The educational target associated with the progress of the first module is outlined as an implementation of a plan of study designed to present some of the most important institutional issues of sociology in the different configurations that these have taken with respect to those of other social sciences, with particular regard to their theoretical and methodological profiles.
The educational targets associated with the progress of the second module also include the creation of a plan of study designed to present some important institutional issues of sociology in the different configurations that these have taken with respect to those of other social sciences, with particular regard to their theoretical and methodological profiles.
In the third module some issues of medical sociology will be specifically addressed to students in Social Work. Particular attention will be placed in emphasizing those tools of theoretical and empirical orientation through which to define and deal with some problems that characterize the provision and use of health care resources in contemporary societies.
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; secularisation and religious fundamentalism.
Organized groups; health care facilities and the use of therapeutic resources. The impact of cultural determinants on Health-Illness related behavior. Illness and social system. The professionalization of the medical practice.
Text 1: Bagnasco A. Barbagli M. Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012; Introduction, capp: III, V, VI.
Text 1: Bagnasco A. Barbagli M. Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012, capp: IV, 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, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2005, first part, capp. I, III, IV; second part, cap. I.