Unit SOCIOLOGY OF EUROPE
- Course
- International relations
- Study-unit Code
- A000381
- Curriculum
- Cooperazione internazionale e state building
- Teacher
- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Teachers
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- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Hours
- 42 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
Italian. International and Erasmus students are advised to attend the classes. Readings and other teaching materials are available in English; English can also be used for written and oral exams. Contact the teacher during the first week of class. - Contents
- 1. Creating utopia: Ventotene Manifesto
2. Building a European Society.
3. Developing a European public religion: commemorating Memorial Day. - Reference texts
- 1. Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi, Il Manifesto di Ventotene, Mondadori, Milano 2006.
2. Alessandro Cavalli, Alberto Martinelli, La società europea, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
3. RILES (a cura di), Rammemorare la Shoah. 27 gennaio e identità europea, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2009. - Educational objectives
- The course provides an introduction to problems and prospects for the building of a European society. In fact, a shared sense of belonging to the European community is the decisive requirement for real integration. Sociology can provide its key concepts releasing them from the nation-State and elevating them to a supranational level, in order to develop a scientific analysis of this process.
- Prerequisites
- Students not having a basic knowledge of Sociology are advised to read Introduzione alla sociologia. Le teorie, i concetti, gli autori, Ambrogio Santambrogio, Laterza, Roma
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and exercises
- Other information
- The course includes integrative didactic activities.
- Learning verification modality
- Written and oral exam
- Extended program
- 1. The role of social recognition in building the democratic culture of European society.
2. The formation of a utopia: the Ventotene Manifesto