G Sciortino
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 43926 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Sciortino |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Sciortino |
| FIRMA | SCIORTINO G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7210-8016 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 249 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Fresh Ideas, Sound Style and a Missed Step Forward - Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri, An Ugly Word
Transnational Parents in Italy
This article studies the association between transnational parenthood, that is, mothers and fathers who have migrated, leaving at least one child in the country of origin, and well‐being among first‐generation immigrants in Italy. Transnational households have been researched mostly through qualitative interviews and ethnographies. This paper uses nationally representative data for Italy from the Survey on Social Condition and Integration of Fore…
Membership, migration, and inclusion in the civil sphere
In this article, we explore the intersection of migration, membership, and inclusion through Civil Sphere Theory (CST), the most powerful theory currently available for explaining social solidarity in modern, differentiated societies. While CST has amply proven its worth by deepening our understanding of social solidarity and civil repair within established polities, it has insufficiently addressed the boundaries that define inclusion and exclusi…
Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration
Regional Spotlight Italian Sociology of Culture
This essay provides a critical overview of the development, transformations, and current configuration of the Italian sociology of culture. It argues that, despite a long history of sociological inquiry into cultural phenomena, Italy lacks a cohesive and durable tradition or field of cultural sociology. The Italian case is marked by fragmentation, both intellectual and institutional, where individual initiatives prevail over stable research netwo…
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration
Published online: 12 January 2024
Uncanny Babushka
Geographical mobility may have a powerful influence on sexual change. The sexual dimension of migration has mostly been studied in reference to its role in shaping aspiration for mobility. It has been documented how the promise of an erotically desirable future plays often an important role in many migration subcultures. Mobility, moreover, has been recognized as one of the ways in which many types of sexual minorities have escaped repression or …
From Author to Network
This article argues that Jeffrey Alexander’s The Civil Sphere constitutes the first sociological theory of civil society, a theory with its own developmental history. That history includes the trajectory of Alexander’s career prior to his simultaneous turn to cultural sociology and civil society. The former led him to develop what he calls a ‘strong program,’ while the use of the term ‘civil sphere’ serves to distinguish his approach to civil soc…
The End of Illusions
A Blueprint for Inclusion
In the last decades of his life, Talcott Parsons was often indicted as conservative. More recently, his analyses of contemporary society have been perceived as obsolete. In the present paper, I argue that both these accounts are wrong. Parsons’s biographical and intellectual profile is clearly – and rather consistently – that of a New Deal liberal. His “ate” works, moreover, articulate an original view of the integrative processes in modern socie…
Reply to our critics
We thank Peter Gatrell, Volker M. Heins, and Leo Lucassen for their insightful critiques on The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization. Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination. Their comments show that the history of postcolonial migrations remains an important, and under-exploited, strategic research material. They also highlight the potential fruitfulness of cultural trauma theory to analyse at least some dimensions of their impacts. All part…
Migration and Sexual Change
The current world is globally differentiated in many segmented sexual subcultures. Unsurprisingly, the existence of sexual differences – real or imagined, feared or desired – is embedded in the functioning of ethno-cultural boundaries. As the papers published in this special issue show, migration challenges such boundaries in many ways – some obvious, some counter-intuitive - and through a variety of processes. In recent years, many studies of mi…
The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization
This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses carried out in the collection. More part…
Il mito delle comunità chiuse
The social and religious life of the foreign population in Italy is surely an important topic. Unfortunately, it has condensed over the years a cloud of largely mythological interpretations. They converge on a strongly communitarian frame. Relying on the large-scale survey carried out by the National Institute of Statistics in 2011-2012, we suggest a different interpretation able to highlight the heterogeneity of social and religious styles
Ethnicity, Race, Nationhood, Foreignness, and Many Other Things
This article demonstrates how cultural sociology may contribute to, and further enrich, contemporary efforts to understand difference-based interactions in a non-reductionist way. More specifically, it explains how a systematic understanding of symbolic structures may be particularly useful in fostering the recent emphasis on boundary-making, rather than collective groups, as the focus of analysis. The article begins with a discussion of two majo…
Agil, History of
Closed memberships in a mobile world? Welfare states, welfare regimes and international migration
The diversities of Europe
Looking for a concept that condenses the normative added value that the European Union may claim to embody vis-à-vis its member states, diversity would appear to be a first-rate candidate. For more than four decades, European institutions have endorsed a complex discourse about diversity that sharply differentiates the European project from the historical experiences of its member-states. The paper stresses the discontinuity inherent in the Europ…
The newest diversity is the oldest
Since the 1990s, the expansion of the European Union's competences to new policy fields and the entrance of new member states with recent histories of religious repression have increased the exposure of European Union institutions to issues having a potentially high impact on religious sensitivity. Because the differentiation between the religious and the political in Europe has never been complete, national laws and regulations have always refle…
A single societal community with full citizenship for all
The main claim of this paper is to show that any canon of citizenship studies should include Talcott Parsons. Contrary to the received views, Talcott Parsons provides an innovative view of citizenship as a key sociological structure, rooted in his theory of modern society. In doing so, he anticipates contemporary debates on the topic by highlighting the relationship between citizenship and cultural pluralism in modern Western societies. The paper…
Theorizing Irregular Migration
This article claims that the study of irregular migration may be a strategic research material for the development of an adequate understanding of contemporary society. The field, however, suffers not only from a lack of reliable empirical data, but also from endemic undertheorizing. The article shows how the attempt to develop an understanding of irregular migration from within a general theory of modern society has positive consequences both fo…
A tale of networks and policies
In recent decades, large‐scale irregular migration flows and systems have developed across Europe. Although such systems involve most European countries and are often treated as being similar, their structures and dynamics are quite different. Some irregular migration systems have developed through clandestine entries, while other systems are almost entirely the result of overstaying. Some systems have been structured around a sequence of self‐co…
American society
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkab…
Schengen's Soft Underbelly? Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling across Land and Sea Borders to Italy
Irregular migration to or across Italy is usually associated with the idea of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants crossing the Mediterranean crammed in long-worn ships barely staying afloat. Such journeys are often taken as evidence of the existence of hierarchically integrated, centralized, sophisticated, worldwide active, criminal cartels. The only problem with such received wisdoms is the fact that it is radically at odd with the availa…
American Society
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkab…
Schengen's Soft Underbelly? Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling across Land and Sea Borders to Italy
Irregular migration to or across Italy is usually associated with the idea of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants crossing the Mediterranean crammed in long-worn ships barely staying afloat. Such journeys are often taken as evidence of the existence of hierarchically integrated, centralized, sophisticated, worldwide active, criminal cartels. The only problem with such received wisdoms is the fact that it is radically at odd with the availa…
Immigration in a Mediterranean Welfare State
There is a large body of literature that explores the use of welfare programs by immigrants. It is often argued that welfare programs function as a magnet for flows of unwanted migration. Very little research, however, has been carried out regarding the other side of the coin: the ways in which international migration provides crucial resources for managing the relationships between households, labor markets and the state. Welfare regimes interac…
Italian immigration
This article reconstructs the historical development of foreign settlement in Italy. It shows how Italy is part of a number of different migratory patterns, some of which are interconnected, while others are quite strongly differentiated. This diversity means that the standard images that link Italian immigration with a high degree of social marginalization do not correspond to the more complex realities, and by focusing on short-term aspects sim…
Theorizing Irregular Migration
This article claims that the study of irregular migration may be a strategic research material for the development of an adequate understanding of contemporary society. The field, however, suffers not only from a lack of reliable empirical data, but also from endemic undertheorizing. The article shows how the attempt to develop an understanding of irregular migration from within a general theory of modern society has positive consequences both fo…
The flows and the flood
Since the start of the debate on immigration in Italy there has been considerable interest in analysing the ways in which the public discourse on immigration has changed over time. This article examines the changes that have taken place in the period from 1969 to 2001. It is based on systematic study of the principal weekly news magazines (1969–1981) and on the daily press (1982–2001). It demonstrates significant changes in the ways in which immi…
A tale of networks and policies
In recent decades, large‐scale irregular migration flows and systems have developed across Europe. Although such systems involve most European countries and are often treated as being similar, their structures and dynamics are quite different. Some irregular migration systems have developed through clandestine entries, while other systems are almost entirely the result of overstaying. Some systems have been structured around a sequence of self‐co…
Toward a political sociology of entry policies
This article presents a critical survey of the state of the current research on immigration policies. The first part highlights the social and disciplinary changes that have recently made ‘immigration policy' a legitimate topic of social inquiry. It is argued that we are currently witnessing a fairly large wave of studies of the topic and that there is evidence of initial attempts to move from idiosyncratic case histories to theoreticallyinformed…
The End of Illusions
American society
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkab…
On Choosing One's Intellectual Predecessors
Les AA. examinent de facon critique certaines theses defendues par C. Camic et plus particulierement celle selon laquelle T. Parsons, dans son ouvrage « The Structure of social action », n'aurait choisi de debattre et de ne s'interesser qu'a des theoriciens qui jouissaient d'une certaine reputation, d'un certain prestige. Les AA. rejettent ce type d'analyse et d'approche en matiere de sociologie de la connaissance. Ils presentent le paradigme def…
