22910011 - FAMIGLIE E RETI SOCIALI

The course focuses on the analysis of the contemporary family in a comparative framework. Particular attention is given to the study of social capital, family and adolescents / young people, highlighting its impact on educational processes, on access to the world of work, on social marginalization phenomena, on the creation of the civic dimension.
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Programme

The family as a system, as a source of fiduciary relationships and networks, is the perspective through which so much to analyze the changes in society, the phenomenon of anomie, crumbling solidarity as the marginality of material and immaterial problems of the contemporary family. Particular attention is given primarily to the theory of social capital as a primary source of family and social networks. In this context, it analyzes the theory of networks as an analytical concept and social resource through the paradigm of generativity. It is an analysis that aims to highlight the role of networks in producing social well-being, in 'implement the process of social support, in responding to the marginalization processes and in determining Community regeneration processes and relational. Second it is analyzed the quality of primary and secondary networks in generating social cohesion inclusive or exclusive especially compared to households and marginal. This also implies a reflection on the role and social role of intervention in relation to the family no longer seen as isolated atom or as the subject of consumption but as a complex system that is in network with other families in the neighborhood, in services, in schools, educational spaces and socialization, central interlocutors to build a supportive community.
With regard to application, the course aims to provide examples of quantitative and qualitative studies, encouraging micro research on topics covered in the course.
The course also intends to consider quantitative and qualitative researches about families and social networks.
• The family and the sociological research;
• The sociological definition of family;
society individualization and new families;
• The concept of social generativity;
• Family, marginalization and family networks;
• Social cohesion and social networks;
• The network resources: gift and reciprocity;
• Families and primary capital;
• primary and secondary networks and social capital;
• networks and social support;
• Third network sector and intervention;
• Margins, families and social networks;
• Privatization of family life: the crisis of sociability;
• Design and operation of networks in the peripheral and marginal contexts
• Family, preteens, generative and degenerative processes of social and civic spaces;

Core Documentation

Materiale didattico

Zanatta, A. L. Le nuove Famiglie, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008.
Giardiello, M., Processi generativi e degenerativi negli spazi sociali e civili dei preadolescenti, Democrazia e Diritto, 2, 2014, pp. 196-223 (file scaricabile dalla bacheca docenti in documenti)
Giardiello, M., Riconsiderare la coesione sociale e l’integrazione civica nella prospettiva della generatività sociale, Scienze e Ricerca, 37, 2016, pp.22-34;
Scabini E., Manzi C., Famiglia, identità e rapporti tra le generazioni, in P. Catellani a cura di , Identità e appartenenza nella società globale,Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2005, pp.73-102

Donati, P., (a cura di) Famiglia risorsa della società, Il Mulino 2012 capitoli 1; 3;5 oppure P. Donati, a cura di, Famiglia e capitale sociale nella società italiana. Ottavo rapporto sulla famiglia Italiana San Paolo, Milano, 2003, pp.31-101;
M. Giardiello, Sociologia della marginalità. Il contributo di Gino Germani, Carocci, Roma 2012.

Testi di approfondimento (uno a scelta)

E. Zizioli, Essere di più, Le lettere 2014.
M. Burgalassi, La cooperazione sociale protagonista del welfare locale. Il caso del Consorzio Nuovo Futuro, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2008.
M. Magatti, C Giaccardi, Generativi di tutto il Mondo Unitive ! Manifesto per la società dei liberi, Feltrinelli, 2014
D. Del Boca, A. Famiglie sole, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009
F. Folgheraiter, La cura delle reti. Nel Welfare delle relazioni (oltre i Piani di zona), Erickson.
M. Aime, A. Cosetta, Il dono al tempo di internet, Einaudi, Torino, 2010.
A. Sapio, Famiglie reti familiari e cohousing. Verso nuovi stili del vivere, del convivere e dell’abitare, FancoAngeli, 2015.



Type of delivery of the course

LESSONS IN PRESENCE

Type of evaluation

TALKS WITH CHOICE OF THEMATIC ROUTES