Il futuro come strumento di analisi sociale: un esercizio di operativizzazione dell’avvenire

Abstract

The future presents itself as a concept enveloped in significant complexity, which emerges even as one attempts to operationalize it. Operationalizing the future entails making it a tool for social analysis. To achieve this, it is necessary to equip the four approaches to the study of the future—predictive, interpretative, critical, and participatory action-based—with purpose and conceptual tools