- Docente: Marco Santoro
- Credits: 12
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0956)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the class the student will know the most important traditions of sciology especially those intertwined with the rise of s called Cultural Studies. She will also have familiarity with the sociological language and the tools useful to master and cultivate a sociological imagination or a sociological gaze applying them to relevant aspects of contemporary social life, with special focus on arts and intellectual life.
Course contents
The course is divided in three parts.
In the first part the student is introduced to the sociological imagination or gaze emphasizing their connection with that research program called Cultural Studies. In this part a set of key concepts especially relevant for doing sociologically oriented cultural analysis will be introduced - as social action, practice, social interaction, power, legitimacy, ideology, egemony, social networks, social structure, organization, institution and of course culture.
In the second part a few research techniques will be introduced (as documentary analysis, interviews and ethnography, focus group) and applied in research simulation in class in the sociology of music and cinema.
In the third part the concepts and methods already introduced will be further developed and refined in order to introduce theoretical models and show how to make use of them for doing analysis of specific social issues. Five main issues will be considered: social inequalities, sex and gender, market and organizations, migration an racial issues, and criminality. A case study drawn from the Italian history in the field of popular music will be used to illustrate concretely these concepts and models.
Readings/Bibliography
A Bibliography in English will be given to foreign students asking for it.
Teaching methods
Face to face lessons, with also practical exercises of social research
Assessment methods
Oral exam, through face to face conversation, aimed at testing the student's learning through general and specific questions.
It is possible to dicuss a paper during the exam on a topic previously agreed upon. The paper has to be a research paper, making use of empirical research tools.
Teaching tools
Slides and some texts in pdf provided by the teacher
Office hours
See the website of Marco Santoro