02512 - Sociology of Organisation

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student

- knows the main properties of organizational and institutional processes

- knows and can use the most relevant sociological tools in the study of organizations and institutions

- knows the main issues characterizing the complex organizational environments, both in the economic processes and labor market, and in the public institutions and services

Moreover, the student

- is able to plan and participate in actions of research and understanding of the organizational issues
- can promote interventions and for (re)design organizational environments
- masters problems of relations between actors and organizational processes in the development's projects life cycle and socio-economic interventions

Course contents

The course aims at:
a) providing analytical tools for the exploration and investigation of phenomena related to complex organizational and institutional environments
b) accompanying, supporting and supervising these analytical tools and testing through field exercises

Readings/Bibliography

Attending students:

1. one of the following two books: L. Bifulco, Che cos'è una organizzazione, Carocci, 2012; O. de Leonardis, Le istituzioni, Carocci, 2011, and
2. G. Semi, L'osservazione partecipante, Il Mulino, 2010

Not attending students, two alternative paths.
Path a), Processi organizzativi e questioni di welfare:
a1) one of the following texts: L. Bifulco, Che cosa è una organizzazione, Carocci, 2012 [nuova edizione]; O.de Leonardis, Le istituzioni, Carocci, 2011.
a2) L. Bifulco, L. Centemeri, Governance and participation in local welfare: the case of the Italian Piani di Zona, "Social Policy and Administration", vol. 42, n. 3, 2008, pp. 211-227
a3) V. Borghi, R. van Berkel, Individualised service provision in an era of activation and new governance, "International journal of sociology and social policy, 2007, vol. 27, n. 9/10, pp. 413-424.

Path b), Processi organizzativi e trasformazioni del lavoro:
b1) Negrelli S., Le trasformazioni del lavoro: modelli e tendenze nel capitalismo globale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013.
b2) K.J. Chan, N. Pun, M. Selden, The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class, "New technology, work and employment", vol. 28, n. 2, 2013, pp. 110-115
b3) M. Glucksmann, Shifting boundaries of interconnections: Extending the 'total social organization of laboue', "The sociological review", vol. 53, n. 2, 2005, p. 19-36
b1)

Students are suggested to read/consult:

W. Richard Scott,  Le organizzazioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

Karl E. Weick, Senso e significato nell'organizzazione : alla ricerca delle ambiguità e delle contraddizioni nei processi organizzativi, Milano, R. Cortina, 1997

 

Teaching methods

- conventional lectures
- on field exercises

Assessment methods

Attending students::
- writing a paper, about the topics developed on the field, discussed through the compulsory textx

Not attending students:
- writing a paper, according the rules in the online information of the course

Teaching tools

Office hours

See the website of Vando Borghi