Unit SOCIOLOGY
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- A001406
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Teachers
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- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Hours
- 63 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- 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
- 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).
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
- Oral exams.
- Extended program
- 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).