Programme

FIRST PART: ESPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
The origins of sociology and its epistemologic status. Epistemology, methodology and social theory. The main paradigms in sociology. Quantitative and qualitative methods.
SECOND PART: MAIN SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND THEMES
Culture - Structures, social actions and power – Groups and organizations - Social stratification, social classes and global inequalities - Ethnicity and migrations - Gender and sexualities – Families and socialization process – Deviance - Social changes, globalization and social movements.
THIRD PART: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIALOLOGICAL THEORIES
The birth of sociology: sociology and positivism - Karl Marx – Emile Durkheim – Georg Simmel – Max Weber – The Chicago School of Sociology – George H. Mead - Italian sociology at the beginning of '900 – Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis - Critic theory – Functionalism – Alfred Schutz – Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann – Erving Goffman – Contemporary sociology
FOURTH PART: POVERTY, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION

FIFTH PART: THE SOCIOLOGY OF GEORG SIMMEL: DOMINATION

Core Documentation

First and second part:
– CROTEAU D., HOYNES W. (2018), SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE. TEMI, STRUMENTI, CONCETTI, SECOND EDITION (EDITED BY ANTONELLI F., ROSSI E.) MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO [with the exception of the following chapters 10 E 12].
Third part :
–JEDLOWSKI P. (2017) IL MONDO IN QUESTIONE. INTRODUZIONE ALLA STORIA DEL PENSIERO SOCIOLOGICO, CAROCCI EDITORE, ROMA, [with the exception of the following chapters 1, 13, 14].
Fourth part
• – ROSSI E., (2012), IN DISPARTE. APPUNTI PER UNA SOCIOLOGIA DEL MARGINE, ARMANDO EDITORE
• – SIMMEL G., (2015), IL POVERO, (edited by EMANUELE ROSSI), MIMESIS
Fifth part
– SIMMEL G., (2017), IL DOMINIO, (edited by CARLO MONGARDINI), ROMA, BULZONI

Reference Bibliography

Reference bibliography Bauman Z. (2002), Modernità liquida, Laterza Beck U. (1999), Che cos'è la globalizzazione, Carocci Durkheim E. (1971), Le forma elementari della vita religiosa, Edizioni di Comunità Elias N. (1990), La società degli individui, Il Mulino Freud S. (2003), Il disagio della civiltà e altri saggi, Bollati Boringhieri Goffman E. (2003), Asylums. Le istituzioni totali: i meccanismi dell'esclusione e della violenza, (Einaudi) Horkheimer M., T.W. Adorno, (1966), La dialettica dell'Illuminismo, Einaudi Park R.E., Burgess E. W., McKenzie R.D., (1967), La città, Edizioni di Comunità Schutz A. (1979), Saggi sociologici, Utet Simmel G. (1998), Sociologia, Edizioni di Comunità Weber M., (1974), Economia e società, Edizioni di Comunità Wright Mills C., (1962), L'immaginazione sociologica, Il saggiatore.

Type of delivery of the course

Oral lessons.The course includes lectures aimed at acquiring the concepts and main theories of the discipline. Participation of students in educational activities is optional.

Attendance

Oral lessons

Type of evaluation

The exam will be oral, aimed at evaluating the preparation of the student. The questions asked will be oriented to verify the degree of knowledge of the analytical and methodological tools of Sociology. Particular attention will be paid to verify the empirical knowledge that derives from research conducted on different topics which are illustrated in the text books. Finally, the student’s ability to establish links between the different themes will be evaluated, as well as the propensity of critical reflection on the phenomena being studied.

Programme

PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
The origin of the sociology and its epistemological status. The modern science and its scientific paradigms. Verificationism vs Falsificationism. Epistemology, methodology and social theory. Main sociological paradigms. Quantitative and qualitatives methods.

PART TWO: CONCEPTS, SUBJECTS AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Culture, institutions and cultural processes - Power, social action and social structures - Social interactions, groups and socialization - Migrations and ethnicity - Gender and sexuality (with references to the sociology of families) - Social stratification and inequlities in the globalization era - Politics and Economics - Social changes, social movements and globalization - Classical Sociological Perspective - The main sociological perspectives: functionalism, conflictualism, interactionism.

