Part I. General consideration
Part II. Italian society in 2008
The financial meltdown: reactions and defenses
(The non-cyclic nature of Italy's economic system; The overail staying power of businesses; Italian households and their self-protection strategies; Moderate consumption guarantees a good lifestyle)
Towards the second metamorphosis
(Increasilgly global players; From immigrants to new Italians; Women's increasing role in society; Living together in the mega-cities; We, digital mutants)
Factors of internal vulnerability
(The South: two territories, one nation; Neither with the state, nor the market: Italians' disoriented polycentrism; The azards of "devalued employment"; The Italians "unorthodox normality"; The ambiguous power events)
Part III. Areas of social policy
Education and training
(Training for lifelong learning; Upper secondary school: how and where to intervene according to educational managers; University: scenarios and strategies for a chronic patient; Is training in the Public Administration truly effective?; "Knowledge exports" do well)
The labor market
(Uncertainties in the job market; The world of public-sector employment; Flexibility as the lesser evil; Businesswomen's inadequate involvement in public life; Renewed trust in the intellectual professions)
The welfare system
(Thirty years with the national healthcare system: how Italy and the health of Italians have changed; Donations and transplants: when the service network is effective; Italians have a mature approach to the use of pharmaceuticals; Families with children receive little help; The fragile pillar of supplementary pension schemes)
Territory and networks
(Turin-Lyon: from street scuffles to agreements on development strategies; The seaport system as a business and as a stimulus for territorial development; The Italians and the city: the spirit of modernity in the urban dimension; The housing issue and the role of territorial housing agencies; Reassuring food: "local produce" do away with fears and uncertainties)
The economic players
(Multiform innovation in order to coope with the market crisis; The new forms of internationalization; The emerging entrepreneurship of migrants; The pathways of innovation in Italy's agricultural system; The land-sea cluster for efficient logistics; Consumption, loans and indebtedness: inside and beyond the crisis of households)
Part IV. Means and procedures
Communications and media
(The digital revolution towards the multiplication and integration of media; European youths and their relationship to the media: beyond standardization; Vices and virtues of generalist television; The ambiguous drift of communication in the political debate; The fear-mongering Italian media; The force of localism in communication; Festivals and queues: for an anthropology of cultural consumption; The revival of Italian cinema)
Public governance
(The 2008 general elections: local angreements prevail but the desire for a strong central administration grows; The reverse approach to personal safety; Reconsidering strategies for representation in Brussels; Tourism policies round the mark; Sports policies: the required shift in logic)
Security and citizenry
(Local police forces burdened with more tasks; Counterfeiting: few risks and a great deal of money; Corruption, a hidden and unsolved problem; Bullying seen through the eyes of parents; The risk of dispersing the integration of immigrants in school; Mixed marriages: lights and shadows of an emerging phenomenon)
Appendix
Looking through figures
(Foreword; Tables)
Background
Social 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 enfless, wearisome transition (1993-1998)
Something is moving in the enduring static nature of Italy's atomized society (1999-2002)
From the search for new exit routes to the prospect of a neo-bourgeois recovery (2003-2006)
The "mush" society. Italy on its way to its second metamorphosis (2007-2008))
Censis: an observer on the watch
(What is Censis?).

Serie: Varie

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

Level: Scholarly Research