Elisabetta Carra'

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuorre, Scociology, Faculty Member

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1986 MA in Philosophy
1995 PhD in Sociology and Methodology for Social Research - Catholic University of Milan

Current academic position
Associated Professor, Faculty of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan:
- General Sociology, Faculty of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan
- Sociology of psyco-social intervention planning, Faculty of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan
- Sociology of the services to the person

Teacher at PhD program in Sociology and Methodology for Social Research - Catholic University (Milan)

Main research interests

a) family transitions, with particular focus on relations between generations

b) social and cultural transformations of the family; variability of family forms

c) planning policies regarding family; transformation and pluralisation of the traditional welfare system on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity

d) family associations, as a social formation who can take part in the production of well-being and who can empower the family as a subject with a specific social identity

e) good practices in the social services area, as relational services that produce social capital.

Research experience

1992-1993: I participated to an interdisciplinary quantitative research on the family relationships of adolescents.

1997-1998: I coordinated with D. Bramanti a quantitative research on 600 young families living in Lombardy.

2000 al 2004: I coordinated an action-research on the “Regional Policy for the family” (l.r. 23/99) in Lombardy.

2004: I coordinated a qualitative research on the organisms for the representation of the family in Italy, with the commitment of the National Observatory on the Family

2005: I coordinated a quanti-qualitative research on informal groups and family associations in Veneto (Verona and Padua).

2005: I coordinated a qualitative research on the Centres for the aggregation of young people in Milan.

2005-2007: I participated to a national research “Family needs and personalised services: good practices of partnership among public, private and third sector” and I realized the case study on the professional family child fostering in the Province of Milan.

2008-2009: I coordinated a quanti-qualitative research on residential care for out-of-home children and youths in Lombardy

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Un’osservazione che progetta. Strumenti per l’analisi e la progettazione relazionale di interventi nel sociale

The book aims to document the greater effectiveness of a planning and intervention approach which... more The book aims to document the greater effectiveness of a planning and intervention approach which focuses on the relationship between subjects and promotes their activation in the process of identifying and achieving the goals. The awareness of the complexity and riskiness of contemporary living, argued in the first part, reinforce the necessity to multiply the points of view by designing and working in a network, as to reduce the uncertainty of social action. In the second part the volume offers a comprehensive overview of the main instruments used by the relational analysis and planning. As the final words of the book suggest, the adoption of a relational perspective in the observation planning and implementation of social interventions can promote the realization of "good practices" in the strong sense, that is "ethically good", aimed at a “good life” model; practices which are able to regenerate the social bond and the relational structure of society, damaged and eroded by the prevailing individualism.

Buone pratiche e capitale sociale. Servizi alla persona pubblici e di privato sociale a confronto

The core of the volume is that the quality of services to the person and the possibility to consi... more The core of the volume is that the quality of services to the person and the possibility to consider them as “good practices" depends on their ability to generate and regenerate the social capital of the users and their networks of relationships. From the perspective of relational sociology, social capital consists of mutual relationships based on trust and cooperation, which are a good in itself and not a mere instrument to achieve other goals. These specific characteristics make more likely that social capital generates itself in social private organizations, in which individuals generally act on the basis of a spirit of solidarity, and their help is centered on the relationship of trust between the provider of the service and the user. On the contrary, it is difficult that social capital develops in public or market organizations providing standardized services, where the role takes precedence over the person, and where bonds between people is functional and instrumental. Through the analysis of the results of two studies – on public and social private Youthful Aggregation Centers of the city council of Milan and on professional foster care of the Province of Milan - the starting hypothesis is only partially confirmed: social capital may also be the unexpected effect of any action brought by public bodies that through a participatory approach manage to release the work of social networks. Whereas, social capital may find it hard to increase where subjects of social private fail to fully promote the empowerment of the recipients of its services.

I servizi di accoglienza residenziale per minori in Lombardia. Verso una valutazione della qualità relazionale.

by Elisabetta Carra' and Donatella Bramanti

The implementation of a plural and subsidiary welfare proceeds through the creation of services w... more The implementation of a plural and subsidiary welfare proceeds through the creation of services which are not only efficient (using appropriate resources in a rational way), not only effective (reaching the goals for which they were created), but also having a relational quality. Relational quality is intended as the capacity of the services to increase the value of individuals and their networks of relationships, by activating them so that they can participate actively in the definition and the production of their well-being and in the evaluation of the obtained results. In the research presented in this volume the idea of relational quality is applied to the field of residential care services for minors, with the aim to assess the level reached by these facilities in Lombardy.

This has led to reflect on the fact that the effectiveness of the intervention of these services could not be measured only from an "inside" point of view; it was however necessary to consider them only as a "tool" (the "node" of a network), as part of policies responding to the needs of children and families in difficulty. Through a very complex device research, which involved 133 Managing Authorities of residential care facilities, 187 coordinators, 97 children, 30 social workers, it has been possible to detail strengths and weaknesses of this complex structure.

Papers by Elisabetta Carra'

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L\u2019impatto familiare delle politiche del governo durante la pandemia di covid-19 in Italia: le famiglie chiedono sussidiariet\ue0?

The emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has led the Italian government to run the risk of s... more The emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has led the Italian government to run the risk of strengthening the still too-widespread welfare regime that delegates to families the answers to social needs, taking for granted their willingness to do so. Through data from the first wave of a longitudinal research project entitled \u201cThe family at the time of Covid-19\u201d (N = 2985), it has been possible to highlight a certain disagreement on the capacity of the government to support families effectively during the most critical period of the pandemic in Italy (March-April 2020), despite entrusting them with several crucial tasks and functions. Data show also that to feel supported by the government as a family is closely related to an optimistic vision of the future and the belief in the possibility that families can contribute to social change. This result suggests that participants are geared to a subsidiary welfare regime, in which families, with support from government, play ...

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