Unit SOCIOLOGY
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- GP003608
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Teachers
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- Ambrogio Santambrogio
- Hours
- 60 ore - Ambrogio Santambrogio
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Formazione sociologica di base
- 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 also in English; English can also be used for written and oral examinations. Contact the teacher during the first week of class.
- Contents
- Part I. 1. Sociology as a social science. What is sociology; sociology and other social sciences; sociological method; social theory and social research. 2. Sociology and the 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. For students enrolled in Political Science and International Relations: 1. An example of empirical research: daily life during quarantine. For students enrolled in Social Work: 1. Social service in Umbria: history and problems.
- Reference texts
- Part I (6 CFU) A. Santambrogio, Introduzione alla sociologia. Le teorie, i concetti, gli autori, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2019 (Revised and updated second edition: use only this edition), pp. 300, € 24. Part II (2 CFU) For students in Political Science and International Relations: O. Affuso, E. G. Parini, A. Santambrogio, Gli italiani in quarantena. Quaderni da un ‘carcere’ collettivo, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, 2020, pp. 191, € 15. For students in social service: A. Santambrogio (a cura di), Servizio sociale e politiche sociali in Umbria. Storia, problemi e prospettive, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, pp. 252, € 17.50.
- 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
- Written and oral exams.