- Docente: Asher Daniel Colombo
- Credits: 10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)
Course contents
The aim of the class is to provide students with the main tools from the most updated empirical research for the analysis of the contemporary societies. The class will be focused both around main social theories and around main topics in sociological research.
The class will have an institutional part and a smaller monographic part devoted to the analysis and the discussion of the growing presence of immigrants communities in Italy and in Europe and the challenges connected to this presence.
Readings/Bibliography
Institutional part:
Bagnasco, A. - Barbagli, M. - Cavalli, A., Elementi di sociologia, seconda edizione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013 (Warning: don't use the first edition but only the indicated one)
Attending Students must add the notes taken during the lessons.
Not attending students must also read:
Poggi, G. - Sciortino, G., Incontri con il pensiero sociologico, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008, pp. 184
Monographic part:
Attending students have to choose one of the following list; not attending students have to choose two of it:
Colombo, A., Fuori controllo? Miti e realtà dell'immigrazione in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012
Colombo, A. (a cura di), Figli, lavoro, vita quotidiana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013 (Introduzione, chapter by M. Tribalat, a chapter more chosen from the second part of the book and another from the third part)
Sciortino, G., Rebus immigrazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017
Saraceno, C., Mamme e papà. Gli esami non finiscono mai, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016
Elias, N. La solitudine del morente, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011
Sciortino, G. (a cura di), Le relazioni interpersonali degli immigrati; numero monografico della rivista "Mondi Migranti", 2017
Teaching methods
Traditional frontal lessons. Power Point slides can be used. In no case the slides will be given to the students. Only the indicated textes are needed for the exam.
Assessment methods
The exam will be a multiple choice test. More informations will be given in the first lesson.
Office hours
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