Alessandro Cavalli#
| Membership Number: | 399 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.alessandrocavalli.it |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1967 Professor of Sociology at the University of Pavia
- 1965 - 1967 Sociology studies at Yale University and University of California at Berkeleyas Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund
- 1963 Degree in Economic History at Bocconi University Milan
Fields of Scholarship
- German social thought at the turn of 19th and 20th century
- Sociology of youth, time and education
- Teaching profession in Italian schools
- Higher education in comparative perspective,
- Patterns of collective memory
- Family and educational choices
- Changes in value orientations of young people
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- President of the “Associazione Il Mulino”
- President of CIRSIS (Centro Studi e Ricerche sui Sistemi di Istruzione Superiore) at the University of Pavia
- President of the Scientific Council of IARD (Institute for Youth and Education Research), Milan
