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Dal gennaio del 1798, in seguito all’intervento militare francese, nella Confederazione svizzera dei tredici cantoni l’antico regime si sgretola: alberi della libertà vengono issati un po’ ovunque. Nei baliaggi dei cantoni svizzeri al sud delle Alpi il processo è altrettanto rapido: personalità già attive nell’amministrazione e giovani borghesi agiscono assecondando il cambiamento in corso. Queste personalità dall’aprile del 1798 formeranno nella Svizzera sudalpina il personale politico della Repubblica elvetica, proclamata sotto l’egida della Francia post rivoluzionaria e, dal 1803, il ceto dirigente del canton Ticino, creato per volontà napoleonica nell’ambito del regime della Mediazione. Come hanno gestito i membri del ceto dirigente della Svizzera sudalpina, sul piano locale, le innovazioni e le trasformazioni indotte dall’intervento francese e ispirate dal pensiero illuminista? Cercando di rispondere a questa domanda, questo lavoro ricostruisce con minuzia il percorso di una ventina di personalità politiche tra il 1798 e il 1814, rilevando al contempo la loro capacità di mantenersi al potere in un periodo marcato da rivolte popolari, repentini cambiamenti di regime e onerose occupazioni militari.

Histoire --- Tessin --- Social classes --- History --- Ticino (Switzerland) --- Politics and government --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Tessin (Switzerland)

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Clases sociales --- Encuestas demográficas --- Social classes --- Demographic surveys --- Estadísticas. --- Statistics. --- Population surveys --- Census --- Social surveys --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification

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Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice—as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.

Arts. --- Social classes. --- God --- Proverbs. --- Public opinion. --- Will. --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Proverbs --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Will --- Divine commands (Ethics) --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Arts, Primitive --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions

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This book argues for the importance of considering social class in critical psychological enquiry. It provides a historical overview of psychological research and theorising on social class and socio-economic status; before examining the ways in which psychology has contributed to the surveillance, regulation and pathologisation of the working-class ‘Other’. The authors highlight the cost of recent austerity policies on mental health and warn against the implementation of further austerity measures in the current climate The book pulls together perspectives from critical social psychology, feminist psychology, sociology and other critical research which examines the discursive production of social class, classism and classed identities. The authors explore social class in educational and occupational settings, and analyse the intersections between class and other social categories such as gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Finally, they consider key issues in debates around social class in the broader social sciences, such as the limitations of approaches informed by poststructuralist theory. This book will be a useful resource for both academics and students studying class from a critical perspective. Katy Day is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She is a feminist and critical social psychologist who has authored numerous publications examining discourses around social class and related issues such as austerity and worklessness, classed identities and intersections between gender and class. Bridgette Rickett is Head of Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and Past Chair of the British Psychological Society’s POWES Committee. She is a feminist social/organisational psychologist whose research focusses on critical social psychological explanations of social class, health in the workplace, embodied consumption and mothering and families. Maxine Woolhouse is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK, with interests in feminist and critical perspectives in social psychology. Her research focuses on the gendered and classed dimensions of consumption and body management practices. She is a member of the British Psychological Society’s POWES Committee.

Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Critical psychology. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Critical Psychology. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions --- Psychology, Critical --- Communism and psychology --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Social classes --- Psychological aspects. --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification