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This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change. The author demonstrates this through an analysis of concepts like future, uncertainty and risk, both in terms of individual impact and as collective forms of social life. The book reconstructs the relationships between future, uncertainty and risk through everyday how narratives exert power over individual and social life by influencing individual or collective decisions and choices. Narratives also change future prospects, thus producing social change. Some of the examples the author draws out for discussion are - in specific - the narration of the migration flows in the Mediterranean Sea, and the narration of the pandemic emergency from COVID-19. The result of different narratives has been the emergence of new ideologies and of a complex series of dynamics in which the local ends up becoming global and vice versa. Highly topical and interdisciplinary in its approach, this book is of interest to researchers and students of the sociology of culture and communication, media and communication studies, social and cultural psychology and cultural anthropology

Cover -- Series page -- Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Modernity and Altruism to Be Rediscovered -- Chapter 2: The Social Sciences Discover Altruism -- Chapter 3: Intellectual Heritage -- Chapter 4: Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism -- Chapter 5: Society, Relationship, and Responsibility -- Conclusions: Future Research Prospects -- About the Author

Intro -- Series Editors Preface -- Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences Under Observation: Dissecting the Thought of Pitirim A. Sorokin -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Prologue: The Reasons for a Choice -- 1 The Reasons for a Choice -- 2 Sorokin's Russian Period -- 3 Sorokin's American Period -- 4 A Journey with Sorokin -- References -- Chapter 2: The Boundaries of Sociology and Its Relation to Other Sciences -- 1 Sociology and Its Development as a Science -- 1.1 The Evolutionary Stages of Sociology -- 1.2 The Debate on Sociological Knowledge -- 2 Object and Boundaries of Sociology -- 3 The Interplay Between Sociology and Other Sciences -- 3.1 The Interplay Between Sociology and Psychology in the American Debate of the Last Century -- 3.2 Modes of Interplay Between Sociology and Psychology -- 4 Towards a New Scientific Awareness: Transdisciplinarity -- References -- Chapter 3: Integral Theory of Knowledge -- 1 The Dyad Knowledge/Reality -- 2 Sorokin's Sociology of Knowledge -- 3 The Integralism or Integral Theory of Sociology -- 3.1 The Systems of Truth -- References -- Chapter 4: The Society and Its Paradoxes -- 1 Social Universe and Interactions -- 2 The Construction of Reality and the Interactions (Social Relations) -- 3 The Paradoxes of Contemporary Society -- References -- Chapter 5: The Cultural System and the Social Problems -- 1 The Cultural Universe -- 2 Mentality of Culture (or Culture Mentality) -- 3 The Superorganic (or Cultural) Phenomenon as a Social Problem -- References -- Chapter 6: Personality and Human Conduct -- 1 The Personality as Weltanschauung -- 1.1 Identity in Contemporary Society -- 2 Human Conduct and Uncertainty -- 3 Human Conduct, Trust, and Risk -- References -- Chapter 7: From Creative Altruistic Love to the Ethics of Responsibility

Marking the 50th anniversary of Pitirim A. Sorokin's death, this Brief offers a critical analysis of the renowned sociologist's theories while highlighting some of his more overlooked ones. Topics explored include cultural dynamics; the relationship between culture, society, and personality; social mobility; and the socio-cultural causality of time and space. In addition, this book updates these theories by discussing their relevance in current cultural contexts. The Brief aims to extend the work started by Sorokin on the promotion and application of "integralism," an approach that conceives the change of any sociocultural phenomena as the result of the combination of external and internal forces. It uses this method to analyse socio-cultural phenomena, propose new policy, and enhance the development of humanity from the point of view of culture. This book also discusses sociology's relationship with other sciences. In particular, it touches upon the interplay between sociology and psychology and pushes for a new scientific awareness that is transdisciplinary. The end point is a new vision of humanity and its development from a cultural context. Social and Cultural Dynamics will be of interest to social scientists, sociologists, and psychologists as well as professionals in these disciplines.

The article proposes to discuss the theme of solidarity by relating it to changes in society, therefore, an overview will be offered of the dynamics and challenges - in relation to solidarity - that evolve due to the continuous changes in society, in a repeating circle. The idea is, therefore, to constitute a reflection on solidarity, using a metatheoretical approach suitable for so-called second-order studies such as the one presented here. The article develops from the problematisation of the definition of this concept, from a brief history of the idea of solidarity to arrive at epistemological aspects for the study of solidarity, which, beyond the individual declinations of it, allows us to explore the processes that take place on different levels (individual, social and cultural) for individuals whenever they interact with other individuals or with structures of society. The results arrived at by this theoretical study highlight the need to take into account the following changes occurring in society (a) the modification of risk maps that leads to the demand for new interventions to meet the renewed system of needs; (b) the emergence of the relationality dimension as an area of social distress; (c) the relativisation of knowledge that is often challenged by the information provided by the mass media; and, finally, (d) the non-linear development of social dynamics and technological transformations, which make it mandatory to update, innovate and modify knowledge to face the continuous challenges of society.