Italy Today 2002.

General Considerations
The italian society to 2002
Spaces for movement
(The reset of the New Economy; Recovery of real estate values; The new social networks; Living well, Italian style)
Symptoms of stalemate
(Though stimuli are modest, employment is responding; Corporate behavior and its contradictory messages; Family savings: powerful but temporarily frozen)
The declining impulse of expectations
(Failure of the 'announcement effect'; Federalism and major public works: clear goals, uncertain outcomes; Threat of war generates climate of uncertainty)
Systemic hindrances persist
(The presence of oligopoly groups; Unprepared for the generation revolution; TV broadcasting: a source of mirages)
Areas of social policy
Education and training
(The slow construction of a lifelong learning system; Dynamics of ongoing training: lights and shades; University mobility: shortcomings and progress of the Italian system; Italian talents: frustrated at home, disappointed abroad; Economic profitability of education: individual advantages and social benefits)
Work, professions and representation
(Community and society on the workplace; How Italy's labor market has changed; A close-up on the sector of social services)
The welfare system
(Wish for freedom, uncertain protection and new institutions in welfare; Devolution of health services: on the lookout for quality; Spontaneous networks and public innovation in the social and healthcare area; Minors and teenagers: an accountability that is difficult to find; Beyond research as slow-business; Social economics: the value of autonomy; Pensions not enough for a peaceful old age; Immigration: integration depends on what is done at the local level)
Territory and Networks
(Shifting the focus from procedures to contents in urban transformation policies; Activating polyarchic processes to reconstitute community governance; Recognizing and supporting community peculiarities; Between material and virtual: the urban project's new communications tools and spaces; Small towns where life is a pleasure; Vacant sites: the great reconversion; A new interpretive paradigm for Italian mountain communities; Signs of consolidation in the national scenario of trade fairs and exhibitions; Much pragmatism and little ideology in the demand for federalism; The financial impact of devolution; Local governments at grips with budget restraints)
Key factors in Italy's economic development
(The economy is turning, but without effect; Italy looks to the East; The path of local development between identity and relations; The four 'i's of Italian mesocapitalism; The mark of modernity in the socio-economic courses pursued in the Centre and North; Consumption between conformism and a desire for emotions; The added value of the sea; Second season of the New Economy; Information technologies and outsourcing: how big company organization is changing)
Means and procedures
Innovative processes and public administration
(The innovator, an emerging figure in Italy's public administration; The system of relationships: an opportunity to surface innovative processes; Failure of the production districts to innovate; Training as a resource to brind about change; Online services, an opportunity for public and private to meet up; Local telecommunications networks-an attempt to coordinate territorial initiatives)
Communications and culture
(The new pyramid shaped structure of Italian mass media; The use of media by social groups and "tribes"; "Media diet" changes according to generation; Trasparent advertising; Italian TV: declining quality of program supply, declining quality of demand; The spectacularization of grief; Youngsters and culture in the communications era Italian journalists: towards a new profession)
Appendix
Looking through figures
Foreword
Tables
Background
Societal self-awareness: from great goals to the emergence of spontaneous processes (1967-1971)
From the "submerged" to the "emerged" economy (1972-1977)
The pride of stability (1978-1981)
Difficult relations between society and institutions (1982-1983)
Consolidation and the need for maturity (1984-1987)
Beyond proliferation (1988-1992)
From revolutionary euphoria to an endless, wearisome transition (1993-1998)
Something is moving in the enduring static nature of Italy's atomized society (1999-2002)
Censis: an observer on the watch (What is Censis?).

Collana: Varie

Argomenti: Rapporti Censis