Unit Sociology of Deviance and Social Control
- Course
- Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security
- Study-unit Code
- A002559
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sabina Curti
- Teachers
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- Sabina Curti
- Hours
- 72 ore - Sabina Curti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- SPS/12
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- 1. Elements of sociology of deviance (distance education)
2. Fear: epistemology, phenomenology and sociological analysis
3. Fear of control and control of fear - Reference texts
- 1. slide
2. J. Bourke, Fear, Counterpoint 2006.
3. J. Simon... - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course, the student possesses the basic knowledge required for the socio-criminological analysis of the phenomena dealt with in relation to the field of deviance and crime; the ability to approach the field of professional work with operational tools; the knowledge and skills to be able to design interventions, especially analytical, socio-cultural, preventive and extra-legal interventions, relating to deviance and crime.
- Prerequisites
- No
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
In-depth seminars
Video and film documentaries
Written papers
Meetings with experts and privileged witnesses
Reflexivity exercises - Other information
- For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Students with disabilities and/or DSA are requested to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course - Learning verification modality
- The test will consist of a written examination with open questions to assess
- the understanding and knowledge of the issues dealt with, the ability to be able to place them historically and to explain the methods used;
- the ability to critically analyse the issues addressed from a scientific, ethical and social point of view;
- the ability to use sociological and criminological language in relation to the phenomena investigated;
- the ability to design social research and prevention interventions in hypothetical criminal and extra-criminal contexts. - Extended program
- Introduction to the course, teaching, workshop and evaluation methods.
1. Elements of the sociology of deviance and social control: analysis of the causes of deviance, systems of prevention and control.
2. Fear as an emotion and as a mechanism of social control. Fear of control, control of fear.
3. Fear of self and other: causes, effects, recursiveness. Fear, criminal(s) and victim(s).
4. Individual and social dimensions of fear. Case studies and practical observations.
5. Fear of control and control of fear.