Unit SOCIOLOGY OF POLITCS
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP004295
- Curriculum
- Scienze dell'amministrazione
- Teacher
- Giovanni Barbieri
- Teachers
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- Giovanni Barbieri
- Hours
- 63 ore - Giovanni Barbieri
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SPS/11
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
International and Erasmus students are invited to take the course. Readings and other course material are also available in English; oral exam, as detailed in the course program, may be taken in English. Please contact the teacher for further details and to schedule an appointment during the first week of the Fall Semester. - Contents
- The program consists of two parts.
The first part is devoted to study of politics and of its main concepts; in particular se will focus on the following topics: the concentration of the political power the relationship between people and politics; the relationship between society and poitics; the new configurations of politics. In the second part two specific topics will be dealt with: freedom; demagogic plutocracy; the League; Five Star Movement. - Reference texts
- For the first part of the program:
- R. Segatori, Sociologia dei fenomeni politici, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2012.
For the part on a single topic:
- R. Segatori, La libertà possibile. Sociologia dell’autonomia umana, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2016;
alternatively, one of the following book:
- G. Barbieri, Democrazia e plutocrazia nell’Italia di Berlusconi, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016;
- G. Passarelli-D.Tuorto, La Lega di Salvini, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018;
- P.Corbetta (a cura di), M5s: Come cambia il partito di Grillo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course the students will have acquired the basic theoretical and methodological knowledge for a scientific approach to the world of politics from a sociological perspective. They will also have to acquire independent judgment and be able to make diagnoses and contribute to defining policies for local communities.
- Prerequisites
- To properly understand the content of the teaching is not required to have special prerequisites and skills.
- Teaching methods
- Teacher up-front lessons and classroom discussions with the students on the topics of the course.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral examination lasting about twenty minutes.
The exam is essentially aimed at determining: 1) the level of knowledge and understanding of the content of the teaching program;
2) the ability to apply this knowledge to the analysis of some of the major social and political phenomena;
3) language and communication skills;
4) the ability to explain what has been learned in a critical and independent way.
For informations about support services for students wih disabilties and/or DSA see http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- The program consists of two parts.
The first part is devoted to study of politics and of its main concepts; in particular se will focus on the following topics: the concentration of the political power (the State, the democratic systems, the non-democatic forms of government, the post-state form of authority); the relationship between people and politics (the political socialisation, the political participation, ideologies, the political culture, public opinion and the political communication); the relationship between society and poitics (lobbies, social movements, political parties, elites); the new configurations of politics (forms of government: from government to governance; the bureaucracy: from the perspective of Weber to the New Public Management; the political scenario of the XXI century).
In the second part four specific topics will be dealt with: freedom; demagogic plutocracy; the League, Five star movement.
As far as se first topic is concerned, the attention will focus on:
- the biological and enviromental conditioning;
- the cultural conditioning;
- the freedom’s real possibilities.
Regarding the second topic, the possible transformation of the Italian democracy during the last years will be analysed.
The third and the fourth topics will be analysed referring to the features, the organization, and the ideologies of the parties taken into consideration.