Ricerc@Sapienza

La possibilità che degli effetti inintenzionali vengano a essere ricercati
deliberatamente come obiettivi rasenta l’ossimoro, se non l’antinomia. Oggetto
del presente contributo1
, di tale possibilità si proveranno a circoscrivere
premesse e implicazioni – in senso non rigoroso, la logica. Al fine di
mettere in risalto la connessione dinamica che lega l’intenzionalità e il suo
contrario, la trattazione risulta articolata in tre paragrafi. Ad uno scenario in
cui predomina l’assenza di intenzionalità, ne segue uno di segno completamente

This article intends to juxtapose (in an unprecedented way) the Robert K. Merton sociological approach to that of Pierre Bourdieu, within a systematics framework, and with the aim of overcoming canonic oppositions. The analysis is not proposed as schematically comprehensive: a detailed reconsideration of each consonance between Merton and Bourdieu will not be provided, nor are all the inevitable differences which run between the two authors examined.

Reading one’s own biography on the basis of the same criteria used to analyse other subjects can offer a unique evidence of sociological inquiry. Influential demonstrations of this have been provided by Pierre Bourdieu and Robert K. Merton: in order to develop a sociological self-analysis of their own life-paths, they reflexively employed all the results and methodologies of their own previous research, giving rise to a peculiar personal exercise in the sociology of scientific knowledge.