PART THREE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND GLOBALIZATION
Zygmunt Bauman: critical sociology and engagment in the globalization era - Ulrick Beck: sociology of the risk and the new cosmopolitism - Pierre Bourdieu: structuralism costructivism and relational sociology - Alain Touraine: modernity, subject, movements.

PARTE FOUR: SCIENCE, TECHNIQUE AND POWER
Science, technology, society and power: technocracy - Who are "the technocrats"? - Social Datification and technocracy - Rationality, rationalization and technocracy.

Core Documentation

Attending Students:

Part one and two:
– CROTEAU D.,HOYNES W. (2018), SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE. TEMI, STRUMENTI, CONCETTI, NEW ITALIAN EDITION (EDS. BY) ANTONELLI F., ROSSI E. MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO [NO CHAPTERS 10 and 11].
- "CONNECT" E "SMARTBOOK", DIGITAL PLATFORM ATTACHED WITH CROTEAU D.,HOYNES W. (2018), SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE. TEMI, STRUMENTI, CONCETTI, NEW ITALIAN EDITION (EDS. BY) ANTONELLI F., ROSSI E. MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO.

part three:
– GHISLENI M. PRIVITERA W. (2009), SOCIOLOGIE CONTEMPORANEE, UTET, TORINO [NO CHAPTER 4].

part four:
- ANTONELLI F. (2019), TECNOCRAZIA, DEMOCRAZIA E SOCIETA' DIGITALE, L'ASINO D'ORO, ROMA.

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Not Attending Students:

Part one and two:
– CROTEAU D.,HOYNES W. (2018), SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE. TEMI, STRUMENTI, CONCETTI, NEW ITALIAN EDITION (EDS. BY) ANTONELLI F., ROSSI E. MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO [NO CHAPTERS 10 and 11].
- COLLINS R. (2006), TEORIE SOCIOLOGICHE, BOLOGNA, IL MULINO [NO CHAPTERS 9 AND 10].

part three:
– GHISLENI M. PRIVITERA W. (2009), SOCIOLOGIE CONTEMPORANEE, UTET, TORINO [NO CHAPTER 4].

part four:
- ANTONELLI F. (2019), TECNOCRAZIA, DEMOCRAZIA E SOCIETA' DIGITALE, L'ASINO D'ORO, ROMA.

Reference Bibliography

Reference bibliography Bauman Z. (2002), Modernità liquida, Laterza Beck U. (1999), Che cos'è la globalizzazione, Carocci Durkheim E. (1971), Le forma elementari della vita religiosa, Edizioni di Comunità Elias N. (1990), La società degli individui, Il Mulino Freud S. (2003), Il disagio della civiltà e altri saggi, Bollati Boringhieri Goffman E. (2003), Asylums. Le istituzioni totali: i meccanismi dell'esclusione e della violenza, (Einaudi) Horkheimer M., T.W. Adorno, (1966), La dialettica dell'Illuminismo, Einaudi Park R.E., Burgess E. W., McKenzie R.D., (1967), La città, Edizioni di Comunità Schutz A. (1979), Saggi sociologici, Utet Simmel G. (1998), Sociologia, Edizioni di Comunità Weber M., (1974), Economia e società, Edizioni di Comunità Wright Mills C., (1962), L'immaginazione sociologica, Il saggiatore.

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures; workshops and classworks; homework.

Attendance

Attending lessons is optional. Nevertheless, it is deeply reccomended because of attending student can take part in practical workshops (with assessment) and additional examinations on the program subjects.

Type of evaluation

During COVID-19 Emergency, the exam will be held according to art. 1, Rectoral Decree n. 703, May 5th 2020. The oral test aims to assess the knowledge of the fundamental sociological categories (i.e. social stratification, groups, socialisation, social integration ecc.) and of the sociological theories (classic sociology, interationsim, functionalism, conflictualism, contemporary social theories) as well as the critical abilities, in particular the capacity to understand different nexus among different sociological categories and perspectives, in their historic background. Eventually, a specific assessment is focused on the capacity to read current social reality through sociological lens.