Sistemi sociali e devianza
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year - Curriculum Istituzioni e servizi pubblici
Teaching Staff: Deborah De Felice
Credit Value: 3
Scientific field: SPS/12 - Sociology of law, deviance and social change
Taught classes: 18 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 3
Scientific field: SPS/12 - Sociology of law, deviance and social change
Taught classes: 18 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Course Structure
Students must have already taken General Sociology. attendance of lessons is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The course aims to investigate the processes of construction, definition and treatment of deviance by control agencies, social theorists, media and public opinion. In particular, the different theories developed for understanding the phenomena of deviance will be addressed in a sociological perspective (ie different from psychiatric or criminological ones in the strict sense) and aimed at social workers.
Textbook Information
Scarscelli D., Vidoni Guidoni O. (2008), La devianza. Teorie e politiche di controllo, Roma, Carocci editore.