Ana Caetano
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Caetano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Caetano |
| SIGNATURE | CAETANO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1864-3923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Navigating Between Welfare Deservingness and Social Justice: Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Ethical Decision-Making in Social Work
This study examines how social workers interpret welfare deservingness and exercise professional discretion when implementing social protection programmes within a decentralised welfare system. Grounded in a human rights and social justice perspective, it explores how frontline professionals navigate tensions between institutional mandates, ethical commitments, and the realities of everyday practice. Using a qualitative design, semi-structured in…
Improving Cardiovascular Nursing through Integrated Care
Maintaining an up-to-date nursing team according to European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines is essential for integrated and high-quality cardiovascular care. Nurses play a crucial role in managing complex conditions, and by following the latest ESC recommendations, they can enhance patient-centered care and improve health outcomes (1). However, barriers such as limited leadership, workload, and resource shortages often prevent the effecti…
Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction Health Journey: A Patient's Perspective
Users with cardiovascular pathology go through the different levels of the health system, with brief interactions with various health professionals, so it is necessary to consider their perspectives and experiences, focusing on accessibility, service provision, discharge and referral (1). Within the scope of the Cardiac Integrated Care project, this study aims to explore the user's health journey after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), focusing …
Enhancing Post‐Discharge Care for People Who Have Had an Acute Myocardial Infarction in Portugal: Insights From Patient Journey Mapping
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability, with the post-discharge period being particularly vulnerable for patients due to communication issues, medication errors, and inadequate follow-up. This study explores the patient experience following acute myocardial infarction in the Portuguese healthcare system, providing insights to improve care quality, outcomes, and satisfaction. METHODS: This study used qual…
The Impact of a Community-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prevention – Coimbra United by the Heart
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in Portugal and one of the most important causes of morbidity and incapacity in Portugal. Since 2016, through the project "Coimbra United by the Heart" (CUH) municipalities scaled-up efforts on cardiovascular disease prevention, creating a community health network that: 1) early identifies citizens with cardiovascular risk; 2) provide awareness-raising strategies for a healthy lifestyle; 3) improv…
Empowering Cardiology Nurses: Using Participatory Health Research to Address Low Patient Compliance After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with aging populations posing increasing challenges to healthcare systems. Recovery from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) requires compliance to treatment and lifestyle changes, but few patients comply with prescribed regimens. Participatory health research (PHR) has emerged as an effective approach for involving healthcare professionals and patients in joi…
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives
When we ask people to tell us the story of their lives, it is not the full extent of their biographies that we have access to, but only a partial version of it. Biographical narratives are permeated by processes of selection that imply highlighting some things while omitting others. Most of the time, what is left unsaid cannot be fully acknowledged, precisely because it is not explicitly verbalised. In the scope of the research project Biographic…
Shedding light on the biographical research field: Profiles of publication
Back to basics? Portraits of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal
In this essay, we analyse pictures taken by participants of a research study on their daily lives during the initial lockdown period in Portugal, as the result of the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs have the power to freeze a moment in time that, despite being represented in two-dimensions, is multi-layered. These images reveal the profound impact of the pandemic on people’s lives, affecting the most basic elements of their existe…
Can you keep a secret? Family histories, secrets and ethics
Secrets are important for understanding interpersonal and family relationships. They give insights into the dynamics, processes, interactions and bonds that are developed, interrupted or revisited throughout life. We address family secrets as observatories of interpersonal relationships in two ways. One relates to how the disclosed secrets reveal social norms and social changes in family relationships. The second relates to telling an individual …
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy
Keeping and telling secrets are acts of intimacy. This article explores secret-telling-friendly methodologies, capable of encouraging individuals to share their life stories in their own terms, with particular episodes, emotional connections, protagonists, and also secrets. The openness of our research design played an important part in the identification of the role of secret-storytelling in the understanding of life. This was enhanced by method…
