SOCIOLOGY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

SPS/08 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPE TOSCANO


Detailed Course Content

Role-taking (George Herbert Mead). Self construction. Primary socialization. Secondary socialization. Re-socialization. Significant Others and reference groups. Pygmalion effect and Looking Glass Self (Cooley). Stereotypes and prejudices. Ethnocentrism. Stigma. Labeling processes and total institutions (Goffman). Subcultures (Becker). Moral Panic (Cohen) and social problems construction. Sociological reflections on the stranger: Chicago School: migrations, urban subcultures e marginal man (Park, Thomas e Znaniecki, Whyte).



Textbook Information

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