Celebrating the Memory of Corrado Gini: a Personality Out of the Ordinary

Mexican racial science developed in close relation to foreign scholars and institutions including Corrado Gini of Italy, a proponent of Latin eugenics, Franz Boas, the Carnegie Institution in Washington, the international eugenics movement, and the Pan-American child welfare movement. Along with the mobilization of rural peoples during the Mexican Revolution, growing international interest in Mexico and the international eugenics movement galvanized Mexican indigenismo, the state-sponsored movement championing the nation’s indigenous heritage. This chapter focuses on Manuel Gamio, who founded Mexico’s Dirección de Antropología and worked in the powerful Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). Gamio conveyed Mexican social science abroad and foreign social science to Mexico. He attempted to create a social science that was both “Mexican” and modern, but found it hard to delineate a modernity that could accommodate Mexico’s demographic heterogeneity. Gamio creatively reconciled Mexico’s demographic characteristics with liberal universalism and scientific rationality, yet still suffered the intellectual imperialism and condescension of his U.S. counterparts.

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PER IL CENTESIMO ANNIVERSARIO DELLA TEORIA DELLE RELAZIONI STATISTICHE DI CORRADO GINI

Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Rendiconti di Scienze ◽

10.4081/scie.2015.523 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Eugenio Regazzini ◽

Donato Cifarelli

Keyword(s):

Probability Distributions ◽

Statistical Relationship ◽

Monotone Dependence ◽

Corrado Gini ◽

Centennial Anniversary

This Note aims at highlighting Gini’s contributions to denition and measurement of the intensity of a statistical relationship, on the occcasion of the centennial anniversary of the publication of his early papers on that topic. The Note stresses the precursory value of those contributions and mentions some of their most signicant developments apropos of metrization of spaces of probability distributions and anaysis of monotone dependence.

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A reciprocal legitimation: Corrado Gini and statistics in fascist Italy

Management & Organizational History ◽

10.1080/17449359.2017.1363509 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 261-284 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Giovanni Favero

Keyword(s):

Corrado Gini

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RODOLFO BENINI: ALCUNI SUOI CONTRIBUTI ALLA STATISTICA IN OCCASIONE DEI 150 ANNI DALLA NASCITA

Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Rendiconti di Lettere ◽

10.4081/let.2012.206 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Antonietta Mira

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Linear Regression ◽

Multiple Linear Regression ◽

Statistical Methodology ◽

Corrado Gini ◽

Technical Refinement ◽

First Time

For the first time in Italy, thanks to the contributions of Rodolfo Benini, Statistics became an autonomous discipline, finally released from economical, demographical and social sciences to which was still assimilated. The rigor and the technical refinement of his analysis justify the importance attributed to his statistical contributions, and support the fact that he has been recognised by Corrado Gini as the first round Italian statistician. Starting from the interpretation by Marcello Boldrini of his «tre mirabili opere di sistemazione», I will deepen three of the main themes linked to the statistical methodology addressed by Benini: multiple linear regression, indexes of attraction and repulsion and the distribution of economical variables. I will conclude discussing his relationship with Pareto, whose law Benini first verified on income and later extended to other economical variables.

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Reported Masculinity Ratio in Pakistan: A Triumph of Anthropology and Economics over Biology (Invited Lecture)

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v24i3-4pp.267-303 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 24 (3-4) ◽

pp. 267-303

Author(s):

Karol J. Krotki

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Sex Ratio ◽

Social Scientist ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Corrado Gini ◽

And Gender

The problem of the sex ratio fascinates social scientists. Some measure it through the masculinity ratio (number of men per woman), others use the feminity ratio (number of women per man). Among the latter is the majority of social scientist on this subcontinent e.g., Gupta [13 ; maps 24,25,26 and 27) and in several countries of continental Europe [66, fn. 33, p. 3] . Corrado Gini, the celebrated creator of various indices, popular in social Sciences, devoted to the topic his very first book [11]. Sex and gender is one of the most important and popular variables, on which a social scientist breaks up his data into Significantly different groups.

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