Author name: The Lab's Quarterly

This essay highlights the ambivalence of social class and considers it as an exemplification of modernity. The presentation of the class analysis carried out by classical sociology, with particular references to Karl Marx and Max Weber, introduces the discussion of contemporary theories that have valued the ambivalence of the class to observe the socio-economic changes […]

The article attempts to address the question of ambivalence by linking it to the possibility of reconstructing a unity of the social sciences. Firstly, the concept of ambivalence is considered as theorized by Zygmunt Bauman. In this sense, it presents itself as an opportunity and not just as an obstacle also for the construction of

This article focuses on Bauman’s theorisation of ambivalence, with particular reference both to the link established between modernity and ambivalence itself and to the Baumanian conception of morality. Both of these thematisations are considered in relation to the ideas of the human being and humanity as a whole, which in turn are seen as historical