Italy Today 2009. Social Picture And Trends

The CENSIS Report, now in its 43rd edition, offers an analysis and interpretation of the most significant socio-economic processes underway in Italy. The General Considerations that open the Report show how Italian society, faced with the crisis, has once again adopted, as in the past, a traditional adaptive-reactive approach. At the same time, however, four major transformation processes are highlighted: a complex reorganization of the service sector, a leading role played by entrepreneurship, a departure from the primacy of opinions in favor of a return to vested interests, the quiet decline of the long cycle of "do-it-yourself" individualism. The second part, Italian society in 2009, deals with some of the most interesting trends that emerged in the past year: individuals on the verge of a crisis, the impoverishment of the public dimension, the central role played by time as a variable. The third part and the fourth part are devoted to in-depth appraisals of the key sectors: education and training, the labor market, health and welfare, territorial networks, the economic players, the mass media and communications, public governance, citizens and their security.