Authors: Maria Adelaide Gallina Abstract The aim of this article is to reflect on the evolution of the concept of welfare, considering the significant changes and adaptations in response to different economic, social and political challenges. The theme of social…

Authors: Vera Kopsaj Abstract This article investigates the role of blockchain technology as a social infrastructure capable of reshaping the construction of trust and identity in contemporary society. Drawing on a sociological perspective, the article examines how digitally mediated infrastructures…

Authors: Ida Cortoni Abstract The essay introduces the concepts of educational and digital poverty in pre-school children. According to the literature, these terms can be understood as deprivations of opportunities to learn, but also to experience, develop and freely flourish…

Authors: Milena Gammaitoni Abstract Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Martineau still need to be included in the history of sociology, despite their innovative contribution to the field. The fact that they are still kept outside the canon needs to be the…

Authors: Laura Gherardi, Gianluca Maestri, Mauro Magatti Abstract The relationships between sustainability and recent transformations of capitalism are illustrated comparing two bodies of articles appeared in international managerial and economic journals in the years 2008-2010 (after Lehman Brother’s failure) and…