Papers by Simone D'Alessandro
D’Alessandro S., Creative Flows: Constructions of Meaning between Binary OppItalian Sociological Review 13 (3), 2023
Is it possible to construct a stable discursive field of the term 'creativity'? Does the construc... more Is it possible to construct a stable discursive field of the term 'creativity'? Does the construction of its meaning follow a conventional route, as with other words, or does it constitute an exception? Do creativity professionals construct meanings close to or far from common sense? What are the relationships between the term creativity and the terms freedom, constraint, routine, and innovation? Starting from the above questions, this empirical research examines the construction of meaning of the term 'creativity' in an attempt to capture aspects "that people tend to share and take for granted, generating both recurrent patterns and variations" (Spillman, 2022, p. 24). By analysing interviews with 27 professionals working in creative and/or innovative fields, the research identifies stereotypes, rituals, binary oppositions, and paradoxical expressions present in the discursive fields of the interviewees. While scholars of the subject classify the term 'creativity' by means of stable and consistent definitions, professionals actually working in the creative fields come up with ambiguous, contradictory, and paradoxical definitions. With a few exceptions, the definitions recorded during the interviews are similar to common sense phrases found in the collective imagination. Creative practitioners use the same repertoires and discursive fields as everyone else and augment the rhetorical narrative of the term. Paradoxes, oscillations between polarities and ambiguous definitions given by professionals working in the creative fields show "the emerging properties that relate symbols, phenomena, contexts and people" (Donati, 2022, p. 317).
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Italian Sociological Review 12 (3), 2022
Starting from the Schumpeterian approach and arriving at the most recent antimainstream theories... more Starting from the Schumpeterian approach and arriving at the most recent antimainstream theories on Innovation Ecosystems, the research examines, through theories, models and business cases, the problematic relationships between Innovation, Invention, and Creative Processes in an attempt to understand, from a sociological perspective, the decision-making processes induced by expectations and uncertainties. Different schools of thought in economics, agree that innovation is the main driver
of growth. Disagreement arises when economists attempt to explain how innovation occurs, as there is a lack of shared understanding about the expectations of its decision-makers and implementers. There is also a lack of understanding about the social and cultural constructions of decision-makers, which are influenced by conditions of uncertainty, error, and “non-knowledge” (Gross, McGoey, 2015). The imagined innovation may be considered feasible in the start-up phase but fail during its development. The innovator, in an ex-ante phase, cannot predict how a new hypothesis will evolve. In many cases, as we shall see, he will remove the observation of obstacles, because he is influenced by beliefs and convictions that disregard rational choices, even bounded ones.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
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Data and views discussed in this paper are the result of a series of talks, interviews and train-... more Data and views discussed in this paper are the result of a series of talks, interviews and train-ing courses organized and recognized by CME credits, carried out in different periods (2003-2006-2012) in the hospitals of Chieti, Ortona and Lanciano. The researcher carried out periodically participant observation in hospital wards and organized talks and interviews with doctors and nurses. These contacts were preparatory to an analysis of the training needs. The emerged considerations were fundamental to update the ECM training courses on the following topics: organizational communication, negotiation, physician-nurse-patient relationship. Paper offer strategic tips under the theoretical perspective of relational sociology, integrated with the axioms of communication from Palo Alto School and Rogers’s Counseling.
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Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
The social sciences have been investigating the processes of public opinion formation since the s... more The social sciences have been investigating the processes of public opinion formation since the second half of the 19th century. From Tocqueville to Le Bon, from Toennies to Allport, from Lazarsfeld to Habermas, from Niklas Luhmann to Pierre Bourdieu, from Noelle-Neumann to Landowski. Among these authors, Lippmann stands out for his theoretical-practical orientation that anticipated themes and methodologies. Exactly one hundred years ago, in his best-known work Public Opinion (Lippmann 1922) he had opened the way to the inevitability of the construction of a world 'beyond the real', through the concept of 'pseudo-environment'. The need for representation determines 'pseudo-environments', interstitial realities made up of stereotyped images and contents that the public interprets to construct shared imaginaries that do not adhere to reality: “The world outside and the picture in your head” (Lippmann 1992: 3). Pseudo-environments enable decision-making and acti...
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Identità, differenza, relazione : un confronto tra Heidegger, Luhmann, Donati, 2017
È possibile ri-partire dall’essere della relazione per ri-pensare l'identità della person... more È possibile ri-partire dall’essere della relazione per ri-pensare l'identità della persona? In che modo la relazione declina i concetti di identità e differenza? Da questi interrogativi intendo avviare un percorso comparativo di ri-lettura del pensiero di tre autorevoli maestri rispetto al tema dell'identità e della differenza: Heidegger, Luhmann, Donati.
