- Docente: Giovanni Pieretti
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/10
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giovanni Pieretti (Modulo 1) Gabriele Manella (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in SOCIOLOGY (cod. 8041)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the history of urban and rural sociology, to consider the most important approaches and concepts of this discipline, to use them in order to understand its most recent trends, and to know how using some methods and techniques to study urban and territorial phenomena.
Course contents
The course will be divided in three parts:
- Theoretical and methodological aspects, with an introduction to sociological debate about urban and rural topics.
- A general presentation about emerging topics of urban sociology, and some approaches to undertsand them.
- Analysis of the connection between man and territory in the urban context.
Readings/Bibliography
G. Pieretti (a cura di), La persistenza degli aggregati: cittadini e welfare locale in un'area periferica di Bologna, Angeli, Milano, 2000.
G. Manella, Nuovi scenari urbani. La sociologia del territorio negli USA oggi, Angeli, Milano, 2008.
M. Bergamaschi, M. Colleoni e F. Martinelli (a cura di), La città: bisogni, desideri, diritti. Dimensioni spazio-temporali dell'esclusione urbana, Angeli, Milano, 2009.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars.
Assessment methods
Oral exam about the recommended reading.
Teaching tools
Lectures and seminars.
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Pieretti
See the website of Gabriele Manella