Italy Today 2004.

I. General considerations
II. Italian society in the year 2004
Crucial reactions to the economy's slowdown
(The service economy survives on cash; The consolidation of family assets; The middle class' concerned rush to invest in property; The idden demand for consumption; Advanced services blocked by a lack of trust)
Changing social models
(Village culture inside and outside the city; The decline of post-Fordism; The desire to "live differently"; Generation gaps; Workers and citizens, the stable presence of immigrants)
Undertone fears
(A lower perception of insecurity; The reassurance provided by physical contiguity; The unequal protection from unforeseeable events)
Disjointed political processes
(Leaders in search of a people and vice versa; Crises in regional leadership; Fortuitousness and iniquity in exercising public power)
III. Areas of social policy
Education and training
(The shift of educational choices towards licei between reforms and long-term driffts; Foreign students: new figures, new approaches; Stepping up corporate internationalization staring from educational needs; Innovation in the organization and management of Italian universities: from services to human resources; The challenge of Inter-professional Funds, from start-up to rollout; Italian research: how to catch up with, and outstrip, other countries)
The labor market
("Idling" labor; Women over 50: the problems of a new majority; The harmonious enterprise; The areas involved in the internationalizatio of the economic fabric; The new discountinuities of professional associations)
The welfare system
(The impact of local quality of life on healthcare; Food and wellbeing: an health-conscious choice with many ambiguities; The unavoidable challenge of long term care; Why universalist measures for fighting poverty are needed; The social value of regions; Pension: the current "quiet" approach and future risks)
Territory and Networks
(A comparison among European cities: Italy's peculiarities; Housing: a topical issue?; Housing scenarios: from domestic greenery to the environment-friendly home; Public-private collaboration in major urban projects; Towards an integrated policy for European mountains; The demand for provinces; Tourism and the local economy; Natural disasters and social risk culture)
Economic players in the development process
(Territory and leadership for a development economy; A new archetype for the production system; Consumption between confusion and possible recovery; Banks and the territory: a bond that needs to be reinforced; Efficient innovation in SMEs: the case of biotechnologies; The role of logostics in the inflationary process)
IV. Means and procedures
Communications and culture
(The tv audience is maturing; Tv as a shelter; Television information has a following; The satisfaction that comes from reading the newspaper in the morning; The Internet must change in order to grow; Mobile phones are coveted, purchased, but used in a limited way; Minors and tv)
Innovation
(Ten years of local telematics: assessing innovation; Beyond self-referencing: from telematics networks to dialogue with citizens; The technological "domus" of Italian households; Open-source software: an opportunity for developing the territory)
Security and law enforcement
(The paradoxes of security; Offences are on the rise, and they are not all related to predatory crime; Assistance to crime victims: how Italy responds to European appeals; The growth of the security market; EU enlargement not a cause of fear; Immigration in the South; Integration involves ensuring proper housing)
Appendix
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 proliferation; 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?).

Serie: Varie

Subjects: Censis