Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: María Fernanda Gambarini Duarte Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain Author-Name: Marian Queiruga Dios Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain Author-Name: Tasio Pérez Salido Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain Title: "Team tutorial action program for the development of teamwork competencies in university students" Abstract: This article presents an innovative teaching experience aimed at promoting university students' self-learning and the development of prosocial behaviors and teamwork. This program is a team-based mentoring program, mediated by faculty, centered around a collaborative project to design, develop, and implement a proposal for social improvement based on the professional profile of the degree program. To evaluate the impact of the mentoring program, a sample of 222 first-year students from the Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Psychology, and Nursing programs at Francisco de Vitoria University was selected. The results show significant differences in the development of teamwork skills between students who received the mentoring program and those who did not. We can conclude that the scheduled tutoring program is suitable for developing intrapersonal and interpersonal teamwork skills in university students, serving as a space for teaching and learning the prosocial behaviors (mindfulness, active listening, assertive communication, and respect) necessary for teamwork and, therefore, for interpersonal relationships. Likewise, the teacher's mediating role is key to enabling students to discover the opportunities of working with others and to decide individually and collaboratively to take the necessary actions based on these discoveries. Classification-JEL: I21, I23; I28 Keywords: teamwork; prosocial behavior; team tutoring, university; teacher mediation. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 7-17 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Team-tutorial-action-program-for-the-development-of-teamwork-competencies-in-university-students.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:7-17 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Radu Mihai Dumitrescu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Bucharest, Romania Author-Name: Adrian-Nicolae Dan Author-Workplace-Name: University of Bucharest, Romania Title: "The influence of conspiratorial public narratives on public health issues - a narrative review and bibliometric analysis" Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of conspiratorial narratives on the perception and management of social problems stemming from contemporary health crises, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a narrative review of the recent scientific literature, the research explores how these narratives develop, propagate and influence individual and collective behaviours in relation to public health, particularly in the context of vaccination and health compliance. The psychosocial mechanisms that facilitate adherence to conspiratorial beliefs and the role of social networks and the digital environment in amplifying them are analysed. The paper highlights the social consequences of these discourses - including diminished trust in authorities, political polarization and diminished social cohesion - and underlines the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in formulating effective strategies to combat disinformation. By integrating thematic and bibliometric analyses, the study contributes to a complex understanding of this emerging phenomenon and suggests future research directions for strengthening social resilience in the face of misinformation. By demonstrating current approaches based on psychological orientation, it confirms the need to involve scientific approaches from other fields, including sociology and communication sciences, in the analysis of this phenomenon. Classification-JEL: I11, I12, I31 Keywords: public narratives; misinformation; health behaviours; trust in authorities; cognitive bias; cognitive bias; belief systems; impact on health problems; preventive health measures; population health outcomes; narrative review. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 18-44 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/The-influence-of-conspiratorial-public-narratives-on-public-health-issues-a-narrative-review-and-bibliometric-analysis.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:18-44 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maurizio Esposito Author-Workplace-Name: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, European University of Techology EUt+, Cassino, Italy Author-Name: Benedetta Turco Author-Workplace-Name: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, European University of Techology EUt+, Cassino, Italy Title: "A case study: Family-Protected Homes for mothers and children in Italian prisons" Abstract: Children with their imprisoned mothers in the Italian prison system is a phenomenon that raises many questions starting with the rule of law and the psycho-social well-being of the mother-child couple. Law No. 62 of 2011 has created alternative forms to prison such as Family-Protected Homes. In this article we investigate the case study of the CFP in Milan created by the association ‘C.I.A.O. Carcere, Famiglia, Territorio’. We have studied this different penal experience starting from the experience of the women who live there and interweaving this perspective with the experiences and knowledge of those who direct and work within this structure. We used a qualitative methodological framework and analysed semi-structured interviews using NVivo software. Through the observations obtained from the results of the field research we tried to acquire indications regarding the effectiveness, in terms of social reintegration and reduction of the risk of reoffending, of these noncustodial alternative forms. Classification-JEL: I31, I32, K42 Keywords: alternative measures; prison; mother-child; social reintegration; opportunities; qualitative method. Pages: 45-54 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/A-case-study-Family-Protected-Homes-for-mothers-and-children-in-Italian-prisons-.