Programme

First part: main concepts and thematics

Government, democracy and society - Political socialization and Political participation - Ideologies and political cultures - Political actors: people, parties and social movements - New political structures.

Second part: Globalization, crisis and their sociopolitical consequences.

Third part: the decline of the "Social" - The economic crisis (207/2008) - Social movement and crisis - New political parties - Personal subject, rights, human dignity.

Third part: anti-Europeanism and neo-populism

Europeization and anti-Europeanism: theoretical problems, communicative and electoral dynamics - Neo-populism and neo-nationalism.

Core Documentation

- First part:

A handbook between: 1) Segatori R., Sociologia dei fenomeni politici, Laterza. 2) Biorcio R., Sociologia Politica, il Mulino. 3) Rush M., Politica e società, il Mulino.

- Second part:

Touraine A., Noi, soggetti umani. Diritti e nuovi movimenti nell'epoca post-sociale, Il Saggiatore.

- Third part:

Antonelli F., Giobbi L., Rosato V., L'Europa del dissenso, Franco Angeli.

Anselmi M., Populismo. Teorie e problemi, Mondadori.

Antonelli F., "Il populismo nel dibattito delle scienze sociali italiani. Alla ricerca di una nuova immaginazione sociologica", in Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze dell'Amministazione (in press).

Reference Bibliography

Additional books for personal study (optional): - Popitz H., Fenomenologia del potere. - Simmel G., Il dominio. - Sola G., La teoria delle élites. - Weber M., Il lavoro intellettuale come professione. La politica come professione

Type of delivery of the course

Teaching activities: lessons; workshops and classworks; lectures; homework.

Attendance

Attendance is not compulsory

Type of evaluation

Oral exam on the whole program. The oral test aims to assess the knowledge of the main categories, student's critical and methodologic capabilities.