Major Course Research Questions

1 What forces and unique circumstances were involved in Italy's Unification? To what extent was it successful? 2 How does the North-South conflict reflect anthropological and historical difference between the two part of the country? 3How have the role of the intellectual been theorized and actively performed in modern Italy? 4 What is culture? What difference does it make if we take an evolutionary, marxist, or a symbolic approaches to culture? 5 Under what circumstances can we say that culture makes mistakes? 6 What characterized the Italian resistance and in what ways can we explain the forces and circumstances that made it happen? 7