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From Gini's Approach to Present-Day Demography: “Tempo Effects” On
Journal of Statistical Science and Application, February 2016, Vol. 4, No. 01-02, 1-35 doi: 10.17265/2328-224X/2016.0102.001 D DAVID PUBLISHING From Gini’s Approach to Present-day Demography: “Tempo Effects” on Demographic Insights (?) Graziella Caselli Department of Statistic, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Since the first decade of the twentieth century, Italian demography, in jointly dealing with both quantitative aspects – with the benefit of an excellent training in statistics and mathematics – and the qualitative aspects of demographic development, has sought a synthesis in this mutual tie. Corrado Gini may have been the first to fully understand the need to combine the analysis of demographic phenomena with the study of social, economic and biological factors. This new approach was called “Demografia Integrale” (Integral Demography), which much of Gini’s own work is an example of, as is that of almost all the demographers of that period, as well as those who were, directly or indirectly, his “pupils”. What is left of that approach among the “grandchildren” and “great-grandchildren”, those who arrived from the 1960s onwards? Amid all the continuities and discontinuities, has demography in the second half of the twentieth century and after kept alive Gini’s teaching, whether in its content or in its approaches? In what follows we shall try to answer the questions raised, following the main lines of the long development of demographic research from Gini to the present. In the first part of this essay we shall try to outline the main points of Gini’s demographic work in sequence, considering what is the main object of his enquiry, the research that proved so important both nationally and internationally. -
The Sociological Originality of Corrado Gini
Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics Vol. 28 (2-3) 255 THE SOCIOLOGICAL ORIGINALITY OF CORRADO GINI Mariella Nocenzi Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Abstract: This paper offers some evidence of the sociological relevance of Corrado Gini. His activities are frequently analysed for their demographic, statistical or economic outcomes. Several aspects of his scientific experience are related also to sociology. The paper connects some aspects of his biography to the historical and political contexts he lived in: from the coming to power of the Fascist regime to the Second World War and the Italian post-war ‘cultural’ reconstruction. Gini appears as an original intellectual in a changing society: a polyhedral personality of scientist, whose intense teaching, research and institutional activities were conducted with a strong attention to social processes. His interdisciplinary profile and scientific results can be relevant also for the contemporary systemic social theories. Keywords: Corrado Gini, sociology, neo-organicism. 1. INTRODUCTION The separation of a specific sociological trait from the polyhedral personality of a scientist such as Corrado Gini may turn out to be unsuccessful. The reasons for this failure are as numerous as those that outline him as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the last century. To one who is interested about his research essays – they amount to some hundreds – or – like the author of this paper – simply studies or works at the Faculty he contributed to found, Corrado Gini represents a figure that is composite in its studies and interests, paradigmatic in its theoretical and methodological acquisitions, and controversial in the interaction with its time. -
Corrado Gini at the University of Rome
Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics Vol. 28 (2-3) 145 CORRADO GINI AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROME Loredana Cerbara Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, Italian National Research Council (CNR) Abstract. Corrado Gini made significant contributions to statistics as a scientific discipline studied at the university as well as to public statistics as an activity of the State. He was very appreciated abroad, but in Italy his career and the public perception of it were affected by the two world wars and the two decades of Fascist government. Nevertheless, he created statistical schools, a Faculty of Statistical, Demographic and Actuarial Sciences, while actively participating to many national and international meetings, committees and scientific societies. From a human point of view, Gini had a difficult personality and, for long time, opinions about him have been partly tainted by this trait. In this paper, light will be thrown not so much on Gini’s biography, which is well known, but rather on the complex personality that can be grasped by reading the documents, both official and personal, preserved in the Historical Archive of the University of Rome. Keywords: Statistics, personality of Corrado Gini, Historical Archive 1. INTRODUCTION Corrado Gini may be studied from different perspectives: one may consider his work in public statistics, study his scientific work or analyse the work that a large number of scholars have dedicated to him. However, these options say little of Gini’s life as a man or of his teaching activity. This paper is by no means intended to be a biography of this distinguished scientist. -
Building the New Man
CEU Press Studies in the CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine History of Medicine T C History of Acknowledgements Medicine “Eugenic doctrines emerged and circulated in Italy di er- Introduction ently than in most of the other Western countries. Cassata is Francesco Cassata Between Lombroso and Pareto: the Italian Way to Eugenics the rst to provide a comprehensive historical analysis of the Man Building New the complex relationships between the academic and theoretical . Lombroso’s Way: the Problem of Degeneration . Pareto’s Way: the Problem of the Elite dimensions and the political-institutional aspects of Italian Building the New Man . e Italian Commi ee of Eugenic Studies eugenics. is book contributes to the international com- parative investigations of the eugenic movement that spread Eugenics and Dysgenics of War A A Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy . War as Counter-selection around the world during the rst half of the past century.” . War as Gymnasium Francesco Cassata received his PhD in Contem- Gilberto Corbellini, Professor of History of Medicine, . War as Laboratory University of Rome “La Sapienza” . Eugenics and the “Sons of the Enemy” porary History from the University of Turin. He Regenerating Italy (–) published extensively on the ideology of Italian “Historical studies on the eugenic movements have been . E ore Levi and the IPAS Campaign for Birth Control fascism and neo-fascism, and on the history of ourishing in the last decades, while the peculiar Italian B . A Concrete Proposal: Premarital Certi cates case su ered from a strange scholarly neglect. Sterilization and Euthanasia fascist racism.