Giacomo Bazzani
Biographic Data
| ID | 292855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Bazzani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bazzani |
| SIGNATURE | BAZZANI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0312-8221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Frontiers of self-realisation. How (un)certainty and imaginaries shape fertility intentions in Italy and Norway
The prevalence of uncertainty and post-materialist values appears to contribute to the emergence of low-fertility patterns or even the prevalence of childlessness. This article casts doubt on this linear explanation, which seems to remove children from personal plans and aspirations. Drawing on a survey encompassing both open and closed questions to 837 heterosexual respondents from Norway and Italy, this study investigates both the enabling and …
Redefining Freedom: Sociological Transformations from Ancient Liberties to Global Interdependencies
Freedom has long been central to philosophical inquiry and political discourse, yet sociological analyses remain limited. This article introduces a novel sociological framework structured around two dimensions—superordinate unity (dominant configurations of social, ecological, economic, and political interdependencies) and freedom claims (explicit normative demands for autonomy). I propose a typology of four ideal-typical freedom regimes: ancient…
Freedom as Social Practice: Reconstructing Religious Freedom in Everyday Life
This article examines how religious freedom is enacted and redefined through everyday practices in pluralistic urban settings. Moving beyond the classical notion of negative liberty as non-interference, it explores the social conditions that enable or constrain the practical expression of religious life. Drawing on forty-three qualitative interviews with religious leaders and civic actors in Florence, Italy, the study analyses how religious freed…
Solidarity reimagined in the face of global challenges: The emergence of altruistic solidarity
Amid escalating global challenges, a re-examination of traditional conceptions of solidarity is increasingly urgent. This article contributes to this discourse in two ways. Firstly, it identifies emerging forms of global interdependencies that significantly differ from those underpinning traditional mechanical and organic solidarity. In response, it introduces the novel concept of 'altruistic solidarity,' emphasizing the prioritization of welfare…
From organic to climate solidarity: Challenges for climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (CCM) requires a form of global solidarity that overcome the organic solidarity, with its reliance on indirect mutualism, developed within modern nation-states. The new global interdependence created by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leads to the decoupling, at the global level, of the populations who should bear the major costs of CCM and those who most stand to benefit, who may be distant in space and time (i.e., futur…
The agency of the futures
In recent years the study of the future has (re-)emerged and is raising increasing interest in the social sciences. However, this field of research often seems fragmented into different perspectives, as though the common object of study were vague or inconsistent. In line with the pragmatist tradition, this article elucidates the key role played by the future within courses of action, both routine and planned. When routine is broken, projective r…
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior
Climate‐change mitigation is a matter of solidarity. Behaviors that primarily benefit other people are prosocial behaviors that can be considered solidarity at the collective level. For climate‐change mitigation, greenhouse gas emissions have to be reduced primarily in wealthy countries, while the major beneficiaries of such a reduction are the populations of developing countries and future generations, who (will) suffer the significant negative …
Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future
The study of the future is a growing field of research transcending almost all research topics. Despite this rising interest, this field often seems fragmented into different approaches, as though the common object of study were vague or inconsistent. This article proposes a framework analytically distinguishing the three key dimensions of the future embedded in the course of action: expectations, imaginaries and narratives of the future. For eac…
Agency as conversion process
Its importance for understanding social dynamics notwithstanding, the concept of agency is one of sociology's more controversial ideas. The debate around this concept has mostly been developed at a theoretical level and the empirical studies tend to rely on socio-psychological interpretations of agency as a stable, inner force capable of influencing prospects, decisions, and behavior with little room for change in agency capacity. Social sciences…
Lorenzo Bruni. Solidarietà critica. Patologie neoliberali e nuove forme di socialità
No abstract
The agency of fertility plans
Fertility plans are a prominent area for agency research, and are a clear example of a misalignment between resources and agency capacity. We relied both on the idea of conversion factors of the Capability Approach and the pragmatist tradition of temporal-oriented agency to propose a framework for the study of fertility agency as the conversion process of resources into plans and behavior. We outlined said framework by using a unique dataset on f…
Narratives of the Future Affect Fertility: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
In recent years, fertility rates have declined in most wealthy countries. This phenomenon has largely been explained by focusing on the rise of economic uncertainty. We contribute to this debate by arguing that, under uncertain conditions, narratives of the future —i.e., socially conveyed imagined futures—impact individuals’ decision-making about childbearing. To assess this impact, we conducted (for the first time in fertility intention research…
Uncertainty and Narratives of the Future: A Theoretical Framework for Contemporary Fertility
