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This article aims to offer a critical examination of the current gamification process existing in contemporary society. One example of this process is the "Playful Paradigm", a European-level project aiming to help cities – considered increasingly smart – to develop pragmatic solutions that are new and sustainable and that integrate urban economic, social and environmental topics. What critical issues hide behind prevailing gamification? In terms of general theorisation, discussion will be hinged on the conceptual category of the "homo ludens" and, more generally, the "casino culture", so as to thrown new light, through a sociological examination, on the potential and critical issues of an increasingly invasive and capillary process.

Il saggio analizza le dinamiche connesse al processo di decentramento e i relativi effetti in termini di politiche sociali, prendendo come case study il municipio IX di Roma Capitale

This essay aims at investigating what role capitalism, in its ideal-typical logic, plays in times of pandemic crisis. The research hypothesis consists in abandoning a one-sided idea of capital-ism, which is the dominant one in the neoliberal version, to recover, instead, that of "creative destruction", as the most constitutive logic of the phenomenon from its origins and also the most promising for scientifically explaining the relationship between capitalism and pandem-ics. Attempts will be made to demonstrate the scientific inconsistency of a reading that rigidly and dogmatically sets antithetical interpretations of capitalism against each other, and to con-struct, instead, one that combines the possibility of divergences. Finally, the question will arise as to what implications can be drawn from this incidence of the logic of creative destruction in capitalism and whether this is such as to impose deterministic results, as well as supposedly at the level of common sense or generalization, or whether there is still room for manoeuvre and guidance by science and politics in particular.

The article examines the most salient works in which the sociologist Werner Sombart saw the dimension of globality as a social element, constitutive of mo- dernity and its future. The aim is to understand the role of globality, as an idea and a phenomenon, in the constitution in all aspects of society (economic, political, cultural, anthropological). The Works to which the article refers show a global society, one that goes from the time of Sombart to the present day, as the author had already envisioned in all their potentialities and criticalities.

Smart Society : the Critical Sense of a World Strategy / Roberta Iannone -- Smart Politics : the Political Dimension of 'Smartness' / Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe -- Smart People and Prosumers : the Individual Challenge to the Fourth Industrial Revolution / Romina Gurashi -- Smart Community : a New Way of Being Together? / Ilaria Iannuzzi -- Home Smart Home . a Sociology of Living in the Age of Reflective Materialism / Melissa Sessa -- From Theory to Empiricism : the Challenge to the Future of the Sapienza University at Solar Decathlon Middle East / Gurashi Romina, Ilaria Iannuzzi And Melissa Sessa