Domenico De Masi
Domenico De Masi (1 February 1938 – 9 September 2023) was an Italian sociologist. He was professor emeritus of sociology of work at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", where he also was head of the Faculty of Communication Sciences. As a scholar, teacher, researcher and consultant his interest was in the sociology of work and organisations, post-industrial society, development and underdevelopment, urban systems, creativity, free time, methods and techniques of social research with particular regard to forecasting investigations. Life De Masi was born in Rotello, in 1938. He attended the liceo classico secondary school at Caserta and then moved to Perugia for his university studies, where he graduated in Law in 1960 with a thesis on the history of law. He specialised in sociology of work in Paris. In Naples, he began his university career as an assistant in sociology at the Federico II University. At the same time, he was also a researcher at the 'Nord e Sud' study centre directed by Giuseppe Galasso, where he carried out research on informal groups and trade unions at the Italsider plant in Bagnoli (Naples). During this period, he also collaborated with the magazine 'Nord e Sud' directed by