ABSTRACT
Don Luigi Sturzo's sociological theory is little known and, so far as it is known, is often discarded ab ovo since it includes what he calls himself "the sociology of the supernatural," or the study of the impact of the supernatural on human society. For Don Sturzo, sociology is the science of society "in the concrete." The dialectical form of presentation imposes itself on the investigator and is the more appropriate since Sturzo himself, without being a Hegelian, likes to use the term "dialectic." Collective consciousness is conceived by Sturzo as the composition of specified elements of individual consciousnesses. Sturzo's theory of individual-collective consciousness binds together all the traits predicated by him of concrete society, though formally it appears to be one of them. When acting as organs of society, the individuals express their consciousness of being in communion with one another and acting as a whole—this is one of the clearest expressions of Sturzo's sociological harmonism.
