Programme

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of the communicative interactions. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and social practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generations, and social class.

Core Documentation

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Words. The Ecology of Conversation, Routledge, London, 2023.
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind, Routledge, London, 2024 (in publication).
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116.

2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507.

Reference Bibliography

Moreover, the following texts are suggested, but not mandatory for the exam (available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform): 1) David L. Rosenhan (1972), On being sane in insane places, in “Santa Clara Lawyer”, 13, pp. 379-399. 2) David Sudnow (1970), Dying in a Public Hospital in Orville G., Jr. Brim, Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine, Norman A. Scotch (Eds.), The Dying Patient, Routledge, pp. 191 – 208. 3) Harvey Sacks (1972), Notes on police assessment of moral character, in D. Sudnow (ed), “Studies in social interaction”, New York, Free Press, pp. 280–293. 4) Erving Goffman (1959), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). 5) Stuart Hall (1999), Encoding and Decoding in S. During (ed), The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, pp. 90-103. 6) Pierre Bourdieu (1999), Site Effects, in Bourdieu, P., Accardo, A., Balazs, G., Beaud, S., Bonvin, F., & Bourdieu, E. (eds), The weight of the world: Social suffering in contemporary society, Stanford University Press, pp. 123-129.

Type of delivery of the course

The course is based on traditional lectures and two laboratories in working-groups. Students will also be involved in seminars led by academic experts on the topics covered.

Attendance

The attendance is mandatory.

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.

Programme

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generation and social class.

Core Documentation

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-words. The Ecology of Conversation", Routledge, London, 2023
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with A Polluted Mind, Routledge, London (in publication - October 1, 2024)
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116
2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507

Reference Bibliography

Moreover, the following texts are suggested, but not mandatory for the exam: 1) Paul Watzlavick et all., 1971, Pragmatica della comunicazione umana, Astrolabio, Roma, cap. 1 “Presupposti teorici”, cap. 2 “Tentativo di fissare alcuni assiomi della comunicazione” e cap. 3 “La comunicazione patologica”, pp. 13-111. 2) Georg Simmel, 1903, Le metropoli e la vita dello spirito, Armando, Roma, pp. 35-57. 3) Anna Lisa Tota (a cura di), 2008, Gender e media. Verso un immaginario sostenibile, Roma, Meltemi. 4) David L. Rosenhan (1972), On being sane in insane places, in “Santa Clara Lawyer”, 13, pp. 379-399 5) David Sudnow (1970), Dying in a Public Hospital in Orville G., Jr. Brim, Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine, Norman A. Scotch (Eds.), The Dying Patient, Routledge, pp. 191 – 208 6) Harvey Sacks (1972), Notes on police assessment of moral character, in D. Sudnow (ed), “Studies in social interaction”, New York, Free Press, pp. 280–293. 7) Erving Goffman (1959), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). 8) Stuart Hall (1999), Encoding and Decoding in S. During (ed), The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, pp. 90-103 9) Pierre Bourdieu (1999), Site Effects, in Bourdieu, P., Accardo, A., Balazs, G., Beaud, S., Bonvin, F., & Bourdieu, E. (eds), The weight of the world: Social suffering in contemporary society, Stanford University Press, pp. 123-129

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.

Programme

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of the communicative interactions. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and social practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generations, and social class.

Core Documentation

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Words. The Ecology of Conversation, Routledge, London, 2023.
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind, Routledge, London, 2024 (in publication).
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116.

2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507.

Reference Bibliography

Moreover, the following texts are suggested, but not mandatory for the exam (available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform): 1) David L. Rosenhan (1972), On being sane in insane places, in “Santa Clara Lawyer”, 13, pp. 379-399. 2) David Sudnow (1970), Dying in a Public Hospital in Orville G., Jr. Brim, Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine, Norman A. Scotch (Eds.), The Dying Patient, Routledge, pp. 191 – 208. 3) Harvey Sacks (1972), Notes on police assessment of moral character, in D. Sudnow (ed), “Studies in social interaction”, New York, Free Press, pp. 280–293. 4) Erving Goffman (1959), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). 5) Stuart Hall (1999), Encoding and Decoding in S. During (ed), The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, pp. 90-103. 6) Pierre Bourdieu (1999), Site Effects, in Bourdieu, P., Accardo, A., Balazs, G., Beaud, S., Bonvin, F., & Bourdieu, E. (eds), The weight of the world: Social suffering in contemporary society, Stanford University Press, pp. 123-129.

Type of delivery of the course

The course is based on traditional lectures and two laboratories in working-groups. Students will also be involved in seminars led by academic experts on the topics covered.

Attendance

The attendance is mandatory.

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.

Programme

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generation and social class.

