Part I. General consideration
Part II. Italian society in 2009
Individuals on the fringes of the crisis
(Families resist under strain; The critical areas seeing a drop in employment; The wave of business restructuring, chasing after the recovery; The decline in "everyone for himself" individualism)
The impoverishment of the public dimension
(The hidden wealth of tax evasion; A crumbling territory and the decline of public works; Education's lost strength; Public spending has its hands tied)
The importance of time
(Italians are champions at the short-term; Living in a state of emergency is the norm; Permanent exposure to the media and the resulting orgy of communication; The daily violence of living close together)
Part III. Areas of social policy
Education and training
(School-work alternance; Italy and learning mobility; The scenarios of the competitiveness of knowledge; Career training as a shelter good; Towards a knowledge-based society: the Tuscany case)
The labor market
(Medium-tern strategies for Italy's ailing labor market; Non-work time is on the rise; The value of human resources in the internationalization of Italian businesses; Toward a new social security for Italian professionals; Third-sector women entrepreneurs: a strategic factor for Italy's economy; Work and family: a winning formula for a well-balanced society)
The welfare system
(Healthcare in the year of crisis; Primary care in view of starting afresh from the territory; Is it worth having children in Italy?; Social inclusion policies: the difficulties of territorial communities; Fewer resources and more conflicts in the allocation of social spending)
Territory and networks
(Legislative fragmentation on the rise: regional variations on Italy's new construction law; L'Aquila after the earthquake: problems and future prospects; Economic crisis provides impetus for low-cost housing solutions; The role of the cities and provinces in countering the recession; Structural maintenance of common assets as a contribution to safety and as a counter-cyclical investment; Conditions and opportunities for provincial governments to assume a new leadership role)
The economic players
(The industry tested by the crisis; For a new partnership between businesses and the banking system; Italy's green economy, between myth and reality; Innovation and metamorphosis of commercial distribution; In the pluralism of the South to transform limits into opportunities; The consumption and life styles of Italians in a year that is all uphill; Italians and public betting)
Part IV. Means and procedures
Communication and procedures
(Media consumption changes during the year of the crisis; Between digital divide and press divide; Pluralism of sources: a process which is still unfinished; What remains in political communication alongside TV?; Social networks' success factors; Computers become virtual; A new season for movies: focusing on quality; Pre-political topics in pop music arenas)
The public administration
(Streamlining delayed; The administration of justice: exploring new for a; The incomplete digitalization of Italy's Public Administration)
Security and citizenry
(The difficult balance between fighting irregular migration and the right to asylum; A journey across regularizations; Immigration in times of crisis; Integration begins from health; The expansion of food counterfeiting; Public Administration in criminal land)
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 need for maturity (1984-1987); Beyond proliferation (1988-1992); From revolutionary auphoria to an endless, 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: Politics, Italian Society - Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work and Organizations

Level: Scholarly Research