GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
cod. 1002998

Academic year 2017/18
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Sociologia generale (SPS/07)
Field
Discipline scientifiche demoetnoantropologiche, pedagogiche, psicologiche e economiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
12 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding (knowledge and understanding) is encouraged and
required capacity for analytical understanding of the texts according to criteria of
logical rigor and philological. It also requires capacity for synthesis. Overall,
knowledge of the topics covered will not be reduced to their repetition, but attitudes
highlight the reinterpretation staff realized with appropriate language discipline.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding (applying knowledge and
understanding): the knowledge required is not a merely descriptive. The student will
demonstrate personal attitudes in the solution of the questions raised. She will
develop a critical original locations within the agenda.

Prerequisites

Requires knowledge of sociology, history and philosophy.

Course unit content

General Sociology (6 cfu e 12cfu)

Title: The city and the prefigurative society

The course analyzes the distinction between city and society concepts, in a time of global urbanization where the city is represented as a style of our time. In reality, the present offers multiple and diverse images of both cities and societies. The univocal model evoked by the notions of post-industrial or postmodern society seems to unduly generalize western civilization. To avoid this risk, the course of general sociology recurs to the idea of ​​prefigurative society that Margaret Mead introduced in the 1970s, referring to the near future that we are now living.

The course was conceived together with Dr. Daniel Boccacci, Dr. Alessandra Pozzi and Dr. Valentina Riva.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Test texts for 6cfu:
Zygmunt Bauman, Voglia di Comunità, Laterza, Bari, 2008.
Daniel Boccacci (a cura), Corrispondenze. Giovani, linguaggi digitali, pratiche educative, Unicopli, Milan, 2016.
Alessandro Bosi, il fuoco e l'accendino. Brogliaccio di Sociologia Generale, Battei, Parma, 2016.
Alessandro Bosi, Valentina Riva, Sissa Trecasali, il libro dei sogni (dei cittadini), Battei, Parma, 2017.

The exam program and texts are the same for students who attend classes and for those who do not attend.

Test texts for 12cfu:
Zygmunt Bauman, Voglia di Comunità, Laterza, Bari, 2008.
Daniel Boccacci (a cura), Corrispondenze. Giovani, linguaggi digitali, pratiche educative, Unicopli, Milan, 2016.
Alessandro Bosi, il fuoco e l'accendino. Brogliaccio di Sociologia Generale, Battei, Parma, 2016.
Alessandro Bosi, Valentina Riva, Sissa Trecasali, il libro dei sogni (dei cittadini), Battei, Parma, 2017. \
Marco Galeotti Marco Valesi, duri come i muri, Emil, Bologna, 2015.
Franco Riva (edited), Leggere la città. Quattro testi di Paul Ricoeur, Città Aperta, Troina (En), 2008.
M.Vegetti (ed.), Filosofie della Metropoli, Carocci, Rome, 2009.

The exam program and texts are the same for students who attend classes and for those who do not attend.

Teaching methods

The course includes: front lessons, discussions on the topics covered in the
lectures, focus group on detailed arguments; moments with laboratory simulations
and case studies.

Assessment methods and criteria

The examination of Sociology provides only for students of Philosophical Studies , a
written essay on the issues and the texts of the course and an oral exam.
For other students there will be only oral exam.

Other information

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