Unit INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CONTROL
- Course
- Politics, administration, territory
- Study-unit Code
- A003352
- Curriculum
- Management delle amministrazioni e dei servizi
- Teacher
- Stefano Anastasia
- Teachers
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- Stefano Anastasia
- Hours
- 42 ore - Stefano Anastasia
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- IUS/20
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. International and Erasmus students will be able to have reading
and other teaching materials available in English. Exams can be taken in
French, English and Spanish. - Contents
- The subject of the course will be the notions of institution and social control in sociological theory and legal culture. In particular, the formal and informal institutions of social control will be explored.
- Reference texts
- 1. O. De Leonardis, Le istituzioni. Come e perchè parlarne, Carocci, or M. Douglas, How Institutions Think, 1986
2. One classic among the following:
- School of Barbiana, Letter to a Teacher
- S. de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
- M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison
- E. Goffman, Asylums. Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
- T. Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
or any recent research on institutional social control practices to be agreed with the teacher - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with the tools for critical analysis of the functioning of the institutions of social control
- Prerequisites
- In order to fully appreciate and master the topics of the course, it is
desirable that the student has basic sociological knowledge, both
theoretical and methodologica - Teaching methods
- The course is organized in lectures by the teacher, seminars with scholars
and operators, field visits. - Learning verification modality
- The verification of learning will take place through an oral exam with
general and specific questions aimed at assessing the mastery of the
main topics of the discipline, as well as the level of knowledge and critical
assimilation of the contents proposed in the teaching activities. The
production of a written paper of a few pages relating to a research
application topic may be subject to supplementary evaluation. - Extended program
- Institutions in the sociological perspective. Institutions in the theory of law. Formal and informal social control. The institutions of social control. The institutions of formal social control.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions