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Laurea in Scienze del servizio sociale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The 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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activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
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Teaching code

4S003175

Teacher

Luca Mori

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

Period

Sem. IA (31.10.16 sosp.lezioni) dal Oct 3, 2016 al Nov 12, 2016.

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Learning outcomes

The course aims at giving to the future social workers the skills necessary to understand how personal problems have deep social roots and how they often depends on complex mechanisms of social production of deviance.

Program

This year course will have a strong monographic character. The lessons will be dedicated almost exclusively to the work of the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman. Afetr having briefly illustrated the structuralist roots of Goffman's sociology, we will take into considerations those papers that face directly the analysis of individual self. Through their examination, will shed light on the process of social construction of individuals identity. More precisely, we will understand how personal dignity and personal demeanor depend on the capacity of the subjects to conforms to precise social norms. The lack of respect of these rules give rise to mechanisms of marginalization and stigmatization.


PREREQUISITES:

To fully understand the contents of the course it is not needed any particular knowledge.


CONTENTS:

Social facts;
the ritual construction of selfhood: face-work;
the ritual languages of deference and demeanor;
équipes and social construction of reality;
backregion and frontregion;
three forms of individual identity: virtual identity, actual identity and personal identity;
stigma as a form of identity incongruence;
the discredited and the discreditable;
Stigma and moral careers;
stigma acceptation as a form of marginalization and social exclusion;
The interaction order as a social order sui generis.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Durkheim É. (1895/1996). Le regole del metodo sociologico. Sociologia e Filosofia, Roma: Edizioni di Comunità [SOLO pp. 23-57 e pp. 165-206].
Durkheim É. (1912/2005). Le forme elementari della vita religiosa. Roma: Meltemi [SOLO pp. 243-297]
Goffman E. (1967/1988). Il rituale dell’interazione. Bologna: Il Mulino [SOLO pp. 7-122].
Goffman E. (1959/1997). La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione. Bologna Il Mulino [SOLO pp. 95-164]
Goffman E. (1963/2003). Stigma. L’identità negata. Verona: Ombre Corte.
Goffman E. (1998). L’ordine dell’interazione. Roma: Armando.

Examination Methods

The final exam consists of a written test. The candidate will have to answer to 3 open questions in 2 hours of time. Three questions will deal with the topics presented and discussed during the lessons. The third question will try to elicit the critical analysis skills of the candidates. The students will be asked to develop a personal reflection on some topics treated during the course (a comparison, a critical comment, an empirical exemplificaton, etc.)

Evaluation criteria:

- The degree of comprehension of the discipline;
- the degree of comprehension of the single concepts;
- the capacity of presenting theoretical problems;
- the mastery of the disciplinary lexicon;
- the capacity to connect different topics;
- the capacity to provide powerful empirical exemplification of the theoretical concepts discussed.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE