Alessandro Orsini
Biographic Data
| ID | 452012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Orsini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Orsini |
| SIGNATURE | ORSINI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5256-6573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sociological Theory
This textbook presents the great authors of classical and contemporary sociological theory, and details contemporary schools of thought.
Durkheim
Digital Devices Use and Fine Motor Skills in Children between 3–6 Years
(1) Background: The principal aim of our research was to explore the relationship between digital devices use and fine motor skills in children aged three to six years and to explore the effect of some socio-demographic factors. (2) Methods: we enrolled 185 children aged between three to six years. The parents of all the participants fulfilled a questionnaire to explore the digital device use, and their children performed a standardized test to a…
Parental Practices and Environmental Differences among Infants Living in Upper-Middle and High-Income Countries
Parental practices and environmental factors can impact a child’s development and, consequently, functionality. The objective is to assess the parental practices and environmental differences in healthy and at-risk infants at 3–6 months of age living in upper-middle (Brazil) and high-income (Italy) countries. A total group of 115 infants was identified and classified into four groups: healthy Italian infants (H_IT); Italian infants exposed to bio…
Psychopathological Impact in Patients with History of Rheumatic Fever with or without Sydenham’s Chorea
Sydenham's chorea (SC) is a post-streptococcal autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system, and it is a major criterium for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). SC typically improves in 12-15 weeks, but patients can be affected for years by persistence and recurrencies of both neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms. We enrolled 48 patients with a previous diagnosis of ARF, with or without SC, in a national multicenter prospecti…
Efficacy of Liposomal Melatonin in sleep EEG in Childhood
Electroencephalography (EEG) is pivotal in the clinical assessment of epilepsy, and sleep is known to improve the diagnostic yield of its recording. Sleep-EEG recording is generally reached by either partial deprivation or by administration of sleep-inducing agents, although it is still not achieved in a considerable percentage of patients. We conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled study, involving a hundred patients between 1 and 6 years ol…
What Everybody Should Know about Radicalization and the DRIA Model
Thousands of monographs, reports, and articles about radicalization have been published since 2001. With the passage of time, the “scientific community” has come to identify some of them as “milestones.” Which are they? Unlike Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen, who wrote an article in 2010 on what we know and what we don’t know about violent radicalization in Europe, the author here aims to present and discuss what everybody should know about the process of …
Idéologie et terrorisme
Raymond Boudon avait attiré l’attention de Commentaire sur les travaux d’Alessandro Orsini. L’hypothèse à la base de cette étude est typiquement wébérienne : les actions des individus dépendent de leur état d’esprit ou de leur représentation du monde environnant. Les membres des Brigades rouges ont ce que Raymond Boudon a appelé la « rationalité située ». Influencés par leur contexte social de référence, ils interprètent le monde à la lumière d’u…
La radicalisation des terroristes de vocation
j’ai étudié les vies de vingt et un terroristes de vocation qui ont perpétré un meurtre ou un massacre aux États-Unis et en Europe, entre 2004 et 2016. J’ai comparé leurs biographies et j’ai découvert que leur processus de radicalisation tendait à suivre quatre phases fondamentales, que j’ai résumées dans le modèle DRIA : D = Désintégration de l’identité sociale; R = Reconstruction de l’identité sociale à travers une idéologie radicale; I = Intég…
Are Terrorists Courageous? Micro-Sociology of Extreme Left Terrorism
This article contests the affirmation—based on common sense—according to which terrorists simply need courage. The typical terrorist act can be considered part of the sociological category known as “vile violence” that is the act of striking out at a victim after having placed him or her in a desperate situation that does not allow for any escape. This article is based on primary and secondary sources, such as the analysis of thirty-five homicide…
Interview With a Terrorist by Vocation
The interview that follows was conducted somewhere in Italy with a militant of the Red Brigades recently freed after spending 32 years and 6 months in prison. Taking up the sociological perspective of Max Weber, the author draws a distinction between “professional terrorist” and “vocational terrorist”. The terrorist by vocation differs from the professional terrorist in his profound faith in the mission he feels he must accomplish. He does not tr…
A Day Among the Diehard Terrorists
This article describes the experience of a sociologist who made contact with a group of diehard terrorists responsible for multiple murders in order to conduct an ethnographic study. After outlining the sociological profile of the diehard terrorists, the author—making reference to the ethnographic studies of Jack Douglas, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, and Laud Humphreys—describes how he followed their traces. The aim of the article is to analyze the …
Poverty, Ideology and Terrorism
This article focuses on the role of ideology in the decision of people who are not from \nsocieties’ worst-off socioeconomic groups to join a left-wing terrorist organization. \nTaking up the sociological perspective of Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, and Raymond \nBoudon, the author introduces the concept of the “terrorist of the first hour” and \nconsiders ideology as a type of social bond. The concept of ideology is here broken \ndown into four di…
Poverty, Ideology and Terrorism
This article focuses on the role of ideology in the decision of people who are not from \nsocieties’ worst-off socioeconomic groups to join a left-wing terrorist organization. \nTaking up the sociological perspective of Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, and Raymond \nBoudon, the author introduces the concept of the “terrorist of the first hour” and \nconsiders ideology as a type of social bond. The concept of ideology is here broken \ndown into four di…
What Everybody Should Know about Radicalization and the DRIA Model
Thousands of monographs, reports, and articles about radicalization have been published since 2001. With the passage of time, the “scientific community” has come to identify some of them as “milestones.” Which are they? Unlike Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen, who wrote an article in 2010 on what we know and what we don’t know about violent radicalization in Europe, the author here aims to present and discuss what everybody should know about the process of …
Interview With a Terrorist by Vocation
