Terrorism as Ritual Process and Cultural Trauma: a Performative Analysis of ISIS\u2019s Attacks in Europe

Sociological reflection on Islamist terrorism focussed itself almost exclusively on the religious aspect of radicalisation of Islam, spending little efforts to widen the analytic perspective to the effects of ISIS actions on the (re)definition of the identity and the collective memory of the targeted nation. This article will offer a different point of view, providing a cultural sociological reading of Paris Attacks, aimed at understanding its performative aspects. We will approach Paris Attacks as an example of social drama (Turner, 1982) and will focus on the ritual efforts spent by France to manage, repair and define the cultural trauma (Alexander et al., 2004) deriving from the attacks. Data will consist of a performative analysis of ISIS\u2019s strategy in Europe and of the counter-terrorist demonstration held in Paris on the 9th of January 2015; and of a frame analysis of the speech pronounced by Francois Hollande on November 16th 2015, after the Paris attacks, and of all the articles published on the main French newspapers during the first week after the events. In the conclusions, we will discuss how those events help to conceive a new kind of cultural trauma that is typical of the age of weak events and of distrust in public institutions

Conflicts, integration, hybridization of subcultures: An ecological approach to the case of queercore

This paper investigates the case study of queercore, providing a socio-historical analysis of its subcultural production, in the terms of what Michel Foucault has called archaeology of knowledge (1969). In particular, we will focus on: the self-definition of the movement; the conflicts between the two merged worlds of punk and queer culture; the \u201cinternal-subcultural\u201d conflicts between both queercore and punk, and between queercore and gay\lesbian music culture; the political aspects of differentiation. In the conclusion, we will offer an innovative theoretical proposal about the interpretation of subcultures in ecological and semiotic terms, combining the contribution of the American sociologist Andrew Abbot and of the Russian semiologist Jurij Michajlovi\u10d Lotma

La pornografia dell\u2019antiterrorismo: la retorica dello scontro di civilt\ue0 nella rappresentazione degli attentati di Parigi

Analisi della stampa e dei rituali antiterroristici conseguenti agli attentati terroristici condotti dall'ISIS a Parigi nel 2015. Nella discussione, tentativo di dialogo fra le teorie di Baudrillard e Durkhei

PRAGMATISMO E INTERAZIONISMO SIMBOLICO. Riflessioni epistemologiche

Presenting itself as a theory-method package, symbolic interactionism has always expressed a certain reluctance, if not a real scepticism, with respect to the elaboration of a complex theoretical system (Dingwall, 2001). Moreover, the centrality of data and the so-called interactive determination (Snow 2001) have prompted symbolic interactionists to refuse to develop an explicit and systematic theoretical approach to social life and to fully investigate their theoretical roots. A starting point, in this direction, may be to reflect historically on the development of the perspective, as we will propose in this article and to redefine a new pragmatic epistemology based no longer on the centrality of the actor in social action, but on the event.

Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective

Social distance is a central issue in the institutional communication about COVID-19. The expression has often been improperly used as a synonym for physical distance. In this article, I will compare how international agencies have used the concept in their documents with Erving Goffman's sociological theory on social distance. The Canadian sociologist is, in fact, the author who has explored the sociological aspects of social distance most deeply. In the third section, summarising Goffman's work, I will try to define a possible research agenda to be developed in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic. Finally, I will analyse some elements of social change already visible in various parts of the world. The aim is to understand how COVID-19 could transform some social and ritual aspects of interpersonal distance. The main hypothesis is that in the immediate aftermath of this pandemic crisis, we will live in a period of moral inter-reign, in which we will experience a form of interactional anomie. This concept is also aimed at integrating the already rich Goffmanian theory on the interaction order, from a perspective that takes in account both the classic Durkheimian concept of anomie connected to dramatic social change and the Parsonsian theory of double contingency. I still do not know how long the pandemic will last and how many further quarantine periods will occur in the future. This is therefore more an exercise in sociological imagination (Wright Mills, 1959) than a sound, grounded theory

Goffman in dixon. Ethnographer or performer?

