Italy Today 2003.

Parte I. General Consideration
Parte II. Italian Society in the Year 2003
Centrifugal Forces
(Selectivity in consumer behavior; Adolescents' uneasy infringements; The rise in on-subordinated immigrants; The dark summer of the elderly; Each for himself)
Adjustements without revival
(The economy creates new social behavior; Difficulties in staying power; Multiples without innovation; The commanded ethicality of new lifestyles; Confusing devolution)
Nostalgias and frustation caused bt compacting
(Unequal ifletion; Privatizations with oligopolitics results; A relational rather than individual character)
Parte III. Areas of social policy
Educational and training
(Lifelong learning: for many but not yet for all; University priorities; transition and consolidation; "Vissi d'arte". Potentiality and Innovation in Higher Artistic and Musical Education; The European Social Fund's mid-term performance, 2000-2006; Does Italin innovation depend on human resources?)
The labor market
(The quality and quantity of labor: what trend follows growth?; Immigrants and women: how much they "count" for Italy; Resources for development: the family; Resources for development: professionals; Resources for development: profit and non-profit)
The welfare system
(The disenchantement with healthcare devolution; The virtuous interlacing of health and beauty; The fears of people who have children; Testing out new forms of healthcare; The unattainable pension of young people; An Italian best practice: the transplants network)
Territory and networks
(The conflict between state and regions on territorial issues; The risk that the processes begun by infrastructure policies may come to a standstill: scarcity of resources and institutional conflicts; Exploitation of the historical building stock; Quality and localism in the new village culture; A new social cohesion evolves on the territory; The renewed social demand for road safety; The social value of food production)
Economic players in the development process
(Leveling out deloplment and re-launching levers; The multiple Ways of Italian Internationalization; From localism to geocommunities; Industrial districts between society, communication and the territory; The forgotten South; Re-launching the Adriatic Platform; Energy uncertainty: the economy and common perception)
Parte IV. Means and procedures
Communications
(Youngsters and the media pyramid; Globals and Metropolitans; Italian youngsters and books; Italian Youngsters and mobile phones; Italian youths and the Internet; The ideal media; Minors and TV programs: Italians protest; TV programs and the disabled; The music industry: the crisis of the busines model, the decline of SMEs)
Innovation
(Company digitalization; Families online: the interactivity barrier; Where ethics and innovation meet; Choices made by local Public Administrations in stage two of e-government; Neglected expectations)
Security and law enforcement
(The need for secure life; The slow decline of crime rates; When crime becomes a business; Communicating security; Citizens as leading players in collective security; The controversial players in collective security; The controversial situation of relations with immigrants; Lost adolescence)
Appendice
Looking through figures
(Foreword; Tables)
Background
(Societal self-awareness: from great goals to the emergence of spontaneous processes; From the "submerged" to the "emerged" economy; The pride of stability; Difficult relations between society and institutions; Consolidation and the need for maturity; Beyond priliferation; From revolutionary euphoria to an endless, wearisome transition; Something is moving in the enduring static nature of Italy's atomized society)
Censis: an observer on the watch
(What is Censis?).

Collana: Varie

Argomenti: Rapporti Censis