ABSTRACT
This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of "Karst River" that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life.
Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this book offers both theoretical and empirical reflections on social love. It shows that love is not only central to the human experience, but that it can also help to interpret and intervene in social problems such as climate change, poverty, xenophobia, and the (post-)Covid crisis, recognizing people as actors in social change. It explores the idea of love as a key element in the promotion of solidarity and recognition in today’s plural and unequal societies.
Based on empirical research on social love conducted through both qualitative and quantitative methods, especially in Europe and Latin America, this book explores the social dimension of love. Providing overviews on key questions and studies on current issues, the book is essential reference and resource for researchers, students, social workers, and professionals in social sciences, social philosophy, anthropology, social psychology, sociology of emotions and postmodern literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
Overview
part |29 pages
Insight
chapter Chapter 1|9 pages
When reality challenges sociological imagination
chapter Chapter 2|18 pages
Imagining on the shoulders of giants
part |14 pages
Evidence
chapter Chapter 3|12 pages
For an empirical study of social love
part |33 pages
Current issues
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Social systems and social love
chapter Chapter 5|18 pages
Social love as utopian and heterotopian experiences in contemporary society
part II|1 pages
Social love as overabundance
part |13 pages
Insight
part |14 pages
Evidence
part |26 pages
Current issues
part III|2 pages
Social love as care of others and the world
part |15 pages
Insight
part |39 pages
Evidence
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Educational poverty and care for others
chapter Chapter 12|14 pages
Social love in pandemic times
chapter Chapter 13|11 pages
Social love in healthcare professionals
part |27 pages
Current issues
chapter Chapter 14|12 pages
Poverty and generative welfare
chapter Chapter 15|13 pages
Post-Covid perspectives
part IV|2 pages
Social love as universalism
part |7 pages
Insight
part |14 pages
Evidence
chapter Chapter 17|12 pages
Universal is plural
part |12 pages
Current issues
part V|2 pages
Social love as recognition of others
part |14 pages
Insight
part |17 pages
Evidence
chapter Chapter 20|15 pages
Radical love and forgiveness
part |21 pages
Current issues