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:45-54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Fobert Veutro Author-Workplace-Name: “Kore” University of Enna, Italy Title: "Online Violence against Lesbian Women. An Exploratory Investigation on Facebook in Italy". Abstract: From an intersectional perspective, being women and lesbians can give rise to multiple discriminations and forms of violence that are distinct from those experienced by heterosexual women and girls or homosexual men. One form of verbal violence against lesbians consists of reactions on social media directed at women who have disclosed their homosexual orientation. In this essay, adopting a hermeneutic approach and leveraging concepts developed in Gender and Queer studies as well as in the Symbolic Interactionism framework, a corpus of comments from haters on Facebook is analyzed to shed light on the definitions, values, and stereotypes underlying these often offensive and/or threatening statements. For instance, the wish for a woman to be raped reveals that, in certain contexts, male sexual acts are an expression of possession and dominance (rather than desire). Moreover, in this case, rape emerges as a "punishment" for lesbian women, as they threaten a model of hegemonic masculinity. Gender differences in the symbolic universes that emerge from the interpretation of haters' comments are also illustrated. The stigma imposed by this and other “choruses” (Berger and Luckmann 1966) can cause significant distress, especially among young women. One way to counteract this entrenched ostracism could be to increase the number of lesbian women as role models (“significant others”) who promote and disseminate positive and serene images. However, in the long term, educating individuals from adolescence to avoid giving importance to sexual orientation when judging others represents the best form of prevention. Classification-JEL: K38, K40, K42 Keywords: Female homosexuality; haters; online violence; lesbianism, masculinity. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 55-68 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Online-Violence-against-Lesbian-Women.-An-Exploratory-Investigation-on-Facebook-in-Italy-.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:55-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mariaclaudia Cusumano Author-Workplace-Name: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Title: "Limits and Obstacles of Migrants’ Health in Italy, a focus on undocumented migrants" Abstract: The impact of migration in the hosting countries continues to perpetrate original differences in social groups. On the one hand, migrants' conditions in the hosting countries improve thanks to better working conditions; on the other hand, falling into an irregular status can deteriorate Health and Life quality. For instance, socio-economic conditions and the legal status of migrants, which often are not well consolidated, affect the Health of Migrants, especially those who are irregular. During the first year of the project of mobility, Migrants experienced precarious conditions due to the policy that each country grants to migrants. A general system that generates vulnerability for migrants that has already dealt with many other obstacles, such as cultural and linguistic barriers and separation from the original country. That obstacle may influence Health due to limited access in Public Healthcare. In this article, we are also investing health in CPR. This research aims to identify migrants' healthcare access through politics and policies by considering the current global challenges in Italy. This article focuses on migrants, starting from the idea of Wasteocene. This article points out how injustice and social differences continue to be perpetrated in Italian society. In conclusion, we suggest some recommendations for policymakers to implement a new idea of a Democratic society. Classification-JEL: I14, I18, K37, K38 Keywords: migrants; undocumented migrants; healthcare; Italian health services; Wasteocene; institutional racism. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 69-82 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Limits-and-Obstacles-of-Migrants%E2%80%99-Health-in-Italy-a-focus-on-undocumented-migrants-.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:69-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liana M. Daher Author-Workplace-Name: University of Catania, Catania, Italy Author-Name: Simona Gozzo Author-Workplace-Name: University of Catania, Catania, Italy Author-Name: Giorgia Mavica Author-Workplace-Name: University of Catania, Catania, Italy Author-Name: Davide Nicolosi Author-Workplace-Name: University of Catania, Catania, Italy Author-Name: Alessandra Scieri Author-Workplace-Name: University of Catania, Catania, Italy Title: " During and Beyond the Pandemic: conspiratorial and radical groups online and offline as a sign of the persistence of social complexity in Italy" Abstract: Lack of knowledge and contested opinions about the effects and safety of the Covid-19 vaccine caused fear, anxiety and health concerns, encouraging the spread of disinformation and fake news in a social context, notably in Europe, where distrust of political and health institutions prevails. The purpose of this contribution is to examine the evolution of issues related to the pandemic and post pandemic emergency contexts, shifting to new subjects such as the Ukraine War, but reiterating a digital attack on democracy and the debate on bio-laboratories as key arguments of online and offline radical groups. A three-step research design was developed to investigate these aspects, focusing on conspiratorial and radical groups that still discuss different topics related to issues emerging from the pandemic but also current events. To better understand the evolution of radical groups, a mixed-method approach was chosen, combining quantitative analysis of social media content with qualitative interviews of protest participants. By examining the language and themes used in online spaces such as Twitter and comparing them with the experiences of protestors in the streets, researchers were able to better understand the motivations, beliefs and strategies. The combination of digital analysis and face-to-face interviews provides a comprehensive view of how conspiratorial thinking and radical activism persist in the post-pandemic era, offering valuable insights into the complexities of contemporary political and social groups and movements. Classification-JEL: I30, I14 Keywords: Covid-19; war disinformation; radicalisation; fake-news. