- Docente: Vando Borghi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Sociology and Social Work (cod. 8786)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 8784)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Local and Global Development (cod. 9200)
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
Course's contents are irectly linked to the Sustainable Development Goal n. 11. Sustainable cities and communities.
Readings/Bibliography
Attending students:
- O. de Leonardis, Le istituzioni, Carocci, 2011, and
- 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
FOT ALL THE STUDENTS:
- The paper must be delivered both in file and in hard copy (it can be delivered by hand to the professor or delivered - by mail or by hand - in the mailbox of the Department of the teacher)
- The verbalization of the paper evaluation takes place at receiving hours and there is no need to make an appointment (nor apply for appeals)
- The paper will be considered to be evaluated (and therefore it will need to be received for the registration of the vote) from about 15 days after delivery of the paper
- This timing can not be changed at all even in the preceding academic year deadlines
- The evaluation will only start once the teacher has the paper copy in hand
- Please do not deliver papers during the months of July, February, December
- all the students with specific deadlines (for grants, competitions, etc.) must deliver the paper by the 15th of themonth before that deadline
Teaching tools
Office hours
See the website of Vando Borghi