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Through a reflection on the evolution of post-industrial society and the centrality that leisure time acquires in it, some operational perspectives are highlighted for the restart of this sector of which the pandemic has initiated and, in some cases, accelerated the crisis. These perspectives are aimed at the more sustainable reorganization of the production/consumption system of leisure time activities (smart leisure) to allow the explication of its important social function after the health crisis. Tracing the historical evolution of leisure time and work up to how they manifested themselves during the first lockdown, indications emerge for a rethinking of the development model of post-covid-19 society which will base its pillars on the principles of conviviality, of cultural deepening, of the work-life balance, in other words on the quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent years have witnessed a significant upsurge of third sector organizations in the European countries. Despite this growth, the mainstream welfare regime studies have continued to ignore the third sector and its actors in shaping regime trajectories. Engaging with a large set of scholarly literature, the article underlined that the role of third sector in the welfare regime debate is highly undervalued and that an important vector of postindustrial reforms becomes building institutions to manage and promote the development of third sector in the contemporary welfare policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a cross-sectional longitudinal analysis of time-budget data collected in Turin in 1979 and 2003, covering the period of the local society's transition from the industrial to the post-industrial phase. The focus is on the changing relationship between gender, social status and time allocation. Findings confirm results of other historical comparisons: a gender convergence in patterns of time use, particularly for highly-educated men and women. Instead there is no evidence of a change in the leisure/status gradient, which is one the main conclusions from Gershuny's work. This study's main results call for an explanation of the gender convergence that, from a symmetrical and opposite perspective, could be defined as persistence of gender differences/inequalities. Discussion involves the limits of the main explanatory approaches: rational choice and social conditioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses issues related to industries and work environment. For being good enterprising entrepreneurs and managers, it is necessary to possess one good ability to invest and one good capacity to invest. The necessary condition for business consists, in the forecast of the scene within which the enterprise will be found to operate. Today this scene is the postindustrial society, in which the epicenter of the system is no more borrowed by manufacture of material property, but the information, symbols, costs, an aesthetics is borrowed by manufacture of non-material property of service. Opportunities, due to growth of the ready information will be broken in a various measure in the second social and economic, cultural, critical abilities, filtrations and a choice of separate subjects. In the long period, acceptance of new technologies will bear strong expansion between the world excluded and involved, informed and irresponsible. The people involved in the acceptance of new technologies will prefer costs and models of behavior suitable for achievement of riches and success.

This essay analyzes cultural models of temporal dimension in contemporary industrialized societies. Three main points are made by the author: the first one is an internal problem concerning the relationship between dominant culture and subcultures (with particular reference to the &lquot;green&rquot movements); the second copes with a crucial external problem, that is the relationship between the cultural dimension of time in industrialized countries and in other cultures - with an assessment of their possibility to survive; the third, by liking internal and external aspects and by reassessing the technological and economic constraints, proposes a new perspective in order to overcome the difficulties outlined in the previous parts, in relation with the notions of post-industrial society and flexibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The starting point is the assumption of a positive correlation between the mental processes which are actuated in relationship with videogames and the cognitive structures required in postindustrial societies. In this framework, the necessary abilities are analyzed together with those which are acquired by playing with these electronic instruments. Therefore, it is assumed that through the use of videogames an intensive socialization is informally and unconsciously developed as anticipation of cognitive models which are more and more required by the society of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the development of a territory in context with the formation of a cultural district. According to the authors, culture plays a major role in the processes of creation of values in a society and thus in community development. The authors refer to the industrial and post-industrial societies in terms the creation of social identity of an individual. The acquisition of cultural experiences on part of the individuals and the society, favors the capacity of cultural capital.