La responsabilità sociale nella tarda modernità: scenari, riflessività e agency dei soggetti sociali tra civic attitude e civic engagement

Late modernity is characterized by the global dimension of the economy, growing systemic risks and the weakening of the nation-state. This situation leads to a process of “reflective modernization” that might be read in terms of a growing individual and collective social responsibility, prerequisite to a renewed social solidarity bond and innovative ways of social regulation. In light of this interpretative framework, the contribution intends to offer a reading of social responsibility in the late modernity, discriminating between a generic civic attitude and the specific role of social engagement - as a focus on the relationship - in defining the features of the civic engagement as the practical expression of the agency of social actors. Two responsible models of integration between the economy and society will be thus defined and discussed.