The social sciences have inherited a not so clear relationship with the social politics throughout the history. At the first moment the concept of social sciences came into use in the 19th century the first organizations that were promoting them were not located in the universities. They were locate…

Chronicle of a fantastic day, in a Rome invaded by an epochal rain, moving from the “masterly” words of Bauman in Roma-Eur to the pearls of wisdom of another great giant of sociology: Franco Ferrarotti. To discover that sometimes the answers are found in the intersection of unexpected lines.