Unit GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

Course
Investigation and security sciences
Study-unit Code
GP004291
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Fabio D'andrea
Teachers
  • Fabio D'andrea
Hours
  • 72 ore - Fabio D'andrea
CFU
12
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2021/22
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
Contents
The course starts from basic sociological concepts and then builds a relational perspective of societal understanding, criticizing the predominant cultural paradigm from whose crisis stems the widespread feeling of uncertainty that afflicts the Western world and focusing on the key dynamics of mutual recognition.
Reference texts
P. Jedlowski, Il mondo in questione. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero sociologico, Carocci 2009;
Audio materials and hardcopies made available by the teacher on the website www.sociologica.it (meant as an integral part of the exam program);
E. Morin, I sette saperi necessari all'educazione del futuro, Cortina 2001; I. Corvino, Appartenersi. Verso un modello complesso di interpretazione del riconoscimento, Mimesis 2021.
Educational objectives
Independent and critical understanding of socio-cultural processes shaping society; sensibility to intimations deriving from ongoing processes and social transformations, particularly those linked to uncertainty and safety/security; skills in detecting and describing such processes and in the evaluation of related intervention scenarios.
Prerequisites
The student should have a sound general knowledge.
Teaching methods
Academic and online teaching, workgroups.
Other information
Exam dates are as published on the Faculty site www.unipg.it/sdf. Attendance is mandatory.
Learning verification modality
On time students: mandatory written or online 20-minute test, multiple answers. Passing the exam can lead to grade registering or to an oral exam to better its result. Grading 15 or less requires taking again the written test at the following exam session. There are two tests, in january and april: students who should fail both of them will be admitted to the oral exam in july. Those who cannot take the test are required to justify their absence by presenting an appropriate documentation and to arrange specific ways to pass the exam with the professor. Out of time students and student workers: optional written test as above; oral exam. The exams are aimed at verifying the student's ability in applying the analytical instruments taught during the course at contemporary society and his/her comprehension of the course program.
Extended program
Society and its structures as the result of reciprocal interaction; Identity, recognition and socialization: types of relation, dynamics and linked processes; Culture as the creation of the world and the self; The different spheres of humanity and knowledge: corporeity, symbolic-imaginal knowledge and rationality; Understanding knowledge; The Modern paradigm and its distortions: broken promises and an obsession for control; The importance of nonrational dynamics: emotions, confidence, beliefs and religiosity.
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