SCIENZE POLITICHE E SOCIALIPolicies and Social ServicesAcademic Year 2022/2023

9795289 - ANALISI E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DEI DATI SOCIO- TERRITORIALI

Teacher: Licia LIPARI

Expected Learning Outcomes

Participation in the course offers the opportunity to practice the use of GIS to study and geo-reference phenomena such as marginality, exclusion, vulnerability in a socio-territorial key, sustainable development (Agenda 2030, UN) and, therefore, develop analytical skills useful for planning, managing and implementing interventions social and personal support.

Course Structure

The teaching includes lectures and laboratory activities focused on the use of desktop GIS programs.

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of socio-territorial analysis:

main approaches and methods

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is strongly recommended

Detailed Course Content

The course focuses on the concepts, methodology and techniques that contribute to the sociological study of the change in urban societies.

It consists of three phases: an introduction aimed at presenting the "resources" available for socio-territorial analysis;

the second is an application centered on analysis tools and processes;

finally, the third is of a planning and exploratory type and serves as an exercise in the formulation of research questions and hypotheses, in the correct use of data and in the critical interpretation of the results.

Textbook Information

Battaglini E. (2014), Sviluppo territoriale. Dal disegno della ricerca alla valutazione dei risultati, Franco Angeli, Milano.

Lipari L. (2019), Scenari dello Stretto. Attrattività, mutamenti e nuova morfologia socio-territoriale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2019.

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	Do a socio-territorial research	Battaglini E. (2014), Sviluppo territoriale. Dal disegno della ricerca alla valutazione dei risultati.
2	The geo-referenced analysis of the territorial system	Battaglini E. (2014), Sviluppo territoriale. Dal disegno della ricerca alla valutazione dei risultati.
3	Socio-territorial approach applied to the Mediterranean context	Lipari L. (2019), Scenari dello Stretto.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The test will be practical and will require the use of a GIS software for the creation of territorial cartography.

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