00905 - Sociology (F-N)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student should acquire: -  a basic knowledge about Sociology: its origins, its main paradigms and theories, its methods of analysis, its topics; -  the theoretical tools and empirical capabilities necessary to understand social phenomena in the contemporary global society.

Course contents

1) The origins of the Sociology in relation to the uprising of modern society; with particolar attention to the authors, today estimated as classical ones, who mainly studied the transformations connected to the development of modernity; the main sociological paradigms and theories.   

2) Analysis of some basic concepts of sociology (culture, socialization, identity, role, social action, social interaction, structure and social system) and of the fundamental social institutions of contemporary society.  

3) Analysis and discussion about the social consequences of globalization processes, with particular reference to migrations.

Readings/Bibliography

1) Jedlowski Paolo, Il mondo in questione, Carocci, Roma, 2009. 

2) Giddens A., Sutton P. W, Sociology. Seventh Edition, Cambridge, Polity, 2013.  

3) Each student will be expected to choose one of the following monographs:

  • Bauman Z., Dentro la globalizzazione. Le conseguenze sulle persone, Laterza, 2001.
  • Bauman Z., Stranieri alle porte, Laterza, 2016.
  • Lecture notes on globalization available via a username and password at AMS-Campus by AlmaDL, University of Bologna.
  • Sen A., Globalizzazione e libertà, Mondadori, Saggi, 2002.
  • Singer P., One world. L'etica della globalizzazione , Einaudi, 2003.

Teaching methods

Lectures including moments of discussion and comparison with students.

Assessment methods

The final assessment consists in an oral exam that consists in a conversation about the suggested reading list.

For students who attended the lectures there will be the possibility to pass two partial exams:

  • an intermediate exam, in the last week of october;
  • a 2nd partial exam (oral exam), at the end of lessons

Partial exams are not compulsory, although they are strongly recommended.

Assessment scale

It will produce excellent valuations: the ability to deepen and put into connection with each other the main issues addressed in the course; the use of appropriate language with the specific nature of the discipline. 

It will produce discrete valuations: mnemonic knowledge of contents and partial ability to link the themes covered; the use of appropriate language.

It will produce sufficient valuations:  a minimal body of knowledge on the topics covered; the use of inappropriate language.

It will produce negative valuations: lack of guidance within the themes addressed in the exam readings and training gaps; the use of inappropriate language.

Teaching tools

Slides.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Parmiggiani

SDGs

Gender equality Reduced inequalities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.