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 83-104 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/During-and-Beyond-the-Pandemic-conspiratorial-and-radical-groups-online-and-offline-as-a-sign-of-the-persistence-of-social-complexity-in-Italy.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:83-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Rando Author-Workplace-Name: “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Title: "Violated identities. New slaveries in the globalized society and the rise of the sex industry: the phenomena of trafficking and sexual tourism. A sociological perspective" Abstract: The document addresses the issue of new slavery and sexual trafficking from a sociological perspective. Developing considerations on the impact and growth of sexual tourism and child pornography, including online, on the identity of the victims, mainly millions of children and women, but also of those who sexually abuse them and of those who torture, buy, sell for sexual purposes. The identity that interests us is also that of the States that transmit data on trafficking and that make political decisions for or against. Added to this is the identity of the power structures colluding with organized crime, and on the opposite side, that of the associations that fight against trafficking, to help and prevent this deep global social wound. The identities of women, girls and children are constantly violated, sold even by their families, often because of poverty. Victims of trafficking and new slavery, often become ill, malnourished, may contract HIV, become drug addicts, and suffer from social marginalization. Although there is the Palermo Protocol of 2000 and other intervention tools, sex trafficking, now also digital, constitutes together with drugs and weapons, a generator of gigantic profits. Repression and regulation have many limits, it is fundamental to act on the education, culture and poverty. Starting from the fifteen theses on capitalism and the global exploitation of prostitution proposed by sociologist Richard Poulin and on the basis of the data collected, we will also address the geopolitical factors that favor the phenomenon of trafficking and sexual tourism. We will develop further considerations, drawing inspiration from the investigations and testimonies collected by Siddharth A. Kara and Lydia Cacho who have given enormous visibility to these painful realities of human rights violations, through their studies and their travels, to trace the maps of trafficking, in the era of globalization. Classification-JEL: I32, I38 Keywords: identities; new slavery; globalization; sex industry; sex trafficking; sex tourism; child pornography; violation of human rights. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 105-117 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Violated-identities.-New-slaveries-in-the-globalized-society-and-the-rise-of-the-sex-industry-the-phenomena-of-trafficking-and-sexual-tourism.-A-sociological-perspective.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:105-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Enrico Damiani di Vergada Franzetti Author-Workplace-Name: “Kore” University of Enna, Italy Title: "Norms, Social Roles, Culture, Conflict and Social Work" Abstract: This work analyses the field of social action connected to Social Work on the basis of the normative dimension that disciplines the social positions connected to it, highlighting the conflictual dimension inherent to the particular internal specialist culture that distinguishes the social workers in the sector. When analysing the social and professional positions connected to the field of social action definable as Social Work, it must be underlined that the social workers who act within it or who come into contact with it, do not appear only as psycho-physical entities, but also and above all as bearers of social roles and statuses, point of destination and origin of models, expectations of social action, interests and purposes, in the light of an internal specialist culture that if it does not unite, then from a conflictualist perspective it can divide. In this perspective, the communicative activity of social workers appears to be aimed at controlling the antagonist by tracing the limit between the sphere of action, their own competence and that of others, becoming the communicative system in its correlation with the conflict or social negotiation that always accompanies it a terrain of comparison and/or clash. A sort of arena in which “a game” is played, the stakes of which are the acquisition of resources for which one conflicts or negotiates: the social relationship of power is above all communicative and often resolves itself in a choice and opposition of signs and symbols between the interacting social workers. Classification-JEL: I30, K38 Keywords: Social work; law; social roles; specialized culture; conflict; communication. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 118-126 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Norms-Social-Roles-Culture-Conflict-and-Social-Work.