Sociologist and Social psychologist, licensed to practice the profession of psychologist
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San Giovanni Lupatoto (Verona) 24 March 1926 – Rome, 12 October 2020.
Classical high school diploma obtained in 1943 at the Liceo Ginnasio Dettori of Cagliari.
Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Cagliari. Dissertation: On the tacit limits of criminal law [Considerazioni sui limiti taciti della norma penale] (Supervisor: Professor Alberto Crespi), Academic year 1951/52.
University teaching qualification in Sociology (1966).
Father: Giuseppe Bolacchi.
Mother: Francesca Piga.
Spouse: Maria Sofia Casnedi.
Daughter: Francesca Bolacchi Casnedi.
Tenured Assistant and Professor of History of Economic Doctrines at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cagliari, Italy (1957-1967)
Professor of Sociology and Social psychology at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cagliari, Italy (1967-1998)
Chair of the International Post Graduate Programs in Higher Managerial Education at Ailun, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy (1991-2011).
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Emeritus Affilate Member, Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI)
Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (CCBS)
Scientific Board AARBA, Association for the Advancement of Radical Behavior Analysis
Advisory Board IESCUM, Istituto Europeo per lo studio del comportamento umano (European Institute for the Study of Human Behavior)
Member of the Editorial Board of Behavior and Philosophy (2000-2013)
Emeritus Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Contemporary Sociology.
Member of the Board of Directors of RAI (Italian Radio and Television), 1975-76 (in this role I designed the organizational reform of Italian Public Broadcasting Service)
Member of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria (General Confederation of Italian Industry, association representing manufacturing and service companies in Italy) and Acting Director of the External Relations Department (Rome), 1977-81
Member of the National Ministerial Commission for the definition of compulsory middle school education programs (1978)
Member of the Board of Directors of ISTUD, Istituto Studi Direzionali (Directional Studies Institute), Stresa (1977-1980); Member of the Board of Directors of CENSIS, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali (Study Center for Social Investments), Rome (1977-1981); Member of the Board of Directors of ISFOL, Istituto per lo Sviluppo della Formazione Professionale dei Lavoratori (Institute for the Development of Vocational Training for Workers), public-law institution, Rome (1977-1981)
Member of the Scientific Committee for the study of a free zone to establish in Sardinia (1982-83); Member of the Interdisciplinary working group for the functional and organizational restructuring of the system of regional agencies within the Reform of Sardinia Government (1990-91)
These pictures were taken in 2007 and 2010 by Rita Olla during the lessons I gave in the International Post Graduate Programs in the field of Higher Managerial Education. In some pictures is also present Rosanna Farci, whose contribution has been fundamental for the realization of this site.
«A sociologist, well-educated in the dominant sociological schools of Western Europe and the United States, is going over a hat-factory. On the shelves of the store, an unknown but large number of boxes containing hats. On the shelves of his mind are also boxes: he positioned them as he progressed in sociological studies, from university to university teaching, and continues to position them when he finds new ones.
The boxes are marked with different labels. There is a row labeled positivistic organicism, symbolic interactionism, sociological formalism, social phenomenology, and conflict theory. Above that a row labeled sociological functionalism, social action theory, micro-functionalism, macro-functionalism, manifest and latent interests. And still other boxes, confusingly, with various labels.
Our sociologist is aware that these boxes are not always very prominent on the shelves of some social scientists, few to tell you the truth, of whose mental furniture he generally approves; but he received them from his teachers, and he has seen them handled with great competence and consideration by his colleagues. Whenever he could, he tried by himself, alone, to open the boxes; perhaps for lack of wit, he never saw something in them of which profitable use could be made. For this failure, his teachers and colleagues never forgave him.» (Le scatole vuote della sociologia [Empty sociological boxes], pp. 48-49) Postscript IT
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«Un sociologo, che ha studiato sociologia secondo le tradizioni consolidate dell’Europa occidentale e degli Stati Uniti, sta visitando una fabbrica di cappelli. Sugli scaffali del magazzino vi è un numero imprecisato ma grande di scatole contenenti cappelli. Anche nei ripiani della sua mente vi sono delle scatole: egli le ha collocate a mano a mano che progrediva negli studi sociologici, dall’università all’insegnamento universitario, e continua tuttora a collocarle quando ne trova di nuove.
Le scatole sono contrassegnate da diverse intestazioni. Una fila è intestata: organicismo positivistico, interazionismo simbolico, formalismo sociologico, fenomenologia sociale, teoria del conflitto. Sopra questa fila ce n’è un’altra con le intestazioni: funzionalismo sociologico, teoria dell’azione sociale, microfunzionalismo, macrofunzionalismo, interessi manifesti, interessi latenti. E ancora altre scatole, alla rinfusa, con varie intestazioni …
Il nostro sociologo è consapevole del fatto che queste scatole non sempre occupano una posizione di primaria importanza negli scaffali di alcuni scienziati sociali, pochi in verità, dei quali apprezza le qualità intellettuali; ma le ha ereditate dai suoi professori e le ha viste trattare con grande perizia e riguardo dai suoi colleghi. Ogniqualvolta gli è stato possibile egli ha cercato, da solo, di aprire le scatole; ma, forse per mancanza di ingegno, non è riuscito mai a scorgervi dentro qualcosa che meritasse di essere usata. Naturalmente i suoi professori e i suoi colleghi non gli hanno perdonato questa sua incapacità.» ( Le scatole vuote della sociologia, pp. 48-49)