Explanations for fertility decisions based on structural constraints—such as labor, housing condition, or income—do not account for the contemporary fertility downturn faced by many countries in Europe. In this paper, we posit that the rise of uncertainty is central for understanding contemporary fertility dynamics. We propose a theoretical framework (the Narrative Framework) for the study of fertility decisions under uncertain conditions based o…
When Money Changes Society: The case of Sardex money as community
Marriage and cohabitation under uncertainty: The role of narratives of the future during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper addresses the impact of COVID-19-induced uncertainty on union formation intentions in Italy. We acknowledge that decisions made in uncertain conditions rely on personal narratives of the future, that is socially-constructed contingent plans for achieving a personal imaginary. The data come from an on-line survey experiment carried out during the final week of lockdown in Italy on a sample of 1,846 individuals in a romantic relationship…
A reflection on economic uncertainty and fertility in Europe: The Narrative Framework
The generalized and relatively homogeneous fertility decline across European countries in the aftermath of the Great Recession poses serious challenges to our knowledge of contemporary low fertility patterns. In this paper, we argue that fertility decisions are not a mere “statistical shadow of the past”, and advance the Narrative Framework, a new approach to the relationship between economic uncertainty and fertility. This framework proffers tha…
Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future
The study of the future is a growing field of research transcending almost all research topics. Despite this rising interest, this field often seems fragmented into different approaches, as though the common object of study were vague or inconsistent. This article proposes a framework analytically distinguishing the three key dimensions of the future embedded in the course of action: expectations, imaginaries and narratives of the future. For eac…
Marriage and cohabitation under uncertainty: The role of narratives of the future during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper addresses the impact of COVID-19-induced uncertainty on union formation intentions in Italy. We acknowledge that decisions made in uncertain conditions rely on personal narratives of the future, that is socially-constructed contingent plans for achieving a personal imaginary. The data come from an on-line survey experiment carried out during the final week of lockdown in Italy on a sample of 1,846 individuals in a romantic relationship…
Narratives of the Future Affect Fertility: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
In recent years, fertility rates have declined in most wealthy countries. This phenomenon has largely been explained by focusing on the rise of economic uncertainty. We contribute to this debate by arguing that, under uncertain conditions, narratives of the future —i.e., socially conveyed imagined futures—impact individuals’ decision-making about childbearing. To assess this impact, we conducted (for the first time in fertility intention research…
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior
Climate‐change mitigation is a matter of solidarity. Behaviors that primarily benefit other people are prosocial behaviors that can be considered solidarity at the collective level. For climate‐change mitigation, greenhouse gas emissions have to be reduced primarily in wealthy countries, while the major beneficiaries of such a reduction are the populations of developing countries and future generations, who (will) suffer the significant negative …
Agency as conversion process
Its importance for understanding social dynamics notwithstanding, the concept of agency is one of sociology's more controversial ideas. The debate around this concept has mostly been developed at a theoretical level and the empirical studies tend to rely on socio-psychological interpretations of agency as a stable, inner force capable of influencing prospects, decisions, and behavior with little room for change in agency capacity. Social sciences…
From organic to climate solidarity: Challenges for climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (CCM) requires a form of global solidarity that overcome the organic solidarity, with its reliance on indirect mutualism, developed within modern nation-states. The new global interdependence created by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leads to the decoupling, at the global level, of the populations who should bear the major costs of CCM and those who most stand to benefit, who may be distant in space and time (i.e., futur…
The agency of fertility plans
Fertility plans are a prominent area for agency research, and are a clear example of a misalignment between resources and agency capacity. We relied both on the idea of conversion factors of the Capability Approach and the pragmatist tradition of temporal-oriented agency to propose a framework for the study of fertility agency as the conversion process of resources into plans and behavior. We outlined said framework by using a unique dataset on f…
Uncertainty and Narratives of the Future: A Theoretical Framework for Contemporary Fertility
Explanations for fertility decisions based on structural constraints—such as labor, housing condition, or income—do not account for the contemporary fertility downturn faced by many countries in Europe. In this paper, we posit that the rise of uncertainty is central for understanding contemporary fertility dynamics. We propose a theoretical framework (the Narrative Framework) for the study of fertility decisions under uncertain conditions based o…
When Money Changes Society: The case of Sardex money as community
Marriage and cohabitation under uncertainty: The role of narratives of the future during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper addresses the impact of COVID-19-induced uncertainty on union formation intentions in Italy. We acknowledge that decisions made in uncertain conditions rely on personal narratives of the future, that is socially-constructed contingent plans for achieving a personal imaginary. The data come from an on-line survey experiment carried out during the final week of lockdown in Italy on a sample of 1,846 individuals in a romantic relationship…
A reflection on economic uncertainty and fertility in Europe: The Narrative Framework
