Silvia Cataldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 376427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Cataldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cataldi |
| SIGNATURE | CATALDI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5789-4699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The sociologist and the sirens: Iconography and inspiration of a metaphor thirty years later
The paper revisits the 1996 volume The Sociologist and the Sirens: The Challenge of Qualitative Methods (Cipolla and De Lillo, eds.), reflecting on the enduring relevance of its central metaphor. While the volume, based on a 1993 conference, set out to explore the tensions between qualitative and quantitative approaches, this article reclaims and further develops that metaphor, interpreting it as a lens through which to understand the challenges …
Self-spoliation and forms of resistance in total institutions: An exploration of time and space in an Albanian communist regime internment camp
The paper explores the daily life within Albanian internment camps during Enver Hoxha's prolonged communist regime, covering the period from 1944 to 1985. Extensive in-depth interviews with former internees underpin the research, which investigates the multifaceted strategies employed by these captives to resist the totalitarian obliteration of time and space, inherent in total institutions. These camps were not merely sites of physical isolation…
For an ethics of generosity: Values for ethnography in a time of regulatory ethics
The paper recommends a values-driven regeneration of research ethics for ethnography. In contrast to the current regulatory version of research ethics we propose a more subtle, field-oriented and traditional version, grounded in ethnographic experience. The paper is in three parts. The first part highlights the tacit assumptions of current systems of ethical approval for social research and their unintended and even perverse effects. Ethnography …
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
The objective of this research was to explore how attitudes to science and scientists may be related to anti-vax positions and whether the psychological trait known as Need for Closure may influence the relationship between any or all of these attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 1128 young people aged 18–25 living in Italy during the COVID-19 health crisis. Based on the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyse…
Methodological Challenges: From the First to the Second Wave of the World Love Index
This article is methodological in nature, addressing and discussing the challenges the research team encountered in constructing a new international well-being index called the World Love Index. This index represents the first quantitative operationalization of the concept of Social Love, which seeks to capture actions or social relationships characterized by excess and care for the benefit of individuals outside the primary circle, loved for the…
Prison and Love: The Role of Affection and Rehabilitative Actions in Reducing Recidivism and Beyond
This study investigates the protective role of emotional relationships and rehabilitative actions in reducing recidivism within the prison context. Data were collected from three Italian prisons as part of the European project “Calypsos”. This study examines the role of love across its various expressions and components in the social reintegration of inmates, exploring how family ties, educational programs, and employment opportunities contribute…
Traces of Hope from a New Transnational Well-Being Index: World Love Index
The article discusses the development of a new measurement called the World Love Index, which aims to evaluate people’s capacity to care for others and the world as an indicator of well-being. Drawing inspiration from appeals by intellectuals to shift towards a new form of humanism, the proposed new index aims to mark the transition towards a new social ecology, and it emphasizes the importance of social connections and relationships. In this way…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Related to Cognitive and Emotional States: A study on Sexual Offenders in Italy and Portugal
This study analysed the levels of cognitive distortions and verified whether adverse experiences (e.g., emotional abuse) may influence psychopathological traits, empathy deficits and levels of moral disengagement and cognitive distortions. Participants were 96 sex offenders: 64 participants are Italians and 32 participants are Portuguese studied cross-sectionally. A semistructured interview was administered to collect data about family and social…
Social Love and the Critical Potential of People: When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination
La tecnica Delphi: Limiti e potenzialità da un'esperienza di ricerca sociologica
Delphi is a technique born in the Fifties of the last century that takes advantage of the group to collect opinions and build a consensual representation. Starting from a research experience in the socio-health field on the issue of interprofessional care, the paper aims to propose a methodological evaluation of the technique, highlighting its limits and potential for social research
Social Love and the Critical Potential of People: When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination
Entrevista com Elena Pulcini
Elena Pulcini é professora titular de Filosofia Social no Departamento de Ciências Políticas e Sociais da Universidade de Florença. Colocou no centro de sua pesquisa o tema das paixões e do individualismo, as patologias sociais da modernidade e as formas de vínculo social, desenvolvendo também uma reflexão sobre o sujeito feminino; e propôs uma filosofia de cuidado para a era global. Sua pesquisa atual se concentra principalmente no desafio ecoló…
