree of informality. However, far from being just the characteristics of an unchanging capitalism, these peculiarities were the resources that Italian capitalism exploited to change its mode of action. First, we identify the network of int…
Social class and wealth inequality in Italy over 20 years, 1993–2014
Italy is facing its worst economic crisis since the Second World War. As many studies have already shown, the crisis is affecting the country’s social class structure, thus accentuating several inequality tendencies. In this connection, the empirical purposes of this article are twofold: (1) to analyze whether accumulation and inequality in wealth are growing or declining in absolute terms; and (2) to investigate the relationship between social c…
Undisciplined, selfish big babies? The cultural framing of the Italian financial crisis
In the public debate played out in the media, the financial crisis in Italy is often depicted through a culturalist frame; the country’s difficulties are traced deterministically to an ethos, supposedly widespread among Italians, of amoral familism and a limited sense of civic engagement. This paper illustrates three issues that exemplify the country’s financial problems, and which are often seen through this type of culturalist lens: i) a lack o…
Participation for what? Organizational roles, quality conventions and purchasing behaviors in solidarity purchasing groups
Debito, finanza, rischio e crisi: O la sociologia della moneta che non c’è
Starting from the events that led to the 2007 financial crisis, interest in the contribution of social sciences to debt analysis has grown steadily. The book The Sociology of Debt edited by Mark Featherstone aims to provide the reader with the map of the most recent perspectives and issues on this topic, focusing in particular on the social embeddedness of debt and its effect in the debtor-creditor relationship, both at the micro-level (individua…
La précarité dans l’université italienne: Mise en perspective depuis la sociologie économique
L’université publique italienne est dans une situation difficile. En raison de problèmes structurels et des réformes récentes – qui ont aggravé la situation au lieu de la transformer –, le système universitaire italien est aujourd’hui sous-financé. Il accuse en plus des déséquilibres inquiétants par rapport à sa composition interne et sa dimension territoriale
La finanza alla prova dell’emergenza sanitaria: Continuità e trasformazioni in tempi di crisi
No abstract
A tale of two epicentres: Lombardy and New York City at the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic
The paper explores the tale of two 'epicentres’ – metropolitan New York and Lombardy – and seeks to depict the socio-demographic patterns that characterise the worst cases of infection, hospitalisation, and death during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. By drawing upon secondary data concerning sub-territorial units within the two regions – ZIP-code level and counties in New York and municipalities in Italy – the paper compar…
Bringing dissent to shareholders’ meetings: An investigation into critical shareholding
This article deals with critical shareholding, that is, the action of non-profit organizations that resorts to involvement in corporate ownership as shareholders to promote socially responsible corporate behaviours. Based on the combined use of sociological and anthropological tools, I focus on the attendance of annual general meetings (AGMs) as a gateway to understand the potential and the limits of the transformative power of marginal actors in…
Escape from Work? Distinctions within the Realm of Anti-Work
How can the diverse manifestations of anti-work be conceptualized? This paper examines the question through an empirical analysis of the most popular posts from the world's largest anti-work online community, hosted on Reddit. It identifies distinct categories of anti-workers, defined by their stance on work/anti-work and whether their actions are individual or collective. In doing so, the paper highlights the interplay between structural grievan…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks: A Conceptual Mapping
How do economic elites react to global shocks? Here, global shocks refer to events that disrupt both the economy and society, such as economic crises, political regime collapses, natural and climate disasters, and collective health emergencies, including pandemics. These events have varied impacts across different geographical regions and population groups, including social classes and age cohorts. We argue that examining the relationship between…
Economic Elites and Global Shocks
Ordinary vulnerabilities and antimafia intervention. A case of municipal dissolution beyond mafia strongholds
The dissolution of municipal councils for mafia infiltration is a key instrument of Italian antimafia policy. While most dissolutions have occurred in regions of long-standing mafia presence, less attention has been paid to cases emerging in territories not traditionally associated with mafia dynamics. This article examines the 2020 dissolution of the municipal council of Saint-Pierre, a small municipality in the Aosta Valley (Italy), as a revela…
Gender Segregation in Medicine: The Impact of Stereotypes on Speciality Perceptions and Choices
This study examines the role of gender stereotypes in shaping the perceptions and specialisation choices of medical students in Italy. Although women are increasingly entering the medical profession, strong gender segregation persists across medical specialities, with surgical and technological fields remaining male‐dominated and people‐oriented specialities female‐dominated. Using a survey of 502 senior medical students, the analysis explores wh…
What Is Anti-work All About? Exploring the Meanings Behind Hostility towards Work
The growing disenchantment with working careers – commonly referred to as the ‘anti-work’ sentiment – has emerged as a form of critique of the current economic system. However, this phenomenon remains under-explored, particularly with regard to the subjective meaning of hostility towards work. This article proposes a conceptual map of the themes related to anti-work from the workers’ perspective, drawing on an empirical study of content posted wi…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (3 works) · Phenomenon (3 works)