The generalized and relatively homogeneous fertility decline across European countries in the aftermath of the Great Recession poses serious challenges to our knowledge of contemporary low fertility patterns. In this paper, we argue that fertility decisions are not a mere “statistical shadow of the past”, and advance the Narrative Framework, a new approach to the relationship between economic uncertainty and fertility. This framework proffers tha…
Lorenzo Bruni. Solidarietà critica. Patologie neoliberali e nuove forme di socialità
No abstract
The agency of fertility plans
Fertility plans are a prominent area for agency research, and are a clear example of a misalignment between resources and agency capacity. We relied both on the idea of conversion factors of the Capability Approach and the pragmatist tradition of temporal-oriented agency to propose a framework for the study of fertility agency as the conversion process of resources into plans and behavior. We outlined said framework by using a unique dataset on f…
Narratives of the Future Affect Fertility: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
In recent years, fertility rates have declined in most wealthy countries. This phenomenon has largely been explained by focusing on the rise of economic uncertainty. We contribute to this debate by arguing that, under uncertain conditions, narratives of the future —i.e., socially conveyed imagined futures—impact individuals’ decision-making about childbearing. To assess this impact, we conducted (for the first time in fertility intention research…
The agency of the futures
In recent years the study of the future has (re-)emerged and is raising increasing interest in the social sciences. However, this field of research often seems fragmented into different perspectives, as though the common object of study were vague or inconsistent. In line with the pragmatist tradition, this article elucidates the key role played by the future within courses of action, both routine and planned. When routine is broken, projective r…
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior
Climate‐change mitigation is a matter of solidarity. Behaviors that primarily benefit other people are prosocial behaviors that can be considered solidarity at the collective level. For climate‐change mitigation, greenhouse gas emissions have to be reduced primarily in wealthy countries, while the major beneficiaries of such a reduction are the populations of developing countries and future generations, who (will) suffer the significant negative …
Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future
The study of the future is a growing field of research transcending almost all research topics. Despite this rising interest, this field often seems fragmented into different approaches, as though the common object of study were vague or inconsistent. This article proposes a framework analytically distinguishing the three key dimensions of the future embedded in the course of action: expectations, imaginaries and narratives of the future. For eac…
Agency as conversion process
Its importance for understanding social dynamics notwithstanding, the concept of agency is one of sociology's more controversial ideas. The debate around this concept has mostly been developed at a theoretical level and the empirical studies tend to rely on socio-psychological interpretations of agency as a stable, inner force capable of influencing prospects, decisions, and behavior with little room for change in agency capacity. Social sciences…
From organic to climate solidarity: Challenges for climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (CCM) requires a form of global solidarity that overcome the organic solidarity, with its reliance on indirect mutualism, developed within modern nation-states. The new global interdependence created by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leads to the decoupling, at the global level, of the populations who should bear the major costs of CCM and those who most stand to benefit, who may be distant in space and time (i.e., futur…
Frontiers of self-realisation. How (un)certainty and imaginaries shape fertility intentions in Italy and Norway
The prevalence of uncertainty and post-materialist values appears to contribute to the emergence of low-fertility patterns or even the prevalence of childlessness. This article casts doubt on this linear explanation, which seems to remove children from personal plans and aspirations. Drawing on a survey encompassing both open and closed questions to 837 heterosexual respondents from Norway and Italy, this study investigates both the enabling and …
Redefining Freedom: Sociological Transformations from Ancient Liberties to Global Interdependencies
Freedom has long been central to philosophical inquiry and political discourse, yet sociological analyses remain limited. This article introduces a novel sociological framework structured around two dimensions—superordinate unity (dominant configurations of social, ecological, economic, and political interdependencies) and freedom claims (explicit normative demands for autonomy). I propose a typology of four ideal-typical freedom regimes: ancient…
Freedom as Social Practice: Reconstructing Religious Freedom in Everyday Life
This article examines how religious freedom is enacted and redefined through everyday practices in pluralistic urban settings. Moving beyond the classical notion of negative liberty as non-interference, it explores the social conditions that enable or constrain the practical expression of religious life. Drawing on forty-three qualitative interviews with religious leaders and civic actors in Florence, Italy, the study analyses how religious freed…
Solidarity reimagined in the face of global challenges: The emergence of altruistic solidarity
Amid escalating global challenges, a re-examination of traditional conceptions of solidarity is increasingly urgent. This article contributes to this discourse in two ways. Firstly, it identifies emerging forms of global interdependencies that significantly differ from those underpinning traditional mechanical and organic solidarity. In response, it introduces the novel concept of 'altruistic solidarity,' emphasizing the prioritization of welfare…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Fertility (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)