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:118-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Consuelo Diodati Author-Workplace-Name: University of Teramo, Italy Title: " Sports as a Stress Management Strategy for Young People" Abstract: Stress among the young generation has emerged as a significant and growing concern, further exacerbated by the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting on their mental and physical well-being. The paper delves into a sociological perspective to explore the efficacy of sports and related relaxation techniques as self-management strategies for facing stress in young people. These often encounter stressors from families and academic pressures, peer dynamics, social expectations, and personal challenges. From this perspective, sports linked with relaxation techniques can represent a way to empower the young generation to manage stressful situations and provide opportunities for skill development. Moreover, a growing body of literature supports the notion that regular engagement in sports and relaxation activities is associated with long-term psychological benefits, including reduced levels of anxiety, improved mood, enhanced self-esteem, and better overall mental health. Despite this evidence, current trends indicate a worrying decline in sports participation among young people, paralleled by a significant increase in sedentary lifestyles. Notably, these patterns persist in many European countries despite the implementation of numerous public policies aimed at promoting youth physical activity (WHO, 2023). It seems necessary for scholars to spread more about the under-estimated benefits of sports on stress and anxiety reduction and to start projects to make sports part of the extracurricular activities of university students and other young people. Classification-JEL: I10, I12, I19 Keywords: Sports; Youth; Stress; Self-help; Relaxation. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 127-136 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Sports-as-a-Stress-Management-Strategy-for-Young-People.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:127-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Ingrassia Author-Workplace-Name: University of Enna “Kore”, Enna, Italy Author-Name: Davide Leone Author-Workplace-Name: U’Game, Palermo, Italy Title: " Social and Spatial Inequalities: mapping youth conditions and spatial practices in an Italian neighborhood" Abstract: The relationship between social inequalities and territorial dimensions is characterized by phenomena of interconnection, interdependence, and co-evolution: spatial factors play a decisive role in producing conditions of social marginalization and go beyond mere allocative factors, intertwining with the ways people inhabit private and public spaces. Conditions of marginalization can also be linked to a subordinate role of actors in the processes of representation and identity construction, and they are particularly significant for the adolescent and preadolescent population. This contribution describes an action research activity focusing on territorial dynamics and spatial practices related to the adolescent and preadolescent population (11-17 years old) residing in an area of the city of Palermo characterized by socio-economic distress and educational poverty. The study (i) analyzes lifestyles, forms of inhabiting, and social practices in relation to public space, semi-public space, and proximity services, as well as flows; (ii) investigates the role of spatial factors in perpetuating or overcoming conditions of marginalization; and (iii) identifies ongoing processes and transformations at the local scale and in relation to the broader urban and metropolitan context. The research combines the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, collected through an innovative methodology that integrates morphological analysis and gamified participatory exploration to support participant observation and unstructured interviews. The research results are presented through thematic maps, both to make the complexity of the results accessible to the broad audience of territorial actors involved in future actions and to support a new participatory representation of the territory. The findings show a close connection between social and spatial inequalities and their capacity to influence the perpetuation of marginalization conditions. Nevertheless, there is evidence of grassroots advocacy by the engaged youth through practices of appropriation and placemaking. The research provides reflections on methodological tools and a complex reading of the territory capable of supporting future regeneration actions. Classification-JEL: I32, I38, K14, K42 Keywords: Public Space; Inequalities; Mapping; Adolescence; Mapping; Gamification; Participation; Participant Observation; Action-Research; Territorial analysis. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 137-153 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Social-and-Spatial-Inequalities-mapping-youth-conditions-and-spatial-practices-in-an-Italian-neighborhood.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:137-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Blanco Author-Workplace-Name: University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy Author-Name: Luigia Altieri Author-Workplace-Name: “G. D’Annunzio”, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Title: " Deliberative democracy in Habermas" Abstract: Habermas always proposes public discussion among all citizens as the fundamental element of the deliberative democratic process. From his point of view, the fundamental is always the search for democratic legitimacy, through the participation of the entire citizenry in the broadest and most deliberative way possible, only in this way must political-legislative decisions once approved be obeyed by all citizens, because they are perceived as right choices. He argues that for there to be a true democracy, it is not enough for political decisions and laws to simply result from the votes of the majority of citizens or, as is the case today in parliamentary democracies, their elected representatives. Indeed, he proposes, in his theory of participatory and deliberative democracy, that decisions can only be considered legitimate insofar as they result from a rich and articulate process of citizen participation in a public discussion, which takes place mainly in informal contexts, in public opinion, in the media and not only in parliaments. Only the passage through these filters (and not just the normal elections provided for in democratic states) authorises what Habermas calls a presumption of democratic-participatory reasonableness for the whole citizenry to share in the results and laws finally arrived at. Ultimately, he proposes a major reform of all democratic systems that we know so that they actually make citizens participate, making them feel like creators of the rules they obey. Classification-JEL: K15, K38, I25 Keywords: Deliberative democracy; active participation; public sphere; discursive interactions; democratic self-legislation; active citizenship. