Journal articles: 'Social change – Italy'

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Santoro, Marco. "Musical identity and social change in Italy." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 11, no. 3 (September 2006): 275–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545710600806706.

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Grieco, Antonio, and Alessandra rè. "Ergonomics in Italy." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 44, no. 38 (July 2000): 888–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120004403857.

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Ergonomics developed in Italy in the seventies in a milieu characterized by severe social tensions as well as by a huge applicative demand raising the problem of large industrial plant transformation and redesigning. Since then many changes have occurred: a change in demand, a generational change, a change in training, the increasing number of company's ergonomic services. The traditional sector of workplace analysis and redesigning was supplemented by other activities in product ergonomics. Within the process of Italian and European certification, these changes led the Italian Ergonomics Society to work out a professional profile of the ergonomist, which is now included in a Law Bill.

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Ardizzoni, Michela. "Narratives of change, images for change: Contemporary social documentaries in Italy." Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 1, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 311–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jicms.1.3.311_1.

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Antronico, Loredana, Roberto Coscarelli, Francesco De Pascale, and Dante Di Matteo. "Climate Change and Social Perception: A Case Study in Southern Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (August 27, 2020): 6985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12176985.

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The consequences of climate change can involve various ambits and be very severe. For this reason, the social perception of climate change is a fundamental issue since it can influence the decisions of the policymakers, by encouraging or discouraging political, economic and social actions. In this paper, a sample of 300 interviews, collected through a standardized questionnaire and carried out among two municipalities located in southern Italy, was exploited to investigate the perception of climate change. Specific issues, regarding perceptions about climate change, concerns about its impacts, level of information, behavior and actions, exposure to extreme natural events and trust, were addressed to give answers to the research questions: (i) Is climate change perceived by the population? (ii) What is the degree of the community resilience to extreme natural events and climate change? As the main findings, this survey highlighted that the spatio-temporal dimension affects population perception, suggesting that some issues, such as correct behavior towards the geosphere, the sustainability of anthropization processes, community resilience and disaster risk reduction policies, can be very central and useful to mitigate the effects of climate change in population and society. Moreover, climate change perception varies in relation to contextual factors, including media communication, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, knowledge and education, economic and institutional factors, personal values and, finally, psychological factors and experience.

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Bellucci, Paolo, and Oliver Heath. "The Structure of Party-Organization Linkages and the Electoral Strength of Cleavages in Italy, 1963–2008." British Journal of Political Science 42, no. 1 (July 14, 2011): 107–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123411000226.

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No consensus exists on the causal mechanisms underpinning declining voting based on social cleavages – religion and class – in Europe. Previous research has emphasized two main factors: social change within the electorate (bottom-up) and parties’ policy polarization (top-down). This article presents a third level of analysis that links parties and cleavage-related social organizations, producing a factor capable of reinforcing group identity and interest representation. This hypothesis was tested for Italy in 1968–2008, where changes in the party system provided a natural experiment to assess the impact of changing structural alternatives at the party–organizational level. The level of cleavage voting in Italy then responded primarily to changes in the structure of party–organization linkages, while the impact of policy mobilization and social change was negligible.

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Lee, Jongmin, Seok-Min Lee, and Eunok Jung. "How Important Is Behavioral Change during the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Mathematical Modeling Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18 (September 18, 2021): 9855. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189855.

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How important is the speed and intensity of behavioral change due to government policies, such as enhanced social distancing or lockdown, when an emerging infectious disease occurs? In this study, we introduce a deterministic SEIR model considering the behavior-changed susceptible group to investigate the effect of the speed and intensity of behavioral change on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19. We used epidemiological data from South Korea and Italy for the simulation study, because South Korea and Italy were the first countries to report an outbreak of COVID-19 after China and the prevention and response policy of each government were similar during the first outbreak of COVID-19. Simulation results showed that it took approximately twenty fewer days in Korea than in Italy until 90% of susceptible individuals changed their behavior during the first outbreak. It was observed that the behavior-changed susceptible individuals reduced the COVID-19 transmission rate by up to 93% in Korea and 77% in Italy. Furthermore, if the intensity and speed of behavioral change in Italy were the same as in Korea, the expected number of cumulative confirmed cases would have been reduced by approximately 95%, from 210,700 to 10,700, until the end of the lockdown period. We assumed that behavioral change is influenced by the number of confirmed cases and does not take into account social and cultural differences, as well as the state of the healthcare system, between the two countries. Our mathematical modeling showed how important the high intensity and fast speed of behavioral change to reduce the number of confirmed cases in the early period of an epidemic are.

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Costabile, Antonio, and Antonella Coco. "Social actors and social ties in multiple modernity: Familism and social change in the South of Italy." European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 4, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 76–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2017.1274119.

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Mysiak, Jaroslav, Silvia Torresan, Francesco Bosello, Malcolm Mistry, Mattia Amadio, Sepehr Marzi, Elisa Furlan, and Anna Sperotto. "Climate risk index for Italy." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376, no. 2121 (April 30, 2018): 20170305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0305.

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We describe a climate risk index that has been developed to inform national climate adaptation planning in Italy and that is further elaborated in this paper. The index supports national authorities in designing adaptation policies and plans, guides the initial problem formulation phase, and identifies administrative areas with higher propensity to being adversely affected by climate change. The index combines (i) climate change-amplified hazards; (ii) high-resolution indicators of exposure of chosen economic, social, natural and built- or manufactured capital (MC) assets and (iii) vulnerability, which comprises both present sensitivity to climate-induced hazards and adaptive capacity. We use standardized anomalies of selected extreme climate indices derived from high-resolution regional climate model simulations of the EURO-CORDEX initiative as proxies of climate change-altered weather and climate-related hazards. The exposure and sensitivity assessment is based on indicators of manufactured, natural, social and economic capital assets exposed to and adversely affected by climate-related hazards. The MC refers to material goods or fixed assets which support the production process (e.g. industrial machines and buildings); Natural Capital comprises natural resources and processes (renewable and non-renewable) producing goods and services for well-being; Social Capital (SC) addressed factors at the individual (people's health, knowledge, skills) and collective (institutional) level (e.g. families, communities, organizations and schools); and Economic Capital (EC) includes owned and traded goods and services. The results of the climate risk analysis are used to rank the subnational administrative and statistical units according to the climate risk challenges, and possibly for financial resource allocation for climate adaptation. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Advances in risk assessment for climate change adaptation policy’.

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Comoli, Maurizio, Lorenzo Gelmini, Valentina Minutiello, and Patrizia Tettamanzi. "University Social Responsibility: The Case of Italy." Administrative Sciences 11, no. 4 (October 29, 2021): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/admsci11040124.

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Increasing attention is now being paid to the concept of sustainability as a crucial element of our life at all levels. The awareness that attention must be paid not only to the present, but also and above all to the future of the society in which we live has increased attention to social and environmental issues, such as climate change and the digital revolution. This transformation has also impacted the public sector: in particular, the scientific attention in the university sector has led to the birth of the concept of University Social Responsibility (USR), which suggests that universities sustainably re-transform their work. However, this issue has so far only been the subject of a few studies. The purpose of this article is to promote greater awareness on the part of universities of the importance of addressing sustainability issues. The results of the analysis, obtained thanks to the use of a questionnaire and interviews, depict the state of the art in the adoption of social reporting practices by Italian universities and identify the main reasons and barriers to the adoption of these practices.

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Frigerio, Ivan, Fabio Carnelli, Marta Cabinio, and Mattia De Amicis. "Spatiotemporal Pattern of Social Vulnerability in Italy." International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 9, no. 2 (April 30, 2018): 249–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-018-0168-7.

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Righi (book author), Andrea, and Sciltian Gastaldi (review author). "Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy. From Gramsci to Pasolini to Negri." Quaderni d'italianistica 33, no. 2 (February 9, 2013): 287–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v33i2.19448.

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Santore, John, Stuart Woolf, M. I. Finley, Denis Mack Smith, and Christopher Duggan. "A History of Italy, 1700-1860: The Social Constraints of Political Change." History Teacher 21, no. 3 (May 1988): 378. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/493008.

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Maraffi, Marco. "The social stratification of the 2018 vote in Italy: between continuity and change." Contemporary Italian Politics 10, no. 3 (September 2, 2018): 267–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2018.1531932.

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Loud, GA. "Shorter notice. Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy. J Howe." English Historical Review 114, no. 456 (April 1999): 404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/enghis/114.456.404.

