Research Institute on Population and Social Policies

July 18, 2024

Italian society in the storms of the new millennium – Monograph

The volume "Italian society in the weather of the new millennium" is the result of long work by various groups and individual researchers from IRPPS, coordinated by Claudia Pennacchiotti and Sandro Turcio.

The nine essays that make up the volume aim to provide analyzes and research results that describe the many facets of the Italian social crisis in the last quarter of a century, covering many of the Institute's research areas, from demography to the study of social policies, from the analysis of cultural phenomena to investigations into the world of education.

The monograph is available in full version on the IRPPS website.

Read book review in the Almanac of CNR Science.

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Demographic decline and reproductive choices in an Italy of uncertainty          
  3. The PNRR to the welfare challenge
  4. Challenging the emergency paradigm. Italian anti-violence policies put to the test by the pandemic
  5. Building community in a period of fragility and disorientation
  6. Europeanity between narratives and perceptions      
  7. Teenagers in the crowd. Social pathologies and proposals for intervention on human conditioning and interaction in the post-pandemic era   
  8. From writer to artist: towards an authorized aesthetic            
  9. Public health and post-Covid between preparedness and risk assessment in the WHO documents. Dialogue with Elisa Pieri            
  10. Uncertain faith: the transformations of religiosity