General Sociology

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding in a post-secondary level field of study and knowing the fundamental themes in one's field of study;

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding in order to demonstrate a professional approach and possess adequate skills both to conceive and support arguments and to solve problems in one's field of study

3) learning skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Lectures, presentations, video projections

Sociological imagination and knowledge of social reality

Paradigms of social sciences

The development of sociological thought

Social interaction and everyday life

Culture and communication processes

Social construction of self. Gender identity and gender roles.

Family, education and socialization agents

Deviance and social exclusion processes

Ethnic groups and migrations

Social classes and power dynamics

Work and organizational action

Religion and social ties

Symbolic interactionism: origins and methods of inquiring.

The three premises by Blumer.

Definition of the situation and reality construction

Role-taking and definition of self.

Reality transformations and defense mechanisms.

Texts:

A. Giddens, P. W. Sutton, Fondamenti di Sociologia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014 (excluding chapters 2-3-4-10)

P. Corbetta, La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecniche. Volume I. I Paradigmi di riferimento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015 (176 pp.)

R. Perrotta, Cornici, specchi e maschere. Interazionismo simbolico e comunicazione, Bologna, Clueb, 2005 (excluding chapters 5-6-7)

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