[PW] ? modern Italian family life

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Cindy
Hi,
If you have access to Countries and Their Cultures, a four vol. set
(2001), you'll be pleased with starter answers on all your subtopics aimed
at a high school level.
Libraries in your area may have such titles as:
AUTHOR       Falassi, Alessandro.
TITLE        Culture shock! : Italy / Alessandro Falassi, Raymond Flower.
PUB INFO     Portland, Or. : Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co., 2001, c2000.

AUTHOR       Flower, Raymond, 1921-
TITLE        Culture shock! Italy / Raymond Flower, Alessandro Falassi.
PUB INFO     Singaport : Marshall Cavendish Editions ; Portland, Or. :
               Arts Center Pub. Co., 2003.

AUTHOR       Paolicelli, Paul.
TITLE        Dances with Luigi : a grandson's determined quest to comprehend
               Italy and the Italians / Paul Paolicelli.
PUB INFO     New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

AUTHOR       Barzini, Luigi Giorgio, 1908-1984.
TITLE        The Italians, by Luigi Barzini.
PUB INFO     New York, Atheneum, 1964.

AUTHOR       Bryant, Andrew.
TITLE        The Italians; how they live and work.
PUB INFO     New York, Praeger [1969, c1968]

TITLE        Italy profiled : essential facts on society, business and
               politics in Italy / edited by Barry Turner.
PUB INFO     New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

AUTHOR       Severgnini, Beppe.
TITLE        Testa degli italiani. English.
TITLE        La bella figura : a field guide to the Italian mind / Beppe
               Severgnini ; translated by Giles Watson.
PUB INFO     New York : Broadway Books, c2006.

NOT directly related to your question but a valuable source for any
international marketing plan, would be the relevant Italy chapter from the
latest edtion(2006) of Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands : the bestselling guide to
doing business in more than 60 countries by Terri Morrison.  It's
brilliant and fun.

On Fri, February 23, 2007 11:25 am, Kevin W. Woodruff wrote:
> Cindy:
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> I would recommend the Area Handbook Series
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> Italy: A Country Study, edited by Rinn S. Shinn Washington DC: Government
> Printing Office, 1985.
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> Kevin
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> ----- Original Message ----
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> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 11:05:05 AM
> Subject: [PW] ? modern Italian family life
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> I have a patron working on an international marketing plan for a
> business class.  She needs to find information about the current state of
> the family in Italy.  In particular, she needs information on the nuclear
> family, extended family, parental roles, marriage and courtship, and male
> & female roles.
>
>
> I have looked in our book collection, the public library's collection,
> Academic Search Premier, SocIndex, and Google but have only found a few
> articles which touch on these subjects.  I'm finding a lot of information
> on various periods of history but she needs information on current Italian
> culture.  There is also a lot on the Catholic Church's teachings regarding
> marriage and family but what she needs is information on how it actually
> is from a cultural standpoint, not how it should be from a theological
> standpoint, if that distinction makes sense.
>
> She needs this information by Tuesday so I'm hoping someone can point me
> in the direction of a reliable web site or other source which may offer an
> overall portrait of modern Italian family life.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>
> Cindy
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> Cindy Kump
> Public Services/Reference Librarian
> University of Saint Francis
> ckump at sf.edu 260-399-7700 ext. 6056
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