This article uses data on participation in the priorate in the fourteenth century to analyze the change over time in the intensity and nature of the processes of social mobility in Florence. It is a small experiment that attempts to circumvent the problem posed by the difficulty of measuring social mobility in historical contexts for which we do not have the statistical data that sociologists use to study this phenomenon in contemporary societies. Indeed, in the absence of any attempt at measurement, the concept of mobility runs the risk of remaining too vague and ineffective as an interpretive tool for understanding social dynamics and their change. The final section briefly addresses the even more complex issue of the relationship between social mobility and economic inequality.
University of Pisa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6011-8671
Titolo del capitolo
Mobilità sociale, ricambio politico e disuguaglianza economica a Firenze nei primi decenni del Trecento. Qualche spunto di riflessione
Autori
Alma Poloni
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8.15
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century
Sottotitolo del libro
Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 - c. 1350)
Curatori
Davide Cristoferi
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Numero di pagine
458
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0699-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0705-8
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0707-2
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079