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L'identità della differenza, 2014
La relazione esiste in un contesto, ma non è un contesto; esiste tra i fatti, ma non è propriamen... more La relazione esiste in un contesto, ma non è un contesto; esiste tra i fatti, ma non è propriamente un fatto; si manifesta nelle interazioni interpersonali, ma non si riduce ad azione intenzionale; è una realtà distinta attraverso la quale edificare la nostra identità. Ciò non significa che essa avvenga prima della nostra identità personale (ciò che "io sono per me"), ma sicuramente contribuisce a strutturarla definendo anche l'identità sociale (ciò che "io sono per gli altri"). In questo libro si assiste a un "ri-pensamento" filosofico e sociologico che pone la questione "dell'identità della differenza" come radice problematica degli elementi costitutivi della "relazione". Nel tentativo di rintracciare "l'essere della relazione", D'Alessandro si domanda: È possibile ri-partire dall’essere della relazione per ri-pensare l'identità della persona? In che modo la relazione declina i concetti di identità e differenza? Con quale linguaggio si ri-costruisce l’identità dell’essere della relazione? Partendo da tali interrogativi, l'autore di questo testo ricco di sentieri di ricerca inesplorati, vuole rintracciare l’Heidegger “filosofo dell’essere e sociologo dell’identità”, stabilendo una comparazione con la sistemica luhmanniana e con la mia sociologia relazionale, a partire dalle idee chiave di: identità, differenza, relazione, registro del tempo, riflessività. Dalle conclusioni di questo sentiero di ricerca si potrebbe evincere che l'Essere (come ego), il Divenire (come tempo) e la differenza (come alter), “relazionandosi” diano vita all’identità mutevole della persona in grado di meta-riflettere adeguatamente su se stessa, prima ancora che sul mondo: perché riflettere adeguatamente sulla propria capacità relazionale, aiuta a "diventare ciò che si è"! tratto dalla prefazione di Pierpaolo Donati
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SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI, 2019
Through a selective analysis of the media, national and local, print and online, the researcher h... more Through a selective analysis of the media, national and local, print and online, the researcher has reconstructed the main phases of the communication of post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of L'Aquila, in particular from 2012 to 2016, for understand the relationships between institutions, media and public opinion, identifying positive and negative stereotypes on the phenomenon. The researcher examined 237 articles that dealt with the reconstruction and the actions of the Office of the Special Reconstruction of L'Aquila. Together with the qualitative analysis of the articles, the researcher has collected interviews of journalists who followed the whole story from 2009 to the present.
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SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI, 2015
To be competitive today, it is essential to create corporate/business networks, especially for th... more To be competitive today, it is essential to create corporate/business networks, especially for those small and medium companies that do not have the capacity to internationalize their product or invest in research and development. Starting from an analysis of Italian cases, the main idea supported in this research is that a simple network of actors/ companies involved in a system of relations, is not a sufficient condition to create the premises for economic growth, competitiveness and innovation. To create a successful corporate network, it is necessary a common aim sharing, oriented to the ‘We-relation’. We-Relation is the foundation of all effective communication (Ostrow 1990), it is possible only in the face to face situation (Schutz and Luckmann 1973) and enhance the Trust between human beings (Vaitkus 1991). The essential features of We-relation can be seen in reflection, after the concrete We relation has come to on end (Schutz 1976) and it is impossible to construct the same thing on the web (Bakardjieva 2005). The research has also tried to classify the types of corporate networks that currently exist (subdivided in vertical, horizontal, transversal, informal) as well as understand how to establish relationships capable of determining positive results in terms of effectiveness and sustainability.
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2019
The Reflective Relationship between Society and Technique The pervasiveness of the technique is a... more The Reflective Relationship between Society and Technique The pervasiveness of the technique is at the center of the modern and contemporary debate, in philosophy and social sciences. Heidegger, Jünger, Hillmann, Severino, Luhmann, Bauman, Beck, Donati: are some of the most illustrious intellectuals who have reflected on the subject, reaching the conclusion that the technique takes on a substitute function of religion. For the man of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, technique loses its instrumental nature and becomes the purpose of all his actions. The instrumental rationality, in an attempt to produce certainties, determines its opposite: concentration camps (where to contain lives considered dysfunctional, programming their elimination), techno-social engineering (where to trace the data of the individual to rearrange the "social" under the sign of a consumerist or revolutionary thought), techno-religious terrorism (where man becomes an "instrument" of...
