sociological theory

Love as a social action: the concept in the sociological thought

The starting point of this paper is represented by the studies carried out by the study group of Social-One (Iorio, 2014; 2015; Araújo et al., 2015; Araújo et al., 2016; Martins and Cataldi, 2016), which recognized a public dimension and not only intimate and personal dimension of love in today's society. Taking as a reference point the work of Luc Boltanski, “L’amour et la justice comme competences” (1990), the research of the study group has proposed to widen the circle of sharing to go beyond the input from classic sociologists with a new conceptual category linked to agape.

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