Ricerc@Sapienza

el documento pretende, pues, ampliar la galería tipológica de la acción social puesta a disposición por los sociólogos clásicos, tratando de integrarla con esta nueva categoría conceptual ligada a la acción agápica. Se tratará de presentar este concepto y tratar de aplicarlo a algunos estudios de casos representativos de contextos específicos de la sociedad contemporánea, en los que la relación y el imaginario colectivo desarrollan fenómenos claramente atribuibles a esta categoría de la acción social.

This case derives from a research project on social actions characterized by exceeding gratuitousness in organizational contexts conducted by a qualitative meta-analysis of different case studies. Starting from this research project, we aim to illustrate how to conduct a meta-analysis of case studies on different organizational contexts. The analyzed cases are as follows: a case of social workers, a case of nurses, and a case of school operators. All of them are professions characterized by help, assistance, and vocation.

The paper presents an empirical analysis of social love, highlighting the meaning and the empirically detectable dimensions of this concept and clarifying some unresolved issues in the theoretical literature on this topic. Thanks to a qualitative meta-analysis conducted on some case studies the paper tries to understand how agape manifests itself in the social dimension and how it differs from other phenomena such as help, altruism and giving to others.