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After ’68: A New Generation of Sociologists

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Italian Sociology,1945–2010

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Sociologists born in the late 1930s came of age as a ‘disobedient generation’: They contested established ways of doing social science and introduced, for the first time, a massive dosage of Marxism into Italian sociology. Many young sociologists developed a new style of ‘co-research ’ based on a radical critique of Italian modernization . At the same time, the emergence of ‘mass university ’ helped them find a quick pathway to tenured jobs within the academic system . This weakened their radical stance and led to a rapid process of normalization. In the 1970s, the enlargement of the Italian sociological community gave rise to geographical and subdisciplinary cleavages, with a prevalence of Northern and Roman scholarly clusters and the importation of new sociological trends from outside Italy.

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    Andrea Cossu

  2. University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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Cossu, A., Bortolini, M. (2017). After ’68: A New Generation of Sociologists. In: Italian Sociology,1945–2010. Sociology Transformed. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58941-5_6

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