- Docente: Simonetta Carrarini
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Markets and of Tourist Systems (cod. 0528)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to initiate students into the main issues, concepts and theories elaborated - in the study of complex societies - by sociology as a scientific discipline characterized by a specific investigation logic and by the integration of theory and empirical research.
Course contents
The following subjects will be treated:
- sociology as theory and research;
- industrial society, social change, social stratification;
- mass society and mass communication;
- power, parties and participation in political life;
- socialization process, small groups, knowledge processes.
Readings/Bibliography
Gianni Statera, 2002, Manuale di sociologia scientifica, Seam, Roma.
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching.
Assessment methods
The final examination consists in multiple choice, closed-end questions.
Teaching tools
Tracings exemplifying the themes treated during the lessons will be used and placed at the students' disposal.
Office hours
See the website of Simonetta Carrarini