Unit Socio-cultural Anthropology
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- 10990109
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fiorella Giacalone
- Teachers
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- Fiorella Giacalone
- Aurora Massa (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 21 ore - Fiorella Giacalone
- 42 ore (Codocenza) - Aurora Massa
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline storico-antropologiche-filosofico-pedagogiche
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Reference texts
- PER CHI FREQUENTA:
- Giacalone F. (a cura di), Il tempo e la complessità. Teorie e metodi dell'antropologia culturale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2017 (tranne i capitoli 3 e 4)
- Riccio B., Tarabusi F., Antropologia ed Etnografia per i servizi socio-educativi, Edizioni Junior-Bambini S.r.l., Reggio Emilia, 2024 (solo i capitoli 3 e 4)
- Prima dispensa
- Seconda dispensa (solo l'articolo concordato in classe)
PER CHI NON FREQUENTA:
- Giacalone F. (a cura di), Il tempo e la complessità. Teorie e metodi dell'antropologia culturale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2017 (tranne i capitoli 3 e 4)
- Riccio B., Tarabusi F., Antropologia ed Etnografia per i servizi socio-educativi, Edizioni Junior-Bambini S.r.l., Reggio Emilia, 2024 (per intero)
- Prima dispensa
- Seconda dispensa (per intero) - Educational objectives
- The course aims to offer students an anthropological perspective on the contemporary world. It will allow students to become familiar with the concepts, theoretical paradigms and research methodologies that have characterized the anthropological debate from the nineteenth century to the present day. Students will be provided with the conceptual tools to develop autonomous critical thinking in understanding the topics addressed. By focusing on some key words, students will acquire greater communication skills to understand and discuss some key dynamics of contemporaneity.
At the end of the course, students will have to demonstrate that they are able to understand the theoretical frameworks of the anthropological debate, the main research topics and its methodological tools. Cultural anthropology aims at the development of self-critical and reflective skills with respect to the relational and institutional structures of daily life, therefore at a consolidation of the critical perspective. Consequently, students will have to demonstrate that they are able to develop critical and autonomous thinking on the topics addressed and to develop a critical reading of the suggested texts. The course also requires students to acquire interaction skills in the peer group and communication skills both in terms of language and disciplinary terminology. - Teaching methods
- The lectures will be conducted primarily through face-to-face teaching. Where feasible, select lectures will be dedicated to presentations and group exercises and to audiovisual materials. The active participation of students is highly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- The examination will consist of a final oral discussions with questions designed to test your knowledge and understanding of the topics presented during the course and in the reading lists. In addition to the accuracy and completeness of the answers and the quality of the presentation, the ability to argue, make connections and use specialist terminology will be assessed.
- Extended program
- The course aims to provide general notions on demological, ethnological and anthropological disciplines: their history, the research methodologies and theoretical approaches characterizing them, their relationships with other human and social sciences. The focus is on the ways in which the study of cultural diversity has contributed, on the one hand, to humanistic knowledge from the end of the nineteenth century to today and, on the other, to the understanding of the dynamics of contemporary global world. The course will be divided into two parts: the first part is dedicated to introducing cultural anthropology and the second part to socio-educational services within a multicultural contexts.
The first part on cultural anthropology is in turn divided into two sections. The first section focuses on its main methods (ethnography and field research), concepts (such as culture, race and ethnicity) and notions (ethnocentrism, relativism, holism). The relationship between anthropology and other social and human disciplines (such as sociology, history, linguistics) and the history of the disciplines will also be addressed. The second section focuses on contemporary anthropology, addressing some crucial issues for the discipline, but also for the understanding of many global dynamics. Some of the topics covered are: the plurality of parental, economic and political systems, the plurality of forms of religious life, gender and generations, conceptions of health and illness.
The second part introduces the anthropological perspective to the analysis of socio-educational services with the aim of stimulating a critical approach to welfare policies and facilitating an operational translation of anthropological and ethnographic skills into social and educational work. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile