Autore
Bortolini, Matteo

Titolo
Gli indifferenti. I sociologi, Pier Paolo Pasolini e la modernizzazione dell'Italia
Periodico
Studi culturali
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 9 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 345 - Pagina finale: 370

Poet, writer, and director Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most famous and outspoken Italian intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. In the early 1970s Pasolini's interpretation of the process of modernization in Italy aroused a wide and harsh debate, in which sociologists, who had been studying the same topics since the late 1940s, only dimly and loosely participated. Using an implicitly Bourdieusian framework, I interpret the stance of social scientists toward Pasolini as the effect of a boundary-defending strategy, aimed at excluding literary and poetic understandings of Italian society from the then-unbounded field of Italian sociology. In the conclusion, I reflect on the possible uses of Pasolini's understanding of intellectual practice within the current, and recurring, crises of the social sciences.



SICI: 1824-369X(2012)9:3<345:GIISPP>2.0.ZU;2-9
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