The course of General Sociology aims to provide students with conceptual, methodological and epistemological tools necessary to deal with the analysis of the main institutional issues of sociology. It will proceed, also, to present the theoretical-conceptual and empirical tools through which the students can develop the skills necessary to identify the problems that characterize contemporary societies.
The course of General Sociology aims to provide students with conceptual, methodological and epistemological tools necessary to deal with the analysis of the main institutional issues of sociology. It will proceed, also, to present the theoretical-conceptual and empirical tools through which the students can develop the skills necessary to identify the problems that characterize contemporary societies.
The course of General Sociology aims to provide students with conceptual, methodological and epistemological tools necessary to deal with the analysis of the main institutional issues of sociology. The module presents the tools of a theoretical-conceptual and empirical guidance relating to the main theories on bureaucratic structures and the type of action that takes place in these.
In the first module, the teaching, by reference to the different theoretical and methodological approaches, introduces the study of some basic concepts of sociological analysis - like rules, values, institutions, identity formation - useful to deepen the study of social behaviour and social action.
The second module deals with the main social institutions (family, religion and social stratification) making clear their connection with the social structure and the changes that these have met during the typical differentiation process of modernity. It analyzes the social, economic and political changes that have brought to the birth of the modern state and the main sociological theories about the origin and development of the culture of modernity.
The third module, starting from the Weber’s theory on bureaucracy, analyzes the kind of activity that is carried out here in connection with the performance, the organizational rationality and its limits in order to highlight - through the analysis of Merton and Selznick, Blau and Simon, Crozier and Friedberg, Powell and DiMaggio – how to overcome the typical-ideal model of Weberian bureaucracy.
1. Bagnasco, Barbagli, Cavalli, ‘Corso di sociologia’, Il Mulino, 2012: Introduzione e capp. I, III, V, VI
1. Bagnasco, Barbagli, Cavalli, ‘Corso di sociologia’, Il Mulino, 2012: capp. II, X, XI, XVI
1. Bagnasco, Barbagli, Cavalli, ‘Corso di sociologia’, Il Mulino, 2012: cap. IV;
2. M. Scuderi, (dispensa a cura di), Sviluppi post-weberiani degli studi sulla burocrazia;
3. P. DiMaggio e W. Powell, Il neoistituzionalismo nell'analisi organizzativa, ed. Comunità, Torino, 2000; pp. 88-115.
Letture integrative consigliate:
Ph. Selznick, La leadership nelle organizzazioni, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1984; pp. 128-145.
P. Blau, M. Meyer, La burocrazia nella società moderna, Armando editore, Roma, 1973, pp. 65-89.
H. A. Simon, Il comportamento amministrativo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2001; pp. 99 108, 119-140
M. Crozier, ‘La burocrazia come sistema d’organizzazione’, in F. Ferraresi, A. Spreafico, La burocrazia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1975, pag.350-363.