The interview that follows was conducted somewhere in Italy with a militant of the Red Brigades recently freed after spending 32 years and 6 months in prison. Taking up the sociological perspective of Max Weber, the author draws a distinction between “professional terrorist” and “vocational terrorist”. The terrorist by vocation differs from the professional terrorist in his profound faith in the mission he feels he must accomplish. He does not tr…
A Day Among the Diehard Terrorists
This article describes the experience of a sociologist who made contact with a group of diehard terrorists responsible for multiple murders in order to conduct an ethnographic study. After outlining the sociological profile of the diehard terrorists, the author—making reference to the ethnographic studies of Jack Douglas, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, and Laud Humphreys—describes how he followed their traces. The aim of the article is to analyze the …
Are Terrorists Courageous? Micro-Sociology of Extreme Left Terrorism
This article contests the affirmation—based on common sense—according to which terrorists simply need courage. The typical terrorist act can be considered part of the sociological category known as “vile violence” that is the act of striking out at a victim after having placed him or her in a desperate situation that does not allow for any escape. This article is based on primary and secondary sources, such as the analysis of thirty-five homicide…
Poverty, Ideology and Terrorism
This article focuses on the role of ideology in the decision of people who are not from \nsocieties’ worst-off socioeconomic groups to join a left-wing terrorist organization. \nTaking up the sociological perspective of Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, and Raymond \nBoudon, the author introduces the concept of the “terrorist of the first hour” and \nconsiders ideology as a type of social bond. The concept of ideology is here broken \ndown into four di…
Interview With a Terrorist by Vocation
The interview that follows was conducted somewhere in Italy with a militant of the Red Brigades recently freed after spending 32 years and 6 months in prison. Taking up the sociological perspective of Max Weber, the author draws a distinction between “professional terrorist” and “vocational terrorist”. The terrorist by vocation differs from the professional terrorist in his profound faith in the mission he feels he must accomplish. He does not tr…
A Day Among the Diehard Terrorists
This article describes the experience of a sociologist who made contact with a group of diehard terrorists responsible for multiple murders in order to conduct an ethnographic study. After outlining the sociological profile of the diehard terrorists, the author—making reference to the ethnographic studies of Jack Douglas, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, and Laud Humphreys—describes how he followed their traces. The aim of the article is to analyze the …
Are Terrorists Courageous? Micro-Sociology of Extreme Left Terrorism
This article contests the affirmation—based on common sense—according to which terrorists simply need courage. The typical terrorist act can be considered part of the sociological category known as “vile violence” that is the act of striking out at a victim after having placed him or her in a desperate situation that does not allow for any escape. This article is based on primary and secondary sources, such as the analysis of thirty-five homicide…
Idéologie et terrorisme
Raymond Boudon avait attiré l’attention de Commentaire sur les travaux d’Alessandro Orsini. L’hypothèse à la base de cette étude est typiquement wébérienne : les actions des individus dépendent de leur état d’esprit ou de leur représentation du monde environnant. Les membres des Brigades rouges ont ce que Raymond Boudon a appelé la « rationalité située ». Influencés par leur contexte social de référence, ils interprètent le monde à la lumière d’u…
La radicalisation des terroristes de vocation
j’ai étudié les vies de vingt et un terroristes de vocation qui ont perpétré un meurtre ou un massacre aux États-Unis et en Europe, entre 2004 et 2016. J’ai comparé leurs biographies et j’ai découvert que leur processus de radicalisation tendait à suivre quatre phases fondamentales, que j’ai résumées dans le modèle DRIA : D = Désintégration de l’identité sociale; R = Reconstruction de l’identité sociale à travers une idéologie radicale; I = Intég…
What Everybody Should Know about Radicalization and the DRIA Model
Thousands of monographs, reports, and articles about radicalization have been published since 2001. With the passage of time, the “scientific community” has come to identify some of them as “milestones.” Which are they? Unlike Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen, who wrote an article in 2010 on what we know and what we don’t know about violent radicalization in Europe, the author here aims to present and discuss what everybody should know about the process of …
Parental Practices and Environmental Differences among Infants Living in Upper-Middle and High-Income Countries
Parental practices and environmental factors can impact a child’s development and, consequently, functionality. The objective is to assess the parental practices and environmental differences in healthy and at-risk infants at 3–6 months of age living in upper-middle (Brazil) and high-income (Italy) countries. A total group of 115 infants was identified and classified into four groups: healthy Italian infants (H_IT); Italian infants exposed to bio…
Psychopathological Impact in Patients with History of Rheumatic Fever with or without Sydenham’s Chorea
Sydenham's chorea (SC) is a post-streptococcal autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system, and it is a major criterium for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF). SC typically improves in 12-15 weeks, but patients can be affected for years by persistence and recurrencies of both neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms. We enrolled 48 patients with a previous diagnosis of ARF, with or without SC, in a national multicenter prospecti…
Efficacy of Liposomal Melatonin in sleep EEG in Childhood
Electroencephalography (EEG) is pivotal in the clinical assessment of epilepsy, and sleep is known to improve the diagnostic yield of its recording. Sleep-EEG recording is generally reached by either partial deprivation or by administration of sleep-inducing agents, although it is still not achieved in a considerable percentage of patients. We conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled study, involving a hundred patients between 1 and 6 years ol…
Digital Devices Use and Fine Motor Skills in Children between 3–6 Years
(1) Background: The principal aim of our research was to explore the relationship between digital devices use and fine motor skills in children aged three to six years and to explore the effect of some socio-demographic factors. (2) Methods: we enrolled 185 children aged between three to six years. The parents of all the participants fulfilled a questionnaire to explore the digital device use, and their children performed a standardized test to a…
Sociological Theory
This textbook presents the great authors of classical and contemporary sociological theory, and details contemporary schools of thought.
Durkheim
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Terrorism (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works)