I Crespi
Biographic Data
| ID | 46985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Crespi |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Crespi |
| SIGNATURE | CRESPI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macerata |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9443-8385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bridging the Gap: Implementing Work–Life Balance Policies for Gender Equality in Italy
This article examines the persistent gap between the formal recognition of work–life balance (WLB) policies and their effective implementation in Italy, within the broader European framework of gender equality. It adopts a multi-level approach that integrates the analysis of EU policy developments—particularly Directive (EU) 2019/1158—with pandemic-related dynamics and organizational practices The study is based on a combined methodology, includi…
Caring relationships in times of crisis: The role of families during the Covid-19 pandemic
Alongside challenges, results highlight underexplored functional aspects of family care practices, particularly the supportive role of new technologies. Digital tools emerged as a relevant resource for sustaining caregiving and mitigating relational and organisational breakdowns, suggesting the need to further integrate technological support into informal care strategies
The Sociology of Gender in Italy: From Marginal to Mainstream
Sociology is a field that examines the social construction of various aspects of human life, including gender and sexuality, and explores how these are produced and perceived by individuals, groups, and institutions. In Italy, despite resistance to institutionalization, Gender Studies have significantly enriched sociology by identifying new research areas and generating innovative analytical categories. Initially linked to second-wave feminism, G…
Visual methods and migration: Methodological advantages using documentary in the field
Visual methodology consists of recording, analysing, and communicating social life through photographs, films, and videos. This qualitative sociology branch considers the use of images as important techniques and methods in social research and identifies the primary role of visual experience in cognitive processes, through the visual data itself. In particular, the videos proposed in this contribution relocates the image of migrants’ experiences …
Generation Z and cyberviolence: Between Digital Platforms Use and Risk Awareness
The article focuses on the results of a national empirical research on Generation Z’s perceptions and experiences of cyberviolence. This term refers to aggressive and intentional actions, carried out, through electronic tools by a single person or a group, which deliberately aim to hurt or damage another who cannot defend himself. The main aim of this study was to gather national data on cyberviolence in order to explore better how young people (…
Cyberviolence and the digital experience: Reflections on a Problematic Issue for Youth
In this paper, the authors introduce some of the main aspects of cyberviolence related to digital life, and online experience with a specific focus on young people. Cyberviolence includes violent and calculated actions carried out through electronic tools. In different situations, the perpetrator(s) can be a single person or a group, which deliberately aims to hurt or damage another who cannot defend themselves, often because the victims are init…
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe: Policies, Culture and Public Opinion
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe: Policies, Culture and Public Opinion
Gender Equality in Europe and the Effect of Work-Family Balance Policies on Gender-Role Attitudes
This study starts from the assumption that the context of opportunities for work-family balance affects individual attitudes toward gender roles, a main indicator of support for gender equality. Compared with extant research, the present study adopts a more articulated definition of “opportunity structure” that includes national income level and social norms on gender attitudes, measures of gender-mainstreaming policies implemented at the company…
Gender equality and family changes in the work–family culture in Southern Europe
The wider context of the trade-off between work and family is not just a matter of changing preferences. The focus of the literature in this area has been strongly concerned with the identification of factors promoting high levels of female employment than with the location of policy determinants of cross-national fertility variation. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to e…
Future perspectives on work and family dynamics in Southern Europe: The Importance of Culture and Regional Contexts
The Southern countries model (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece) take a specific family-oriented approach to work–family reconciliation. They are family-oriented in that they entrust the family with more responsibilities that in other countries. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to encourage women’s labour-market participation; this results in the poor development of exte…
Balancing Work and Family in a Changing Society: The Fathers’ Perspective
This book intends to explore, with an international perspective, the changing roles of men and fathers in a global context and how contemporary fathers deal with the work-life balance. It also intends to discuss the social issues (but also tensions) associated with changing male and father identities and with the existing social and policy agendas. Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers’ lives. …
Facing the Gender Gap in Aging: Italian Women’s Pension in the European Context
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of increasing gender inequalities that happen at old age regarding women’s pension. Moving from recent life-course theories and studies, this study analyzes the reasons behind gender-biased pension levels and how their cumulative effects result in (continuous) significant gender gaps. The article presents a European overview of pension gender gap, focusing on family and work-li…
Transition to fatherhood: New perspectives in the global context of changing men's identities
