Italy today 2006.

Censis

Italy today 2006.

Social picture and trends

The fortieth edition of the Annual Report on the Italy’s social situation focuses on providing a detailed analysis of instances of economic recovery, on interpreting the socio-political dynamics that have been prevalent over recent months and on pinpointing the real processes of growth within Italian society. The report includes analyses of the following sectors: training, employment, welfare, health, local areas, networks, private businesses, security, citizenship, innovation, media and institutional communication.

Printed Edition

26.50

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9788846488817

Edition: 1a edizione 2007

Publisher code: 2000.1192

Availability: Discreta

The fortieth edition of the Annual Report on the Italy's social situation, complied by the Censis Foundation (Center for Social Studies and Policies), was published in 2006. The Report focuses on providing a detailed analysis of instances of economic recovery, on interpreting the socio-political dynamics that have been prevalent over recent months and on pinpointing the real processes of growth within Italian society.
The introductory General Considerations section offers an overview of the aforementioned issues, whereas the second section - entitled Italian Society in 2006 - deals with the most important issues to have emerged throughout the course of the year: the possibility of economic recovery; the risks associated with the continued presence of system-wide red tape and the crisis of legitimacy being faced by the country's political leaders.
The third and fourth sections of the report include analyses of the following sectors: training, employment, welfare, health, local areas, networks, private businesses, security, citizenship, innovation, media and institutional communication.



General considerations
Italian society in 2006
Economic recovery is a fact
(Signs of renewed economic vitality; Successful changes in Italy's large enterprises; Tourist business gains strenght; Socio-economic integration of immigrants: the Italian model is sound)
Systemic burdens remain
(Public expenditure is out of control and the impact is underestimated; Italy's infrastructural networks: inefficiency and high costs; Italy's educational system: a rhetorical and bureaucratic regression; Italy's welfare system - a patrobage network; New crime surge in Italian cities big and small)
Italian leadership in deep crisis
(Slowdown of social mobility has negative impact; Media obsession results in social erosion; Corporative localism and its perverse effects; Italian women: a difficult inclusion; The ambiguous of individuals in decisions concerning bioethics)
Areas of social policy
Educational processes
(New educational challenges for new Italian citizens; Langiages, fine, but what about language training?; From compulsory university degrees to compulsory Master's degrees; PC and connectivity in Italian schools: turning the goal into reality; From education to lifelong learning; Italy's school and university system)
The labor market
(New options after flexibility; Where jobs are growing; Quality as the mainspring of innovation in self-employment; Responses to fragmentation processes in banking; Women in politics: few of them share scant power)
The welfare system
(Information about health: a vast territory where few people find their bearings; Healthcare: the costs of poor planning; Individual responsibility and the imperative of beauty: media pressure on the woman's body; Waiting for termination indemnity: the slow adjustment of supplementary social security)
Territory and networks
(Development strategies in the new regional plans; Strategic planning experiences in Italy; The demographic viability of urban "second rings"; Innovating the symbols of large infrastructure; Sports and territory: another aspect of the Southern question)
Economic development and its players
(A two-sided recovery; Liberalizations and a new industrial policy: almost an illusion; Resuming growth: enterprise networks new internationalization strategies; Between torsion and fragmentation: snapshot of the industrial districts 5 years into the decade; The Italian maritime cluster: an enterprise system that creates value; The economic circuits of multi-ethnic Italy: consumption behavior and migrants' access to credit; Forms and implications of Italian households' debt)
Means and procedures
Communications and media
(Monomedia and multimedia citizens in Europe: Italy lags behind; What the media are used for; New trends in reading; Centrality and multimediality of music in daily life; Daily newspapers in Italy: poor sellers that sell a great deal)
Innovative processes
(Building digital territories; The digital South; Different innovations: ethno-business, migrants and technological landscapes; Inclusion, involvement and partecipation: e-democracy for a better quality of life)
Securuty and citizenship
(Distinguishing measures accounting to contexts; Accompanying immigration's "stage 2"; The pardon: what was done, what could have been done; Crime "moves with the times"; Near the citizens; New local approaches to managing migration phenomena; Immigration in the South, between the stabilization of presences and poor planning; Towards an Italian model of reception and integration of asylum seekers and refugees)
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)
From the search for new exit routes to the prospect of a neo-bourgeois recovery (2003-2006)
Censis: an observer on the watch
(What is Censis?).

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