Inhabitants of heritage: the dwellers of an Italian Renaissance palace and their problematic eviction in Ferrara, 1900–1940

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Michele Nani
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Housing Problem ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Post War ◽  
Urban Demography ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article examines the eviction of tenants and squatters from a Renaissance palace in Ferrara, purchased by the Italian state in 1920. The case stands at the crossroads of three processes in European history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the social and material ‘decadence’ of aristocratic residences, the birth of ‘national heritage’ and preservation policies and the explosion of the ‘housing problem’, following changes in urban demography and social structure. Considering a large range of sources, the article offers new insight into the conflict between different urban bureaucracies and inside them. It also explores the different forms of agency of working-class dwellers against the background of troubled post-war years followed by the advent of fascism.

Diversity, Rationality, and the Division of Cognitive Labor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Division Of Cognitive Labor ◽  
Social Structure Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Existing models of the division of cognitive labor in science assume that scientists have a particular problem they want to solve and can choose between different approaches to solving the problem. In this essay I invert the approach, supposing that scientists have fixed skills and seek problems to solve. This allows for a better explanation of increasing rates of cooperation in science, as well as flows of scientists between fields of inquiry. By increasing the realism of the model, we gain additional insight into the social structure of science and gain the ability to ask new questions about the optimal division of labor.

The Social Identity of Hosts and Patrons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel Lane
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Post War ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter analyses inns, taverns, and public houses in their social context, exploring their organizational identity and the social positions of their owners/tenants. It examines how patrons express their class, gender, and national identity by participation in different kinds of sociality. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century hostelries afforded more opportunities for cross-class sociability than in later centuries. Social mixing was facilitated because the venues fulfilled multiple economic, social, and political functions, thereby providing room for social interaction apart from communal drinking and eating. Yet, even in these earlier centuries, each type of hostelry already had a distinctive class character, shaping its organizational identity. Division along lines of class hardened, and social segregation increased in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, up to World War II. In the post-War era, increased democratization of society at large became reflected in easier social mixing in pubs. Despite this democratization, during the late twentieth century the dominant image of pubs as a working-class institution persisted.

Technical Studies-Early Use of Metals

1988 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Maddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Metallurgical Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early Use ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Technical Studies

AbstractExcavated metals, some with secure dates as early as the eighth millennium BC, have been analyzed using a variety of scientific methods in order to provide insight into early metallurgical technology. The results are often used to reconstruct the role of technology in the social structure of the community. This lecture will review many of these methods giving examples from the examination of excavated objects.

scholarly journals Religious Regimes: Rethinking the Societal Role of Religion in Post-War Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER VAN DAM ◽  
PAUL VAN TRIGT
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Christian Nation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Societal Role

AbstractThis article discusses the concept of ‘religious regimes’ in order to identify institutionalised arrangements regulating the social position of religion. By analysing such regimes and the views underpinning them, three visions of the societal role of religion come into focus: segmented pluralism, the Christian nation and the secular nation. Taking up Dutch post-war history as a case study, it becomes clear that religious regimes regularly result from fragile compromises. The concept thus yields insight into the gradual transitions between different institutional arrangements regarding religion and into the impact of changing views on the societal role of religion within and outside religious communities.

Gregory King and the Social Structure of pre-industrial England

1977 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 41-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social History ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Post War

Despite the rich and exciting work of recent years, the social history of England between the Restoration and the Industrial Revolution still bears something of a hangdog look, scarcely war-ranting, as yet, the cosmic conclusions and ferocious controversies to which students of early Stuart and early nineteenth-century society have grown accustomed. Yet, thanks to the work of one remarkable Englishman, who was born in 1648 and died in 1712, there is one aspect of this pre-industrial period—its social structure—on which we are all happy to pontificate. Gregory King's table of ranks and degrees, on which in the last resort so much of this confidence rests, has now acquired a unique cachet. The continual reproduction in post-war textbooks of this famous document, which we think of as King's ‘social table’ but which he described as his ‘Scheme of the Income and Expense of the Several Famillies of England’, is just the most obvious symptom of its dominant historiographical influence.

