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ABSTRACT The contemporary capitalist practice, a neoliberal version, promotes the model of a public university as a profitable enterprise providing high‐quality educational services. This means a situation in which public higher education is subject to market pressures, including the narrative of irreversible privatisation and marketisation. It is also the occurrence of academic capitalism, associated with three specific processes: commercialisation, capitalisation and financialisation. Such neoliberal ideas mean enormous changes in the orientation of teaching and the organisation of higher education institutions for universities. At the same time, these changes are related to the roles and functions of women in academia, considering also the discrimination and violence against them. On this basis, the article aims to reflect on the differences and similarities between the Italian and Polish academic systems by attempting to reconstruct the socio‐economic and political framework, also in the EU, considering the gender gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The digital skills evaluation as well as the educational process represents, today more than in the past, a very complex challenge in a very dynamic social context and in technological changes. In this sense, it is necessary to work through innovative planning that considers the different processes of platform society and also of the educational institution. In the onlife perspective, in a synthesis between real and virtual and in the digital citizenship view. The article wants to reflect on these topics, providing a sociological perspective integrated with the evaluation science by reporting the experimentation of a project implemented in the Molise region in the a.s. 2021/2022, entitled: "Rights in Internet: towards a digital citizenship". An active project, in which the many actors were teachers and their students, mediators of onlife knowledge through the EAS methodology. A pathway in which assessment was able to guide teaching practices and achieve school wellness along with digital skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

This article explores the depopulation phenomenon in the context of the Molise region, an Inner Area in the south of Italy, considering it as an indicator of emerging social vulnerability. In particular, this paper presents the results of a quantitative study conducted in Molise on a non-probabilistic sample composed of 89 respondents through an online self-administered semi-structured questionnaire. This research may contribute to stimulating reflection on social vulnerability studies by explaining that, in the age of complexity, societies, although simple, are not builders of social capital capable of protecting against social vulnerability. In particular, the data reveal that more than 2/3 of the sample (+75%) do not participate in community activities (events at volunteer centers; civic and political activities; and events youth aggregation centers). For this reason, it is important to improve solidarity, which is the core of new strategies of proximity welfare that help to reduce depopulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs or TIC) represent not only an extension of humans but pervasive environments in which all individuals move. However, even today, there is a gap between users in relation to age: the over-65s in Europe and Italy, for example, present difficulties in the use of digital tools and therefore strong disparities in relation to access to Internet and related resources and opportunities. This means that the elderlies are in serious risk to social exclusion and marginalization in the knowledge society, in which technological artifacts are instead crucial for social inclusion. Therefore, the essay aims to reflect on these issues through a sociological lens, with references to digital literacy and media education as possible alternatives, and social-relational interventions to reduce digital disengagement and the consequent digital divide. Thus, the paper proposes the intergenerational digital social innovation perspective that, by activating bottom-up digital-oriented welfare policies, promotes learning in old age. In fact, this is a determining factor in the design of educational spaces co-constructed together with the older people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Within the frame of the Social Worker university curriculum, the traineeship is a complex activity that manifests itself as the practical translation of the theory and of the professional social relationship. Moreover, this is also the possible «bridge» that University can build with the labour market through its so-called «Third Mission» activity. In this way, the (curricular) traineeship allows trainees to acquire the specific professional know-how competences and it allows trainees to become aware of the real contents in the Italian context of Social Works as «services to the person». Such system focuses onto the individual and his needs, as a whole, and intends to overturn the logic of social response. Indeed, any social intervention is expected to investigate the «personal conditions» of those who have or may have problems. «The project aims at enhancing the person's abilities in order to overcome the fragility condition and regain control of their life and autonomy» (Italy's National plan for social interventions and services 2021-2023, 99). By considering all these aspects and drawing on the theoretical framework of Social Relational Work and Relational Sociology, this paper wishes to investigate whether, and how, the trainees' experiences, of a specific Social Work training course, such as that of the University of Molise, have successfully built «bridges» so as to network with the local Social Services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

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