Andrea M. Maccarini is professor of Sociology at the University of Padova (Italy). He is a member of IACR (International Association for Critical Realism) and director of the Centre for Social Ontology, founded by Margaret Archer. He has been visiting scholar in various Universities, among which University of California Los Angeles (Ucla), Boston University, and Humboldt-Universität Berlin. He served as Italian representative at the governing board of Oecd-Ceri (Center for educational reform and innovation), 2012-2019. At the OECD he is currently a member of the expert group for the Study on Social and Emotional Skills. \nHis research interests lie in social theory, education and socialization processes, macro-sociology and cultural change. \n\nAmong his recent publications: - A Multi-Level Model of Macro-Social Transformations: The Legacy of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach, in I. Al-Amoudi and D. Porpora (Eds.), Margaret Archer’s Legacy to the Social Sciences: an appraisal (in progress); \n- Barbarism and modernity in S.N. Eisenstadt’s theory. Towards a cultural sociology of radicalism \nIn «International Sociology», 2024; \n- Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism, in «Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour», 2023, pp. 1-17; \n- What’s Essential to Being Human? Routledge, 2021 (co-edited with M.S. Archer). \n- Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society, Springer, 2019.

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