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Loud, G. "Shorter notice. Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy. J Howe." English Historical Review 114, no. 456 (April 1, 1999): 404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.404.

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Poli, Roberto. "Mastering social foresight – introduction to the special issue." On the Horizon 23, no. 2 (May 11, 2015): 81–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oth-02-2015-0005.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is a presentation of the guiding ideas underlining the master degree course in social foresight recently launched by the University of Trento (Italy). Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a reconstruction of the guiding ideas that have been used for designing the social foresight master degree. Findings – Students are exposed to a mix of contributions from futures studies, the human and social sciences (including psychology of decisions, social change, values and secondary analysis techniques) and mathematics (not only statistics, but also system theory and simulation). Originality/value – A unique look at the ideas behind the master degree course in social foresight at the University of Trento (Italy).

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Tribulato, Chiara. "The Jargon of Italian Travellers in Change: A New Social Scenario for Relexification." Languages 7, no. 1 (February 22, 2022): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7010044.

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The present research paper explores the effects of relexification in the context of an in-group jargon variety. Specifically, it addresses the role of Romani as a supplier language in the process of lexical renewal that is ongoing in Dritto—the jargon of the Italian Travellers. Considered the most ancient descendant of the Italian historical jargon of the Roads, Dritto is a secret code which is still actively used within some socially marginalized service-provider communities, such as the families involved in the circus and the travelling show business. At the margins of the mainstream society, the families of Dritti entertainers share their living and economic spaces with the families of Italian Sinti, whose presence has been documented in Italy for centuries. As a consequence of this intense and prolonged cohabitation, Romani elements have always been documented in the corpora of Italian historical jargon. However, a considerably more significant contribution has recently been documented by researchers among the funfair workers in northern Italy. This work examines the driving factors behind this contact-induced shift by considering the changing socio-economic context faced by the travelling community in the last decades.

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Ippolito, Marzia, and Lorenzo Cicatiello. "Political instability, economic inequality and social conflict: The case in Italy." Panoeconomicus 66, no. 3 (2019): 365–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pan1903365i.

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Rising economic inequality may produce a contraction of political stability and a spread of social conflict, as suggested by the theory of relative power. Following this approach, participation in the political arena depends on the distribution of incomes, because the relative rich use their power to ensure that the status quo do not change, while the relative poor are likely to abandon the public arena when they realize that their demands will not be discussed. Through the implementation of an index of political stability on the Italian general elections of 2008 and 2013, this study empirically tests whether political instability is linked with economic inequality. The results of the analysis, which examines the sub-regional level, show that the strengthening of economic inequality is a decisive factor affecting the weight of the elites in the determination of economic and political choices, and that it influences the distribution of votes between political blocks. This comes at the disadvantage of the poorest who, aware of their lesser chances to have influence, choose to change the character of their participation.

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IANDOLO, ALESSANDRO. "Unforgettable 1956? The PCI and the Crisis of Communism in Italy." Contemporary European History 23, no. 2 (April 2, 2014): 259–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777314000046.

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AbstractThe Italian left has always perceived 1956 as an extraordinary year, because of the succession of international events that supposedly shocked many Italian militants and convinced them to abandon communism and the Italian Communist Party. On the contrary, this article claims that the real reasons for the crisis of communism in Italy had little to do with international events and must be found instead in the momentous economic and social changes that Italy was experiencing at the time. Unforgettable 1956 was therefore only a moment in a longer-term process that was destined to change communism in Italy. The article is based on previously unused documents now available at the Italian Communist Party Archive.

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Garosi, Eleonora. "The politics of gender transitioning in Italy." Modern Italy 17, no. 4 (November 2012): 465–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2012.706998.

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In Western societies the sex–gender binary informs individual experiences of gender transitioning. As with every passage of status, gender transition is regulated by formal and social norms aimed at re-establishing the ‘proper’ correspondence between sex and gender. In Italy, national legislation regulates the formal process of transforming one's gender, identifying medical science as the ‘proper’ social authority to manage gender transitioning in society. Only trans people who conform to social standards of sexual ‘normality’ are allowed to officially change their gender. However, in everyday life, alternative modes of gender transitioning exist and constitute a solid foundation to claim formal recognition by the State. This study is based on a qualitative sociological investigation of the process of gender transitioning in Italy that was carried out in Turin between 2008 and 2010.