Core Documentation

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-words. The Ecology of Conversation", Routledge, London, 2023
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with A Polluted Mind, Routledge, London (in publication - October 1, 2024)
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116
2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507

Reference Bibliography

Moreover, the following texts are suggested, but not mandatory for the exam: 1) Paul Watzlavick et all., 1971, Pragmatica della comunicazione umana, Astrolabio, Roma, cap. 1 “Presupposti teorici”, cap. 2 “Tentativo di fissare alcuni assiomi della comunicazione” e cap. 3 “La comunicazione patologica”, pp. 13-111. 2) Georg Simmel, 1903, Le metropoli e la vita dello spirito, Armando, Roma, pp. 35-57. 3) Anna Lisa Tota (a cura di), 2008, Gender e media. Verso un immaginario sostenibile, Roma, Meltemi. 4) David L. Rosenhan (1972), On being sane in insane places, in “Santa Clara Lawyer”, 13, pp. 379-399 5) David Sudnow (1970), Dying in a Public Hospital in Orville G., Jr. Brim, Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine, Norman A. Scotch (Eds.), The Dying Patient, Routledge, pp. 191 – 208 6) Harvey Sacks (1972), Notes on police assessment of moral character, in D. Sudnow (ed), “Studies in social interaction”, New York, Free Press, pp. 280–293. 7) Erving Goffman (1959), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). 8) Stuart Hall (1999), Encoding and Decoding in S. During (ed), The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, pp. 90-103 9) Pierre Bourdieu (1999), Site Effects, in Bourdieu, P., Accardo, A., Balazs, G., Beaud, S., Bonvin, F., & Bourdieu, E. (eds), The weight of the world: Social suffering in contemporary society, Stanford University Press, pp. 123-129

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.

Programme

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of the communicative interactions. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and social practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generations, and social class.

Core Documentation

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Words. The Ecology of Conversation, Routledge, London, 2023.
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind, Routledge, London, 2024 (in publication).
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116.

2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507.

Reference Bibliography

Moreover, the following texts are suggested, but not mandatory for the exam (available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform): 1) David L. Rosenhan (1972), On being sane in insane places, in “Santa Clara Lawyer”, 13, pp. 379-399. 2) David Sudnow (1970), Dying in a Public Hospital in Orville G., Jr. Brim, Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine, Norman A. Scotch (Eds.), The Dying Patient, Routledge, pp. 191 – 208. 3) Harvey Sacks (1972), Notes on police assessment of moral character, in D. Sudnow (ed), “Studies in social interaction”, New York, Free Press, pp. 280–293. 4) Erving Goffman (1959), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). 5) Stuart Hall (1999), Encoding and Decoding in S. During (ed), The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, pp. 90-103. 6) Pierre Bourdieu (1999), Site Effects, in Bourdieu, P., Accardo, A., Balazs, G., Beaud, S., Bonvin, F., & Bourdieu, E. (eds), The weight of the world: Social suffering in contemporary society, Stanford University Press, pp. 123-129.

Type of delivery of the course

The course is based on traditional lectures and two laboratories in working-groups. Students will also be involved in seminars led by academic experts on the topics covered.

Attendance

The attendance is mandatory.

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.

Programme

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction. A special focus will consider the role of the stranger and the inclusion and exclusion practices related to migration processes.
The second part of the course draws on sociological concepts and theories to think about the representations and practices that drive the trajectories of our everyday lives. Social representations and types of knowledge conveyed by the media will be analysed with particular regard to the the medial representation of gender identities, ethnicity, generation and social class.

Core Documentation

a) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-words. The Ecology of Conversation", Routledge, London, 2023
b) Anna Lisa Tota, Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with A Polluted Mind, Routledge, London (in publication - October 1, 2024)
c) The following essays available on the personal web page of the professor hosted on the Moodle platform:

1)Paul Watzlawick (1984), Self-fulfilling prophecies in P. Watzlawick (ed.), The Invented reality: how do we know what we believe we know? Contributions to constructivism, W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 95-116
2) Alfred Schütz (1944), The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology, in “American Journal of Sociology”, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 499- 507

Reference Bibliography

Moreover, the following texts are suggested, but not mandatory for the exam: 1) Paul Watzlavick et all., 1971, Pragmatica della comunicazione umana, Astrolabio, Roma, cap. 1 “Presupposti teorici”, cap. 2 “Tentativo di fissare alcuni assiomi della comunicazione” e cap. 3 “La comunicazione patologica”, pp. 13-111. 2) Georg Simmel, 1903, Le metropoli e la vita dello spirito, Armando, Roma, pp. 35-57. 3) Anna Lisa Tota (a cura di), 2008, Gender e media. Verso un immaginario sostenibile, Roma, Meltemi. 4) David L. Rosenhan (1972), On being sane in insane places, in “Santa Clara Lawyer”, 13, pp. 379-399 5) David Sudnow (1970), Dying in a Public Hospital in Orville G., Jr. Brim, Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine, Norman A. Scotch (Eds.), The Dying Patient, Routledge, pp. 191 – 208 6) Harvey Sacks (1972), Notes on police assessment of moral character, in D. Sudnow (ed), “Studies in social interaction”, New York, Free Press, pp. 280–293. 7) Erving Goffman (1959), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday (Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). 8) Stuart Hall (1999), Encoding and Decoding in S. During (ed), The Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, New York, pp. 90-103 9) Pierre Bourdieu (1999), Site Effects, in Bourdieu, P., Accardo, A., Balazs, G., Beaud, S., Bonvin, F., & Bourdieu, E. (eds), The weight of the world: Social suffering in contemporary society, Stanford University Press, pp. 123-129

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written and it will last two hours. The students will be asked to reply extensively to three questions.