by Edward C. Banfield · Il Mulino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788815134165
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Le basi morali di una società arretrata» is the sociological study by Edward C. Banfield, published by Il Mulino in paperback (200 pages, in Italian).
Classic sociological study on the cultural roots of underdevelopment in southern Italy, based on the community of Montegrano in the 1950s. Banfield coins the concept of «amoral familism»: cooperating only if it brings immediate benefit to the nuclear family, and shows how this attitude blocks social and economic progress.
No. 15 in the Biblioteca paperbacks series by Il Mulino. Work originally published in 1958 as «The Moral Basis of a Backward Society»; this edition includes an introduction by Arnaldo Bagnasco.
For readers of sociology, political science and Italian history; the thesis of «amoral familism» is still cited in debates on development.