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Vineis, Paolo, Marina Romanello, Paola Michelozzi, and Marco Martuzzi. "Health co-benefits of climate change action in Italy." Lancet Planetary Health 6, no. 4 (April 2022): e293-e294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00061-4.

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Locke, Richard M. "The composite economy: local politics and industrial change in contemporary Italy." Economy and Society 25, no. 4 (November 1996): 483–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085149600000025.

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Fernandez, Gabriela, Carol Maione, Harrison Yang, Karenina Zaballa, Norbert Bonnici, Jarai Carter, Brian H. Spitzberg, Chanwoo Jin, and Ming-Hsiang Tsou. "Social Network Analysis of COVID-19 Sentiments: 10 Metropolitan Cities in Italy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 13 (June 23, 2022): 7720. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137720.

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The pandemic spread rapidly across Italy, putting the region’s health system on the brink of collapse, and generating concern regarding the government’s capacity to respond to the needs of patients considering isolation measures. This study developed a sentiment analysis using millions of Twitter data during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 metropolitan cities in Italy’s (1) north: Milan, Venice, Turin, Bologna; (2) central: Florence, Rome; (3) south: Naples, Bari; and (4) islands: Palermo, Cagliari. Questions addressed are as follows: (1) How did tweet-related sentiments change over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) How did sentiments change when lagged with policy shifts and/or specific events? Findings show an assortment of differences and connections across Twitter sentiments (fear, anger, and joy) based on policy measures and geographies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results can be used by policy makers to quantify the satisfactory level of positive/negative acceptance of decision makers and identify important topics related to COVID-19 policy measures, which can be useful for imposing geographically varying lockdowns and protective measures using historical data.

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Pernicka, Susanne, Vera Glassner, Nele Dittmar, and Klaus Neundlinger. "Forces of reproduction and change in collective bargaining: A social field perspective." European Journal of Industrial Relations 27, no. 3 (March 23, 2021): 345–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680121998478.

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The paper addresses the endurance of sector collective bargaining despite many announcements of its demise. Bourdieusian social theory is used to interpret collective bargaining as a dominated social field that is distinct and relatively autonomous from other economic, political and transnational fields. Empirically, we trace the trajectories of German and Italian metal sector’s collective bargaining fields. In Germany, field agents contributed to a continuing erosion of collective bargaining, regional differentiation of membership strategies, and a reorientation of dominated employers’ associations towards their members. In Italy, some field agents resisted supranational and national liberalization demands and contributed to the adaptation and innovation of bargaining practices and hence, to the preliminary re-stabilization and re-balancing of collective bargaining between industry and company level.

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Zadnikar, Gita. "Radio Libere: An Experiment with Radio Broadcasting in Italy." Monitor ISH 17, no. 2 (November 3, 2015): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.17.2.7-24(2015).

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The 1970s expansion of free radio stations throughout Europe and the experiences of that movement over the following years encouraged diverse reflections on, and experiments with, the ways of using media and new technologies. Of course the experience of Radio Alice and other free radio stations in the Italy of the late 1970s only became possible when the radio as a communication tool became affordable and technically accessible to a new social subject – the student movement and social movements predominantly consisting of young people. What left the deepest mark on the period, however, was a fundamental change in the attitude of social and political movements to the media.

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Roder, G., G. Sofia, Z. Wu, and P. Tarolli. "Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Floods in the Floodplain of Northern Italy." Weather, Climate, and Society 9, no. 4 (August 30, 2017): 717–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-16-0090.1.

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Abstract Practices for reducing the impacts of floods are becoming more and more advanced, centered on communities and reaching out to vulnerable populations. Vulnerable individuals are characterized by social and economic attributes and by societal dynamics rooted in each community. These indicators can magnify the negative impacts of disasters together with the capacity of each individual to cope with these events. The Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) provides an empirical basis to compare social differences in various spatial scenarios and for specific environmental hazards. This research shows the application of the SoVI to the floodplain of northern Italy, based on the use of 15 census variables. The chosen study area is of particular interest for the high occurrence of flood events coupled with a high level of human activity, landscape transformations, and an elevated concentration of assets and people. The analysis identified a positive spatial autocorrelation across the floodplain that translates into the spatial detection of vulnerable groups, those that are likely to suffer the most from floods. In a second stage, the output of the index was superimposed on the flood hazard map of the study area to analyze the resulting risk. The Piemonte and Veneto regions contain the main areas prone to flood “social” risk, highlighting the need for a cohesive management approach at all levels to recognize local capacities and increase communication, awareness, and preparedness to mitigate the undesirable effects of such events.

