Repository | Book | Chapter
(2017) Italian sociology,1945–2010, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter focuses on one crucial element of post-war Italian sociology: extra-academic research centers . These institutes were venues for training young sociologists, creating scholarly and political networks, and promoting the discipline and its institutionalization. After a survey of major research centers, the chapter focuses on three cases: the Centro nazionale di prevenzione e difesa sociale in Milan, a research center with close relations to the political establishment; the Associazione il Mulino in Bologna, a cultural association, which created an intellectual infrastructure for the discipline; and the Ufficio Relazioni Sociali of the very large Olivetti enterprise in Ivrea, which framed sociological research as an element in a wider political–cultural project of social reform.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58941-5_3
Full citation:
Cossu, A. , Bortolini, M. (2017). The hubs of newborn sociology, in Italian sociology,1945–2010, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.