SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE. SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA

Learning Objectives

• EVOLUZIONE E SVILUPPO DELLA COMUNICAZIONE UMANA
  To analyze media diachronically to show socio-historical contextuality as explaining element of media development. To study how media produce their own texts. To understand how they become cultural industry amongst economy, social sciences and media studies.
• I CARATTERI ELEMENTARI DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
  Describing the basic elements leading to interpret the key-role played by communication in the contemporary world and to transfer the abstract nature of the word to the concrete experience of everybody.
• Family : definition and analysis

  The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the main theories and methods developed within the framework for the analysis of family structures, roles and family relationships and interactions between the family and other social institutions with reference to contemporary societies and their evolutionary processes.

Detailed Course Content

• EVOLUZIONE E SVILUPPO DELLA COMUNICAZIONE UMANA
  • The press revolution and its context
  • Media and public sphere in Europe in the modern age
  • Property, dimension and internationalization of media
  • Organization and media texts : production, autonomy and power
  
• I CARATTERI ELEMENTARI DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
  • Communication : a definition
  • Basic processes
  • Signs
  • Languages
  • Images
  • Non verbalcommunication
  • Communicationas relation
  • Communicationas social practice
  • Mediatedinteraction
  • News
  • Advertising
• Family : definition and analysis

  - The main approaches to the study of the family and its evolution

  - The family structures in contemporary society.

  - The Family relations: relations of gender and generation

  - The economic functions of the family

  - The Social policies for the family

Textbook Information

• Family : definition and analysis

  C.Saraceno, M. Naldini, edizione 2013, Sociologia della famiglia, Il Mulino, Bologna.