Sociology of Love: The Agapic Dimension of Societal Life

Gennaro Iorio

Vernon Press, Jun 10, 2014 - Social Science - 134 pages

 This short book deals with a sociological concept: love-agape. It is an attempt to demonstrate that love-agape resists, indeed insists, as a fact that cannot be reduced or concealed. Its simple goal is to introduce agape into the vocabulary of sociological analysis by demonstrating its potential to demarcate and to interpret social phenomena. Love-agape is presented as a critical concept. On the one hand, love-agape denounces the risks linked to the needs of closed groups, often absolutist and fundamentalist.  On the other hand, it represents a concrete reality, lying at the root of a particular type of sociality. A sociality that, rather unconventionally, recognizes differences and distances, but also characterizes their condition of being together, as community founded on the recognition and respect of subjectivity.

Contents

• What Agape is not: 27
• the micro and the macro: 69
• Case Studies: 85
• Epilogue: 105

About the author

Gennaro Iorio, PhD., is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Salerno. He has published a number of works on classical sociology, sociology of poverty and sociology of new technology. He teaches sociology in postgraduate, masters and doctoral courses.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sociology of Love: The Agapic Dimension of Societal Life; Series in Sociology
• Author: Gennaro Iorio
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vernon Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1622730143, 9781622730148
• Length: 134 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Social Science / Sociology / General