Social Movements and Culture Change in Palermo, Italy

这个项目研究了意大利巴勒莫的一场新社会运动。该项目将允许两名研究人员，一名人类学家和一名社会心理学家，他们研究了意大利南部的社区机构和当地历史20多年，以评估个人参与反黑手党运动时的良心或不满等因素的重要性，该运动是围绕对西西里机构的批评组织起来的，并分析这场运动作为文化变革的推动者。该项目还将研究“西西里主义”运动的反应，该运动反对任何对土著现象的批评，认为这是对西西里的批评，并关注当地文化的消极方面。方法包括采访运动各方的活动家，调查文献资源，以及两个夏天的参与者观察。

This project studies a new social movement in Palermo, Italy. The project will allow two researchers, an anthropologist and a social psychologist who have studied community institutions and local history in Southern Italy for over twenty years, to assess the importance of factors such as conscience or grievance in individual involvement with the antimafia movement, organized around criticism of this Sicilian institution, and to analyze the movement as an agent of cultural change. The project will also study the reaction of the "Sicilianist" movement, which objects to any criticism of an indigenous phenomenon as calling critical attention to Sicily and focusing on negative aspects of local culture. The methods include interviews with activists on all sides of the movement, surveys of documentary resources, and participant observation over two summers.