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A hierarchy of social class rank in Italy today. 1. Bourgeoisie (10% of the working population) [1] includes high-class entrepreneurs, managers, politicians, self-employed people, highest-ranking celebrities, etc. 2. White-collar middle class (17% of the working population) [1] includes middle class workers not employed in manual work. 3.
In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, a settlement is "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". [1] The Global Human Settlement Layer framework produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built up maps, population density maps ...
In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [5] In many cultures, towns and cities were few, with only a small proportion of the population living ...
Matera is the only place in the world where people can boast to be still living in the same houses of their ancestors of 9,000 years ago. Until the late 1980s this was considered an area of poverty, since many of these houses were, and in some cases still are, uninhabitable.
Both Hobbes and Locke had set forth a system, in which peaceful coexistence among human beings could be ensured through social pacts or contracts. They considered civil society as a community that maintained civil life, the realm where civic virtues and rights were derived from natural laws.
The distribution of immigrants is largely uneven in Italy: 83% of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country (the most economically developed areas), while only 17% live in the southern half of the peninsula. [81] Net migration rate 3.21 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 34th
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Italy is part of a monetary union, the eurozone, which represents around 330 million citizens, and of the European single market, which represents more than 500 million consumers. Several domestic commercial policies are determined by agreements among EU members and EU legislation. Italy joined the common European currency, the euro, in 2002. [271]