A single societal community with full citizenship for all
The main claim of this paper is to show that any canon of citizenship studies should include Talcott Parsons. Contrary to the received views, Talcott Parsons provides an innovative view of citizenship as a key sociological structure, rooted in his theory of modern society. In doing so, he anticipates contemporary debates on the topic by highlighting the relationship between citizenship and cultural pluralism in modern Western societies. The paper…
A Blueprint for Inclusion
In the last decades of his life, Talcott Parsons was often indicted as conservative. More recently, his analyses of contemporary society have been perceived as obsolete. In the present paper, I argue that both these accounts are wrong. Parsons’s biographical and intellectual profile is clearly – and rather consistently – that of a New Deal liberal. His “ate” works, moreover, articulate an original view of the integrative processes in modern socie…
The diversities of Europe
Looking for a concept that condenses the normative added value that the European Union may claim to embody vis-à-vis its member states, diversity would appear to be a first-rate candidate. For more than four decades, European institutions have endorsed a complex discourse about diversity that sharply differentiates the European project from the historical experiences of its member-states. The paper stresses the discontinuity inherent in the Europ…
Just Before the Fall
The article tries to develop a better understanding of the role of discursive formations in the establishment of a nationalist claim. Nationalist discourses are defined as a distinctive subset of those discursive practices directed to transform, through the drawing of a boundary, a given audience in a solidary community, characterized by an internal, socially constructed similarity and by an external, socially constructed difference. It is argued…
Regional Spotlight Italian Sociology of Culture
This essay provides a critical overview of the development, transformations, and current configuration of the Italian sociology of culture. It argues that, despite a long history of sociological inquiry into cultural phenomena, Italy lacks a cohesive and durable tradition or field of cultural sociology. The Italian case is marked by fragmentation, both intellectual and institutional, where individual initiatives prevail over stable research netwo…
The newest diversity is the oldest
Since the 1990s, the expansion of the European Union's competences to new policy fields and the entrance of new member states with recent histories of religious repression have increased the exposure of European Union institutions to issues having a potentially high impact on religious sensitivity. Because the differentiation between the religious and the political in Europe has never been complete, national laws and regulations have always refle…
Immigration into Europe and public policy
"Using Italy as a case study, this article explores whether attempts to stop immigration can ever be effective. What it shows is that, contrary to public opinion, strict controls are not necessarily effective. Moreover, there is no evidence that the position of existing migrants improves when controls are increased. On the contrary, strict controls are associated with undermining the position of existing minorities. Such policies are particularly…
On Choosing One's Intellectual Predecessors
Les AA. examinent de facon critique certaines theses defendues par C. Camic et plus particulierement celle selon laquelle T. Parsons, dans son ouvrage « The Structure of social action », n'aurait choisi de debattre et de ne s'interesser qu'a des theoriciens qui jouissaient d'une certaine reputation, d'un certain prestige. Les AA. rejettent ce type d'analyse et d'approche en matiere de sociologie de la connaissance. Ils presentent le paradigme def…
Just Before the Fall
The article tries to develop a better understanding of the role of discursive formations in the establishment of a nationalist claim. Nationalist discourses are defined as a distinctive subset of those discursive practices directed to transform, through the drawing of a boundary, a given audience in a solidary community, characterized by an internal, socially constructed similarity and by an external, socially constructed difference. It is argued…
Toward a political sociology of entry policies
This article presents a critical survey of the state of the current research on immigration policies. The first part highlights the social and disciplinary changes that have recently made ‘immigration policy' a legitimate topic of social inquiry. It is argued that we are currently witnessing a fairly large wave of studies of the topic and that there is evidence of initial attempts to move from idiosyncratic case histories to theoreticallyinformed…
Immigration in a Mediterranean Welfare State
There is a large body of literature that explores the use of welfare programs by immigrants. It is often argued that welfare programs function as a magnet for flows of unwanted migration. Very little research, however, has been carried out regarding the other side of the coin: the ways in which international migration provides crucial resources for managing the relationships between households, labor markets and the state. Welfare regimes interac…
The flows and the flood
Since the start of the debate on immigration in Italy there has been considerable interest in analysing the ways in which the public discourse on immigration has changed over time. This article examines the changes that have taken place in the period from 1969 to 2001. It is based on systematic study of the principal weekly news magazines (1969–1981) and on the daily press (1982–2001). It demonstrates significant changes in the ways in which immi…
Italian immigration
This article reconstructs the historical development of foreign settlement in Italy. It shows how Italy is part of a number of different migratory patterns, some of which are interconnected, while others are quite strongly differentiated. This diversity means that the standard images that link Italian immigration with a high degree of social marginalization do not correspond to the more complex realities, and by focusing on short-term aspects sim…
Schengen's Soft Underbelly? Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling across Land and Sea Borders to Italy
Irregular migration to or across Italy is usually associated with the idea of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants crossing the Mediterranean crammed in long-worn ships barely staying afloat. Such journeys are often taken as evidence of the existence of hierarchically integrated, centralized, sophisticated, worldwide active, criminal cartels. The only problem with such received wisdoms is the fact that it is radically at odd with the availa…
American Society
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkab…
A Comment on Talcott Parsons at Brown University
Professor Sciortino offers his impressions of the recently discovered transcriptions of the seminar Parsons participated in at Brown University on March 10, 1973
American society
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkab…
A tale of networks and policies
In recent decades, large‐scale irregular migration flows and systems have developed across Europe. Although such systems involve most European countries and are often treated as being similar, their structures and dynamics are quite different. Some irregular migration systems have developed through clandestine entries, while other systems are almost entirely the result of overstaying. Some systems have been structured around a sequence of self‐co…
A single societal community with full citizenship for all
The main claim of this paper is to show that any canon of citizenship studies should include Talcott Parsons. Contrary to the received views, Talcott Parsons provides an innovative view of citizenship as a key sociological structure, rooted in his theory of modern society. In doing so, he anticipates contemporary debates on the topic by highlighting the relationship between citizenship and cultural pluralism in modern Western societies. The paper…
Theorizing Irregular Migration
This article claims that the study of irregular migration may be a strategic research material for the development of an adequate understanding of contemporary society. The field, however, suffers not only from a lack of reliable empirical data, but also from endemic undertheorizing. The article shows how the attempt to develop an understanding of irregular migration from within a general theory of modern society has positive consequences both fo…
The diversities of Europe
Looking for a concept that condenses the normative added value that the European Union may claim to embody vis-à-vis its member states, diversity would appear to be a first-rate candidate. For more than four decades, European institutions have endorsed a complex discourse about diversity that sharply differentiates the European project from the historical experiences of its member-states. The paper stresses the discontinuity inherent in the Europ…
The newest diversity is the oldest
Since the 1990s, the expansion of the European Union's competences to new policy fields and the entrance of new member states with recent histories of religious repression have increased the exposure of European Union institutions to issues having a potentially high impact on religious sensitivity. Because the differentiation between the religious and the political in Europe has never been complete, national laws and regulations have always refle…
Agil, History of
Closed memberships in a mobile world? Welfare states, welfare regimes and international migration
Ethnicity, Race, Nationhood, Foreignness, and Many Other Things
This article demonstrates how cultural sociology may contribute to, and further enrich, contemporary efforts to understand difference-based interactions in a non-reductionist way. More specifically, it explains how a systematic understanding of symbolic structures may be particularly useful in fostering the recent emphasis on boundary-making, rather than collective groups, as the focus of analysis. The article begins with a discussion of two majo…
Il mito delle comunità chiuse
The social and religious life of the foreign population in Italy is surely an important topic. Unfortunately, it has condensed over the years a cloud of largely mythological interpretations. They converge on a strongly communitarian frame. Relying on the large-scale survey carried out by the National Institute of Statistics in 2011-2012, we suggest a different interpretation able to highlight the heterogeneity of social and religious styles
Migration and Sexual Change
The current world is globally differentiated in many segmented sexual subcultures. Unsurprisingly, the existence of sexual differences – real or imagined, feared or desired – is embedded in the functioning of ethno-cultural boundaries. As the papers published in this special issue show, migration challenges such boundaries in many ways – some obvious, some counter-intuitive - and through a variety of processes. In recent years, many studies of mi…
The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization
This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses carried out in the collection. More part…
A Blueprint for Inclusion
In the last decades of his life, Talcott Parsons was often indicted as conservative. More recently, his analyses of contemporary society have been perceived as obsolete. In the present paper, I argue that both these accounts are wrong. Parsons’s biographical and intellectual profile is clearly – and rather consistently – that of a New Deal liberal. His “ate” works, moreover, articulate an original view of the integrative processes in modern socie…
Reply to our critics
We thank Peter Gatrell, Volker M. Heins, and Leo Lucassen for their insightful critiques on The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization. Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination. Their comments show that the history of postcolonial migrations remains an important, and under-exploited, strategic research material. They also highlight the potential fruitfulness of cultural trauma theory to analyse at least some dimensions of their impacts. All part…
From Author to Network
This article argues that Jeffrey Alexander’s The Civil Sphere constitutes the first sociological theory of civil society, a theory with its own developmental history. That history includes the trajectory of Alexander’s career prior to his simultaneous turn to cultural sociology and civil society. The former led him to develop what he calls a ‘strong program,’ while the use of the term ‘civil sphere’ serves to distinguish his approach to civil soc…
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