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Iksanov, Ilya S. "The Constitutional and Legal Regulation of Migration in the Italian Republic." Russian judge 11 (November 19, 2020): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.18572/1812-3791-2020-11-46-50.

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Italy became a country of immigration quite late. external factors influenced the formation of Italy’s migration policy: the expansion of regional integration within the European community and accession to international conventions. The legislation on citizenship reacted to these changes. In particular, access to citizenship was made more difficult for foreigners from countries that were not part of the European community, and it was easier for descendants of emigrants who lived abroad to acquire citizenship. Italy has one of the most modern laws on the status of foreigners, which regulates all aspects of the legal status of these persons, as well as their social adaptation, and provides for the necessary measures to prevent discrimination and xenophobia. The provisions of this act may change in the event of a change in the government coalition, but the basic approaches are unchanged: citizens of other States are considered as part of the population of Italy; foreigners who reside in the country legally are equal to its citizens; illegal migrants are legally guaranteed a certain minimum of rights and freedoms.

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Parker, Simon. "Introduction: A Tale of Two Italies—Continuities and Change in the Italian Republic, 1994–2006." Modern Italy 12, no. 1 (February 2007): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532940601134742.

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The idea for this special issue of Modern Italy emerged from the Association for the Study of Modern Italy's annual conference ‘The Second Italian Republic Ten Years On: Prospect and Retrospect’, which was held at the Italian Cultural Institute, London, in November 2004. The conference afforded an opportunity for scholars and observers of contemporary Italy to reflect on one of the most eventful decades in the history of the Italian Republic and to offer an appraisal of how political, economic, social and cultural life had fared since the first election based on the new majoritarian voting system which first brought Silvio Berlusconi's coalition to power in April 1994.

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Fontefrancesco, Michele F. "The Spectacles of the Crisis: Local Perception of Economic and Social Change in Valenza." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2016): 65–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v7i1.3.

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In this article, the case of the economic crisis of Valenza (Italy) and its jewellery industry is presented. The crisis has occurred since 2008 as an effect of the plunge of international jewellery market. Drawing from ethnographic materials collected during my fieldwork in the city (2008-2010), I intend to point out that an the most recent economic downturn had strong cultural effects on local population (goldsmiths and others). Following Kant’s concept of category of reason, I will show that the crisis itself had become a category of reason for local population that uses it to make decisions and plan their future.

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Balest, J., L. Secco, E. Pisani, and G. Garegnani. "Municipal transitions: The social, energy, and spatial dynamics of sociotechnical change in South Tyrol, Italy." Energy Research & Social Science 54 (August 2019): 211–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.04.015.

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Ammerman, Albert J. "The Early Mediterranean Village: Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy. John Robb." Journal of Anthropological Research 64, no. 2 (July 2008): 291–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jar.64.2.20371237.

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Arcelli, Mario. "Public Deficit and Monetary Course Change in Italy since 1981." Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 105, no. 2-3 (February 1, 1985): 327–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3790/schm.105.2-3.327.

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Khanna, Manav, Natalia Marzia Gusmerotti, and Marco Frey. "The Relevance of the Circular Economy for Climate Change: An Exploration through the Theory of Change Approach." Sustainability 14, no. 7 (March 28, 2022): 3991. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14073991.

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The relevance of the circular economy for climate change is still a developing area of research that needs to be explored. This paper aims to provide an overview of the relevance of the circular economy for climate change through the theory of change approach framework. For this purpose, we analysed 96 articles from the Scopus and WoS databases in the “Arts and Humanities, Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Social Sciences,” with the keywords “Circular economy” and “Climate Change”. Our analysis shows that 87% of the reviewed articles showed a strong relevance of the circular economy for climate change. However, most of the articles focused on the mitigation aspect of climate change. The circular economy is widely practised in countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, and China. Our main theoretical contribution is in developing a logical framework through the theory of change, which is a novel approach in social science research apart from monitoring and evaluation studies.

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Maino, Franca, and Celestina Valeria De Tommaso. "Fostering Policy Change in Anti-Poverty Schemes in Italy: Still a Long Way to Go." Social Sciences 11, no. 8 (July 25, 2022): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080327.

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This article explores the poverty phenomenon and anti-poverty policies in Italy, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to contribute to the mainstream literature on policy change, looking at how the convergence of multiple streams (problem, policy, and political) contributed to achieving the adoption of the Italian Minimum Income scheme, the Citizenship Income. Despite increasing political and public awareness of poverty, the 2022 Budget Law failed to achieve a structural reform—considering amendments proposed by the Ministry of Social Policy’s Commission and the Italian Anti-Poverty Network—to improve both the equity and efficiency of the anti-poverty measure. Strong path dependency in the conceptualization and implementation of the anti-poverty tool is still evident; policy change thus has a long way to go.

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Cossar, Roisin, and Cecilia Hewlett. "Approaches to Seasonality in Premodern Italy." Renaissance and Reformation 44, no. 2 (October 5, 2021): 13–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v44i2.37519.

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In this article, two historians of medieval and early modern Italy explore the impact of seasonal rhythms and routines on the social structures and practices of rural communities in central and northern Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. We also investigate how rural inhabitants and those with authority over them responded to the challenges and opportunities posed by seasonal change. Primary sources include episcopal visitations, the diary of a rural priest, statutes from rural communities, testimony before episcopal courts, chronicles, and the records of magistracies in mountain communities. Studying the relationship between seasonality, sociability, and power relations in rural communities challenges one-dimensional narratives of premodern “peasant” life and instead demonstrates the complex and fluid nature of rural society.

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Cossar, Roisin, and Cecilia Hewlett. "Approaches to Seasonality in Premodern Italy." Renaissance and Reformation 44, no. 2 (October 5, 2021): 13–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v44i2.37519.

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In this article, two historians of medieval and early modern Italy explore the impact of seasonal rhythms and routines on the social structures and practices of rural communities in central and northern Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. We also investigate how rural inhabitants and those with authority over them responded to the challenges and opportunities posed by seasonal change. Primary sources include episcopal visitations, the diary of a rural priest, statutes from rural communities, testimony before episcopal courts, chronicles, and the records of magistracies in mountain communities. Studying the relationship between seasonality, sociability, and power relations in rural communities challenges one-dimensional narratives of premodern “peasant” life and instead demonstrates the complex and fluid nature of rural society.

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Paris, Ivan. "Fashion as a System: Changes in Demand as the Basis for the Establishment of the Italian Fashion System (1960–1970)." Enterprise & Society 11, no. 3 (September 2010): 524–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1467222700009289.

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The 1960s proved to be a crucial decade for the emergent Italian fashion industry. In these pages, we seek to demonstrate that in Italy, an evolution of demand took place, structurally different from the Fifties, causing fundamental changes which impacted upon supply. This was a decisive change in the path which led Italy to complete the establishment of an authentic fashion system.Interest in the question is two-fold. The formalization of relations between players in the Italian fashion industry using systematic logic facilitated the positioning of the made in Italy brand at the pinnacle of the world market: understanding the underlying mechanism of this process is useful for the identification of the characteristics of an Italian model, distinct from those of other countries which make up the history of the fashion industry. Analyses of the reference settings and development methods of the Italian fashion system can represent a further key to understanding the characteristics and the context in which the social transformation of post-war Italy took place.

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Ring, Richard R. "Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons.John Howe." Speculum 74, no. 4 (October 1999): 1070–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2887004.

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Djuth, Marianne. "Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, A.D. 200-400 (review)." Journal of Early Christian Studies 9, no. 1 (2001): 146–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/earl.2001.0003.

