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Marco Santoro is an associate professor in sociology at the University of Bologna, where he teaches economic sociology, the sociology of culture, and methods in social research. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research (University of Trento), and was formerly (1995-1999) a Lecturer in the History of Political Institutions at the Catholic University of Milano. He is the author or co-author of six books and almost fifty articles. He is an advisor for the publisher ‘Il Mulino’ and editor of the series “Cultura in Italia” for the Istituto Cattaneo/Il Mulino. He is co-founder and co-editor of “Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology Online” (as of 2007) and of the journal “Studi Culturali” (as of 2003). He has edited and introduced the Italian translation of works by influential scholars like Theodor W. Adorno, Talcott Parsons, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pierre Bourdieu, Howard S. Becker, Andrew Abbott, and Jeffrey Alexander.
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His main research interests are currently in the sociology of culture, the sociology of music, cultural theory, the history and sociology of professions, and the sociology of intellectuals and ideas.With Roberta Sassatelli he is writing a book on cultural theory (to be published for Sage) and editing another on the new perspectives in the sociological study of culture (for Il Mulino). He has recently completed a book on sociology and cultural studies, to be published by Il Mulino. He is writing on the concepts of culture and their use in the social sciences; on the production of culture approach, on the sociology of professions, and on the sociological theory of Bourdieu. Among his other projects is a textbook on music sociology (with Timothy Dowd, from Emory University, Usa). He is also conducting empirical research in the field of music, in particular on the social, political ad cultural effect of the suicide of Luigi Tenco in 1967, and on the social organization of music life in Bologna (with Paolo Magaudda).
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Music and Art |
Crime/mafia |
Professions/Intellectuals |
Social Inequalities/Social Exclusion |
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Social History/Historical Sociology |
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