Scientific Board "Everday Life" Italian Association of Sociology

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Over the three-year period 2018/2021, the scientific board Everyday Life has analytically explored the concept of "common sense", that is to say that the constellation of social representations, narratives, speeches and languages that give meaning to social reality, also structures it in terms of power. The Every day life section intends to explore the relationship between common sense and everyday life, contextualizing the contrasting processes of naturalization and deconstruction of the taken for granted, in a historical moment in which the traditional boundaries between common sense, scientific knowledge and expert knowledge are hybridized. A historical moment in which several common senses can coexist, giving rise to peculiar dynamics of inequality and social conflict, between emancipatory demands and counter-reactions. The topic has so far been addressed through a cycle of seminars focused on different areas of production and transformation of common sense. In the first meeting we adopted the generational perspective to look at youth participation as a context of resistance to the mainstream discourse on apathy and disengagement of the generation of "children of the crisis", building a parallel with the experiences, meanings and dynamics generated by the movements students of '68; in the second seminar the dimension of science communication was addressed, in particular the role played by new technologies on social interactions was focused, investigating the genesis of new social practices and cultures on which common sense and specialist knowledge are they graft, generating new structures of knowledge and new ways of building a shared meaning whose implications are tangible in everyday life. In the third meeting, the attention was turned to the processes of transformation and redefinition of contemporary family configurations, also in relation to the emerging narratives and the changes in social representation that characterize them and that strain the fluid narratives of the family and their deconstructive effect. normative visions with conservative instances, often reproduced by the common sense of educational, scholastic and socio-health institutions; during the last seminar the theme of cultural difference and its social construction was addressed in a context of increasing visibility of migratory processes through the analysis of the role of images and speeches in influencing the processes of representation of otherness, in the broader framework of a common sense characterized by new and old forms of racism.
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(October 30, 2018 - October 30, 2021)

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Vita quotidiana

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Senso comune, soggettività, genere, generazioni, movimenti, migrazioni, scienza, comunicazione della scienza
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How has the common sense of social actors changed over the last few years? Can we trace forms of change and / or ruptures such as to be able to thematize a "new common sense"? Is the pluralization of common sense unfolding? What are the theoretical challenges of this reconceptualization and what are the possible methodological tools capable of detecting it? What are the implications of the emergence of new horizons of common sense in the practices of daily life? What are the areas and subjectivities most affected by change and in what ways? What are the areas and reasons for resistance? And what are the effects of structuring and deconstructing the practices and imaginaries of daily life between change and persistence? How do the transformations of common sense affect the relationships between individual and collective actors? Do they reposition groups and actors starting from sharing common beliefs? What does the growing level of social and cultural differentiation entail in terms of cohesion and sharing of a single (old or new) common sense? • how are subjectivities articulated in intergenerational relations around the contents and forms of common sense? And what effect do the different positions in the generational order have with respect to the possibility of defining the new common sense? • what are the consequences of a questioning of the consolidated relationship between scientific discourse and common sense knowledge? Who are the actors of these new arenas and what are the possible effects on the construction of generalized common sense? • How do the changes that have taken place in daily life affect the relations between genders? How do the new visions on reproductive, educational and care choices of subjects translate both in the private sphere and in the public and institutional sphere? • What is the relationship between social construction processes of cultural difference and the emergence of a new common sense? How is all this reflected on the - often dichotomous and ambivalent - representations of otherness and on the forms of intersubjective and public (mis) recognition?
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