Unit Social research and gender violence

Course
Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security
Study-unit Code
A003471
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Isabella Corvino
Teachers
  • Isabella Corvino
Hours
  • 54 ore - Isabella Corvino
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2023
Offered
2024/25
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline sociologiche
Academic discipline
SPS/07
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course aims to provide basic knowledge related to social research and the phenomenon of gender-based violence. It considers the epistemological and methodological aspects of social research and empirical research tools inherent in the course topic. Main contents: analytical tools related to the phenomenon of gender-based violence and the forms of secondary victimization, communication tools and language.
Reference texts
UOMINI NORMALI. Maschilità e violenza nell'intimità, Cristina Oddone. openaccess https://books.openedition.org/res/6884
D'Andrea, F., & Corvino, I. (2024). La fiducia come fenomeno contraddittoriale. CONTEMPORANEA. SFIDE SOCIOLOGICHE E RICERCA SOCIALE, 3-18. Disponibile presso il corso

Erasmus students: Bartholini, I. M. (2019). Proximity Violence in Migration Times: A Focus in some Regions of Italy, France and Spain (p. 225). FrancoAngeli. openaccess https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41212
Educational objectives
The objectives concern:
Knowledge and understanding of techniques and tools for social research.
In detail, they cover: knowledge and understanding of different techniques and tools useful for social research; knowledge and skills related to the limitations and problems of social research; sources of information and data and research techniques; the complexity of some issues; and the need to master proper language to present research findings.
Furthermore, with regard to knowledge and understanding, the objective is: ability to apply knowledge for the elaboration of a research design and in detail for the use of research techniques and tools.
The objectives referred to independent judgment - understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments starting from the interpretation of a database - concern the ability to articulate, in a methodologically based way, coherent reflections on social issues.
With regard to communication skills - conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors - the goals concern the ability to do research and to transmit results, information, ideas, problems and method solutions to other interlocutors.
With regard to the ability to learn - understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy - the objectives concern the methodological skills necessary to advance in studies and social research with a high degree of autonomy.
Prerequisites
Conoscenza dei concetti e degli autori di base della sociologia
Teaching methods
frontal lessons.

office hours: after class (Tuesday). Piazza G. Marzio 9, cap 0035, Narni (Italy). And-or on TEAMS.
And also contacting me by email
Other information
Oral exam

Aim is to verify the learning of methodological knowledge, the ability to understand and reason on research design, the ability to apply what has been learned in relation to the program.

info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Learning verification modality
Oral exam.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the objective is to verify the learning of methodological knowledge. Detail - exam refers to: knowledge and understanding of research techniques and tools; of their use; to the main epistemological paradigms; to the elaboration of the research design.

With regard to independent judgment - understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments, the objective is the ability to articulate, in a methodologically based way, coherent reflections on social issues. The exam verifies the independence of judgment on the definition of the research design and the research strategy to be used.
In this sense, the exam verified the independence of judgment understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments starting from the interpretation of a database and information.
With regard to communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors, it should be noted that these communication skills are verified on: ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and social investigation method solutions to other interlocutors .
The ability to learn is understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The exam verifies ability to learn the skill necessary to advance in studies and social research with a high degree of autonomy and awareness and rigor.

info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa

In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded.
Extended program
The teaching aims to provide basic knowledge related to social research. It considers the epistemological and methodological aspects of social research and covers the heuristic tools for designing and conducting empirical research related to the phenomenon of gender-based violence. Main contents: social research; explanation and understanding; elements of epistemology and methodology; sources; language; restitution.

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Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
Goal 5 aims to achieve equal opportunities for women and men in economic development, the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls (including the abolition of forced and early marriage), and equal rights at all levels of participation.
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