The proposed thematic session aims to highlight the main challenges that the cultural and structural changes within the families and in gender relations and the changing social expectations about men's involvement in the care of children and about fatherhood pose to men's and fathers’ identity. Fathering in contemporary society requires men to be simultaneously provider, guide, household help and nurturer. The difficulties of these roles, and the…
Foreign Families in the Italian Context: Migration Processes and Strategies
The aim of the paper is to highlights the main trends of the migration process in the last decades, in relations to the migrant families experiences within the Italian context. In particular, the paper will focus on some specific issues: changing patterns of family migrations in Italy, migrant families formation transitions and life-course strategies, migrants and mixed families models from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. These aspects…
Families, welfare state and social changes in the European context: New Perspectives
This special issue covers the topics of families, welfare state, and social change in Europe, with a focus on the role of families in different welfare regimes and different ways of negotiating thi
Transition to parenthood and fertility intentions in Europe. Family choices and child-birth challenges
This special issue of the International Review of Sociology deals with a crucial problem in developed countries: the decrease of fertility rates below a threshold that can no longer ensure the subs
The cost of a child, mother's employment behavior and economic insecurity in Europe
The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given rise to a massive transformation in traditional patterns of relationships, especially in gender roles and family size. This paper will examine the outcome of the birth of a child and link this outcome to specific family policies in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Irelan…
Gender differences and equality issues in Europe: Critical Aspects of Gender Mainstreaming Policies
Gender mainstreaming is the major global strategy for the promotion of gender equality. Clear intergovernmental mandates for gender mainstreaming have been developed for all the major areas of work of the United Nations and the European Commission, including disarmament, poverty reduction, macro-economics, health, education and trade. The evaluation of equal opportunities mainly focuses on qualification measures for unemployed women and improveme…
Ethical Considerations When Establishing Survey Standards
To qualify as a profession, any occupation must meet both ethical and technical criteria. This article focuses on the ethical criteria, with only tangential references to technical skills and performance criteria. It asserts that: (a) rigid adherence to performance standards does not necessarily protect professional ethics and (b) professional ethics per se do not protect transcendent moral codes. Professional ethics involve obligations to client…
Plenary Session: The Future of Polling
Journal Article PLENARY SESSION: THE FUTURE OF POLLING Get access Irving Crespi Irving Crespi The Gallup Organization, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, FALL 1975, Pages 405–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/39.3.405 Published: 01 January 1975
Social Audit of the Corporation
SOCIAL AUDIT OF THE CORPORATION Get access Irving Crespi Irving Crespi Chairman The Gallup Organization, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 3, FALL 1973, Pages 458–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/37.3.458 Published: 01 January 1973
Imponderables of the 1972 Election
Journal Article IMPONDERABLES OF THE 1972 ELECTION Get access Irving Crespi Irving Crespi The Gallup Organization, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, FALL 1972, Pages 447–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/36.3.447 Published: 01 January 1972
Gender Equality in Europe and the Effect of Work-Family Balance Policies on Gender-Role Attitudes
This study starts from the assumption that the context of opportunities for work-family balance affects individual attitudes toward gender roles, a main indicator of support for gender equality. Compared with extant research, the present study adopts a more articulated definition of “opportunity structure” that includes national income level and social norms on gender attitudes, measures of gender-mainstreaming policies implemented at the company…
The cost of a child, mother's employment behavior and economic insecurity in Europe
The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given rise to a massive transformation in traditional patterns of relationships, especially in gender roles and family size. This paper will examine the outcome of the birth of a child and link this outcome to specific family policies in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Irelan…
Facing the Gender Gap in Aging: Italian Women’s Pension in the European Context
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of increasing gender inequalities that happen at old age regarding women’s pension. Moving from recent life-course theories and studies, this study analyzes the reasons behind gender-biased pension levels and how their cumulative effects result in (continuous) significant gender gaps. The article presents a European overview of pension gender gap, focusing on family and work-li…
Transition to fatherhood: New perspectives in the global context of changing men's identities
The proposed thematic session aims to highlight the main challenges that the cultural and structural changes within the families and in gender relations and the changing social expectations about men's involvement in the care of children and about fatherhood pose to men's and fathers’ identity. Fathering in contemporary society requires men to be simultaneously provider, guide, household help and nurturer. The difficulties of these roles, and the…
Foreign Families in the Italian Context: Migration Processes and Strategies
The aim of the paper is to highlights the main trends of the migration process in the last decades, in relations to the migrant families experiences within the Italian context. In particular, the paper will focus on some specific issues: changing patterns of family migrations in Italy, migrant families formation transitions and life-course strategies, migrants and mixed families models from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. These aspects…
