“Marginal thoughts” in a pandemic context. Distance dialogue between two sociologists and two teenagers (Carlotta and Michele, both 13 years old)

In the second half of the 1950s, Charles Wright Mills, in The Sociological Imagination drew attention to the usefulness of staring, in a diary, “marginal thoughts”, putting his life experience at the service of his intellectual work. That is, writing down ideas that can be considered as "by-products of everyday life, fragments of conversation caught in the street, or maybe dreams”. Following this perspective, the authors, also confronting the new generations' sensitivity, outline a theoretical-conceptual framework, articulated on some key concepts and problematic nodes, identifying possible scenarios and research paths in a pandemic context.