00905 - Sociology (A-E)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Moduli: Anita Lavorgna (Modulo A-E) Anita Lavorgna (Modulo Gr1-2) Chiara Ferrari (Modulo Gr3-4) (Modulo D.Ass)
  • Teaching Mode: Blended Learning (Modulo A-E) Traditional lectures (Modulo Gr1-2) Blended Learning (Modulo Gr3-4) Traditional lectures (Modulo D.Ass)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student: possesses a basic knowledge of Sociology: its origins, its main paradigms and theories, its methods of analysis, its objects of study; - will have tools for analyzing and understanding contemporary social phenomena, such as globalisation, which are also functional for reading and understanding certain social contexts.

Course contents

The course is divided into two different sections, for a total of 46 classroom hours (32 hours of frontal lessons + 14 hours of seminar lessons). In particular, during the frontal lessons students will be offered an introduction to the study of human societies, to the analysis of social phenomena and processes, and to the main concepts and paradigms of the discipline.

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Readings/Bibliography

Attending students:

Bagnasco A, Barbagli M e Cavalli A (2013) Elementi di sociologia. Bologna (purple cover)

+ further material will be assigned before the seminars and made available on Virtuale.

Non-attending students:

Bagnasco A, Barbagli M e Cavalli A (2012) Corso di sociologia. Bologna: Il Mulino (red cover)

Teaching methods

The course is divided into two different sections, for a total of 46 classroom hours (32 hours of frontal lessons + 14 hours of seminar lessons).

For further information, please visit the page in Italian.

Assessment methods

Attending students:

40%: in-class test

20%: seminar attendance and short seminar reports

40%: essay (take home exam)

Non-attending students:

40%: in-class test

60%: essay (take home exam)

 

For further information, please visit the page in Italian.

Teaching tools

PowerPoint presentations and further material will be made available on Virtuale. 

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Office hours

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