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 154-159 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Deliberative-democracy-in-Habermas.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:154-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vera Kopsaj Author-Workplace-Name: UniCamillus – Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences, Italy Title: "The Future of Social Inclusion in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities of AI and Digitisation" Abstract: The digital age is reshaping social structures, individual identity and access to opportunities, while raising critical questions about inclusion and new forms of exclusion. This article explores the relationship between artificial intelligence, digitisation and inequalities, analysing how emerging technologies can serve both as tools for empowerment and as mechanisms for reinforcing social barriers. Critically examining the digital divide, this study highlights disparities in access to technology based on income, education, gender and geographical area, and their impact on digital healthcare, education and the labour market. The rise of 4P medicine, telemedicine and predictive algorithms is transforming healthcare, offering personalised treatment options but also introducing new challenges in terms of accessibility and data protection. AI governance and algorithm transparency emerge as key concerns to ensure an equitable and inclusive digital future. The metaphor of the treehouse illustrates a digital landscape that seems open to all, but remains accessible only to those who have the tools to climb it. This image calls into question the narratives of neutrality and universality often associated with digital innovation. Through a sociological and interdisciplinary approach, this study underlines the urgent need for policies that make digitisation a ladder for all rather than a privilege for the few. Classification-JEL: I15, I31, I38 Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Digital divide; 4P Medicine; Algorithmic governance; Social inclusion. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 170-181 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Future-of-Social-Inclusion-in-the-Digital-Age-Challenges-and-Opportunities-of-AI-and-Digitisation.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:170-181 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gaetano Di Tommaso Author-Workplace-Name: “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Title: "The role of mediation in addressing adolescent issues within legal and social science contexts" Abstract: "Mediation is a process, almost always formal, through which a neutral third person tries, by organising exchanges between the parties, to allow them to compare their points of view and to seek with his help a solution to the conflict that opposes them" (BonaféSchmitt, 1992). The article intends to investigate the adolescent problems and the development in the juvenile field of restorative justice and criminal mediation, with particular reference to the institution of the suspension of the trial and probation, ex art. 28 of Presidential Decree no. 448 of 22 September 1988, which represents the main means by which juvenile trial mediation is carried out. In particular, by re-elaborating the data provided by the Department for Juvenile and Community Justice relating to a wide time span from 1992 to the present day, an analysis of the actual application of the said institution is carried out, also referring to the prescriptions given, with specific regard to those concerning the so-called direct and indirect penal mediation. The analysis allows to assess the validity and effectiveness of juvenile criminal mediation and in general of restorative justice models, which are increasingly at the centre of a renewed interest culminated with the Cartabia reform of the criminal process, which with the legislative decree 10 October 2022 n. 150 has finally led to the introduction of an organic discipline of the matter. Classification-JEL: K14, K38, K40 Keywords: Adolescent issues; social sciences; mediation; restorative justice; probation. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 182-194 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/The-role-of-mediation-in-addressing-adolescent-issues-within-legal-and-social-science-contexts.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:182-194 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ionuț Virgil Șerban Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Author-Name: Nicola Malizia Author-Workplace-Name: University of Enna “Kore”, Enna, Italy Title: " Bullying and Cyberbullying: The Role of Social Services in Prevention and Intervention" Abstract: "Bullying and cyberbullying are social phenomena of increasing relevance in today's digital society. These aggressive behaviors, which manifest themselves in various forms, have a significant impact on the lives of those who are victims, as well as on the social fabric as a whole. This paper aims to examine bullying and cyberbullying in detail, analyzing their dynamics, underlying causes and consequences, as well as prevention and intervention strategies. Traditional bullying, defined as an intentional and repeated act of physical, verbal or social aggression towards a weaker person, has long attracted the attention of scholars and social workers. However, with the expansion of digital technologies, cyberbullying has emerged as an increasingly insidious and pervasive form of aggression, exploiting online platforms to spread offensive messages, threats and insults. The growing ubiquity of digital connectivity has amplified the scope of bullying, allowing aggressors to target their victims anonymously and to reach a much wider audience. Furthermore, the intangible nature of many online actions can make cyberbullying more difficult to identify and address. The most significant goal is to investigate the root causes that fuel these aggressive behaviors, including relational dynamics, personal characteristics that can predispose to aggression, risk factors and victimization. Today, we need incisive actions in terms of prevention and interventions to be implemented in families, at school and in general in the world of minors. Social services can actively contribute in terms of taking charge of perpetrators and victims, using contrast methodologies aimed at promoting a more inclusive, respectful society and guaranteeing everyone the right to a life free from violence and discrimination". Classification-JEL: K14, I38, K40 Keywords: Bullyng, cyberbulling, social service; family; society; victimisation. