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Social movements outcomes has been analysed by different perspectives. Only recently social movements studies start to focus on the unanticipated consequences of social movements strategies and collective action. Talking about unanticipated consequences of social movements meets the need of deeper understanding social, political and cultural change and poses some important questions for social movements research...

The basic hypothesis of the article «The young people and the re-invention of the social» is that the new generations are the testimony – not necessarily aware – of a process of «re-invention of the social», that is, of a radical transformation of the relationships between individuals and society...

Over the years traditional ties have weakened to a melting point: society itself has become liquid, ethically neutral. The individual is not always considered in his or her uniqueness and placed at the center of the many public policies, which are increasingly less rich in functional resources to achieve individual and collective well-being...

In organization studies (OS) paradigm thinking seems to have abated over the past fifteen years, notwithstanding the enduring use of the paradigm concept within the field. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the relevance of paradigm debating to OS still remains high and should be cultivated...

Intercultural Mediators play a key role within the reception system for refugees and asylum seekers. Although they are required to deal with a well-known humanitarian emergency, their status is still weak and not yet fully formalized...

The present article presents and discusses a creative method for researching subjectivities in social inquiry: making objects or models. It is a method used in organisational development, in supporting creative problem solving and, albeit marginally, in media studies...

Analysing young people’s involvement in an ultras group that has opened its own self-managed social centre in Bologna (Italy), the article explores the relationship between young people and the public sphere, focusing on the relationship between social marginalization and civic-political participation...

The proposal aims to highlight the self-representations of homeless – economic migrant who transform the personal project of a different life in Italy in an exercise of survival. This modifies the perception of the self through the subversion of specific categories of «presentified time» and space delimited by their skills of perceiving their immediate surrounding space as a branch of their own bodies...