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The Evaluation of the Practical Implementation of Social Justice by the Judicial System of State

Marţian Iovan · “Vasile Goldiş” Western University of Arad, Romania
Based on a sociological research, the author of this article aims to identify the beliefs and the attitudes of a group of BA and MA students enrolled in university programs of Juridical Science, regarding their apprehension of the principles of justice - as the central value of the Romanian judicial…
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Technical Change and Social Revolution

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The concept and the term “industrial revolution” are far from being universally accepted. Historians and economists with a conservative inclination tend to criticize them more or less severely. My general theses is that the “industrial revolution” has been, in the first place, a true revolution, tha…
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The case of Italy: Between tradition and Modernity

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
If it were possible, just for an instant, to forget the sufferings and worries of the everyday, if, in other words, it were possible to distance ourselves and somehow see ourselves from outside, I think we should have to agree with Goethe’s confession: «I have the great advantage of being born in an…
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Culture and Counter-culture

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
A curious paradox must be faced at the very outset: nothing is perhaps more culturally inclined than the various counter-culture movements. In other words, writing and working against the prevailing culture amount to an essentially cultural enterprise. Culture seems to be inescapable. A supposedly d…
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With and beyond Max Weber: The process of rationalisation

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
At the basis of the lasting, even growing, fascination of Max Weber as man and thinker there are probably two reasons. First, there is an essential reason: Weber tackles a central theme, still today at the heart of our concerns, and to which he returns in all his works, more or less directly - the n…