Unit SOCIOLOGY OF THE DEVIANCE
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- GP001643
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Enrico Caniglia
- Teachers
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- Enrico Caniglia
- Hours
- 63 ore - Enrico Caniglia
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- SPS/12
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. International and Erasmus students are invited to attende the course. Readings and other course
material are also available in English; written and/or oral exams, as detailed in the course program,
may be taken in English. Please contact the instructor for further details and to schedule an
appointment during the first week of the Fall/Spring Semester. - Contents
- The course aims to analyze and critically discuss the main theories and researches in the field of sociology of deviance and crime. In particular, it will take care of the operation of the offices and institutions responsible to take care of deviance, analyzing the interactional procedures that organize everyday institutional activities. Part of the course is focused on the theme of research on drug use in young people
- Reference texts
- Hester S. and Eglin P., Sociology of Crime, Routledge, 2016
- Educational objectives
- Understanding Theories and Recherches in Sociology of crime and deviance. To be able to do a research in deviance and Institutions such as Police, Court of Justice, and social work
- Prerequisites
- basic of Sociology and history of Sociological Thought (Talcott Parsons and Functionalism, Symbolic Interaction, Ethnomethodology, French Structuralism)
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Learning verification modality
- The student can choose between oral exam or a written papers.
Disabled studente see web page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- What is deviance and crime. Deviance and microanalysis. Ethnomethodology and the law. Use and abuse fo Drugs. Biocriminology