20711194 - Sociology

The course aims at teaching the History students how to frame social facts, adopting the logics, the methodologies and the tools traditionally used by sociologists. Therefore, the basic paradigms within which the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sociology are inscribed, as well as the main directions of social research, will be explored and compared.

Curriculum

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Programme

The course focuses on the basic theoretical and conceptual frames of sociology, observed in their historical development and in connection with the coeval social changes.
These are the main topics:
- The origins of sociological thought
- Positivism and sociology
- Marxist sociology
- Durkheim and functionalism
- Simmel and the formal sociology
- Weber and the action theory
- Chicago (sociological) school
- Mead, self and society
- The Italian sociology
- Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge
- The Frankfurt School
- Parsons and Merton
- The phenomenological sociology
- Frame analysis
- The Palo Alto School
- The theory of communicative action
- The systems theory
- Giddens and the constitution of society
- The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

The monographic section will focus on the figure and the work of Hereto Herzog, whose theoretical, methodological and research contribution has been longtime hidden, due to the gender gap in the sociological canon and in the academic community.

Core Documentation

1. Jedlowski P., "Il mondo in questione. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero sociologico", Carocci, Roma 2009.
2. Gjergji I., "Il volto acustico della voce. Pubblico, serialità e genere in Herta Herzog", Meltemi, Milano 2023.

Reference Bibliography

Other references will be suggested by the teacher during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons. Collective discussions on authors, theories and sociological concepts. Lab focus.

Type of evaluation

Oral interview about the themes developed during the course.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The course focuses on the basic theoretical and conceptual frames of sociology, observed in their historical development and in connection with the coeval social changes.
These are the main topics:
- The origins of sociological thought
- Positivism and sociology
- Marxist sociology
- Durkheim and functionalism
- Simmel and the formal sociology
- Weber and the action theory
- Chicago (sociological) school
- Mead, self and society
- The Italian sociology
- Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge
- The Frankfurt School
- Parsons and Merton
- The phenomenological sociology
- Frame analysis
- The Palo Alto School
- The theory of communicative action
- The systems theory
- Giddens and the constitution of society
- The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

The monographic section will focus on the figure and the work of Hereto Herzog, whose theoretical, methodological and research contribution has been longtime hidden, due to the gender gap in the sociological canon and in the academic community.

Core Documentation

1. Jedlowski P., "Il mondo in questione. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero sociologico", Carocci, Roma 2009.
2. Gjergji I., "Il volto acustico della voce. Pubblico, serialità e genere in Herta Herzog", Meltemi, Milano 2023.

Reference Bibliography

Other references will be suggested by the teacher during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons. Collective discussions on authors, theories and sociological concepts. Lab focus.

Type of evaluation

Oral interview about the themes developed during the course.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The course focuses on the basic theoretical and conceptual frames of sociology, observed in their historical development and in connection with the coeval social changes.
These are the main topics:
- The origins of sociological thought
- Positivism and sociology
- Marxist sociology
- Durkheim and functionalism
- Simmel and the formal sociology
- Weber and the action theory
- Chicago (sociological) school
- Mead, self and society
- The Italian sociology
- Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge
- The Frankfurt School
- Parsons and Merton
- The phenomenological sociology
- Frame analysis
- The Palo Alto School
- The theory of communicative action
- The systems theory
- Giddens and the constitution of society
- The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

The monographic section will focus on the figure and the work of Hereto Herzog, whose theoretical, methodological and research contribution has been longtime hidden, due to the gender gap in the sociological canon and in the academic community.

Core Documentation

1. Jedlowski P., "Il mondo in questione. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero sociologico", Carocci, Roma 2009.
2. Gjergji I., "Il volto acustico della voce. Pubblico, serialità e genere in Herta Herzog", Meltemi, Milano 2023.

Reference Bibliography

Other references will be suggested by the teacher during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons. Collective discussions on authors, theories and sociological concepts. Lab focus.

Type of evaluation

Oral interview about the themes developed during the course.