Biographical research through the looking glass of social distancing: Reflections on biographical interviewing and online technologies in pandemic times
This paper asks critical questions about biographical interviewing during the coronavirus disease 2019 era and the age of social distancing. How do we ‘do’ biographical research when we are more physically distant from interview participants than ever before? What kinds of challenges and issues emerge when doing biographical research in online spaces? How do we form rapport and strong trusting bonds with interviewees in the current context? This …
More than meets the eye: Traditions, nucleus and peripheries of the biographical research field
Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives: Theory, Methods and Agendas
Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice
The main goal of this article is to analyse the relationship between reflexivity and action along three axes. The first entails the discussion of a reflexive action model that explores the combination of factors, processes and mechanisms which explain the guiding role reflexivity can play with regard to practices, in specific circumstances. The second axis concerns situations in which reflexivity does not act as an orientation mechanism and may e…
Forever young: Creative Responses to Challenging Issues in Biographical Research
Biographical research has a long tradition in social sciences. Being an incredibly dynamic interdisciplinary field, it has evolved in its core mission to study the links between individuals and society, strongly anchored in its tradition while also experimenting new approaches. In this paper we discuss a number of challenges resulting from this noteworthy development (theoretical, methodological, object-related and singularity-related) and the cr…
Reflexive Dialogues: Interaction and Writing as External Components of Personal Reflexivity
Margaret Archer's work suggests that reflexivity is exercised through internal dialogues, in which subjects talk to themselves in order to clarify ideas, mull over problems, make plans, and take decisions. The present article argues that the exercise of reflexive competences is not limited to the privacy of individual minds, but that there is also an external component, which can lend the concept a broader analytical scope. Using the results of q…
Untying Conceptual Knots: The Analytical Limits of the Concepts of De-Standardisation and Reflexivity
In some of the sociological production of recent decades, the popularity of individualisation theories has resulted in conceptually undifferentiated notions in the analysis of social change. De-standardisation, de-institutionalisation and pluralisation, on the one hand, and reflexivity, agency and action, on the other, are concepts that are frequently used interchangeably, self-evidently and without differentiation. In the social science literatu…
Coping With Life: A Typology of Personal Reflexivity
Personal reflexivity is understood as a social competence that makes life in society possible. All individuals reflect upon themselves, taking their social circumstances into consideration, though they do not necessarily do it in the same way. The formation, exercise, and causal efficacy of reflexivity depend on the social processes and contexts involved. This article focuses precisely on the differential component of the exercise of reflexivity.…
For a sociological analysis of personal reflexivity
The main goal of this paper is to present a theoretical proposal for the empirical analysis of personal reflexivity. Considering the challenges posed by the study of reflexivity, the contributions of different authors from sociology are discussed. A model for the analysis of the reflexive processes at the individual level is then proposed, based on the articulation between elements of critical realism and propositions fromdispositionalist theory …
Defining personal reflexivity: A critical reading of Archer’s approach
Margaret Archer plays a leading role in the sociological analysis of the relation between structure and agency, and particularly in the study of reflexivity. The main aim of this article is to discuss her approach, focusing on the main contributions and limitations of Archer's theory of reflexivity. It is argued that even though her research is a pioneering one, proposing an operationalization of the concept of reflexivity in view of its empirica…
Gendered family lives through the eyes of young people: Diversity, permanence and change of gender representations in Portugal
This article examines gender representations of family and parental roles among young people aged 11 to 14 years. It is based on the qualitative analysis of 792 essays written by Portuguese girls and boys attending compulsory education. The adolescents' texts express normative images and cultural representations about gender that are plural and indicative of several displacements and incongruences. When considering the most important representati…
Personal reflexivity and biography: Methodological Challenges and Strategies
This article examines the methodological device used in a sociological study that analyses empirically the concept of personal reflexivity. Taking into account the specific challenges of such an investigation the paper emphasises the potential of a biographical approach and the concrete parameters of its use. It is based on the experience of in-depth interviews conducted in more than one session and considers the different phases and elements of …
Complexidade E Mediação Socioeducativa Nas Assembléias De Turma
