SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND METHODS FOR TERRITORY PLANNING

The course aims to develop learning skills in critically and selectively enabling analysis and interpretation of socio-spatial processes of change so as to contribute to the planning of social interventions in urban areas both in terms of substantive and methodological, with particular reference the scope of the district. It will cure an empirical analysis conducted by means of appropriate methodologies and differentiated based on the object of study.

Teaching will focus on lectures, seminars on some specific topics, research case studies and possibly the development of individual and / or group projects. Over at the oral exposition of the topics dealt with, during the course the teacher will make use of it and audiovisual supports.

Knowledge of the socio-territorial approach in sociology, main theories and methods.

Attendance is not obligatory, but systematic attendance is suggested as group/individual work is foreseen for the in-depth study of certain topics. This work will form an integral part of the exam. There are no intermediate tests.

The first module focuses on the concepts, methodology and techniques that contribute to the sociological study of the change of urban societies. The analysis and identification of practices follows of intervention on processes such as governance and participation; housing inequalities; local welfare and socio-territorial innovation practices; urban poverty and contrast policies; models territorial immigration and local development; urban populations and city applications.

- Colloca C. (2018), “Il controllo dello spazio per la «gestione» degli stranieri immigrati", in Mazzone S. (a cura di), Narrare le migrazioni tra diritto, politica, economia, Bonanno, Acireale-Roma, pp. 93-102.

- Colloca C. (2022), "Periferie e progettazione del territorio: dall'omogeneità socio-spaziale alla condizione di perifericità" in Enciclopedia dei Luoghi, , a cura di G. Nuvolati, vol. 6, pp. 249-273.

- Guidicini P. (2009), Come studiare la città dal di dentro. Metodologie e tecniche per leggere le concentrazioni nel Nord e nel Sud del mondo, Angeli, Milano (Parte III. La Metodologia della ricerca nell'approccio socio-territoriale), pp. 85-137.

- Sassen S. (2008), “La città globale: ritrovare località e pratiche sociali”, in Sassen S., Una sociologia della globalizzazione, Einaudi, Torino, pp. 95-127.

Classroom exercises and written test with open questions lasting ninety minutes.

A) The characteristics of the interstitial variables for the socio-territorial analysis.

B) The usefulness of the socio-territorial approach in planning a community social service.

C) Reading and analysis of calls for proposals and simulation of social work projects