Per un profilo sociologico della qualità. Annotazioni fenomenologiche

Starting from a memorable intervention of Enzo Paci on the pages of Aut Aut in the beginning of 1960s, the author intends to cover some essential moments about thirty years of studies in the social sciences, to the research of the theoretical and epistemological roots of a pedagogical approach to the problem of the quality findings with regard to life and the complex productivity of scholastic institutions. Placing centrality on the «human factor», according to a phenomenological-rational methodology centred on intersubjectivity and the storicity of culture and social life, this contribution highlights some interpretative, inclusive and contextualized modalities of solution, done to guide the research in other directions, but not less rigorous with respect to the empiriometric paradigm, whose dominance in today's national scene marks on again a preoccupying provincialism, which on the one band cannot be avoided in our institutional and scholastic culture, which the current processes of reform require that it be overcome.