Neste artigo, situar-nos-emos numa perspectiva de mediação socioeducativa, enquadrada numa perspectiva de educação para a cidadania e de desenvolvimento de escolas mais justas e democráticas. Nesse sentido, considera-se que a mediação não se circunscreve a dispositivos de mediação formal, mas estende-se a dispositivos e processos de desenvolvimento curricular, entrando por dentro das salas de aula, e a processos de gestão e administração das esco…
Defining personal reflexivity: A critical reading of Archer’s approach
Margaret Archer plays a leading role in the sociological analysis of the relation between structure and agency, and particularly in the study of reflexivity. The main aim of this article is to discuss her approach, focusing on the main contributions and limitations of Archer's theory of reflexivity. It is argued that even though her research is a pioneering one, proposing an operationalization of the concept of reflexivity in view of its empirica…
Personal reflexivity and biography: Methodological Challenges and Strategies
This article examines the methodological device used in a sociological study that analyses empirically the concept of personal reflexivity. Taking into account the specific challenges of such an investigation the paper emphasises the potential of a biographical approach and the concrete parameters of its use. It is based on the experience of in-depth interviews conducted in more than one session and considers the different phases and elements of …
Coping With Life: A Typology of Personal Reflexivity
Personal reflexivity is understood as a social competence that makes life in society possible. All individuals reflect upon themselves, taking their social circumstances into consideration, though they do not necessarily do it in the same way. The formation, exercise, and causal efficacy of reflexivity depend on the social processes and contexts involved. This article focuses precisely on the differential component of the exercise of reflexivity.…
Forever young: Creative Responses to Challenging Issues in Biographical Research
Biographical research has a long tradition in social sciences. Being an incredibly dynamic interdisciplinary field, it has evolved in its core mission to study the links between individuals and society, strongly anchored in its tradition while also experimenting new approaches. In this paper we discuss a number of challenges resulting from this noteworthy development (theoretical, methodological, object-related and singularity-related) and the cr…
Untying Conceptual Knots: The Analytical Limits of the Concepts of De-Standardisation and Reflexivity
In some of the sociological production of recent decades, the popularity of individualisation theories has resulted in conceptually undifferentiated notions in the analysis of social change. De-standardisation, de-institutionalisation and pluralisation, on the one hand, and reflexivity, agency and action, on the other, are concepts that are frequently used interchangeably, self-evidently and without differentiation. In the social science literatu…
Reflexive Dialogues: Interaction and Writing as External Components of Personal Reflexivity
Margaret Archer's work suggests that reflexivity is exercised through internal dialogues, in which subjects talk to themselves in order to clarify ideas, mull over problems, make plans, and take decisions. The present article argues that the exercise of reflexive competences is not limited to the privacy of individual minds, but that there is also an external component, which can lend the concept a broader analytical scope. Using the results of q…
Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice
The main goal of this article is to analyse the relationship between reflexivity and action along three axes. The first entails the discussion of a reflexive action model that explores the combination of factors, processes and mechanisms which explain the guiding role reflexivity can play with regard to practices, in specific circumstances. The second axis concerns situations in which reflexivity does not act as an orientation mechanism and may e…
Gendered family lives through the eyes of young people: Diversity, permanence and change of gender representations in Portugal
This article examines gender representations of family and parental roles among young people aged 11 to 14 years. It is based on the qualitative analysis of 792 essays written by Portuguese girls and boys attending compulsory education. The adolescents' texts express normative images and cultural representations about gender that are plural and indicative of several displacements and incongruences. When considering the most important representati…
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives
When we ask people to tell us the story of their lives, it is not the full extent of their biographies that we have access to, but only a partial version of it. Biographical narratives are permeated by processes of selection that imply highlighting some things while omitting others. Most of the time, what is left unsaid cannot be fully acknowledged, precisely because it is not explicitly verbalised. In the scope of the research project Biographic…
Can you keep a secret? Family histories, secrets and ethics
Secrets are important for understanding interpersonal and family relationships. They give insights into the dynamics, processes, interactions and bonds that are developed, interrupted or revisited throughout life. We address family secrets as observatories of interpersonal relationships in two ways. One relates to how the disclosed secrets reveal social norms and social changes in family relationships. The second relates to telling an individual …
Complexidade E Mediação Socioeducativa Nas Assembléias De Turma