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 195-212 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Bullying-and-Cyberbullying-The-Role-of-Social-Services-in-Prevention-and-Intervention.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:195-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonio Pipio Author-Workplace-Name: “Leonardo da Vinci” University, UNIDAV, Italy Author-Name: Romina Corbara Author-Workplace-Name: “Leonardo da Vinci” University, UNIDAV, Italy Title: " Social transformation: Genius and madness and the concept of “death of the ego”" Abstract: "We are currently living in an era marked by extreme warfare, economic crises, and deep value conflicts. This landscape reflects, at least in part, a prolonged social obscuration that has increasingly distanced individuals and society from the core values that underpin human identity and the very foundation of a rule-based civilization. Moreover, a growing confusion has emerged between purpose and objectives—a widespread inability to discern the deeper existential meaning of human, social, and organizational life from merely functional goals. Within this context, the concepts of genius, madness, and the death of the self become pivotal. Philosophy and sociology have long explored these dimensions, highlighting their historical and cultural significance. Genius, often misunderstood or resisted, is a figure of rupture and transformation; madness, in contrast, represents an otherness that challenges the rational frameworks and norms imposed by society. Thinkers such as Max Weber (1922), Theodor W. Adorno, and Francesco Alberoni have examined genius as a charismatic leader capable of inspiring and mobilizing the masses. Michel Foucault, on the other hand, emphasized how modern society has managed madness through rationalization and segregation, revealing a collective inability to embrace what deviates from normative expectations. Today, these themes raise profound questions about the relationship between the individual and society, between authenticity and conformity, and between expressive freedom and social control". Classification-JEL: K14, K42 Keywords: social transformation; dissolution of identity; self-awareness; deviance; exceptionalism. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 213-218 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Social-transformation-Genius-and-madness-and-the-concept-of-%E2%80%9Cdeath-of-the-ego%E2%80%9D.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:213-218 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianmarco Cifaldi Author-Workplace-Name: “Gabriele D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy Title: "Habermas, Dahrendorf, and the Discourse on Social Complexity in Contemporary Society" Abstract: " Abstract This paper critically examines the later works of Jürgen Habermas and Ralf Dahrendorf to answer the question: How can deliberative democratic theory and liberal sociology jointly inform solutions to rising inequality and democratic erosion in the era of hyper-globalization? By mapping points of convergence and divergence in their analyses of globalization, institutional crisis, and social solidarity, the paper offers a novel framework that integrates Habermas’s concept of the “public sphere” with Dahrendorf’s emphasis on institutional resilience. This original contribution demonstrates how combining these perspectives can guide policy proposals for revitalizing democratic participation and ensuring fairer wealth distribution in contemporary Western societies". Classification-JEL: I31, I38, J68 Keywords: society; crisis, poverty; deliberative democracy; institutional resilience; hyper-globalization; democratic participation; economic inequality. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 219-226 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Habermas-Dahrendorf-and-the-Discourse-on-Social-Complexity-in-Contemporary-Society.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:219-226 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pierluca Massaro Author-Workplace-Name: University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy Title: "Youth Gangs between Crime Control and Social Inclusion: A Critical Examination of Competing Paradigms in Italy" Abstract: "This article critically examines the competing paradigms that have shaped the study, representation, and governance of youth gangs in Italy. Drawing on a wide body of criminological, sociological, and ethnographic literature, the paper contrasts the dominant criminological paradigm—rooted in classical traditions of social control and risk management—with the constructivist and cultural approaches that emphasise the role of social exclusion, identity negotiation, and resistance in the formation of youth street groups. The so-called baby gang phenomenon in Italy provides a revealing case study of how public discourse, media narratives, and official data converge to construct youth groups as threats to public order. This construction, in turn, legitimises repressive policies and emergency legislation, often at the expense of preventive and inclusive social measures". Classification-JEL: K14, K42 Keywords: Youth gang; Immigration; Criminalisation; Resistance; Constructivism; Social control. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 227-238 Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Year: 2025 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/Youth-Gangs-between-Crime-Control-and-Social-Inclusion-A-Critical-Examination-of-Competing-Paradigms-in-Italy.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:9:y:2025:i:1:p:227-238