Unit SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
- Course
- Social policies and social work
- Study-unit Code
- A001415
- Curriculum
- Progettazione delle politiche sociali
- Teacher
- Lorenzo Bruni
- Teachers
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- Lorenzo Bruni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Lorenzo Bruni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The Sociology of Social Networks course aims to analyse the concept of social networks in depth.
The first part of the course will focus on the sociological analysis of the network concept.
The second part of the course will focus on the thematisation of the relationship between social solidarity and social networks, with a particular focus on the empirical dynamics of the construction of solidarity ties in the context of innovative social networks operating in the Umbrian territory. - Reference texts
- Essential bibliography:
1)Stefania Vergati (2008), Gruppi e reti sociali. Tra teoria e ricerca, Bonanno Editore, Acireale-Roma.
For attendant students:
Capp. 1-2
For non attendant students:
the book must be studied in its entirety.
2) Lorenzo Bruni (2021), Solidarietà critica. Patologie neoliberali e nuove forme di socialità, Meltemi, Roma. - Educational objectives
- 1) Assessing the acquisition of content: theories, concepts, rules, procedures, methods. 2) Applying knowledge and know-how to complete tasks and solve theoretical or practical problems. 3) Demonstrating ability to transfer knowledge and skills autonomously in different contexts.
- Teaching methods
- 1) Valutare l'acquisizione di contenuti: teorie, concetti, regole, procedure, metodi. 2) Applicare le conoscenze e il know-how per portare a termine compiti e risolvere problemi teorici o pratici. 3) Dimostrare la capacità di trasferire autonomamente conoscenze e competenze in contesti diversi.
- Other information
- Obligatory attendance
- Learning verification modality
- The assessment test will consist of an oral interview and will last no longer than 30 minutes.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- The first part of the course will focus on the sociological analysis of the network concept, with particular attention to its historical contextualisation, its theoretical declinations and its empirical implications. In particular, the concept of network will be addressed contextually with that of social group, in order to show how the two dimensions share a close familiarity. This recompositional operation, which is feasible because there is no antithesis between the network approach and the group approach, is based not only on a technical and conceptual reorganisation of network studies, but above all on the reappraisal of great classics of social theory and research, without the recourse to which the contribution of contemporaries would not be appreciable.
The second part of the course will focus on the thematisation of the relationship between social solidarity and social networks. First, the most recent social processes of reconfiguration of solidarity in our current societies will be analysed. Secondly, it will focus in a circumscribed manner on the empirical dynamics of the construction of social solidarity ties in the context of innovative social networks operating in the Umbrian territory. This part of the course will therefore dwell on the sociological analysis of the processes of construction of collective experiences in which social subjects characterised by non-traditional forms of aggregation, by a problematic relationship with the institutional and party-political sphere; by a need for sociality in which the desire for individual self-realisation and participation in social life coexist; by new needs-together that are intertwined with a more or less explicit tension of social criticism.