{"product_id":"recent-social-trends-in-italy-1960-1995","title":"Recent Social Trends in Italy, 1960-1995","description":"Italy remains an enigma for many observers.  Recent Social Trends in Italy, 1960-1995, the sixth volume from the international Comparative Charting of Social Change program, provides a new and convincing schema for its comprehension.  It shows that three essential institutions have structured and unified Italian society: the family, the church, and political parties.  While the state remains a weak institution, it is important as a regulator of the economy and of society through the welfare state.  The book, which contains a long introduction by Alberto Martinelli on the uneven modernization of Italy, shows the usefulness of analysing social change through study of a series of macro-social trends.  These trends range from life-style structures to fertility, leisure, consumption, inequality, religion, and family, among others. This sixth national profile provides more arguements in favour of a hypothesis of diversification, rather than convergence, of modern societies.  As Henri Mendras writes in the preface of the book, \"The more we change, the more we remain ourselves: that is the conclusion of our comparative research, and the Italian study provides further ample proof of it.\"","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54228938850648,"sku":"9780773518421","price":128.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780773518421__67acc64f11234.jpg?v=1741135502","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/recent-social-trends-in-italy-1960-1995","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}