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Laurea in Scienze del servizio sociale - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Family and social policies - SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S000948
Teacher
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
Period
Sem. IA, Sem. IB
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Learning outcomes
The course aims to give the students critical tools for reading and interpretation of the relationship between families and social policies, taking as analysis perspective the role of women. In a mediterranean model of welfare system, which is anchored and has played on the family as a private producer of goods and services of 'public importance' (with a strong impact on the level of welfare of the community), the trends of change in families change their social role. The families face increasing difficulties in carrying out their duties of care.
Prerequisiti: Avere frequentato il modulo di Politica sociale
Program
An analysis of economic, social, cultural and political factors will be developed to focus the dynamics of the social change. In particular it stands out as the most significant changes of the status of women have changed the forms and family relations. The status of women, in particular what is called the unfinished revolution by Esping-Andersen, is the key to understanding the one hand the growing difficulty of making family and bear children, and on the other how to create a welfare system more fair, efficient and supportive from the fulfillment of women's revolution.
Topics covered:
- structural changes in the family in Italy: trends since 1970
- changes in relationships between couples and generations
-attitudes and behaviors related to birth, fertility, and marriage rates
- marital Conflict (Separation and Divorce)
- new family forms: immigrant families, informal marriage, step- families, adoptive families, and unions with partners of the same sex.
The analysis of family changes will be conducted through a reading and interpretation of the most relevant ISTAT data on the topics dealt with.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Paola Di Nicola | Famiglia: sostantivo plurale. Nuovi orizzonti e vecchi problemi (Edizione 2) | Franco Angeli | 2017 | 9788891759672 | |
| G. Esping Andersen | La rivoluzione incompiuta | il Mulino | 2011 | ||
| S. Moller Okin | Le donne e la giustizia (Edizione 1999) | Dedalo | 1999 |
Examination Methods
Examination procedure: oral exam
The oral exam aims to evaluate the student's ability to enucleate the social, political and cultural factors underlying family changes, new household needs, and the impact that new family configurations s have on welfare policies.