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Il presente studio è frutto di un corso di formazione organizzato per gli infer-mieri della Asl C... more Il presente studio è frutto di un corso di formazione organizzato per gli infer-mieri della Asl Chieti-Ortona. Il corso di formazione è stato realizzato in collabo-razione con l'Università di Medicina, con la società di formazione Sinergie Educa-tional e la partecipazione di chi ...
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Rivista della comunicazione pubblica , 2002
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La distinzione delle categorie pubblico/privato è cambiata attraverso i secoli, non solo nella di... more La distinzione delle categorie pubblico/privato è cambiata attraverso i secoli, non solo nella dimensione temporale ma anche in quella spaziale, nonché nella rappresentazione simbolica. Tale distinzione (pubblico/privato) non è solo sistemica in quanto presenta due ...
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Science & Philosophy, 2020
Is there a circular relationship between trust and ethics? Is it possible to alter their relation... more Is there a circular relationship between trust and ethics? Is it possible to alter their relationship, changing the perception that social actors have of them? How has trust changed in the transition from modernity to post-modernity and how does it change in times of crisis? Starting from the epistemological assumption that progress in the social sciences is determined by the change in the theoretical horizon produced by “a reformulation of metaphysical assumptions” [1] and combining this path with the relational perspective, according to which “not the facts, but the relationship between the facts is what requires analysis” [2] , we will examine definitions, meanings, functions and relationships between trust and ethics. Following the theoretical logical method, we will understand that trust and ethical behaviour are particular forms of gift [3] that co-own each other. As such, they are ambivalent in nature and their circle can also produce dysfunctional outcomes that depend on the...
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RIVISTA ITALIANA DI COMUNICAZIONE …, 2007
In una delle sue ultime opere Mafia, legalità debole e sviluppo del Mezzogiorno (il Mulino 2005),... more In una delle sue ultime opere Mafia, legalità debole e sviluppo del Mezzogiorno (il Mulino 2005), Antonio La Spina, eminente sociologo italiano dell'Università di Palermo analizzando alcuni aspetti cruciali dell'attuale situazione del Mezzogiorno, introduce il concetto di ...
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Sociologia e Politiche Sociali Fascicolo n. 3/2018 uscito nel 2019., 2019
Through a selective analysis of the media, national and local, print and online, the researcher h... more Through a selective analysis of the media, national and local, print and online, the researcher has reconstructed the main phases of the communication of post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of L'Aquila, in particular from 2012 to 2016, for understand the relationships between institutions, media and public opinion, identifying positive and negative stereotypes on the phenomenon. The researcher examined 237 articles that dealt with the reconstruction and the actions of the Office of the Special Reconstruction of L'Aquila. Together with the qualitative analysis of the articles, the researcher has collected interviews of journalists who followed the whole story from 2009 to the present.
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of growth. Disagreement arises when economists attempt to explain how innovation occurs, as there is a lack of shared understanding about the expectations of its decision-makers and implementers. There is also a lack of understanding about the social and cultural constructions of decision-makers, which are influenced by conditions of uncertainty, error, and “non-knowledge” (Gross, McGoey, 2015). The imagined innovation may be considered feasible in the start-up phase but fail during its development. The innovator, in an ex-ante phase, cannot predict how a new hypothesis will evolve. In many cases, as we shall see, he will remove the observation of obstacles, because he is influenced by beliefs and convictions that disregard rational choices, even bounded ones.
of growth. Disagreement arises when economists attempt to explain how innovation occurs, as there is a lack of shared understanding about the expectations of its decision-makers and implementers. There is also a lack of understanding about the social and cultural constructions of decision-makers, which are influenced by conditions of uncertainty, error, and “non-knowledge” (Gross, McGoey, 2015). The imagined innovation may be considered feasible in the start-up phase but fail during its development. The innovator, in an ex-ante phase, cannot predict how a new hypothesis will evolve. In many cases, as we shall see, he will remove the observation of obstacles, because he is influenced by beliefs and convictions that disregard rational choices, even bounded ones.
Fifty Communities Visions. Neo-settlement of Italy: Experiments and Good Practices OSSERVATORIO OFFICINA ITALIA-HUBRUZZO
tratto dalla prefazione di Pierpaolo Donati