Young people between dreams and needs (1994)
The aim of this work is to focus on the crucial junctures in the condition of young people, laying bare the various problems and highlighting the most significant trends. The survey covers social, political and cultural areas ranging from school education to unemployment, from criminal behaviour to opinions on crime, from cultural consumption to xenophobia, from small identities to marginalised groups.
For each of these dimensions, an attempt has been made to draw some interpretative lines based on the collected data from field surveys and opinion polls, in order to reconstruct a picture as exhaustive as possible of the current condition of young people in Italy and its repercussions on the political, social and cultural fabric of the country.
Index
Preface
Chapter 1
How many are they, how many will they be
Chapter 2
Education between obligation and cultural accomplishment
Chapter 3
Waiting for work. Youth unemployment
Chapter Four
Creating jobs… Youth entrepreneurship
Chapter Five
The conscription service
Chapter 6
Juvenile crime
Chapter 7
Youth xenophobia
Chapter 8
The boys of the stadium. Football between fans and violence
Chapter 9
Young people and mass media
Karaoke on TV
The information of the press
Chapter 10
The historical memory of young people
Chapter 11
Young people and institutions
Chapter 12
Young people’s views on crime
Chapter 13
What values for young people in the 1990s?
Chapter 14
In search of identity
Chapter 15. A vulnerable world
Drug addiction
The smile of Aphrodite. Young people and homosexuality
The young people’s ultimate choice
Conclusions