Challenges for Creating a Transnational Index From Secondary Sources: The World Love Index in the Making
This case focuses on the construction of the World Love Index, a new index built ad hoc on secondary sources with the aim of showing, through transnational comparisons, the different levels of Social Love (SL) present in different countries. The idea is part of the debate “Beyond GDP” which aims to develop indicators of the progress of a society, taking into account the environmental and social aspects of well-being. Within this framework, SL is …
A Natureza Relacional Do Bem Comum: Elementos Para Uma Lógica Da Partilha Na Terceira Revolução Industrial
O artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância dos bens comuns e sua natureza relacional, especialmente hoje após a pandemia. Depois de aprofundar o desafio da terceira revolução industrial, o artigo questiona como gerar e manter bens comuns a partir de algumas das teorias contemporâneas mais estimulantes: incluindo a teoria da dádiva e o conceito de amor como ágape. Ambos têm o mérito de sustentar uma lógica de compartilhamento, contrapondo-se…
Un concept karstique de la sociologie: L’amour Comme Socialité
L’essai analyse l’amour comme socialité dans l’histoire des sciences sociales, mettant en évidence sa dimension publique. Alors que la première partie est consacrée aux classiques de la sociologie, la deuxième partie se concentre sur les pensées des érudits contemporains et se termine par une proposition critique basée sur la surabounding et la priorité du bénéfice des autres. L’article montre comment l’amour est un ruisseau d’eau karstique qui d…
Between Tradition and Innovation: Religious Practices and Everyday Life of Second-Generation Muslim Women
The article focuses on the identity construction and recognition strategies adopted by young second-generation Muslim women living in Italy. The research was conducted by collecting life stories with the goal of investigating the processes of identity building in the private and in the public sphere. Moving from two key concepts, agency and intersectionality, the study explores those challenges and tensions which arise from the multi-membership (…
Associazionismo cattolico e politica. Tensioni valoriali e dissonanze cognitive
Is there a specific typical Catholic in terms of voting orientation and representation of politics? The results of the study presented below are aimed to try and find answers to this question. The study is part of a series of in-depth studies of the Electoral Sociology Observatory of the Department of Communication and Social Research, of the «Sapienza» University of Rome, and focuses on the values and political orientations of Catholics belongin…
Public Sociology and Participatory Approaches. Towards a Democratization of Social Research
The subject of participation has been gathering increasing interest from the various social disciplines: from politology to psychology, from urban sociology to evaluation, this concept carries a particular fascination and discussing participatory research has now become an absolute must. However, an adequate reflection on methodologies for analyzing research practices and evaluating hypotheses and effects when setting up actual research relations…
Quale modello di partecipazione per la ricerca sociale? Riflessivitŕ nel rapporto tra ricercatore e attore sociale
The article begins with a brief overview of how the relationship between researcher and object of study has been approached in social sciences. The goal is to reflect further on the process of this study and to raise two essential questions: what kind of relationship develops between the researcher and the social actor? And what kind of participation is required from the social actor? To answer these questions the article proposes identifying fou…
Public Sociology and Participatory Approaches. Towards a Democratization of Social Research
The subject of participation has been gathering increasing interest from the various social disciplines: from politology to psychology, from urban sociology to evaluation, this concept carries a particular fascination and discussing participatory research has now become an absolute must. However, an adequate reflection on methodologies for analyzing research practices and evaluating hypotheses and effects when setting up actual research relations…
For an ethics of generosity: Values for ethnography in a time of regulatory ethics
The paper recommends a values-driven regeneration of research ethics for ethnography. In contrast to the current regulatory version of research ethics we propose a more subtle, field-oriented and traditional version, grounded in ethnographic experience. The paper is in three parts. The first part highlights the tacit assumptions of current systems of ethical approval for social research and their unintended and even perverse effects. Ethnography …
Challenges for Creating a Transnational Index From Secondary Sources: The World Love Index in the Making
This case focuses on the construction of the World Love Index, a new index built ad hoc on secondary sources with the aim of showing, through transnational comparisons, the different levels of Social Love (SL) present in different countries. The idea is part of the debate “Beyond GDP” which aims to develop indicators of the progress of a society, taking into account the environmental and social aspects of well-being. Within this framework, SL is …
A Natureza Relacional Do Bem Comum: Elementos Para Uma Lógica Da Partilha Na Terceira Revolução Industrial
O artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância dos bens comuns e sua natureza relacional, especialmente hoje após a pandemia. Depois de aprofundar o desafio da terceira revolução industrial, o artigo questiona como gerar e manter bens comuns a partir de algumas das teorias contemporâneas mais estimulantes: incluindo a teoria da dádiva e o conceito de amor como ágape. Ambos têm o mérito de sustentar uma lógica de compartilhamento, contrapondo-se…
Un concept karstique de la sociologie: L’amour Comme Socialité
L’essai analyse l’amour comme socialité dans l’histoire des sciences sociales, mettant en évidence sa dimension publique. Alors que la première partie est consacrée aux classiques de la sociologie, la deuxième partie se concentre sur les pensées des érudits contemporains et se termine par une proposition critique basée sur la surabounding et la priorité du bénéfice des autres. L’article montre comment l’amour est un ruisseau d’eau karstique qui d…
Between Tradition and Innovation: Religious Practices and Everyday Life of Second-Generation Muslim Women
The article focuses on the identity construction and recognition strategies adopted by young second-generation Muslim women living in Italy. The research was conducted by collecting life stories with the goal of investigating the processes of identity building in the private and in the public sphere. Moving from two key concepts, agency and intersectionality, the study explores those challenges and tensions which arise from the multi-membership (…
Quale modello di partecipazione per la ricerca sociale? Riflessivitŕ nel rapporto tra ricercatore e attore sociale
The article begins with a brief overview of how the relationship between researcher and object of study has been approached in social sciences. The goal is to reflect further on the process of this study and to raise two essential questions: what kind of relationship develops between the researcher and the social actor? And what kind of participation is required from the social actor? To answer these questions the article proposes identifying fou…
Quale modello di partecipazione per la ricerca sociale? Riflessivitŕ nel rapporto tra ricercatore e attore sociale
The article begins with a brief overview of how the relationship between researcher and object of study has been approached in social sciences. The goal is to reflect further on the process of this study and to raise two essential questions: what kind of relationship develops between the researcher and the social actor? And what kind of participation is required from the social actor? To answer these questions the article proposes identifying fou…
Public Sociology and Participatory Approaches. Towards a Democratization of Social Research
The subject of participation has been gathering increasing interest from the various social disciplines: from politology to psychology, from urban sociology to evaluation, this concept carries a particular fascination and discussing participatory research has now become an absolute must. However, an adequate reflection on methodologies for analyzing research practices and evaluating hypotheses and effects when setting up actual research relations…
Associazionismo cattolico e politica. Tensioni valoriali e dissonanze cognitive
Is there a specific typical Catholic in terms of voting orientation and representation of politics? The results of the study presented below are aimed to try and find answers to this question. The study is part of a series of in-depth studies of the Electoral Sociology Observatory of the Department of Communication and Social Research, of the «Sapienza» University of Rome, and focuses on the values and political orientations of Catholics belongin…
Between Tradition and Innovation: Religious Practices and Everyday Life of Second-Generation Muslim Women
The article focuses on the identity construction and recognition strategies adopted by young second-generation Muslim women living in Italy. The research was conducted by collecting life stories with the goal of investigating the processes of identity building in the private and in the public sphere. Moving from two key concepts, agency and intersectionality, the study explores those challenges and tensions which arise from the multi-membership (…
Un concept karstique de la sociologie: L’amour Comme Socialité
L’essai analyse l’amour comme socialité dans l’histoire des sciences sociales, mettant en évidence sa dimension publique. Alors que la première partie est consacrée aux classiques de la sociologie, la deuxième partie se concentre sur les pensées des érudits contemporains et se termine par une proposition critique basée sur la surabounding et la priorité du bénéfice des autres. L’article montre comment l’amour est un ruisseau d’eau karstique qui d…
Entrevista com Elena Pulcini
Elena Pulcini é professora titular de Filosofia Social no Departamento de Ciências Políticas e Sociais da Universidade de Florença. Colocou no centro de sua pesquisa o tema das paixões e do individualismo, as patologias sociais da modernidade e as formas de vínculo social, desenvolvendo também uma reflexão sobre o sujeito feminino; e propôs uma filosofia de cuidado para a era global. Sua pesquisa atual se concentra principalmente no desafio ecoló…
Challenges for Creating a Transnational Index From Secondary Sources: The World Love Index in the Making
This case focuses on the construction of the World Love Index, a new index built ad hoc on secondary sources with the aim of showing, through transnational comparisons, the different levels of Social Love (SL) present in different countries. The idea is part of the debate “Beyond GDP” which aims to develop indicators of the progress of a society, taking into account the environmental and social aspects of well-being. Within this framework, SL is …
