ISTITUZIONI DI SOCIOLOGIA

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year - Curriculum Curriculum unico / L-40

Course Structure

• ATTORI, PROCESSI CULTURALI E ISTITUZIONI SOCIALI

  The course (12 CFU) is divided into two modules of 6 CFU. The first will deal with issues common to areas L39 and L40. The course will be structured through lectures, during which the topics included in the program will be presented and analyzed.

• Identity and Inequality, Social Inclusion and Integration Processes

  The Course is divided into 6CFU. Lectures are held from December to January: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 12:00 to 14:00 ( 21 lectures). Frequency is recommended. There are no intermediate tests. Exams are in written mode.

Detailed Course Content

• ATTORI, PROCESSI CULTURALI E ISTITUZIONI SOCIALI

  The contents of Institutions of Sociology course have been programmed taking into account the common sociological areas for students enrolled in L40 and L39 classes, with the aim, therefore, of making students of both courses able to operate with the fundamental categories of sociological analysis in a multiplicity of working contexts in the public and private sectors. Taking also into account the preparation needed to pursue studies in a Master's Degree Program in Political and Social Affairs, the topics issues included in the teaching program will be: the elements of culture and their relevance for social action; the notion of social structure; the sociological concept of individual and collective social actor, the various stages of the process of socialization, the notion of social interaction. Norms and institutions; the deviant behavior; stratification and social mobility; secularization and religious fundamentalisms.

• Identity and Inequality, Social Inclusion and Integration Processes

  The course is aimed to offer students the theoretical sociological coordinates in order to interpret differentiation and social inequality processes in modern contemporary society. Gender, age, racial and ethnic differentiation and inequality processes as well as cultural differentiation processes in modern globalized Western societies will be analyzed. In this last regard, social integration models conceptualized by contemporary social theory (pluralist, multiculturalist, interculturalist approach) will be examined well as their implications for safeguarding social integration itself and social cohesion. Particular attention will be given to perspectives of social integration proposed by Islamic neotraditionalism and liberal Islam, and to their social implications. The acquired knowledge will enable the student to critically analyze the addressed social problems as well as to project empirical research on these issues.

Textbook Information

• ATTORI, PROCESSI CULTURALI E ISTITUZIONI SOCIALI

  Text 1: Bagnasco A. Barbagli M. Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012; Introduction, chapp: III, V, VI, VIII, XI.

  Text 2: Giddens A. Sutton P., Fondamenti di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014, chap: IX.

• Identity and Inequality, Social Inclusion and Integration Processes

  1th Part on differentiation and inequality processes

  Testo 1. Bagnasco A., Barbagli M., Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012, Cap. XIII, XIV, XV.

  Suggested readings:

  Connell R., Questioni di genere, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.

  2th Parth on social incusion and integration processes

  Testo 2.Sartori G, Pluralismo, multiculturalismo ed estranei, Bur, Milano, 2010.
  Testo 3. Donati P , Oltre il multiculturalismo, Laterza, Roma, 2008, pp.3-19.

  Testo 4. Cesareo V., Società multietniche e multiculturalismi, Vita e pensiero, Milano, 2007, Cap. II.
  Testo 5.Guolo R., L’islam è compatibile con la democrazia?, Laterza, Roma, 2007, pp.77-137.

  Suggested readings:

  Souad Sbai, L’inganno. Vittime del multiculturalismo, Cantagalli, Siena, 2010.
  Bassam Tibi , Euro-Islam. L’integrazione mancata, Marsilio, 2003.
  Salem E.M., Berti F., Lezioni di cultura islamica, Cantagalli, Siena, 2003.
  Samir Khalil, Islam, Cantagalli, 2008.