Unit SOCIOLOGY OF EUROPE

Course
International relations
Study-unit Code
A000381
Curriculum
Cooperazione internazionale e state building
Teacher
Ambrogio Santambrogio
Teachers
  • 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
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