1st Report on the quality of life in Sardinia (1993)

This report represents a first attempt to interpret the quality of life in Sardinia through the immediate and direct perspective of the citizen. The methodological choice of the survey was to avoid first questioning the quantitative data from official sources and only then turning our attention to the considerations of social actors. The underlying assumption is that the level of quality of life cannot be deduced from a set of quantitative data alone because they are already, in many ways, the consequence of prior assumptions. Throughout these pages, Sardinia has been the subject of careful observation, which has touched on countless moments in the daily lives of individuals and their relationships. The reading of the data collected, recomposed following reasoned paths aimed at exalting oppositions rather than uniformities, has returned all the problems present in Sardinian society, but with new and unprecedented folds, and has shown a suffered social evolution, contradictory and at the same time rich in original elements and innovative ferments. The multiplicity of themes addressed makes this work an operational tool for the outputs of the sphere of values and emotions, in economic attitudes and expectations, in the concrete daily life behaviours, in the relationship with politics and the mass media, in cultural expressions, in the hope and expectations aroused by new promises of development, in the desire to seek unused balances and further ethical references.