The Social Preconditions of Radical Scepticism

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 68-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Holding Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Radical Scepticism

Starting with Pascal's arguments against scepticism, this essay seeks to locate within the social structure the niche in which radical scepticism tends to flourish. The Brahminical sceptical tradition is compared with western idealist movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and with sceptical trends of today. A social position that combines considerable privilege with lack of influence in an arbitrarily powerful political system gives rise to moral contradictions and insoluble problems. In such a position a denial of the reality of the world indicates a level of thought in which intellectual coherence may be possible. The converse situation, where claiming authority and holding power seem feasible, is more compatible with affirmation of reality than with its negation.

scholarly journals Původ bipartity legisakčního řízení

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-85
Author(s):  
Pavel Záliš
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Insight Into

The first part of the article deals with theories dealing with the reasons and circumstances leading to the division of the legislative procedure into two phases, ie in jure, which took place before the magistrate and apud iudicem in which the dispute was decided by the appointed judge. In its basic features, it presents those theories that have significantly influenced the knowledge and further direction of research in this area. The next part deals in the context of the focus of this article with the municipal law lex Irnitana, which offers insight into the reformed formulated process, which, among other things, regulates the freedom of the disputing parties in choosing the person of the judge. The last part offers a perspective from the perspective of legal-anthropological and ethnographic research conducted in the last century in modern primitive societies, which can provide a broader insight for the purposes of studying Roman law and help clarify the motivations and reasons leading to the bipartite Roman process. Anthropological materials make it possible to better understand the legal and non-legal ties that are determined by the social structure of archaic and primitive communities. Thanks to this, we can identify some traditional errors concerning the approach of archaic and primitive societies to law.

scholarly journals Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings (access analysis) as an insight into social structure: examples from the Scottish Atlantic Iron Age

Antiquity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (238) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally M. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Geometrical Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Clearly the pattern of space in buildings can be expected to relate to the way that buildings are used to structure and reproduce social relations. As an archaeologist, wishing to infer social structure by its reflection in the building pattern, one may hope the relation may be reasonably direct. Here the formal geometrical method of access analysis is used to elucidate the pattern in a distinctive kind of prehistoric settlement form, and thence to elucidate the social structure which both produced it and was structured by it.

scholarly journals Tantangan Pembelajaran Sejarah di Era Globalisasi

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermanu Joebagio
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Right Action ◽  
Learning History ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Cultural Structure

AbstractThe impact of globalization both positive and negative is not only felt in the economic, social, and political. The existence of globalization also gives a significant influence in education. The purpose of writing this article is to know the position of learning history in the world of education in the era of globalization and explain the learning of history as an alternative inspiration history in the era of globalization. With historical complexity, and globalism already engulfing the world, it is necessary to consider innovations in historical learning, namely: (1) Drawing past red threads into present-day projection. The dark past and the good must be the basis of our projection to see how far the policy that has been done shows the right action. (2) The era of globalism is an open era that requires us to build an awareness that the national heritage of today's painted country is reflected in the social structure as well as the cultural structure. Both structures are local aspects admired by other nations, and should not be destroyed, but must be revitalized to confront globalism. Keywords: learning history, globalization, innovation

Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).

2006 ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Klaus Peter Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Right

Facing the decisive struggle between Nazism and Soviet communism for dominance in Europe, in 1942/43 Polish communists sojourning in the USSR espoused anti-German concepts of the political right. Their aim was an ethnic Polish ‘national communism’. Meanwhile, the Polish Workers’ Party in the occupied country advocated a maximum intensification of civilian resistance and partisan struggle. In this context, commentaries on the Nazi judeocide were an important element in their endeavors to influence the prevailing mood in the country: The underground communist press often pointed to the fate of the murdered Jews as a warning in order to make it clear to the Polish population where a deficient lack of resistance could lead. However, an agreed, unconditional Polish and Jewish armed resistance did not come about. At the same time, the communist press constantly expanded its demagogic confrontation with Polish “reactionaries” and accused them of shared responsibility for the Nazi murder of the Jews, while the Polish government (in London) was attacked for its failure. This antagonism was intensified in the fierce dispute between the Polish and Soviet governments after the rift which followed revelations about the Katyn massacre. Now the communist propaganda image of the enemy came to the fore in respect to the government and its representatives in occupied Poland. It viewed the government-in-exile as being allied with the “reactionaries,” indifferent to the murder of the Jews, and thus acting ultimately on behalf of Nazi German policy. The communists denounced the real and supposed antisemitism of their adversaries more and more bluntly. In view of their political isolation, they coupled them together, in an undifferentiated manner, extending from the right-wing radical ONR to the social democrats and the other parties represented in the underground parliament loyal to the London based Polish government. Thereby communist propaganda tried to discredit their opponents and to justify the need for a new start in a post-war Poland whose fate should be shaped by the revolutionary left. They were thus paving the way for the ultimate communist takeover

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