Phd in COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL RESEARCH AND MARKETING

email: lorenzo.sabetta@uniroma1.it
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Lorenzo Sabetta (1988; PhD 2017) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sapienza-University of Rome, Department of "Communication and Social Research"; he also teaches Sociology at LUISS, Department of Political Science. He has been a postdoc at the University of Missouri/Columbia (2017/2018), Robert K. Merton Fellow at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linkoping University (2019/2020), a visiting researcher at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford (2022) and EkSoc Visiting Fellow at the University of Lodz (2022). Starting from 2023, he's a Junior Research Fellow at Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS), in the 'Social Sciences' section.
He works on social theory, cognitive sociology, intellectual history, epistemology and everyday life. With G. Ienna, he has founded in 2020 the academic book series Denkstil (Milan: Meltemi - http://www.meltemieditore.it/collana/denkstil/). He sits on the editorial or scientific boards of 'Sociologia e ricerca sociale', 'Quaderni di Teoria Sociale', 'Lares', 'Inferenze/evidenze', 'Teoria e ricerca sociale e politica', 'Indiscipline', 'Interactio'. He is a member of the Observatory of electoral sociology (https://web.uniroma1.it/coris/unit-di-ricerca/18408), Laboratory for Alternative Theories (https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/alternative-theories/) and College of Merit Don Nicola Mazza-Residenza G.Tovini Residence.
Recent publications include: Against the Background of Social Reality: Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked (Routledge, 2023, with C. Lombardo); What People Leave Behind. Marks, Traces, Footprints and Their Relevance to Knowledge Society (Springer, 2022, with F. Comunello and F. Martire); The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton (Anthem Press, 2022, with C. Crothers); Subjects of Objectivation. Exercises in Reflexive Socioanalysis (2022, special issue of Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale , with G. Ienna, C. Lombardo, and M. Santoro); The Appearance of Nothingness: Concealed Strategic Actions (2021, in The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interaction, eds. W. Brekhus, T. DeGloma and W.R. Force, with C. Lombardo).
See also https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lorenzo-Sabetta