A Natureza Relacional Do Bem Comum: Elementos Para Uma Lógica Da Partilha Na Terceira Revolução Industrial
O artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre a importância dos bens comuns e sua natureza relacional, especialmente hoje após a pandemia. Depois de aprofundar o desafio da terceira revolução industrial, o artigo questiona como gerar e manter bens comuns a partir de algumas das teorias contemporâneas mais estimulantes: incluindo a teoria da dádiva e o conceito de amor como ágape. Ambos têm o mérito de sustentar uma lógica de compartilhamento, contrapondo-se…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Related to Cognitive and Emotional States: A study on Sexual Offenders in Italy and Portugal
This study analysed the levels of cognitive distortions and verified whether adverse experiences (e.g., emotional abuse) may influence psychopathological traits, empathy deficits and levels of moral disengagement and cognitive distortions. Participants were 96 sex offenders: 64 participants are Italians and 32 participants are Portuguese studied cross-sectionally. A semistructured interview was administered to collect data about family and social…
Social Love and the Critical Potential of People: When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination
La tecnica Delphi: Limiti e potenzialità da un'esperienza di ricerca sociologica
Delphi is a technique born in the Fifties of the last century that takes advantage of the group to collect opinions and build a consensual representation. Starting from a research experience in the socio-health field on the issue of interprofessional care, the paper aims to propose a methodological evaluation of the technique, highlighting its limits and potential for social research
Social Love and the Critical Potential of People: When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
The objective of this research was to explore how attitudes to science and scientists may be related to anti-vax positions and whether the psychological trait known as Need for Closure may influence the relationship between any or all of these attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 1128 young people aged 18–25 living in Italy during the COVID-19 health crisis. Based on the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyse…
Methodological Challenges: From the First to the Second Wave of the World Love Index
This article is methodological in nature, addressing and discussing the challenges the research team encountered in constructing a new international well-being index called the World Love Index. This index represents the first quantitative operationalization of the concept of Social Love, which seeks to capture actions or social relationships characterized by excess and care for the benefit of individuals outside the primary circle, loved for the…
Prison and Love: The Role of Affection and Rehabilitative Actions in Reducing Recidivism and Beyond
This study investigates the protective role of emotional relationships and rehabilitative actions in reducing recidivism within the prison context. Data were collected from three Italian prisons as part of the European project “Calypsos”. This study examines the role of love across its various expressions and components in the social reintegration of inmates, exploring how family ties, educational programs, and employment opportunities contribute…
Traces of Hope from a New Transnational Well-Being Index: World Love Index
The article discusses the development of a new measurement called the World Love Index, which aims to evaluate people’s capacity to care for others and the world as an indicator of well-being. Drawing inspiration from appeals by intellectuals to shift towards a new form of humanism, the proposed new index aims to mark the transition towards a new social ecology, and it emphasizes the importance of social connections and relationships. In this way…
Self-spoliation and forms of resistance in total institutions: An exploration of time and space in an Albanian communist regime internment camp
The paper explores the daily life within Albanian internment camps during Enver Hoxha's prolonged communist regime, covering the period from 1944 to 1985. Extensive in-depth interviews with former internees underpin the research, which investigates the multifaceted strategies employed by these captives to resist the totalitarian obliteration of time and space, inherent in total institutions. These camps were not merely sites of physical isolation…
For an ethics of generosity: Values for ethnography in a time of regulatory ethics
The paper recommends a values-driven regeneration of research ethics for ethnography. In contrast to the current regulatory version of research ethics we propose a more subtle, field-oriented and traditional version, grounded in ethnographic experience. The paper is in three parts. The first part highlights the tacit assumptions of current systems of ethical approval for social research and their unintended and even perverse effects. Ethnography …
The sociologist and the sirens: Iconography and inspiration of a metaphor thirty years later
The paper revisits the 1996 volume The Sociologist and the Sirens: The Challenge of Qualitative Methods (Cipolla and De Lillo, eds.), reflecting on the enduring relevance of its central metaphor. While the volume, based on a 1993 conference, set out to explore the tensions between qualitative and quantitative approaches, this article reclaims and further develops that metaphor, interpreting it as a lens through which to understand the challenges …
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