I. General Considerations
II. Italian society in 2007
New maintenance equilibria
(Less but better: the strategic revision of family consumption; Flexibility helps employment - and then what?; Italian businesses reorganize-sometimes abroad; Responsiveness and responsibility of local authorities)
A new leadership is slowly forming
(Financial liquidity plays leading role; The growing role of the global players; The rise of competitive businesses; The strength of financial concentration)
The social dimension and its limits
(Cohesion, but only for social needs; An anthropological decline; The system's inertia; The pervasive strengh of organized crime)
III. Areas of social policy
Education and training
(Raising continuing education requirements; Foreign students: from integration to successful schooling; Quality as motivation in the choice of college education; Strengths and weaknesses of traveling for college education-Between the search for quality and economic barriers; The European Union, a promised land for Italy's younger generations; New planning and old errors to be avoided)
The labor market
(Fewer employed, employees, serial workers; The further rise of technical professions; With women and work, improvements stili to be made; The causes of workplace danger; Regulated professions between attack logics and critical sizes)
(Unequal health care; Making progress in the shared management of regionalized health; The doctor-patient relationship: transformation, and crisis; The Alzheimer's lesson: an integrated services network; The risk of selective solidarity; Welfare costs in a labor market hostile to longevity)
Territory and networks
(Structural funds 2007-2013: an opportunity not to be wated; Ten years of projects creating no change in the territories; Provinces as the center of territorial development; The difficult task of increasing the value of State property; Renewed attention on housing politics; Upkeep and revival of mountainos areas; A communiting axplosion)
The economic players
(A vital economy, present yet transparent; Growth for an active minority; The unstoppable concentration of economic power; Industry that looks to the future; New forms of agricultural enterprise; generational turnover and "young business" for a new growth cycle; Strengtheining infrastructure to improve business competitiveness; Unstrusting Italian consumers; Controlled debt expansion)
IV. Means and procedures
Communications and the media
(How many different media do we have today? From 8 to 20; "More of everything" or "Better for everybody"?; Pictures of the digital revolution underway; Television landslides; Multi-media news; Radio everywhere; Mass Internet use; Italians are reading more; Cell phones, basic media)
Innovative processes
(Italian web navigators on the rise; Not all investments in Research & Development bring forth innovation, nor is all innovation born from research; "Changing stride" in the South: creating awareness and attracting resources; Digital memories: innovation that looks to the past; Public administration on-line)
Security and citizenship
(Putting sense and substance back into integrated security; Getting acquainted in order to identity the most appropriate instruments; The new role of local entities in the politics of urban security; Criminal organizations increasingly infiltrating businesses; Is bullying in schools really on the rise?; The risk of excessive fragmentation of immigration jurisdiction; The first cracks in foreigners' social integration; Undersandins trafficking)
Appendix
Looking through figures
(Foreword; Tables)
Background
Censis: an observer on the watch
(Wath is Censis?).

Serie: Varie

Subjects: Economics of Tourism, Commerce and Services - Politics, Italian Society - Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work and Organizations

Level: Scholarly Research