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Prati, Gabriele, and Luca Pietrantoni. "Marriage following the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Italy) earthquake." Disaster Prevention and Management 23, no. 1 (January 28, 2014): 12–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-09-2013-0155.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to replicate Cohan and Cole (2002) Hurricane Hugo study in the context of a different type of natural hazard and in a different country. Design/methodology/approach – Change in marriage following the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Italy) earthquake was examined prospectively from 1987 to 2007 for the 15 municipalities declared disaster areas and for the whole Marche region and country. Findings – Autoregressive integrated moving average time-series analysis showed that the year following the earthquake marriage rates decreased only in the 15 municipalities declared disaster areas. Originality/value – In the present study, the paper found results in the opposite direction to Cohan and Cole (2002) Hurricane Hugo study. Taken together, the findings suggest that the direction of the change may be in either direction and depends on the characteristics of the disaster, of the response to it, and on social and economic conditions of the context.

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Elixhauser, Sophie, Stefan Böschen, and Katrin Vogel. "Meshworks and the Making of Climate Places in the European Alps." Nature and Culture 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 281–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2018.130205.

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Ethnographers studying the local dimensions of climate change find themselves confronted with a methodological problem: climate change is both an abstract concept and a locally present phenomenon, yet it does not emerge from lived experience. We tackle this problem by means of a research framework that combines discussions on place and Tim Ingold’s (2011) idea of a meshwork. This article is based on research on climate change perceptions in two Alpine communities, located in Bavaria (Germany) and South Tyrol (Italy), respectively. We show how a focus on climate knots and their meshworks allows the grasping, describing, and visualizing of the different dimensions of climate change in these two local settings. This framework, as we further show, helps to reveal social and cultural patterns and underlying structures.

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Pugliese, Enrico. "Emigrazione e trasformazioni sociali nel Mezzogiorno." QA Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, no. 2 (May 2009): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/qu2009-002001.

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- The article analyses the socio-economic changes that have taken place in the Italian Mezzogiorno with particular reference to international as well as national migrations. In accordance with Manlio Rossi-Doria's view, emigration is here considered one of the most active factors of social change. The article puts forward some hypotheses concerning Rossi-Doria's positive attitude towards emigration In fact, who had observed the improvement in the living conditions of the southern peasant during the 1920s thanks to the savings and remittances of the migrants. Even greater are the social changes brought about by a second large-scale migratory wave which took place after the World War II - which shook up the traditional oppressive social structure and brought an end to the peasants' dire poverty. Of course the effects of emigration were coupled with the effects of other factors such as state intervention in the South.EconLit Classification: O150, R230, R580Keywords: Migrations, Social Changes, Development, South of Italy

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Thomas, William E., Rupert Brown, Matthew J. Easterbrook, Vivian L. Vignoles, Claudia Manzi, Chiara D’Angelo, and Jeremy J. Holt. "Social Identification in Sports Teams." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 43, no. 4 (February 1, 2017): 508–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167216689051.

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Based on motivated identity construction theory (MICT; Vignoles, 2011), we offer an integrative approach examining the combined roles of six identity motives (self-esteem, distinctiveness, belonging, meaning, continuity, and efficacy) instantiated at three different motivational levels (personal, social, and collective identity) as predictors of group identification. These identity processes were investigated among 369 members of 45 sports teams from England and Italy in a longitudinal study over 6 months with four time points. Multilevel change modeling and cross-lagged analyses showed that satisfaction of four personal identity motives (individuals’ personal feelings of self-esteem, distinctiveness, meaning, and efficacy derived from team membership), three social identity motives (individuals’ feelings that the team identity carries a sense of belonging, meaning, and continuity), and one collective identity motive (a shared belief in group distinctiveness) significantly predicted group identification. Motivational processes underlying group identification are complex, multilayered, and not reducible to personal needs.

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Dolfini, Andrea, and Renato Peroni. "The origins of metallurgy in central Italy: new radiometric evidence." Antiquity 84, no. 325 (September 1, 2010): 707–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00100183.

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Precision radiocarbon dating continues to bring historical order into key moments of social and economic change, such as the use of metals. Here the author dates human bone in graves with metal artefacts and shows that copper, antimony and silver were being fashioned into daggers and beads in west central Italy by the early to mid fourth millennium cal BC; but the new-fangled objects had not reached contemporary cemeteries on the other side of the Apennines. We can perhaps look forward to a time when the arrival of metallurgy in Europe is neither diffusionary nor piecemeal, but the result of real historical events and social contacts, mapped for us by radiocarbon.

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Golden, Miriam A. "International Economic Sources of Regime Change." Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 10 (December 2004): 1238–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414004269821.

