POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Detailed Course Content

• POWER AND PARTICIPATION

  Politics and Political sociology. Power and Social Forms. Power in the Marxist, Functionalist tradition, and in the Chicago School. Modern State, Nation, and Nationalism. Political violence: police power, terrorism, armed struggle, wars and revolutions. Participatory and deliberative democracy. Political participation. Social Movements: Approaches, Identities, Networks, Repertoires of Action and Political Context; movements and globalization. Political ideologies and cultures; right / left, populism. Socialization and political generations.

• PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

  Communication and political processes: languages, rituals, mediatized politics, electoral campaigns. Citizens and Online Politics. Territorial movements (No Muos). The movements in the schools and universities. Squatting Movements for housing, social centers and theatres at the local, national and transnational level.

Textbook Information

• POWER AND PARTICIPATION

  de Nardis F. (2013), Sociologia politica. Per comprendere i fenomeni politici contemporanei. Milano, McGraw-Hill: cap. 1 (par. 1.1), pp. 4-6; cap. 2 (par. 2.1), pp. 30-33; cap. 3 (par. 3.1), pp. 78-83; cap. 6 (par. 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6), pp. 167-197; cap. 8 (par. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3) pp.241-255; cap. 10 (par. 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5.2, 10.5.3), pp. 309-344, 352-364; cap. 11 (par. 11.3), pp. 385-393; cap. 12 (par. 12.1, 12.2, 12.3), pp. 407-425; cap. 15, pp. 491-534; cap. 16, pp. 539-565; cap. 17 (par. 17.1, 17.2), pp. 568-579.

• PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

  1) de Nardis F. (2013), Sociologia politica. Per comprendere i fenomeni politici contemporanei. Milano, McGraw-Hill: cap. 18, pp. 587-611.
  2) della Porta, D. e Piazza, G. (2016), Il cambiamento di scala del Movimento No MUOS: Oltre la protesta contro l’inquinamento elettromagnetico, in «StrumentiRes. Rivista online della Fondazione RES», Anno VIII, n. 2, Maggio (www.strumentires.com).
  3) Alteri L. e Raffini L. (a cura di) (2014), La nuova politica. Movimenti, mobilitazioni e conflitti in Italia. EdiSES, Napoli, cap. 2, pp. 51-70; cap. 4, pp. 91-113; cap. 7, pp. 169-190.
  4) Piazza G. (a cura di) (2012), Il movimento delle occupazioni di squat e centri sociali in Europa, in “Partecipazione e Conflitto”, n. 1, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 5-18; 69-92.
  5) Piazza G. (2016), Squatting Social Centers in a Sicilian City: Liberated Spaces and Urban Protest Actors, in «Antipode. A Radical Journal of Geography», (i.c.p.).