Unit SOCIOLOGY OF EUROPE
- Course
- European legal integration and human rights
- Study-unit Code
- A000381
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Teachers
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- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Hours
- 42 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Politico-sociale
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian. International and Erasmus students are advised to attend the classes. Readings and other teaching materials are available in English; English can also be used for written and oral exams. Contact the teacher during the first week of class.
- Contents
- Contenuti 1. La formazione di una utopia: il manifesto di Ventotene 2. Costruire una società europea. 3. Per una religione civile europea: le celebrazioni del Giorno della memoria
- Reference texts
- 1. AA.VV., Ritorno alle origini. Il libro manifesto degli Stati Uniti d’Europa, Solferino, Milano, 2024. 2. Alessandro Cavalli, Alberto Martinelli, La società europea, il Mulino, Bologna, 2015. 3. RILES (a cura di), Rammemorare la Shoah. 27 gennaio e identità europea, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2009.
- Educational objectives
- The course provides an introduction to problems and prospects for the building of a European society. In fact, a shared sense of belonging to the European community is the decisive requirement for real integration. Sociology can provide its key concepts releasing them from the nation-State and elevating them to a supranational level, in order to develop a scientific analysis of this process.
- Prerequisites
- Students not having a basic knowledge of Sociology are advised to read Introduzione alla sociologia. Le teorie, i concetti, gli autori, Ambrogio Santambrogio, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019 (second edition).
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and exercises.
- Other information
- The course includes integrative didactic activities.
- Learning verification modality
- Written and oral exam