Unit GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
- Course
- Sciences of education
- Study-unit Code
- GP004286
- Curriculum
- Educatore dei servizi educativi per l'lnfanzia
- Teacher
- Marta Picchio
- Teachers
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- Marta Picchio
- Hours
- 36 ore - Marta Picchio
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline filosofiche, psicologiche, sociologiche e antropologiche
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Sociology as a science: birth, theoretical paradigms, areas of interest, objectives. The basic concepts for sociological analysis: social actor and social action; social relationship and interaction; status and role; group and group dynamics; socialization and identity; deviance; social stratification and social mobility; sex and gender, "race" and ethnicity; culture, cultural differences and relationship with the stranger; multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism. Social change: modern society and the various interpretations of contemporary society (postmodernity, hypermodernity, global society, liquid society, risk society, etc.). Some sociological considerations on education and instruction.
Role of educators and education in a society with an uncertain future, especially for young people.
Sociological analysis of childhood and the relationship between adults and children. - Reference texts
- For a historical and thematic overview of the origins and developments of sociology, see: A. Cavalli, Sociologia, in Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, vol. 8, Roma 1998, text available online at the following link:
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sociologia_%28Enciclopedia-delle-scienze-sociali%29/
Ad hoc study material will be provided on the basic concepts of the discipline, which can be downloaded from the platform https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/ , during the course of the lessons.
For a sociological reflection on the role of education and educators in the time of "liquid modernity", see: Zygmunt Bauman, Conversazioni sull’educazione, Erickson, Trento, 2012.
Texts recommended for Erasmus students:
G. Ritzer, Essentials of Sociology, second edition, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2016.
Z. Bauman, Education in the Liquid-Modern Setting, in “Power and Education”, vol. 1, n. 2, 2009, pp. 157-166, text available at the following link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/power.2009.1.2.157
Z. Bauman, Liquid Modern Challenges to Education, Lecture given ad the Coimbra Group Annual Conference, Padova, 26 May 2011, Padova University Press, Padova, 2011, text available at the following link: http://www.padovauniversitypress.it/system/files/attachments_field/liquidmodernchallengesbauman.pdf - Educational objectives
- The student should be able to acquire disciplinary knowledge of the sociological area; to understand problems related to groups and social contexts in order to prepare adequate educational responses; to develop communication and relational skills; to recognize and value cultural differences and to promote integration; to develop autonomy of judgment and the ability to critically analyze the social dynamics and transformations in which the educator operates today, also for the purpose of better estimating the possibilities of intervention.
- Prerequisites
- A good general culture, especially in the historical and philosophical fields.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and guided discussion.
- Other information
- To contact the teacher: marta.picchio@unipg.it
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam on the topics of the program, lasting about 15/20 minutes, in which will be evaluated the acquisition of knowledge, the ability to interconnect the themes, the ability to personal and critical re-elaboration, the ability to connect the topics of the program to the overall knowledge of the sciences of education.
In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded. - Extended program
- Sociology as a science: birth, theoretical paradigms, areas of interest, objectives. The basic concepts for sociological analysis: social actor and social action; social relationship and interaction; status and role; group and group dynamics; socialization and identity; deviance; social stratification and social mobility; sex and gender, "race" and ethnicity; culture, cultural differences and relationship with the stranger; multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism. Social change: modern society and the various interpretations of contemporary society (postmodernity, hypermodernity, global society, liquid society, risk society, etc.). Some sociological considerations on education and instruction.
Role of educators and education in a society with an uncertain future, especially for young people.
Sociological analysis of childhood and the relationship between adults and children.