Gender equality and family changes in the work–family culture in Southern Europe
The wider context of the trade-off between work and family is not just a matter of changing preferences. The focus of the literature in this area has been strongly concerned with the identification of factors promoting high levels of female employment than with the location of policy determinants of cross-national fertility variation. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to e…
The Sociology of Gender in Italy: From Marginal to Mainstream
Sociology is a field that examines the social construction of various aspects of human life, including gender and sexuality, and explores how these are produced and perceived by individuals, groups, and institutions. In Italy, despite resistance to institutionalization, Gender Studies have significantly enriched sociology by identifying new research areas and generating innovative analytical categories. Initially linked to second-wave feminism, G…
Cyberviolence and the digital experience: Reflections on a Problematic Issue for Youth
In this paper, the authors introduce some of the main aspects of cyberviolence related to digital life, and online experience with a specific focus on young people. Cyberviolence includes violent and calculated actions carried out through electronic tools. In different situations, the perpetrator(s) can be a single person or a group, which deliberately aims to hurt or damage another who cannot defend themselves, often because the victims are init…
Transition to parenthood and fertility intentions in Europe. Family choices and child-birth challenges
This special issue of the International Review of Sociology deals with a crucial problem in developed countries: the decrease of fertility rates below a threshold that can no longer ensure the subs
Gender differences and equality issues in Europe: Critical Aspects of Gender Mainstreaming Policies
Gender mainstreaming is the major global strategy for the promotion of gender equality. Clear intergovernmental mandates for gender mainstreaming have been developed for all the major areas of work of the United Nations and the European Commission, including disarmament, poverty reduction, macro-economics, health, education and trade. The evaluation of equal opportunities mainly focuses on qualification measures for unemployed women and improveme…
Imponderables of the 1972 Election
Journal Article IMPONDERABLES OF THE 1972 ELECTION Get access Irving Crespi Irving Crespi The Gallup Organization, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, FALL 1972, Pages 447–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/36.3.447 Published: 01 January 1972
Social Audit of the Corporation
SOCIAL AUDIT OF THE CORPORATION Get access Irving Crespi Irving Crespi Chairman The Gallup Organization, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 3, FALL 1973, Pages 458–460, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/37.3.458 Published: 01 January 1973
Plenary Session: The Future of Polling
Journal Article PLENARY SESSION: THE FUTURE OF POLLING Get access Irving Crespi Irving Crespi The Gallup Organization, Inc. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, FALL 1975, Pages 405–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/39.3.405 Published: 01 January 1975
Ethical Considerations When Establishing Survey Standards
To qualify as a profession, any occupation must meet both ethical and technical criteria. This article focuses on the ethical criteria, with only tangential references to technical skills and performance criteria. It asserts that: (a) rigid adherence to performance standards does not necessarily protect professional ethics and (b) professional ethics per se do not protect transcendent moral codes. Professional ethics involve obligations to client…
Gender differences and equality issues in Europe: Critical Aspects of Gender Mainstreaming Policies
Gender mainstreaming is the major global strategy for the promotion of gender equality. Clear intergovernmental mandates for gender mainstreaming have been developed for all the major areas of work of the United Nations and the European Commission, including disarmament, poverty reduction, macro-economics, health, education and trade. The evaluation of equal opportunities mainly focuses on qualification measures for unemployed women and improveme…
Transition to parenthood and fertility intentions in Europe. Family choices and child-birth challenges
This special issue of the International Review of Sociology deals with a crucial problem in developed countries: the decrease of fertility rates below a threshold that can no longer ensure the subs
The cost of a child, mother's employment behavior and economic insecurity in Europe
The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given rise to a massive transformation in traditional patterns of relationships, especially in gender roles and family size. This paper will examine the outcome of the birth of a child and link this outcome to specific family policies in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Irelan…
Families, welfare state and social changes in the European context: New Perspectives
This special issue covers the topics of families, welfare state, and social change in Europe, with a focus on the role of families in different welfare regimes and different ways of negotiating thi
Foreign Families in the Italian Context: Migration Processes and Strategies
The aim of the paper is to highlights the main trends of the migration process in the last decades, in relations to the migrant families experiences within the Italian context. In particular, the paper will focus on some specific issues: changing patterns of family migrations in Italy, migrant families formation transitions and life-course strategies, migrants and mixed families models from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. These aspects…
Facing the Gender Gap in Aging: Italian Women’s Pension in the European Context
