Social Love and the Critical Potential of People

Silvia Cataldi, PhD, is Associate Professor of sociology at the Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She teaches sociology and research methods on bachelor’s and master’s degree courses and in the doctoral school. Her research focuses on methodological aspects of social research and emerging cultural and social identity models and she is involved in many European projects. She is a board member of the European Sociological Association 20RN Qualitative Methods, and the coordinator of the international research network Social-One. Among her publications she has co-edited with Iorio two books on social love: Love at the Time of Accounting (2015) and Culture of Peace (2016).Gennaro Iorio, PhD, is Full Professor of sociology. He is Director of the Department of Political and Social Studies of the University of Salerno (Italy). Expert in the history of sociological thought, he teaches sociology of innovation, common goods, and sustainable development goals on bachelor’s and master’s degree courses and in the doctoral school. His research projects include urban resilience and prosociality, empathy between sociology and neuroscience, north–south inequalities and social innovation. For almost 20 years he has been studying social love and has published the first avant-garde books on the subject, such as Sociology of Love (2015) now published in three languages, Italian, English and Portuguese.

• Introduction Part I: OverviewInsight1 When reality challenges sociological imagination: what social love is in a critical perspectiveSILVIA CATALDI AND GENNARO IORIO2 Imagining on the shoulders of giants: a historical selection on the social thought on loveSILVIA CATALDIEvidence3 For an empirical study of social love: epistemological and methodogical research approachesSERENA QUARTA , MARCO PALMIERI AND GIUSEPPE PELLEGRINICurrent issues4 Social systems and social love: a macro-perspective on the history of civilizationsGENNARO IORIO5 Social love as utopian and heterotopian experiences in contemporary societyPAULO HENRIQUE MARTINSPART II: Social love as overabundanceInsight6 Social love as an approach: notes from the fieldSARI HANAFIEvidence7 Giving without expectations: the results of the World Love IndexMARCO PALMIERI AND CHIARA IANNACCONE Current issues8 Collective action and loveADRIAN SCRIBANO9 Social love and social movements in the pandemic GEOFFREY PLEYERSPART III: Social love as care of others and the worldInsight10 Re-imagining cosmopolitics: love as taking care of the world FILIPE CAMPELLOEvidence11 Educational poverty and care for others: a relation between human development and social loveANDREA GALLELLI , PAOLO CONTINI AND ANGELA MONGELLI12 Social love in pandemic time: an opportunity to generate and regenerate social relationships LICIA PAGLIONE AND GIUSEPPE PELLEGRINI13 Social love in healthcare professionals: some preliminary reflections on a missing issue BARBARA SENACurrent issues14 Poverty and generative welfare: perspectives for a new approach to social intervention LUIGI GUI AND TIZIANO VECCHIATO15 Post-Covid perspectives: an overview on inequalities and love experiences in Latin AmericaROLANDO CRISTAO , MARCELO SALAS AND CLARA DESALVOPART IV: Social love as universalismInsight16 Towards a convivialist society: how to think and act for pluriversalismALAIN CAILLÉEvidence17 Universal is plural: The results of a comparative study from secondary sources FABRIZIO MARTIRE AND PAOLO PARRA SAIANICurrent issues18 Common goods and institutions as fields of impersonal actionEMANUELE POLIZZIPART V: Social love as recognition of othersInsight19 Love in democracy: unfolding sovereignty, resonating common good ANDRÈ MAGNELLIEvidence20 Radical love and forgiveness: re-suturing the social racial wounds in the United StatesWILLIAM CALVO QUIRÓSCurrent issues21 Love beyond coloniality: encountering the other, love precarity, and the idiosyncrasies of love from the South WILLIAM CALVO QUIRÓS, AGNÈS MARIE KEUHO AND ANTONIO MENDES DA COSTA BRAGAConclusionGENNARO IORIO AND SILVIA CATALDI