Le parole della comunità. Evidenze da una ricerca empirica nella prospettiva del welfare responsabile

The paper, starting from a general framework on the theme of Community as it is interpreted by sociology and as it finds explicitness in public policies, illustrates the results of empirical research carried out through a structured questionnaire with open-ended questions administered to about 50 public, private and Third sector's organizations at the national level to investigate the five areas referable to the core principles of Responsible Welfare's proposal: personalization, activation, inclusiveness, territoriality, and reflexivity. Although the theme of community was not the core of the research, it emerged as a central element in respondents' answers. This made it possible to identify the constituent elements of the community from the witnesses' lived experiences of local welfare production: space, tools, and relationships.