POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
ROSSANA SAMPUGNARO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin
descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding of the elements needed to understand
the mechanisms underlying the politically relevant phenomena. The course introduces
the main theoretical and research perspectives on key issues of political
sociology: culture and political identity, political cleavages, organizations
(parties, lobbies, interest groups and movements), political participation,
electoral behaviour and public opinion.
2) ability to apply understanding using different conceptual and
methodological tools, looking at the historical evolution of the
discipline.
5) learning skills necessary
to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Course Structure
Lectures, reading of papers and training exercises
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
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Issues
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1 Politics and society
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2 Civil
society, State and political system
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3 Political cleavages
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4 Culture and political identity
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5 Participation and democracy
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6 Electoral
Behaviour in political studies
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7 Political parties
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8 Movements and interest groups
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9 Participation
and digital space
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10 Public
opinion in digital sphere
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11 Representation and disintermediation
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Textbook Information
Texts:
- L. Ceccarini, I. Diamanti, Tra
politica e società. Fondamenti, trasformazioni e prospettive, Bologna,
Il Mulino, 2018
- D.GLilleker, K.
Koc-Michalska, What Drives Political
Participation? Motivations and Mobilization in a Digital Age, Political Communication, London,
Routledge, 2017, 34:1, 21-43
And a text chosen from the following:
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D. Fruncillo, Verso la politica
post-elettorale, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 2020
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M. Sorice, Partecipazione Democratica,
Milano, Mondadori Università, 2019
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R. Sampugnaro, Astensionismo. Teorie e
prospettive, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2023
