Teaching code

4S008162

Academic staff

Lorenzo Migliorati, Debora Viviani

Coordinator

Lorenzo Migliorati

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 27, 2021 al Nov 6, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding 1. To know the fundamentals of reasoning and the sociological method, with specific reference to the contents and themes of the processes of economic and cultural globalization. 2. To know the connections between global and local scale and the phenomena inherent to them, with specific reference to the context of educational action. 3. To know, on the diachronic and analytical levels, the main transformations occurred in complex societies with the focus on the economic and cultural globalization processes of the second half of the twentieth century. Applying knowledge and understanding 1. To know how to use the tools developed by the social research to describe and to understand the processes of the globalization. 2. To understand the sense and the meaning of the educational action in contexts complex and heterogeneous. 3. To solicit and encourage the organization of the educational spaces, operating in contexts that concern globalization processes (eg. Migrations, risk, advanced communication technologies) to make them concretely functional to the educational and didactic objectives.

Program

The first aims of the course is an introduction to the globalization in the contemporary societes.
A second aim of the course will be a specific work about some concrete examples related to current events (eg Covid-19). In this sense, we will be favoured forms of interaction with the student in order to foster the development of critical thinking of the issues dealt.
After the course , the student will have the conceptual and empirical tools to describe and analyse the main processes of change in contemporary society such as globalization, the interrelationship of social and cultural processes relations.

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Examination Methods

Two alternative assessment methods are proposed, among which the student can choose.

1. "Traditional" mode:
- Production of a written text on open questions starting from the recommended texts.

2. "Step" mode:
- first step: production of a written text starting from the reflection and personal re-elaboration of the contents proposed in the classroom (in itinere);
- second step: production of a written work and a multimedia production to be presented publicly in the classroom on occasions dedicated to a topic related to the sociology of culture and which do not directly form the curricular contents of the course;
- third step: oral examination on specific parts of the program.

In both cases, the final evaluation derives from the average of the results obtained in each test.