Browsing by Author "Magatti, Mauro"

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    Social generativity. A relational paradigm for social change
    (2021) Magatti, Mauro
    "The work is based on a research executed during the past five years at the Center for the Anthropology of Religion and Cultural Change (ARC) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan regarding the concept of social generativity. It is the result of a long term theoretical and empirical research that began in 2014 after the publication of the book 'Generativi di tutto il mondo unitevi' (Magatti, Giaccardi, Feltrinelli, Milan). A digital archive (www.generativita.it) was created in 2015 and implemented. Along the years, more than 130 case studies of organizations (profit companies, associations, and third sector groups, local policies) have been collected. The website aims to deepen the comprehension and spread the knowledge and the practice of social generativity. The methodological approach employed in the research has proved to be particularly fruitful. Thanks to the continuous dialogue between the fieldwork and the theoretical elaboration, the Notion of social generativity has been developed and expanded. The work - presented in many international publications: 9 books and 15 scientific articles already published and conferences - ended up in the publication of the collective volume presented here and edited by Mauro Magatti Social generativity. A relational paradigm for social change, Routldege, London, 2018. The book is introduced by a theoretical essay signed by the two scientific coordinators of the entire research project (Mauro Magatti and Chiara Giaccardi). It is also interesting to underline that the research work has produced a wide territorial initiatives across Italy, leading to numerous meetings and seminars and the creation of an alliance between more than 30 organizations. The national festival of social generativity (since 2017) as well as a few empirical pieces of research on more specific issues (such as “generative organizations”, “generative welfare state”, policies for supporting and promoting the generative family, the “generative school”). Research on social generativity is structurally transdisciplinary and takes advantage from the dialogue among various social sciences (sociology, psychology, and economics in particular) as well as from fundamental references and intersections with philosophy and theology. The basic aim of the research is to go deep on the crucial anthropological reduction - the difference between fabrication and generation - produced by the closure of contemporary reason, which - as Pope Benedict states in many writings and especially in Caritas in Veritate - tends to become exclusively technical and instrumental. The notion of social generativity offers an original contribution within the international contemporary debate. It introduces a category that is constitutively dynamic and relational, renovating the reflection on the very idea of “person”. Along these lines, social generativity not only grasps aspects of the human experience that remain hitherto hidden, but also inspires the reshaping of the model of growth. Finally, we like to underline the deep consonance between the notion of social generativity and the approach suggested by Pope Francis in Evangeli Gaudium, where he insists on the processual dynamics of human life"
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    Social generativity. A relational paradigm for social change
    (2020) Magatti, Mauro
    The work is about a crucial anthropological issue - the difference between fabrication and generation - deeply connected with the closure of contemporary reason, which - as Pope Benedict states - tends to become exclusively technical and instrumental