Unit SOCIOLOGY

Course
Social work
Study-unit Code
GP003608
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Ambrogio Santambrogio
Teachers
  • Ambrogio Santambrogio
  • Ambrogio Santambrogio
Hours
  • 63 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
  • 20 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
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. English can be used for written and 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. Le teorie, i concetti, gli autori, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2020 (second edition).
2. Critical turn nel digitale, “Quaderni di Teoria Sociale”, n. 1/2018, Morlacchi, Perugia, pp. 11-133 (a choice of three articles).

Part II (3 CFU)
1a. For students enrolled in the three-year degree course in Social Services:
A. Santambrogio (a cura di), Servizio sociale e politiche sociali in Umbria. Storia, problemi e prospettive, Morlacchi, Perugia 2012.
1b. For all other students:
A. Santambrogio (a cura di), Giovani a Perugia. Vissuti urbani e forme del tempo, Morlacchi, Perugia 2014.
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
Written and oral exams.
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