print“Sociology Gains Considerable Success as it Realizes the Experience of Total Failure” (last interview with Franco Ferrarotti)
(1926–2024) – key person in institutionalizing post-war Italian sociology founding (1961) and leading the first in Italy chair of sociology in La Sapienza University in Rome, аs well as a cofounder of the first in Italy Sociology department of the Trento University.
Romanovskiy N.V.
Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Prof., Chief Researcher of the Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS; Deputy Head Editor of “Socioloical Studies” journal, Moscow, Russia socis@isras.ru
, Romanovskiy N.V. “Sociology Gains Considerable Success as it Realizes the Experience of Total Failure” (last interview with Franco Ferrarotti). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2024. No 12. P. 38-43
In this interview with Franco Ferrarotti, our magazine discusses the meaning of sociology and its interpretative essence, showing that it cannot be a science about society in general, rather it tries to explain the interdependence of its various aspects, representing the discovery and collection of interpretations. Professor Ferrarotti raises topical questions about interdisciplinarity and the establishment of post-disciplinary social research. Professor reflects on the loss of the transcendent meaning of meta-human value in a market society, because it is it that there appears gives meaning to human coexistence. He associates the development of digitalization with the fact that a person of the digital future in whom the traditional logic of books and reading is replaced by an alternative one – audiovisual logic, which allows the emotional to prevail over the reasonable, changing communication to continuous externalization. These reflections on society provide the basis for raising questions about the future and the role of sociology in it.