Measuring the Unmeasurable : Social Love in Citizens and Institutions Across the Globe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cataldi, Silvia.

Series:

Re-Imagining Public Governance Series

Re-Imagining Public Governance Series ; v.6

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

The weaknesses of aggregative/representative democracy point to the current governments' failures so prevalent in the West that there are few innovative alternatives. Given that major global challenges all hinge on the transformation of public governance, it has become a most pressing matter for humanity to re-conceptualise future-making approaches to governance. This series aims to explore constructive and promising orientations to democracy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Title Page

Copyright

Inhalt

Angélica De Sena and Silvia Cataldi

Introduction

The human art of measuring

The art of measuring love

References

Part I A theory-laden global framework

Gennaro Iorio

1 The Love perspective as a sociological framework

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Social love as a factor of innovation

1.3 Definition of social love

A Judaism

B Greece

C Christianity and its novelty

1.4 Love in sociological tradition

1.5 Operationalizing social love: Sorokin's pioneering attempt

1.6 Conclusion

Silvia Cataldi and Gennaro Iorio

2 The World Love Index

2.1 Introduction: A civic reframing of social well-being

2.2 A new index in the basket

2.3 The operational definition of an intangible concept

2.4 The four dimensions of social love

2.5 The construction of the index

2.6 The two waves

2.7 The citizens and the institutions: Two points of observation

Federica Floridi and Marco Palmieri

3 Research methodology: Tools and strategies from the first to the second wave

3.1. Secondary data analysis for the World Love Index

3.2 The first wave of the World Love Index

3.3 The second wave of the World Love Index

Andrea Gallelli

4 Do we need another index? The space of love in the 'beyond GDP' debate

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Subjective wellbeing, inclusiveness, human development

4.3 Three analytical levels

4.4 A multidimensional concept, a multidimensional framework

4.5 Conclusions

William Calvo-Quirós

5 Unpacking Social Love: Process challenges and possibilities

5.1 On Resisting: A Theoretical and intellectual self-assessment

5.2 The Issue of Universality: The Global is Local

5.3 The Concept of [a] Nation

5.4 What Have Come Out of the World Love Index: What Is Next?.

2.5 What comes after the collapse and failure of Homo sapiens?

Part II The results of the World Love Index

Maria Carmela Catone and Angela Delli Paoli

6 The results of the Citizens' Index. Social love: a concept for the few and the poor?

6.1 Framing Social Love: Theoretical Perspectives and Research Questions

6.2 The civic foundation of social love: pillars and indicators

6.3 Data analysis

6.4 Mapping Social Love Index

6.5 Economic Conditions and Social Love

6.6 Conclusion

7 The results of the Institutions' Index

7.1 The Institutions' monodimensional indices: results and rankings

7.2 The Institutions' World Love Index: construction and rankings

7.3 The Institutions' Index and the issue of recognition

Fabrizio Martire and Rosario Aprile

8 Mapping social love: Insights from a global cluster analysis

8.1 Beyond Borders: Nations, Comparison, and the Global Understanding of Social Phenomena

8.2 Nations as unit of analysis in the study of social love

8.3 The global clustering map

8.4 Inside the Cluster: exploring the dimensions of Social Love

8.5 Conclusive consideration

Marco Palmieri and Federica Floridi

9 Obstacles and promoting factors of social love

9.1 Beyond the GDP

9.2 Obstacles and promoting factors of Citizens' World Love Index

9.3 Obstacles and promoting factors of Institutions' World Love Index

Part III Social resonances of the World Love Index

Angélica De Sena

10 Social Love and Poverty: Some Readings from the Global South

10.1 Notes on Latin America and poverty

10.2 On Social Love in Latin America

10.3 Some conclusions

Eva Sotomayor

11 Measuring emotions: The FEI Model and the emotional architecture of social love.

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Emotion and action: an age-old debate that remains unresolved

11.3 What is social love and how can it be measured?

11.4 Correlation between values and acts of social love: decomposition of the World Love Index

11.4.1 Consistent Social Love

11.4.2 Captive Emotions

11.4.3 Pragmatic Altruism

11.4.4 Low Social Love

11.5 Searching for captive emotions from a global emotional cartography of social love

Licia Paglione, Agnès Marie Keuho and Jay Gallera Malaga

12 The Critical Potential of Citizens Worldwide: Unveiling the Solidarity Capital of People

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Cross-cultural Differences in the Worldwide Citizens' Solidarity Capital across the World

12.3 Culturally Embedded Solidarity: a cross-cultural discussion of the dimensions of the Citizens' World Love Index

12.4 Conclusion. Some methodological cross-cultural remarks

Rolando Cristao and Wilmer Leguizamón

13 Social love, institutions, and the common good: A Latin American approach

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Social institutions in Latin America

13.3 The Impact of social love on high-quality social institutions.

13.3.1 The contribution of the overabounding dimension to high-quality social institutions

13.3.2 The contribution of recognition to high-quality social institutions

13.3.3 The contribution of universalism to high-quality social institutions

13.3.4 The contribution of care to high-quality social institutions

13.4 Conclusive remarks

David Le Breton

14 Laughter as a matrix of friendship in social relations

14.1 The game of life

14.2 Receiving hilarity

14.3 The game breaker

14.4 The ambivalence of giving laughter

14.5 Joking relationship

Silvia Cataldi, Angelica De Sena and Gennaro Iorio

Conclusions.

Global crisis and interdependence

New Keys for the Future

Measuring social love: A prophetic political act

References.

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ISBN:

3-11-169686-3

OCLC:

1577546966