Unexpected in Action

Prof. Antonio Cocozza, former deputy director of The Department of Education of Rome’s  Roma Tre University, President of the Degree Course in “Training and Human-Resource Development” - Professor of the Sociology of Work and Organisations, Director of the Master's Degree in “Policies and Tools for Human-Resource Management” and in “Organizational and managerial processes in school autonomy” at the Roma Tre University. Coordinator of the Observatory on school autonomy and Professor of “Business Communication and Human-Resource Management” at the LUISS, “Guido Carli”, University, Rome.

• Chapter 1. Reason and Rationality in Sociological Thought: Interpreting Human Action as a Problem.- Chapter 2. Superseding the Structural Dichotomy of the Holistic and Individualistic Approaches: Attempts and Statements.- Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Rationality in Human Action from Talcott Parsons, to Alfred Schütz and Jürgen Habermas.- Chapter 4. Rationality, Environment, and Complex Systems in the Theses of Niklas Luhmann.- Chapter 5. Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Pseudo-rationality in the Thinking of Karl Marx and Karl R. Popper.- Chapter 6. The theory of rational choice: potential and criticality.- Chapter 7. Towards the Supersession of Utilitarianism.- Chapter 8. The Upsurge of Postmodern Society and The Contributions of Bauman, Beck, and Sennett.- Chapter 9. Ethics, Rationality and Competences in Twenty-first Century Capitalism: The Perspective of Piketty, Nussbaum, and Morin. Conclusions.