Mino Vianello, vita
Former Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Statistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”"
Via Brennero 36, 00141 Rome, ph 6-87181407, 0360-522839, fax 6-49910720, e-mail : mino.vianello@uniroma1.it
studies : B.A. classical lyceum Marco Polo (Venice), 1945; laurea in Law,University of Padua, 1949; Sorbonne, Faculty of Political Science, 1949-50; laurea in History and Philosophy, University of Padua, 1953; Collège d’Europe, Bruges, 1953-4; Columbia University, Faculty of Political Science, 1954-9; University of Munich, Institute of Sociology, 1960-1; Libera Docenza in Sociology, 1963.
languages : fluent in reading, speaking and writing English, French German, Spanish, minimal knowledge of Russian
teaching experience : 1961-5, associate professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Florence; 1965 to 2002, Faculty of Statistics, University of Rome (full professor with tenure,1970); Visiting Professor, Cà Foscari University of Venice, Dpt. of History, 2003; Columbia University, Department of Sociology (Summer Term, 1968); University of Sao Paulo (Summer term, 1975); Chuo University (Summer term, 1983, one month 1998); University of Campinas (Summer term, 1976); University of Chile (Summer term, 1973); University of Osnabrück (three weeks, Spring 1987); University of Rajasthan (Summer term, 1979); University of Wellington (NZ) (Summer term, 1981); Université d’Aix en Provence one week, Spring 2001); University of Tallinn (Summer term, 1989); University of El Cairo (three weeks, Fall 2000); University of Peking (one month, Fall 1988); University of Frankfurt aM (one week, Spring 1999; three weeks, Spring 2002); University of Tbilissi (three weeks, Summer 2001); University of Chandigarh and Shimla (one month, Summer 2003); University of Hué, one month (December 2003); for several years active in the field of training and intervention-research at the Management Formation School (IAFE) of the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI).
books :
THORSTEIN VEBLEN, Comunità, 1960, pp. 379;LA CONTRORIVOLUZIONE INDUSTRIALE, Comunità, 1963, pp. 291 (prize of the Olivetti Foundation);
LO SCARTO CULTURALE, Laterza, 1965, pp. 199;
LA STRUTTURA SOCIALE DEI SERVIZI INFERMIERISTICI, Bulzoni, 1967, pp. 115;
CONTRIBUTO ALLA CRITICA DELLA TEORIA CLASSICA DELL’ORGANIZZAZIONE, Angeli, 1973, pp. 735;
HIERARCHY IN ORGANIZATIONS, Jossey-Bass, 1974, pp. 331 (a research coordinated by Arnold Tannenbaum, editor), Jossey-Bass, 1974, pp. 331 translated in several languages;
FANTASIA E SOVVERSIONE , A STUDY OF POLITICAL THEATRE GROUPS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES, Angeli, 1975, pp. 195;
L’ORGANIZZAZIONE SOCIALE DEGLI OSPEDALI GENERALI, Angeli, 1978, pp. 197;
GENDER INEQUALITY , A STUDY IN DISCRIMINATION, Sage Publications (Intl. series of the Intl. Sociological Association), 1990, pp. 360;
L’AMOROSA UTOPIA, Borla, 1992;
DONNE E METAMORFOSI DELLA POLITICA, Editori Riuniti, 1998, (published also in French, L’Harmattan; German, Leske + Budrich; Japanese, Chuo University Press, Spanish, Editorial Catedra).
GENDERING ELITES - A STUDY OF POLITICAL AND BUSINESS LEADERS ,, Macmillan, 2000 (Intl. series of the International Political Science Association);
A STUDY OF WOMEN AND MEN ELITES IN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES, Sage Publications, 2004 (published also in French by L’Harmattan) , Intl. Studies Series of the International Sociological Association, Finalist Diploma of the Descartes Prize of the European Commission (will appear in the May 2004 issue of Current Sociology);
International coordinator of a research in 16 countries on
WOMEN ELITES AS AGENTS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Has published about thirty papers in academic journals and several articles on contemporary events for IL MONDO (1955-63), IL PONTE (1955-...), COMUNITA’ (1955-1961), IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA (1960-65), L’ESPRESSO (1960-75), CRITICA LIBERALE (1997-...), ARGOMENTI UMANI (1999-...), LETTERA INTERNAZIONALE (2001-…)
Is since 1987 the editor of the REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SOCIOLOGIE
CARFAX – Francis & Taylor)