Neste artigo, situar-nos-emos numa perspectiva de mediação socioeducativa, enquadrada numa perspectiva de educação para a cidadania e de desenvolvimento de escolas mais justas e democráticas. Nesse sentido, considera-se que a mediação não se circunscreve a dispositivos de mediação formal, mas estende-se a dispositivos e processos de desenvolvimento curricular, entrando por dentro das salas de aula, e a processos de gestão e administração das esco…
Gendered family lives through the eyes of young people: Diversity, permanence and change of gender representations in Portugal
This article examines gender representations of family and parental roles among young people aged 11 to 14 years. It is based on the qualitative analysis of 792 essays written by Portuguese girls and boys attending compulsory education. The adolescents' texts express normative images and cultural representations about gender that are plural and indicative of several displacements and incongruences. When considering the most important representati…
Personal reflexivity and biography: Methodological Challenges and Strategies
This article examines the methodological device used in a sociological study that analyses empirically the concept of personal reflexivity. Taking into account the specific challenges of such an investigation the paper emphasises the potential of a biographical approach and the concrete parameters of its use. It is based on the experience of in-depth interviews conducted in more than one session and considers the different phases and elements of …
Defining personal reflexivity: A critical reading of Archer’s approach
Margaret Archer plays a leading role in the sociological analysis of the relation between structure and agency, and particularly in the study of reflexivity. The main aim of this article is to discuss her approach, focusing on the main contributions and limitations of Archer's theory of reflexivity. It is argued that even though her research is a pioneering one, proposing an operationalization of the concept of reflexivity in view of its empirica…
For a sociological analysis of personal reflexivity
The main goal of this paper is to present a theoretical proposal for the empirical analysis of personal reflexivity. Considering the challenges posed by the study of reflexivity, the contributions of different authors from sociology are discussed. A model for the analysis of the reflexive processes at the individual level is then proposed, based on the articulation between elements of critical realism and propositions fromdispositionalist theory …
Reflexive Dialogues: Interaction and Writing as External Components of Personal Reflexivity
Margaret Archer's work suggests that reflexivity is exercised through internal dialogues, in which subjects talk to themselves in order to clarify ideas, mull over problems, make plans, and take decisions. The present article argues that the exercise of reflexive competences is not limited to the privacy of individual minds, but that there is also an external component, which can lend the concept a broader analytical scope. Using the results of q…
Untying Conceptual Knots: The Analytical Limits of the Concepts of De-Standardisation and Reflexivity
In some of the sociological production of recent decades, the popularity of individualisation theories has resulted in conceptually undifferentiated notions in the analysis of social change. De-standardisation, de-institutionalisation and pluralisation, on the one hand, and reflexivity, agency and action, on the other, are concepts that are frequently used interchangeably, self-evidently and without differentiation. In the social science literatu…
Coping With Life: A Typology of Personal Reflexivity
Personal reflexivity is understood as a social competence that makes life in society possible. All individuals reflect upon themselves, taking their social circumstances into consideration, though they do not necessarily do it in the same way. The formation, exercise, and causal efficacy of reflexivity depend on the social processes and contexts involved. This article focuses precisely on the differential component of the exercise of reflexivity.…
Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice
The main goal of this article is to analyse the relationship between reflexivity and action along three axes. The first entails the discussion of a reflexive action model that explores the combination of factors, processes and mechanisms which explain the guiding role reflexivity can play with regard to practices, in specific circumstances. The second axis concerns situations in which reflexivity does not act as an orientation mechanism and may e…
Forever young: Creative Responses to Challenging Issues in Biographical Research
Biographical research has a long tradition in social sciences. Being an incredibly dynamic interdisciplinary field, it has evolved in its core mission to study the links between individuals and society, strongly anchored in its tradition while also experimenting new approaches. In this paper we discuss a number of challenges resulting from this noteworthy development (theoretical, methodological, object-related and singularity-related) and the cr…
More than meets the eye: Traditions, nucleus and peripheries of the biographical research field
Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives: Theory, Methods and Agendas
Biographical research through the looking glass of social distancing: Reflections on biographical interviewing and online technologies in pandemic times
This paper asks critical questions about biographical interviewing during the coronavirus disease 2019 era and the age of social distancing. How do we ‘do’ biographical research when we are more physically distant from interview participants than ever before? What kinds of challenges and issues emerge when doing biographical research in online spaces? How do we form rapport and strong trusting bonds with interviewees in the current context? This …
