About this Research Line

This research line aims to analyze social change, negotiation processes, and social conflicts derived from the coexistence of religious, ethnic and gender differences in globalised contexts. Among the key aspects of the research line are the analysis of migration studies, gender studies, sociological reflections of religious practices and beliefs and LGBT and queer studies.

The ongoing research aims to develop an intercultural and intersectional interpretation of issues related to international migrations, religious conflicts, the diversification of family practices and structures and the pluralization of gender and sexual identities. The research line’s main interest focuses on the social stratification of citizenship and the construction of social and cultural hegemonies. The research perspective involves both the structural aspects of the political system and the law and the cultural aspects that affect daily life and the production of meaning and identity among social actors. The combined consideration of the two perspectives results in a mixed approach that blends the micro and macro when determining the strength of the constraints that affect social action.

Essential bibliography:

1. Allievi, S. (2018). Immigrazione: cambiare tutto, Laterza, Roma.
2. Bortolini, M., & Cossu, A. (2019). In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity. European Journal of Social Theory, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431018823140
3. Degli Esposti, , Riva, C. Setiffi, F. (2020). Sociologia dei consumi, Utet Università, Torino.
4. Falco A., Girardi D., Di Sipio A., Calvo V., Marogna C., Snir R. (2020). Is Narcissism Associated with Heavy Work Investment? The Moderating Role of Workload in the Relationship between Narcissism, Workaholism, and Work Engagement. Int J Environ Res Public Health. Jul 1;17(13):4750. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17134750. PMID: 32630334; PMCID: PMC7370039.
5. Farris, S. R., Marchetti, S. (2017). From the Commodification to the Corporatization of Care: European Perspectives and Debates. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 24(2), 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx003
6. Faccio E. Guiotto Nai Fovino L. (2019). “Food Neophobia or Distrust of Novelties? Exploring Consumers’ Attitudes toward GMOs, Insects and Cultured Meat” Appl. Sci. 9, no. 20: 4440. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9204440
7. Guolo, R. (2015). L’ultima utopia. Gli jihadisti europei, Guerini e Associati, Milano.
8. Rhazzali M.K. (2021).The Muslims in European Prisons: Religious Instances, Management of Diversity and Prevention Policies of Radicalization in Italian Penitentiary Institutes. In S. Bonino and R. Ricucci (eds.), Islam and Security in the West. London: Palgrave Macmillanpp, pp.  217-238.
9. Romania V. (2020a). “Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective”, Sociologica, 14(2), pp. 51-66. ISSN: 1971-8853 DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10836
10. Trappolin, L. (2017). Pictures of lesbian and gay parenthood in Italian sociology. A critical analysis of 30 years of research. Italian Sociological Review, 7, 301-323. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v7i3.193
11. Trevisani M., Tuzzi A. (2018). Learning the evolution of disciplines from scientific literature: A functional clustering approach to normalized keyword count trajectories, Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 146: 129-141
12. Zamperini A., Menegatto M., Mostacchi M., Barbagallo S., Testoni, (2020). Loss of Close Relationships and Loss of Religious Belonging as Cumulative Ostracism: From Social Death to Social Resurrection. Behav Sci (Basel). Jun 10;10(6):99. doi: 10.3390/bs10060099. PMID: 32531961; PMCID: PMC7349362.