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Il lavoro presentato è volto ad indagare le implicazioni che derivano dai casi di emergenza globale in termini di ridefinizione degli asset della vita ordinaria. In particolare, l’ipotesi esplorata è quella di un depotenziamento delle reti di stabilizzazione dei modelli di comportamento, conseguente alla destrutturazione degli ordini di priorità della vita quotidiana. Partendo da questa prospettiva, la ricerca esplora i risultati ottenuti da un’indagine web condotta nel 2021 su studenti universitari. L’analisi esplora le variazioni e le influenze della dimensione cognitivo-emotiva sulla dimensione attiva, in particolare considerando gli aspetti del benessere fisico e mentale.

Il canto popolare bergamasco si presenta come un diasistema dove lingua e dialetto si trovano frammisti e impiegati in un unico strumento espressivo. Il presente articolo, partendo da una proposta teorica di Glauco Sanga, descrive la mescolanza linguistica dei testi popolari alla luce di considerazioni non solo linguistiche ma anche stilistiche. L’impiego dei due codici linguistici è infatti regolato da specifiche finalità espressive. Il contributo individua dei registri di mescolanza linguistica lungo la polarità lingua-dialetto, associando la struttura linguistica a quella testuale facendo emergere come l’interazione non sia arbitraria ma si muova perseguendo precise finalità estetiche. Il canto popolare bergamasco si presenta come un diasistema dove lingua e dialetto si trovano frammisti e impiegati in un unico strumento espressivo. Il presente articolo, partendo da una proposta teorica di Glauco Sanga, descrive la mescolanza linguistica dei testi popolari alla luce di considerazioni non solo linguistiche ma anche stilistiche. L’impiego dei due codici linguistici è infatti regolato da specifiche finalità espressive. Il contributo individua dei registri di mescolanza linguistica lungo la polarità lingua-dialetto, associando la struttura linguistica a quella testuale facendo emergere come l’interazione non sia arbitraria ma si muova perseguendo precise finalità estetiche.

The recent studies focusing on the positions expressed by Anti-vaxxers highlight the complexity of the reasons that guide the choice not to get vaccinated. This contribution aims at discussing the results obtained through a panel web survey, carried out in two research appointments (Spring 2020-2021). The survey made it possible to reconstruct the dynamics of choice linked to the vaccination area, with particular regard to Anti-vaxxers. The recorded responses flow into three main social types: 1) the «negationist», who does not believe in the severity of the disease/in the existence of Covid-19 and who questions the efficacy of vaccines; 2) the «distrustful-fearful», who is worried about the possible repercussions of the vaccine on his-her health, in the short and long term; 3) the «conformist», who approaches vaccination in an unconvincing way, by a forced and uninformed choice, sometimes because of a social desiderability mechanism. The longitudinal study has also made it possible to identify the latent dimensions underlying the decision not to vaccinate and has suggested the construction of synthetic indexes aimed at understanding any changes in status ‒ on a cognitive, emotional, active level ‒ between one survey and the next. These aspects (states of mind; information styles; evaluations of government actions; trust in expert knowledge) lend themselves to further study through a qualitative approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interpersonal influence is a pervasive force in our society. However, despite the many studies in this regard, starting in particular from the sociological classicism, today, what would seem to be missing is the use of an integrated approach to the study of the dynamics of interaction that involve us every day. This study arises from the need to empirically formalize this phenomenon through an investigation of musical preferences among adolescents, thus posing further questions about the ways and reasons why individuals enter into relationships with others. The integrated approach between sociometry, web survey and agent-based modelling allows the phenomenon's conceptualization as a diffusion study, i.e., the outcome of an imitative process triggered by any reasons for compliance. In particular, the concepts of social influence and homophily have been traced back to a dual mechanism that explains the phenomenon: 1) the behavior of peers who occupy a relevant position within relational groups; and 2) the interaction favored by specific elements related to the similarity between individuals. The empirical results obtained from a web survey were compared with those generated by the simulative model in order to reproduce the observed social phenomenon and to control the theoretical hypotheses underlying the model itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question of the eligibility of the intentional action model calls into question the theses on the limits of conscious control of action and on the overcoming of the dualist conception of the mind-brain relationship. In this regard, the theme of the heterogenesis of ends - present for some time in the sociological tradition - finds its origin in the dynamics of social interdependence within which teleologically oriented acts fall. All this has obvious implications with regard to computational designs, thanks to which it is possible to include in the model aspects inherent in mental states and motives of teleological and non-teleological action. Moreover, one of the emerging arguments about the philosophy of the mind is undoubtedly that which refers to the so-called "enactivist" theory of the embodied mind, whose basic principle alludes to the inseparability of mental and bodily life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In old age, the most frequently-occurring conditions that involve psychic suffering and that often acquire psychopathological connotations are maladjustment, anxieties and fears, depression and cognitive decline. These are existential and clinical areas that Professor Marcello Cesa-Bianchi has dealt with many times in his long scientific career. His early works include in particular the maladjustment of the elderly detected and analysed in different experiential contexts. Whereas anxieties, fears and depression - in addition to maladjustment - also occur in other periods of life, in old age they acquire specific characteristics. Furthermore, the ageing process involves the risk of the onset of dementia, in its various forms. Cognitive decline - without of course ignoring its clinical manifestations and still unknown etiology - is considered in its multidimensionality and hypercomplexity, highlighting above all the emotional, relational and creative dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of the first simulative methods in the social sciences dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, but its growth and real diffusion was in the early nineties. This method has however been coupled with traditional methods of research for the study of criminal phenomena only in recent times. Surpassing the traditional statistical technique of logistic regression, this type of model has proved to be suitable for capturing complex and non-linear systems, such as crime. The recent increase of simulative modeling in criminology has led to the creation of numerous models, of which a comprehensive overview is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]