Shedding light on the biographical research field: Profiles of publication
Back to basics? Portraits of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal
In this essay, we analyse pictures taken by participants of a research study on their daily lives during the initial lockdown period in Portugal, as the result of the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs have the power to freeze a moment in time that, despite being represented in two-dimensions, is multi-layered. These images reveal the profound impact of the pandemic on people’s lives, affecting the most basic elements of their existe…
Can you keep a secret? Family histories, secrets and ethics
Secrets are important for understanding interpersonal and family relationships. They give insights into the dynamics, processes, interactions and bonds that are developed, interrupted or revisited throughout life. We address family secrets as observatories of interpersonal relationships in two ways. One relates to how the disclosed secrets reveal social norms and social changes in family relationships. The second relates to telling an individual …
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy
Keeping and telling secrets are acts of intimacy. This article explores secret-telling-friendly methodologies, capable of encouraging individuals to share their life stories in their own terms, with particular episodes, emotional connections, protagonists, and also secrets. The openness of our research design played an important part in the identification of the role of secret-storytelling in the understanding of life. This was enhanced by method…
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives
When we ask people to tell us the story of their lives, it is not the full extent of their biographies that we have access to, but only a partial version of it. Biographical narratives are permeated by processes of selection that imply highlighting some things while omitting others. Most of the time, what is left unsaid cannot be fully acknowledged, precisely because it is not explicitly verbalised. In the scope of the research project Biographic…
Enhancing Post‐Discharge Care for People Who Have Had an Acute Myocardial Infarction in Portugal: Insights From Patient Journey Mapping
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability, with the post-discharge period being particularly vulnerable for patients due to communication issues, medication errors, and inadequate follow-up. This study explores the patient experience following acute myocardial infarction in the Portuguese healthcare system, providing insights to improve care quality, outcomes, and satisfaction. METHODS: This study used qual…
The Impact of a Community-Based Cardiovascular Disease Prevention – Coimbra United by the Heart
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in Portugal and one of the most important causes of morbidity and incapacity in Portugal. Since 2016, through the project "Coimbra United by the Heart" (CUH) municipalities scaled-up efforts on cardiovascular disease prevention, creating a community health network that: 1) early identifies citizens with cardiovascular risk; 2) provide awareness-raising strategies for a healthy lifestyle; 3) improv…
Empowering Cardiology Nurses: Using Participatory Health Research to Address Low Patient Compliance After Acute Myocardial Infarction
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with aging populations posing increasing challenges to healthcare systems. Recovery from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) requires compliance to treatment and lifestyle changes, but few patients comply with prescribed regimens. Participatory health research (PHR) has emerged as an effective approach for involving healthcare professionals and patients in joi…
Navigating Between Welfare Deservingness and Social Justice: Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Ethical Decision-Making in Social Work
This study examines how social workers interpret welfare deservingness and exercise professional discretion when implementing social protection programmes within a decentralised welfare system. Grounded in a human rights and social justice perspective, it explores how frontline professionals navigate tensions between institutional mandates, ethical commitments, and the realities of everyday practice. Using a qualitative design, semi-structured in…
Improving Cardiovascular Nursing through Integrated Care
Maintaining an up-to-date nursing team according to European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines is essential for integrated and high-quality cardiovascular care. Nurses play a crucial role in managing complex conditions, and by following the latest ESC recommendations, they can enhance patient-centered care and improve health outcomes (1). However, barriers such as limited leadership, workload, and resource shortages often prevent the effecti…
Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction Health Journey: A Patient's Perspective
Users with cardiovascular pathology go through the different levels of the health system, with brief interactions with various health professionals, so it is necessary to consider their perspectives and experiences, focusing on accessibility, service provision, discharge and referral (1). Within the scope of the Cardiac Integrated Care project, this study aims to explore the user's health journey after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), focusing …
Sociology (17 works) · Social science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (8 works) · Reflexivity (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (7 works) · Data Analysis and Archiving (7 works)