ISTITUZIONI DI SOCIOLOGIA

12 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ROBERTO VIGNERA - Module ATTORI, PROCESSI CULTURALI E ISTITUZIONI SOCIALI - SPS/07 - 6 CFU
ROSALIA CONDORELLI - Module Identity and Inequality, social Inclusion and Integration Processes - SPS/07 - 6 CFU

Detailed Course Content

ATTORI, PROCESSI CULTURALI E ISTITUZIONI SOCIALI
The contents of Institutions of Sociology course have been programmed taking into account both the common sociological areas for students enrolled in L40 and L39 classes, with the aim, therefore, of making students of both courses able to operate with the fundamental categories of sociological analysis in a multiplicity of working contexts in the public and private sectors, as well as of the characterizing and professionalizing teachings that are particularly useful for maturing skills especially in the medical-welfare area. Taking also into account the preparation needed to pursue studies in a Master's Degree Program in Political and Social Affairs, the topics issues included in the teaching program will be: the elements of culture and their relevance for social action; the notion of social structure; the sociological concept of individual and collective social actor, the various stages of the process of socialization, the notion of social interaction. Norms and institutions; the deviant behavior; stratification and social mobility; secularization and religious fundamentalisms.Organized groups, healthcare facilities, and the use of therapeutic resources. The incidence of cultural determinants in relation to Health-Illness-Related Behavior. Illness and social system. The professionalization of medical practice.
Identity and Inequality, social Inclusion and Integration Processes
The module is articulated into two parts. In the first part, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the course involves a study of the main sociological theories in which frame social differentiation and inequality processes found an explanation and their configuration in contemporary society. Specifically, the following aspects are examined: A) Gender Identity, difference and inequality; distinction between sex and gender; essentialism and social constructivism; the changes in time and space of gender inequalities in economic, political ed education field; B) the social meaning of different ages; the phases of the life course from childhood to old age, and variability of their meaning in different eras and societies; C) Racial and ethnic identity; the race concept: biology or social construction?; The racist doctrines; racial discrimination in modern society; ethnicity and nation; concept of multiethnic and multinational society and State.

Covered topics appear preparatory to learning the contents of the next part, which is focused on social inclusion and integration issues in modern multiethnic Western societies. For this purpose different models of relationship with cultural minorities are examined: enslavement, genocide, transfer, up to the most current models of social inclusion as assimilation, pluralism, multiculturalism (communitarian and pluralist version) and interculturalism. In particular, the different conceptions of the social solidarity bases underlying to the most current models of social inclusion are examined and their respective implications in reference to the safeguard of social integration are compared. Furthermore, the course reflects on the relationship between fundamental traits of the Western cultural identity (pluralism, individual rights, democracy, secularism) and Islamic cultural identity (lack of secularism, collective rights, holistic individualism) with its fundamentalist drift. And, finally, it compares the multiculturalist social inclusion vision of Islamic neo-traditionalism with the pluralistic vision of liberal Islam, emphasizing their implications on social integration processes

Textbook Information

ATTORI, PROCESSI CULTURALI E ISTITUZIONI SOCIALI
Text 1: Bagnasco A. Barbagli M. Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012; Introduction, capp: III, V, VI, VIII, XI.

Text 2: Giddens A. Sutton P., Fondamenti di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014, cap: IX.

Text 3: Vignera R., Protagonisti e interpreti della Sociologia sanitaria, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2005.
Identity and Inequality, social Inclusion and Integration Processes
1th Part on differentiation and inequality processes

Testo 1. Bagnasco A., Barbagli M., Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012, Cap. XIII, XIV, XV.

Suggested readings:

Connell R., Questioni di genere, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.

2th Parth on social incusion and integration processes

Testo 2.Sartori G, Pluralismo, multiculturalismo ed estranei, Bur, Milano, 2010.
Testo 3. Donati P , Oltre il multiculturalismo, Laterza, Roma, 2008, pp.3-19.

Testo 4. Cesareo V., Società multietniche e multiculturalismi, Vita e pensiero, Milano, 2007, Cap. II.
Testo 5.Guolo R., L’islam è compatibile con la democrazia?, Laterza, Roma, 2007, pp.77-137.

Suggested readings:

Souad Sbai, L’inganno. Vittime del multiculturalismo, Cantagalli, Siena, 2010.
Bassam Tibi , Euro-Islam. L’integrazione mancata, Marsilio, 2003.
Salem E.M., Berti F., Lezioni di cultura islamica, Cantagalli, Siena, 2003.
Samir Khalil, Islam, Cantagalli, 2008.

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