last updated: October 2024

Andrea M. Maccarini is Professor of Sociology at the University of Padova (Italy, EU), Department of political science, law and international studies.

His research interests lie in social theory, education and socialization processes, macro-sociology and cultural change.

He has been a visiting scholar in various Universities, among which the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Boston University, and Humboldt-Universität Berlin.  

He is a board member of the International Association for Critical Realism. He has been the Italian delegate at OECD Centre for Educational Reform and Innovation (CERI), 2012-2019. At the OECD he is currently a member of the expert group for the study on social and emotional skills.

He is a member of the Editorial Board for various journals of sociology and the related social sciences. He is Co-Director of two book series: IES – Innovazione, educazione e società (Franco Angeli) and Realismo sociologico (Rubbettino).

Selected Publications

Books

In reverse chronological order

Archer, M. S., & Maccarini, A. M. (Eds.). (2021). What is essential to being human?: Can AI robots not share it?. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Maccarini, A. M. (2019). Deep change and emergent structures in global society: Explorations in social morphogenesis. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Archer, M. S., & Maccarini, A. M. (Eds.). (2013). Engaging with the world: Agency, institutions, historical formations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Maccarini, A. M., Morandi, E., & Prandini, R. (Eds.). (2011). Sociological realism. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Articles

In reverse chronological order

Maccarini, A. M. (2024). Barbarism and modernity in S. N. Eisenstadt’s theory: Towards a cultural sociology of radicalism. International Sociology. 39(6), 631–649.

Maccarini, A. M. (2024). Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 319–335.

[In Italian] Maccarini, A. M. (2022). L’aggressione e l’incontro: Risonanza e critica della modernità in Hartmut Rosa. Società Mutamento Politica, 13(26), 31–41.

Maccarini, A. M. (2017). Reflexivity, socialization, and relations to the world: Theoretical and practical challenges. Stan Rzeczy, 12, 141–175.

Book chapters

In reverse chronological order

Maccarini, A. M. (2021). Being human as an option: How to rescue personal ontology from transhumanism, and (above all) why bother. In M. Carrigan, & D. V. Porpora (Eds.), Post-Human futures: Human enhancement, artificial intelligence and social theory (pp. 48–68). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Maccarini, A. M. (2019). Post-human sociality: Morphing experience and emergent forms. In I. Al-Amoudi, & E. Lazega (Eds.), Post-Human institutions and organizations: Confronting the matrix (pp. 48–66). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Maccarini, A. M. (2019). Trans-human (life-)time: Emergent biographies and the ‘deep change’ in personal reflexivity. In I. Al-Amoudi, & J. Morgan (Eds.), Realist responses to post-human society: Ex machina (pp. 138–164). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Maccarini, A. M. (2017). The Morphogenic society as source and challenge for human fulfilment. In M. S. Archer (Ed.), Morphogenesis and human flourishing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.