Society & Politics
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Black Bourse (BORSA NERA)
BLACK BOURSE. - The buying and selling of goods in violation of rationing laws and at a price considerably higher than the official one or… -
Boerenbond
BOERENBOND. - I. ORIGINS. - It is a Belgian agricultural organization founded at Louvain in 1890, on the initiative of Abbot Mellaerts, who… -
Bolshevism (BOLSCEVISMO)
BOLSHEVISM. - A) Theory and practice of communism in the specific form that this assumed and put into effect in Russia following the… -
Christian Democracy (DEMOCRAZIA CRISTIANA)
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY. - The term C. D. was used several times during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but only toward the end of the… -
Christian Social Doctrine (DOTTRINA SOCIALE CRISTIANA)
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL DOCTRINE. - In recent centuries, faced with ever more serious violations of Christian ethics in the economic and social… -
Cyprian of Eggolsheim (CIPRIANO DA EGGOLSHEIM)
CYPRIAN OF EGGOLSHEIM. - A Capuchin friar of the province of Bavaria, in the world Franz Xaver Fröhlich, b. 20 March 1853, entered the… -
Diseases, Insurance Against (MALATTIE, ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO LE)
DISEASES, Insurance Against. - Insurance against i. is the last to be incorporated into modern systems of social insurance, and this is… -
Economic Policy (POLITICA ECONOMICA)
ECONOMIC POLICY. - It represents perhaps the most important sector today, and the most sought-after task of practical politics; its purpose… -
Education (EDUCAZIONE)
EDUCATION. - The art of forming the man in the child, as such: that is, with all the perfection that his nature entails. SUSCHARO: I.… -
Emphyteusis (ENFITEUSI)
EMPHYTEUSIS. - I. CONCEPT. - Emphyteusis (from the Greek ἐκράτευσις = planting) is a real right over an immovable property (usually rural)… -
Eurasianism (EURASISMO)
EURASIANISM. - A political-spiritual orientation that developed within the Russian emigration, but which also finds its connections and… -
Fatherland and Patriotism (PATRIA E PATRIOTTISMO)
FATHERLAND AND PATRIOTISM. - Patria comes from pater, "father": it is the land in which one is born and in which one's forebears have lived… -
Genocide (GENOCIDIO)
GENOCIDE. - The term is etymologically a neologism, derived from two Latin words (gens and caedes) and means the slaughter of a people, of… -
Hallesism (HALLESISMO)
HALLESISM. - The Genoese merchant Agostino Maria Trucco (1865-1940) called Hallesint (from Halles = food markets, and int = international)… -
History (STORIA)
HISTORY. - The Slovenes (Sclaueni, Stlauene in the ancient texts), as the westernmost fraction of those > (from K. Hielscher, Jugoslavien,… -
Hoarding (INCETTA)
HOARDING. - It is the total or substantial acquisition of the goods existing on a certain market in order to resell them later on… -
Leogesellschaft
LEOGESELLSCHAFT. - A Catholic scientific society of Austria, founded in Vienna on 28 January 1892 for the advancement of the sciences and… -
National Socialism (NAZIONALSOCIALISMO)
NATIONAL SOCIALISM. - A movement, generically socialist in tendency, but with a hierarchical and centralized structure, which arose in… -
Pan-Germanism (PANGERMANESIMO)
PAN-GERMANISM. - By this expression, used outside Germany in an essentially polemical sense, it is customary to designate a movement, at… -
Participationism (PARTECIPAZIONISMO)
PARTICIPATIONISM. - The various forms of employee participation in the management or in the surplus profits of enterprises that have been… -
Paternalism (PATERNALISMO)
PATERNALISM. - Any policy directed from above (emperor, king, lord) that takes account of the needs of the "subjects" is called… -
Politics (POLITICA)
POLITICS. - Etymology, from the Greek πόλις = city, suggests the first and most general meaning of the term, insofar as it brings into… -
Profit (PROFITTO)
PROFIT. - This term generally means the net return of the entrepreneur, corresponding to the interest that belongs to the capitalist and to… -
Protectionism (PROTEZIONISMO)
PROTECTIONISM. - Protectionism is part of that artificial system of expedients and maneuvers that constitutes economic policy. I.… -
Protection of Workers (PROTEZIONE DEI LAVORATORI)
PROTECTION OF WORKERS. - The protection or safeguarding of labor is a principle common to contemporary States, often proclaimed in… -
Public Opinion (PUBBLICA OPINIONE)
PUBLIC OPINION. - I. NOTION. - Public opinion is not simply the sum of individual opinions, but is rather a body of ideas, sentiments,… -
Quadragesimo Anno
« QUADRAGESIMO ANNO ». - Encyclical of the pontiff Pius XI commemorating the Rerum novarum ("de ordine sociali instaurando et ad… -
Rerum Novarum
« RERUM NOVARUM ». - Encyclical de conditione opificum of Leo XIII of 15 May 1891, thus known from the words with which it begins; it is… -
Restoration (RESTAURAZIONE)
RESTORATION. - Commonly by R. is meant the period that followed the Napoleonic collapse. It was not, however, a pure and simple return: in… -
Scalabrini, Giovanni Battista
SCALABRINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrinians) and of the Society of St.… -
Scotton, Brothers (SCOTTON, FRATELLI)
SCOTTON, BROTHERS. - All three were priests and polemicists who, from their residence at Breganze, conducted for over thirty years… -
Socialism (SOCIALISMO)
SOCIALISM. - "S.", "collectivism", "communism" indicate a set of socio-economic systems that assign to the community, to the exclusion of… -
Sociology (SOCIOLOGIA)
SOCIOLOGY. - The term s. was used for the first time by A. Comte (Cours de philos. posit., IV, lesson 47, Paris 1839, p. 252) to indicate… -
Taylorism (TAYLORISMO)
TAYLORISM. - Scientific organization of labor, which arose in America at the end of the 19th century through the work of F. W. Taylor. In… -
White Slave Trade (TRATTA DELLE BIANCHE)
WHITE SLAVE TRADE. - It is the recruitment of women, carried out by violence, deceit, threats or financial offers, and their transport from…