The volume “Italian Society in the Storms of the New Millennium” is the result of extensive work by various groups and individual researchers at IRPPS, coordinated by Claudia Pennacchiotti and Sandro Turcio.

The nine essays that compose the volume aim to present analyses and research findings that illustrate the many facets of the Italian social crisis over the last quarter 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 the book review in the Almanacco of CNR Science.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Demographic Decline and Reproductive Choices in Italy’s Age of Uncertainty
3. The NRRP and the Welfare Challenge
4. Challenging the Emergency Paradigm. Italian Anti-Violence Policies Put to the Test by the Pandemic
5. Building Communities in a Period of Fragility and Disorientation
6. Europeanness Between Narratives and Perceptions
7. Adolescents in the Crowd. Social Pathologies and Intervention Proposals on Conditioning and Human Interaction in the Post-Pandemic Era
8. From Writer to Artist: Toward an Authorized Aesthetic
9. Public Health and Post-COVID Between Preparedness and Risk Assessment in WHO Documents. Dialogue with Elisa Pieri
10. Uncertain Faith: The Transformations of Religiosity