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"For a long time, love has been confined to the private sphere and its social dimension has been overlooked. Instead, love is a force capable of generating social bonds and change in human sociability. This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of 'Karst River' that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life. Breaking the logic of instrumentality, calculation and standardization, love enables people to enter in a regime of overabundance which recognizes the irreducibility of the other. Being a key element of solidarity in current plural and inequal societies, love can also help to interpret and intervene in social problems, such as poverty, conflicts, xenophobia, climate change, and post-covid crisis, recognizing people as social changers. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers theoretical and empirical reflections on social love, as well as insights of some of the most important current sociologists, such as Sari Hanafi, Alain Caillè, Paulo Henrique Martins, Adrian Scribano and Geoffrey Pleyers. Providing overviews on key questions and studies on current issues, the book is essential reference and resource for researchers, students, social workers, and professionals in the whole spectrum of social disciplines"--

Love --- Caring --- Social interaction --- Social action