Interpreting the complexity of Climate Change and Environmental challenges requires an increasing dialogue between the Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM fields to identify socioeconomic models that, through dopting a systems approach, can accompany the Ecological and Social Transition. This epochal transition of contemporary societies must necessarily measure itself against the set of relationships of the organisms that regulate the economy of nature on which we depend, as the Oïkos hosts the Bios and determines it carrying capacity to support life on the Planet. Globalization, development, and economics based on exponential consumption growth have contributed to accelerating the attainment of the Planetary Limits by precipitating the Anthropocene and the climatic instability. Countering and adapting to climate change to implement an Ecological and Social Transition to a new balance calibrated by Sustainability and the Limits of the Planet is critical for the future of the Bios on Gaia. The introduction of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the UN has been a reference point for national and territorial policies and for all citizens by invoking the theme of Responsibility and Education for Sustainable Development; this may be a significative change in terms of educational, participatory and training processes that have systemic and complex perspectives aimed at educating students and citizens on how to live this our time. The Humanities and Social Sciences play a relevant role in educating about sustainability and raising awareness among global citizens in addressing the challenges of today and the future, promoting a culture of intra- and intergenerational Responsibility on using natural resources and towards the Global Society. As an applied science, sociology is relevant in accompanying the Ecological and Social Transition in redefining a Sustainable Society. This work aims to explore the Contribution of Sociology in the Ecological and Social transition through a mapping of the degree programs active in Italian universities about Sociology (L-40 Sociology; LM-88 Sociology and Social Research) and the degree classes of Social Service (L- 39 Social Service; LM-87 Social Service and Social Policy).
Il contributo della sociologia nella transizione ecologica e sociale
Mariaclaudia Cusumano
;Giada Cascino
2024-01-01
Abstract
Interpreting the complexity of Climate Change and Environmental challenges requires an increasing dialogue between the Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM fields to identify socioeconomic models that, through dopting a systems approach, can accompany the Ecological and Social Transition. This epochal transition of contemporary societies must necessarily measure itself against the set of relationships of the organisms that regulate the economy of nature on which we depend, as the Oïkos hosts the Bios and determines it carrying capacity to support life on the Planet. Globalization, development, and economics based on exponential consumption growth have contributed to accelerating the attainment of the Planetary Limits by precipitating the Anthropocene and the climatic instability. Countering and adapting to climate change to implement an Ecological and Social Transition to a new balance calibrated by Sustainability and the Limits of the Planet is critical for the future of the Bios on Gaia. The introduction of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the UN has been a reference point for national and territorial policies and for all citizens by invoking the theme of Responsibility and Education for Sustainable Development; this may be a significative change in terms of educational, participatory and training processes that have systemic and complex perspectives aimed at educating students and citizens on how to live this our time. The Humanities and Social Sciences play a relevant role in educating about sustainability and raising awareness among global citizens in addressing the challenges of today and the future, promoting a culture of intra- and intergenerational Responsibility on using natural resources and towards the Global Society. As an applied science, sociology is relevant in accompanying the Ecological and Social Transition in redefining a Sustainable Society. This work aims to explore the Contribution of Sociology in the Ecological and Social transition through a mapping of the degree programs active in Italian universities about Sociology (L-40 Sociology; LM-88 Sociology and Social Research) and the degree classes of Social Service (L- 39 Social Service; LM-87 Social Service and Social Policy).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
