NEL CAMPO DEL SOCIALE: INNOVAZIONE, VALUTAZIONE E DETERMINAZIONE DELLE CONDOTTE/IN SOCIAL FIELD: INNOVATION, EVALUATION AND DETERMINATION OF BEHAVIORS

Abstract

In this paper social innovation is analyzed as an “epistemological episode” related to the bureaucratic evolution of the Third Sector and anchored to disciplinary knowledge such as Urban Studies and the organizational analysis of social movements too. The authors aim to examine the contradictions of socially sustainable and innovative reforms in relation to the production of “capability technologies” to the advantage of territorialized organizations, increasingly oriented towards the provision of complex services and a state of tension towards improvement. Therefore, the continuous evaluation of the performance and the active participation are considered a new form of economic relationship.

Keywords:

Social Innovation; Evaluation; Active Participation; Welfare State and Third Sector; Sustainability.