In this article I analyse a little-known part of Erving Goffman\u2019s production: his doctoral dissertation Communication Conduct in an Island Community (1953). I will consider in particular the methodological aspects of the research and the characteristics of the community studied. The article aims at demonstrating how the methodological discussion of this early work is so accurate, extensive and consistent with the ethnographical canon of the time to allow deconstructing of two typical criticism moved to Goffman: a) the lack of transparency in the specification of the methods of data collection; and b) the loose relationship between data collection and theoretical argumentations (for a review see Lemert, 1997)

The Common Destiny of Un/common Cultures

A review of Kamala Viswewaran, Un/Common Cultures. Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference

KONSTRUKSI PENGURUS PIMPINAN WILAYAH GERAKAN PEMUDA ANSOR JAWA TIMURTENTANG PLURALISME AGAMA MENURUT GUS DUR

Abstrak  Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan konstruksi pengurus Pimpinan Wilayah Gerakan PemudaAnsor Jawa Timur tentang pluralisme agama menurut Gus Dur. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatankualitatif. Informan penelitian berjumlah 5 pengurus Pimpinan Wilayah Gerakan Pemuda Ansor JawaTimur. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara dan dokumentasi. Sedangkan, untukteknik keabsahan data menggunakan triangulasi sumber. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan makna pluralismeagama menurut Gus Dur oleh pengurus Pimpinan Wilayah Gerakan Pemuda Ansor Jawa Timur dilihatdari tiga momen dialektis yang simultan yakni momen eksternalisasi, pengurus Pimpinan WilayahGerakan Pemuda Ansor Jawa Timur memperoleh pengetahuan tentang pluralisme agama menurut GusDur melalui materi-materi seminar, workshop,  membaca buku dan diskusi dalam kegiatan rutinorganisasi. Pada momen obyektivasi pengetahuan yang diperoleh mengalami intersubyektivitas yangdiinternalisasikan menjadi makna subyektif. Pengurus Pimpinan Wilayah Gerakan Pemuda Ansor JawaTimur memahami pluralisme agama menurut Gus Dur sebagai suatu dasar yang mengatur pola hubunganantar umat yang berbeda agama. Pluralisme agama menurut Gus Dur meliputi prinsip humanis,pribumisasi Islam, demokrasi, dan keadilan. Peneliti menemukan data lain bahwa pluralisme agama dapatdimaknai ketika memahami agama secara substansi, selain itu peneliti juga menemukan bahwa pluralismeagama menurut Gus Dur adalah titik temu nilai-nilai agama-agama dan pluralisme agama sebagai strategipolitik.Kata Kunci: Konstruksi, Pengurus Pimpinan Wilayah Gerakan Pemuda Ansor Jawa Timur, Pluralisme  Agama Menurut Gus Dur.  Abstract The purpose of this study is to describe the construction committee management of Regional LeadershipGerakan Pemuda Ansor East Java on religious pluralism according Gus Dur. This study used a qualitativeapproach. The informants were 5 management of Regional Leadership Gerakan Pemuda Ansor East Java.Data collection techniques used were interviews and documentation. Whereas, for the validity of the datausing a triangulation technique source. The results showed the construction committee management ofRegional Leadership Gerakan Pemuda Ansor East Java on religious pluralism according Gus Dur can beviewed from three simultaneous dialectical moment that at the moment of board externalization themanagemen of Regional Leadership Gerakan Pemuda Ansor East Java acquire knowledge about religiouspluralism according Gus Dur through the material seminars, workshops, read books and discussions in theroutine activities of the organization. Management of Regional Leadership Gerakan Pemuda Ansor EastJava understanding of religious pluralism according Gus Dur as a basic set pattern of relationshipsbetween people of different religions. Religious pluralism according Gus Dur include humanistprinciples, indigenization of Islam, democracy, and justice. Researchers found other data that can beinterpreted as religious pluralism understood religion in substance, in addition, researchers also found thatreligious pluralism according Gus Dur is the meeting point values of religions and religious pluralism as apolitical strategy.Keywords: Construction, Regional Leadership Board Youth Movement Ansor East Java ReligiousPluralism According to Gus Dur. &nbsp

L\u2019interazionismo simbolico e la ricezione di Durkheim: una ricerca sulle riviste scientifiche

The article analyzes how the work of the French sociologist \uc9mile Durkheim has been received by a sociological approach, seemingly antithetical to his social theory: symbolic interactionism. The analysis was conducted through quantitative and qualitative research on the references to Durkheim appeared from 1977 to 2016 on the scientific journals Studies in Symbolic Interaction and Symbolic Interaction. The results highlight an ontological convergence and an epistemological divergence, both based mainly on the assumptions of Durkheim\u2019s Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)