Collection
Italian Sociology between Academia and Profession: Institutionalisation, Legitimisation and Emerging Problems
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a framework of the discipline of sociology and its sub-disciplines in Italy in both the academic and professional spheres. The different papers highlight some aspects of similarity and dissimilarity that accompanied first the development and then the affirmation of the discipline in the two macro fields of reference (academia and profession). All the papers include historical hints (birth, development, crisis and attempts to position the discipline) that are intertwined with the evolution of the socio-cultural context of Italian society and also comparisons with the international development of the discipline (the latter dimension is specifically related to the segment of the
individual papers). Between the general and the particular, there are other contributions that address the
methodological issues that in Italy have seen (and in some aspects still see) a strong contrast between quantitative and qualitative methods, the difficult and complex relationship (sometimes missed) between academic sociologists and professional sociologists, which reminds us of sociological training in its dual guise of university training and training at high school level.
Editors
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Emiliana Mangone
University of Salerno, Italy