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Italy’s 1992 elections marked the end of political dominance by Christian Democracy (DC). The conventional account of the collapse of the DC’s vote to less than 30% focuses on the breakup of the Soviet Union, which is said to have freed Catholic voters to switch to new regionalist protest parties. The author documents that this argument is empirically inadequate. Evidence shows that electoral districts more exposed to international trade were where the DC lost larger vote shares and where the Northern League received more support. These findings corroborate that social groups linked to small firms in the north and center whose products were exported throughout Europe underwent electoral realignment in response to the economic opportunities offered by the 1991 Maastricht Treaty. The author argues that DC was not credible in providing national macroeconomic policies that would have allowed Italy to partake fully of the opportunities offered by European economic integration.

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Poggi, Ambra. "Analisi della distribuzione dell'esclusione sociale in Italia." ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, no. 3 (May 2009): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ep2008-003006.

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- Social exclusion can be defined as a process leading to a state of multiple functioning deprivations. The aim of this paper is to analyze the social exclusion distribution in Italy from 1997 to 2000. Our purpose is to better understand the factors affecting the extent to which individuals change place in the social exclusion distribution. The focus is on both mobility and persistence; we identify population sub-groups at risk of experiencing severe deprivations for longer periods. JEL I3, J6

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Lazrus, Paula Kay. "Land Use and Social Dynamics in Early 19th Century Bova, Calabria." Land 11, no. 10 (October 18, 2022): 1832. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11101832.

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While interest in land use in the prehistoric periods in Italy has received attention, that cannot be said of the Post-Medieval period. The general view is that all activities and objects from the last 300–500 years or so are so indecipherable from their contemporary counterparts and that there is no need to study them. There is, in fact, very little Post-Medieval archaeological work done in the south of Italy, which is the focus of this paper. The landscape of southern Calabria has changed radically over the centuries. The distribution of dense macchia forests was diminished in the late 18th and 19th centuries for building railroads and ships, and more recently, arson has been used as social or political revenge. The removal of the macchia led to erosional landscapes and the loss of archaeological footprints. This paper explores agricultural practices and forest exploitation in the early 19th and 20th centuries by the citizens of Bova to better understand the social and economic dynamics that continue to influence the lives of people living in the community. It utilizes cadastral records, archival documents from the early 1800–1900s, and spatial analysis to better understand the potential economic and social dynamics in this community. Consideration is also given to how social status and power, represented by Church-owned vs. lay citizen-owned properties, was reflected in local land use. The overall paucity of archaeological materials from this period across the landscape supports and complicates the overall picture while also supporting an interpretation of a very local and insular community poorly integrated into the greater Italian economy of the day.

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Facchini, Carla. "Caring for non-self-sufficient older people in Italy: from a familistic system to the immigrant live-in careworker model." Ciências e Políticas Públicas / Public Sciences & Policies 6, no. 2 (December 2020): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.33167/2184-0644.cpp2020.vvin2/pp.149-168.

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The aim of the article is to describe the specificities of the aging phenomenon in Italy and the social policies for non/self-sufficient elderly people, highlighting both the change from a model that relied heavily on a family system to a model based on co-resident immigrant workers to care for the elderly, and the contradictions of this new model. While in Italy the percentage of older people and very older is the highest in Europe, social policies for them involve a limited offer of home and residential services and widespread allowances. At the same time, in Italy, the rise of the aging population has been intertwined with the transformation of family structures, the increase of female employment, the lower capacity of families to take care of their non-self-sufficient relatives, and the improvement of older people’s economic conditions. Due to these changes, a new care model has been established in the past two decades, based on the employment of live-in caregivers, usually immigrant women, so-called ‘badanti’, who are hired and paid by the caretakers and their family. This model has led both caregivers and caretakers to experience a double dependency and a double solitude, which question its sustainability and the familistic nature of the system. This paper presents both demographic and economic data from institutional sources, and the regulatory framework on social policies, and, finally, the data that emerge from various research on immigration.

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McCulloh, John M. "Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, AD 200-400. Mark Humphries." Speculum 77, no. 2 (April 2002): 560–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3301384.

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Williams, Daniel H. "Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, AD 200-400. Mark Humphries." Journal of Religion 82, no. 3 (July 2002): 462–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/491131.

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