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?
3. How 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. What is liberty? (cf. Mazzini, Verga, & Viroli)
8. How is the state related to the underlying social culture (society)? How did differences in social culture across Italy differentially affect state / society relationships?