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of increasing gender inequalities that happen at old age regarding women’s pension. Moving from recent life-course theories and studies, this study analyzes the reasons behind gender-biased pension levels and how their cumulative effects result in (continuous) significant gender gaps. The article presents a European overview of pension gender gap, focusing on family and work-li…
Transition to fatherhood: New perspectives in the global context of changing men's identities
The proposed thematic session aims to highlight the main challenges that the cultural and structural changes within the families and in gender relations and the changing social expectations about men's involvement in the care of children and about fatherhood pose to men's and fathers’ identity. Fathering in contemporary society requires men to be simultaneously provider, guide, household help and nurturer. The difficulties of these roles, and the…
Balancing Work and Family in a Changing Society: The Fathers’ Perspective
This book intends to explore, with an international perspective, the changing roles of men and fathers in a global context and how contemporary fathers deal with the work-life balance. It also intends to discuss the social issues (but also tensions) associated with changing male and father identities and with the existing social and policy agendas. Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers’ lives. …
Gender equality and family changes in the work–family culture in Southern Europe
The wider context of the trade-off between work and family is not just a matter of changing preferences. The focus of the literature in this area has been strongly concerned with the identification of factors promoting high levels of female employment than with the location of policy determinants of cross-national fertility variation. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to e…
Future perspectives on work and family dynamics in Southern Europe: The Importance of Culture and Regional Contexts
The Southern countries model (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece) take a specific family-oriented approach to work–family reconciliation. They are family-oriented in that they entrust the family with more responsibilities that in other countries. Work–family reconciliation is considered as a political action that gives quite limited and unstable support to encourage women’s labour-market participation; this results in the poor development of exte…
Gender Equality in Europe and the Effect of Work-Family Balance Policies on Gender-Role Attitudes
This study starts from the assumption that the context of opportunities for work-family balance affects individual attitudes toward gender roles, a main indicator of support for gender equality. Compared with extant research, the present study adopts a more articulated definition of “opportunity structure” that includes national income level and social norms on gender attitudes, measures of gender-mainstreaming policies implemented at the company…
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe: Policies, Culture and Public Opinion
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe: Policies, Culture and Public Opinion
Visual methods and migration: Methodological advantages using documentary in the field
Visual methodology consists of recording, analysing, and communicating social life through photographs, films, and videos. This qualitative sociology branch considers the use of images as important techniques and methods in social research and identifies the primary role of visual experience in cognitive processes, through the visual data itself. In particular, the videos proposed in this contribution relocates the image of migrants’ experiences …
Generation Z and cyberviolence: Between Digital Platforms Use and Risk Awareness
The article focuses on the results of a national empirical research on Generation Z’s perceptions and experiences of cyberviolence. This term refers to aggressive and intentional actions, carried out, through electronic tools by a single person or a group, which deliberately aim to hurt or damage another who cannot defend himself. The main aim of this study was to gather national data on cyberviolence in order to explore better how young people (…
Cyberviolence and the digital experience: Reflections on a Problematic Issue for Youth
In this paper, the authors introduce some of the main aspects of cyberviolence related to digital life, and online experience with a specific focus on young people. Cyberviolence includes violent and calculated actions carried out through electronic tools. In different situations, the perpetrator(s) can be a single person or a group, which deliberately aims to hurt or damage another who cannot defend themselves, often because the victims are init…
The Sociology of Gender in Italy: From Marginal to Mainstream
Sociology is a field that examines the social construction of various aspects of human life, including gender and sexuality, and explores how these are produced and perceived by individuals, groups, and institutions. In Italy, despite resistance to institutionalization, Gender Studies have significantly enriched sociology by identifying new research areas and generating innovative analytical categories. Initially linked to second-wave feminism, G…
Bridging the Gap: Implementing Work–Life Balance Policies for Gender Equality in Italy
This article examines the persistent gap between the formal recognition of work–life balance (WLB) policies and their effective implementation in Italy, within the broader European framework of gender equality. It adopts a multi-level approach that integrates the analysis of EU policy developments—particularly Directive (EU) 2019/1158—with pandemic-related dynamics and organizational practices The study is based on a combined methodology, includi…
Caring relationships in times of crisis: The role of families during the Covid-19 pandemic
Alongside challenges, results highlight underexplored functional aspects of family care practices, particularly the supportive role of new technologies. Digital tools emerged as a relevant resource for sustaining caregiving and mitigating relational and organisational breakdowns, suggesting the need to further integrate technological support into informal care strategies
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Law (6 works)