The Lab’s Quarterly
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<div class="elementor-element elementor-element-324d5451 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-id="324d5451" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="heading.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h3 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">A Journal of Open and Democratic Sociology</h3> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-49b1fbe4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-id="49b1fbe4" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="heading.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"><span class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><strong>THE LAB'S QUARTERLY</strong></span></div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-7d1c0f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-id="7d1c0f1" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="heading.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"><span class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><em>SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL AREA 14</em> </span></div> <div class="elementor-widget-container"><span class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><em>CLASS A ANVUR SECTORS 14/C1, 14/C2, 14/C3 and 14/D1</em></span></div> <div class="elementor-widget-container"><span class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><em>ISSN 2035-5548 (ex 1724-451X)</em></span></div> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> </div> <div class="elementor-widget-container">The Lab’s Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on contemporary social issues since 1999. It is recognized by the ANVUR as an academic journal in Area 14 of the Italian university system. The journal promotes dialogue among social sciences and welcomes submissions from young researchers. The journal covers topics such as epistemology, methodology, and theory of social sciences. The Lab’s Quarterly is an open access journal that allows free access to all its content.</div> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> </div> </div>Università di Pisaen-USThe Lab’s Quarterly2035-5548<p>The author(s) authorise The Lab’s Quarterly to publish their articles online – making it available to the public through the journal’s website and its social media channels – and to use it under the <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence </a></strong>(including reproduction, elaboration and juxtaposition) for these purposes. The author(s) retain copyrights but agree not to translate or publish it in other journals until at least 18 months after its publication in this journal.</p>Antonio De Simone (2025) Simmel e il denaro. La cifra dell'essere. Simbolo forme e vita sociale
https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/article/view/61
<p>Il denaro, nella società contemporanea e massimamente nel XXI secolo, ha assunto una centralità incontestabile, che trascende la dimensione pratica ed economica e anche quella di status, per diventare una sorta di cifra simbolica dell’esistenza e della secolarizzazione della modernità e della cultura che in essa si sostanzia. Un sociologo che ha colto con grande acutezza questa condizione già nella prima fase del Novecento è stato Georg Simmel e sulla attualità della sua riflessione e sulle implicazioni che essa solleva si sofferma questo testo di Antonio De Simone, storico della filosofia che, nella sua linea di ricerca, ha ben presente la rilevanza della teoria sociologica e della riflessione politica. </p>Francesco Giacomantonio
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2026-07-102026-07-1028212112410.13131/unipi/3ex2-5n78Spirito del capitalismo e critica ecologista
https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/article/view/36
<p>The contemporary transformation of capitalism is closely linked to the environmental crisis. This paper focuses on the debate surrounding development as a catalyst in the struggle between the spirit of capitalism and ecological critique. It will show how, on the one hand, capitalism is able to absorb ecological critique. However, on the other hand, a radical dimension within ecological critique remains capable of challenging capitalism and its spirit.</p>Andrea Micarelli
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2025-01-082025-01-0828212410.13131/unipi/hty4-yd16Sulla precarietà del lavoro nel capitalismo crepuscolare
https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/article/view/33
<p>Nel modo di produzione capitalistico, la precarietà non può essere considerato un fenomeno recente, bensì una caratteristica strutturale di tutto il lavoro subordinato e para-subordinato. Ad un più alto grado di “informalità” del lavoro tende, da sempre, a corrispondere un più intenso livello di precarietà. Ciò che di nuovo sembra piuttosto profilarsi è un gigantesco fenomeno di omogeneizzazione delle condizioni della forza lavoro su scala mondiale, che si realizza attraverso un processo di iper-precarizzazione generalizzata del lavoro, processo che minaccia ormai anche quelle professioni considerate fino a ieri più stabili e “garantite”. Le cause di questo fenomeno vanno ricercate nell’acutizzarsi della crisi di accumulazione che, ieri come oggi, si converte immediatamente in crisi di lavoro. Se la logica del capitale implica necessariamente la produzione e riproduzione di una popolazione lavorativa eccedente che assume la funzione di “esercito industriale di riserva”, oggi questa eccedenza sembra manifestarsi <em>anche</em> come “scarto” sociale, rappresentato da una massa crescente di miserabili che sembrano definitivamente esclusa da ogni accesso al mercato del lavoro. Su questo “scarto” di umanità – privo di funzioni per il capitale, inedito per le sue dimensioni e potenzialmente pericoloso per l’”ordine sociale” – si esercita una costante violenza strutturale tesa a confinarlo ai margini estremi della società e ridurne la consistenza.</p>Paolo Barrucci
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2024-12-182024-12-18282315210.13131/unipi/14wm-kk12Against smartness: the sociological and institutional critique of smart society
https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/article/view/32
<p>The purpose of this paper is to examine the critique of smartness. Scholarly dicta over the years have developed lines of critique of smartness that can be summarised in the strands presented in this paper: technological, institutional, and social. Leaving the technological critique in the background, the work presented here focuses on the institutional and social critiques. The aim is thus to draw attention to how the concept of smartness, although seen by many as a panacea for all ills, is not free from criticism. The uncritical assumption of this conceptual phenomenon runs the risk of disconnecting the concept of a smart society from society itself.</p>Melissa Sessa
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2024-10-242024-10-24282536710.13131/unipi/s76s-z113Disuguaglianze sociali
https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/article/view/44
<p>The essay introduces the concepts of educational and digital poverty in pre-school children. According to the literature, these terms can be understood as deprivations of opportunities to learn, but also to experience, develop and freely flourish skills, talents and aspirations through the responsible, critical and creative use of digital tools” (Save the children, 2021, p.15). How does media consumption during the age of socialization impact on situations of socio-cultural deprivation?<br>This is the main research question underlying the essay. Starting from the results of a sociological, exploratory type of research promoted by Ministry of education (MIM), Ministry of University (MUR) and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI), in Italy , the essay focuses attention on three key aspects: 1. the reconnaissance of international studies and research on the relationship between children under 6 and the media, with reference to the implications of the latter on children’s learning processes, 2. the role of social, economic, cultural, and digital capital of socialization agencies in significantly directing the impact of technologies in children’s identity-building processes, 3. the proposal to recommendation to intervene for reduction of inequalities in socialization process.</p>Ida Cortoni
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2025-06-202025-06-20282699710.13131/unipi/454c-rk17Eurasianism
https://thelabsq.sp.unipi.it/LQ/article/view/26
<p>This study investigates the cultural factor of Eurasianism under an ideological perspective in order to provide an overview of its potential threats. It reviews historical conceptualizations and Dugin’s Neo Eurasianism and examines its political applications. Finally, focusing on the Georgian and Ukrainian cases, the ideology’s influence on geopolitical balances and global security is analyzed to assess its effects on international relations.</p>Alessandra De LucaAntonello Canzano Giansante
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2024-06-192024-06-192829911910.13131/unipi/9med-0285