Unit GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
- Course
- Investigation and security sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP004291
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fabio D'andrea
- Teachers
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- Fabio D'andrea
- Hours
- 72 ore - Fabio D'andrea
- CFU
- 12
- 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
- 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.
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
- 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.