ISTITUZIONI DI SOCIOLOGIA

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 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; secularization and religious fundamentalisms; family and intimacy relationships.

• Identity and Inequality, Social Inclusion and Integration Processes

  Since Institutions of Socioloy includes 12 CFU, this course is divided in two module-6 CFU - and aims to enable students to acquire theoretical and methodological skills that enable them to analyze and interpret social processes characterizing contemporary society. The first module, 3 of the 9 CFU of Actors, Institutions and Cultural Processes, offers students theoretical coordinates for an sociological analytical study of social differentiation and inequality processes. In the framework of the traditional debate on nature and nurture and by reference to main sociological theories in which these processes have been explained, the following topics will be analyzed: inequality, stratification and social classes; processes of differentiation and gender, age and inequality inequality; processes of differentiation and racial and ethnic inequality.

  The second module offers students aims offers students theoretical coordinates for an sociological analytical study of cultural differentiation and social integration processes in modern, globalized, western societies. In this regard, social integration and cultural diversity management models conceptualized by contemporary social theory (pluralism, normative multiculturalism, interculturalism) will be analyzed as well as their implications for safeguarding social integration itself and social cohesion. Furthermore, 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.

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

• Identity and Inequality, Social Inclusion and Integration Processes

  1th Part on differentiation and inequality processes

  Bagnasco A., Barbagli M., Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012, Cap. XI, 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.