Research interests
| Topic |
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Description |
| Narrative Medicine |
Cristina Lonardi
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Co-construction and analysis of illness narratives, with reference to the representation of the subjective experience of illness, the explication of the social meaning of illness experience, and illness as an embodiment of social experience. Analysis of the ways in which people ascribe meaning to the illness experience in which they are involved, entrusting the narrative with the interpretive task of (re)constructing such meanings. These tools can also be used in medical, clinical and nursing research. |
| Cultural and communicative processes in the family environment |
Maria Gabriella Landuzzi
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The family environment represents a rich and complex space of relationship, characterized by values, specific languages and behaviors, whose knowledge and analysis helps us to understand internal relationships during life cycle and the relationships between families and the broader social context.
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| Educative processes |
Maria Gabriella Landuzzi
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The analysis of the educational and training processes allows to describe and interpret the relationships between culture, society and education. In the current social and cultural context, characterized by evident and continuous transformations, this analysis helps to interpret some issues that are particularly relevant both from the theoretical point of view and from the point of view of the professional working in the educational and social field. In this sense, the themes of difference, inequality, respect for values, become keys of interpretation through which to face the context by assuming wider points of view. |
| Health and Quality of Life |
Cristina Lonardi
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The theme focuses on the social conditions, structures and practices that influence the production of health. Specific objects of research are: the trajectories of interactions between bio-psycho-social systems (disease history, life course, etc.); health structures and decisions (resources-operators, health management, risks and errors); the analysis of health outcomes (subjective patient perceptions, quality of life, patient satisfaction). Special attention will be paid to quality of life in the context of chronic and stigmatizing diseases. |
| Socialization and mediation |
Maria Gabriella Landuzzi
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Socialization is generically the process by which individuals become social beings and active members within a social context. Analyzing the processes of socialization means to pay attention to the cultural changes that characterize today's western societies; furthermore, it helps to understand how the individual is placed between past and future, creating a sort of bridge, a mediation between what is transmitted to him (languages, values, roles, norms, expectations and beliefs) from previous generations and what he will internalize and lead to future generations.
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