Unit SOCIOLOGY
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- GP003608
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Teachers
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- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Massimo Cerulo (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 73 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
- 63 ore (Codocenza) - Massimo Cerulo
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian: International and Erasmus students are advised to attend the classes. Readings and other teaching materials are available also in English; English can also be used for oral examinations. Contact the teacher during the first week of class.
- Contents
- Part I
1. Sociology as a social science.
Definition of sociology; sociology and other social sciences; sociological method; theory and social research.
2. Sociology and modern world
The advent of modernity (Comte, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel); modernity in question (symbolic interactionism, functionalism, sociology of knowledge, critical theory, phenomenological sociology, structuralism); globalized modernity.
Part II.
1a. Social services in Umbria: birth, development and future prospects (Degree Course in Social Services).
1b.The question of youth: a study of Perugia (other Degree Courses). - Reference texts
- Part I (6 CFU)
1. Ambrogio Santambrogio, "Introduzione alla sociologia", Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014 (new edition).
2. Cerulo, Massimo, "Sociologia delle emozioni", il Mulino, 2018.
3. Immaginario/immaginari sociali, estratto dei “Quaderni di Teoria Sociale”, n. 2/2015, Morlacchi, Perugia, pp. 11-114 (a choice of three articles). - Educational objectives
- The course provides an introduction to Sociology, a basis for further studies (not only specializing in Sociology) within various master’s degree programmes.
- Prerequisites
- None.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and exercises.
- Other information
- The course includes integrative didactic activities.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam
- Extended program
- Part I
1. Sociology as a social science.
Definition of sociology; sociology and other social sciences; sociological method; theory and social research.
2. Sociology and modern world
The advent of modernity (Comte, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel); modernity in question (symbolic interactionism, functionalism, sociology of knowledge, critical theory, phenomenological sociology, structuralism); globalized modernity.
Part II.
1a. Social services in Umbria: birth, development and future prospects (Degree Course in Social Services).
1b.The question of youth: a study of Perugia (other Degree Courses).