Francesco Alberoni . Sociologist, journalist, He was a member of the Board of Directors and Dean Counselor, serving as President of RAI, the Italian national television, in the period 2002 – 2005 .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Childhood and adolescence
- 3 Academic Career
- 4 Publications
- 5 Bibliography
- 6 source
Biographical synthesis
He was born in Borgonovo Val Tidone ( Piacenza – Italy ), on December 31, 1929. He is a sociologist, journalist and Professor of Sociology. Alberoni is among the few journalists to write an editorial on the front page of the Corriere della Sera, the most prestigious Italian newspaper. Since 1982, he has written a four-column editorial every Monday entitled “Pubblico e Privato” (“Public and Private”). Since 1973 , the Corriere della Sera has published Alberoni’s articles.
Childhood and adolescence
Despite the fact that Alberoni was a model student and a true perfectionist in school, he admits that he did not tolerate harsh military discipline imposed on students during the fascist period. If you pay attention to his biography, it stands out that he was a born leader, who always invented games and adventures for his group of friends. And since there were no books in his house at that time, Alberoni discovered the pleasure of reading, after the end of World War II. He began to spend entire afternoons reading in the Public Library of Piacenza. I read, especially, history books.
Alberoni studied at the Scientific Institute and later moved to Pavia to study Medicine. It was there that he befriended Fray Agostino Gemelli (founder of the Catholic University) who encouraged him to direct his studies towards the field of social behavior.
In 1958 , Alberoni married Vincenza Pugliese with whom he had three children: Margherita, Francesca and Pablo Giovanni Agostino (in honor of Fray Agostino Gemelli). Later he married Laura with whom he had his fourth child: Giulio (in honor of his ancestor Giulio Alberoni).
Academic career
The academic career includes the following positions: Associate Professor of Psychology at the Catholic University of Milan in 1960 . Holder of Sociology in 1961 and then Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Milan in 1964 .
Member of the Bi-national Commission of the Olivetti-Ford Foundation Social Science Research Council.
- Rector of the University of Trento(Italy) from 1968 to [1970].
- Professor at the University of Losanna and at the University of Catania, to then return in 1978 to the State University of Milan.
- Founder of the IULM University, of which he was Rector from 1998to 2001 .
Member of the Board of Directors of Cinecittà, holding company of the cinematographic center of Rome (2002-2005)
- President of the Centro Experimental de Cinematografía since 2002.
Publications
Alberoni has carried out numerous studies in the field of Sociology of Movements and of individuals and especially on the nature of Love and the relationships between individuals and groups.
The cornerstone of Alberoni’s construction of social / philosophical / psychological thought emerges and is consolidated in the 1977 book Movimiento e Institución . It represents one of the first treatises, worldwide, on the sociological analysis of movements, their birth, evolution and death. The book is considered by the scientific community a milestone in the analysis of movements. The concept developed there revolves around the concept of the Nascent State, the “nascent condition”, the moment in which leadership, ideas and communication merge, giving rise to the movement. This first work had been preceded by “Consumerism and society” which has contributed to the formation of marketing studies in Italy. In 1979Alberoni published his most successful work worldwide: “In love and love.” In this book, he develops and later expands on the ideas and theoretical models of Movement and Institution. Alberoni argues that the experience of falling in love is, in essence, the nascent condition of a collective movement, composed exclusively of two people. This time, however, Alberoni explores the plot in great detail, using as much as possible the language of love stories rather than the abstract jargon of psychoanalysis or sociology. This book, which is rigorously scientific and at the same time innovative from the linguistic point of view, becomes an international best-seller, translated into twenty languages. It has had dozens of editions and is still being published in many countries.1984 ) and Eroticism (1986) in which male and female eroticism appears. They are then followed by The Nuptial Flight (Garzanti, Milano, 1992) where it offers a close look at the infatuation of the pre-adolescent and adolescent with film artists and therefore the general female tendency to seek superior love objects.
His sociology books include Genesis ( 1989 ) which illustrates his theories about the fundamental experience of the nascent state and the differences between the nascent state and Nirvana, the concept of democracy, complete the analysis of movements and of what he defines as “cultural civilizations” : the great institutional complexes that emerged from movements like Christianity, Islam, Marxism.
Collections of short essays on the subject of collective movements have been included in The Origin of Dreams (Rizzoli, Milano, 2000). His editorials for the Corriere della Sera are generally collected in books from Rizzoli Publishing House.
Alberoni books are a great success in Italy and in the world and have been translated into more than twenty languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Turkish etc. The publications made up of collections of articles have been pointed out by some critics as lacking in scientific analysis and reduced to advice for housewives on current life and love problems. Instead, the last two posts are considered important either for their content or for their writing style. Specifically “The mystery of falling in love”, especially the second part, where it offers an original critique of the most important theories of falling in love, especially from French schools.
