Prof. Antonio Cocozza, former deputy director of The Department of Education of Rome's  Roma Tre University, President of the Degree Course in "Training and Human-Resource Development" - Professor of the Sociology of Work and Organisations, Director of the Master's Degree in "Policies and Tools for Human-Resource Management" and in "Organizational and managerial processes in school autonomy" at the Roma Tre University. Coordinator of the Observatory on school autonomy and Professor of "Business Communication and Human-Resource Management" at the LUISS, "Guido Carli", University, Rome.

Chapter 1. Reason and Rationality in Sociological Thought: Interpreting Human Action as a Problem. Chapter 2. Superseding the Structural Dichotomy of the Holistic and Individualistic Approaches: Attempts and Statements. Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Rationality in Human Action from Talcott Parsons, to Alfred Schütz and Jürgen Habermas. Chapter 4. Rationality, Environment, and Complex Systems in the Theses of Niklas Luhmann. Chapter 5. Rationalism, Irrationalism, and Pseudo-rationality in the Thinking of Karl Marx and Karl R. Popper. Chapter 6. The theory of rational choice: potential and criticality. Chapter 7. Towards the Supersession of Utilitarianism. Chapter 8. The Upsurge of Postmodern Society and The Contributions of Bauman, Beck, and Sennett. Chapter 9. Ethics, Rationality and Competences in Twenty-first Century Capitalism: The Perspective of Piketty, Nussbaum, and Morin. Conclusions.