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Social Changes, Evaluation and Methods (MUSA)

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GUIDE Gender stereotypes. Recognizing them to break them down

Social Changes, Evaluation and Methods (MUSA) is a multidisciplinary group that conducts scientific research in the field of social changes, on human attitudes, behaviors and conditioning, and in particular on youth, and deals with the evaluation of social policies, quantitative and qualitative research methodologies applied to socio-psychological research and higher education. Below are the four lines of activity of MUSA:

Social changes
The activity started in 2014 an innovative line of national research in the field of socio-psychological studies. The main phenomena of study concern: real and virtual human interaction, lifestyles, general well-being; negative deviance (bullying, cyberbullying, discriminatory attitudes and violence), hyperconnection, risky consumption, self-esteem, prosociality, aggression, distress, identity, values and social conditioning (gender and belonging stereotypes). The activity manages two national Observatories: the Observatory MSA-COVID-19 e the Youth Trends Observatory.
Evaluation of social policies and interventions
Activity aimed at analyzing aspects of innovation and evaluation of social policies and interventions in order to understand the effects of social, educational, training and welfare interventions in relation to specific variables of interest. It is associated with research, consultancy and training activities in the field of social and educational services.
Application and development of qualitative-quantitative social research methodologies
Activity concerning research methodologies both with consolidated experience of the Institute and innovative. These include the methods of quantitative analysis of the monovariate, bivariate and multivariate type (factorial and classification techniques), and of the qualitative type, such as SWOT and PEST analysis, content analysis, focus groups and interviews in depth, scenario planning methods for the construction of future scenarios (Delphi MIX of CNR-Irpps).
Training
Activity transversally associated with the previous ones that concerns training in schools and higher education aimed at teachers, trainers, operators and professionals, as well as university training on the following subjects: Methodology of social sciences (Tintori), Sociology of welfare (Accorinti), Statistics (Cerbara), Sociology of work (Pugliese). The activity also makes use of high skills in the field of organizing scientific dissemination, awareness-raising, training and education events aimed at the general public and realized through innovative formats (LIGHT; Inv-Factor, Mentimeter).
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Antonio Tintori (referent)

Maria Girolama Caruso

EXTERNAL PARTICIPANTS

Massimo Crescimbene (INGV)
Federica La Longa(INGV)
Maria Rita Parsi (Child Movement Foundation)