Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

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Laurea magistrale in Scienze pedagogiche - 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.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

1° Year

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2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017

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activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
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S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S00817

Coordinator

Paola Di Nicola

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Period

Sem. IIA, Sem. IIB

Learning outcomes

Learning purposes:
The course aims to focus on the profound changes that have invested contemporary society in the reflexive modernity.
They are economic, political and cultural factors that have an impact not only on society as a whole, but especially on
the biographies of individual life. Politicization of the economy, the decline of the Fordist mode of production,
weakening the boundaries of nation-states and multiculturalism are detectable at the macro level processes, but which
give rise, at the micro level, a profound redefinition of the individual-society relationship and the processes of
construction of identity. Individualization, de-institutionalization and pluralization of cultural systems give rise to new
social configurations, in which plants become the networks of relationships and the dynamics of the personal network
construction.

Program

A)First part: in the first part of the course, the topic of political, cultural and economic environments will be deepened
from the text of A. Giddens, which highlights how the current dynamics of modernity, in particular the breakdown of
the systems processes social impact on the concept of trust, risk, safety and danger. Take shape new social
configurations (reflexive modernity) that find in the relational approach of knowledge and networking paradigm a new
reading and interpretation.
B) Second part: the second part of the course will address the issue of reflexive modernity from some specific
perspectives: how the changes of the work is being reflected in social and systemic integration mechanisms; the
problem of recognition in an increasingly multicultural and individualized society; such as dynamic freedom-security,
belonging and individualisation influence the mechanisms of construction of identities 'reflexive'.

Examination Methods

reading Least
Testi per l’esame (frequentanti) (Reading List):
Parte generale
1. A. Giddens, Le conseguenze della modernità, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1994
2. P. Di Nicola, La rete metafora dell’appartenenza. Analisi strutturale e paradigma di rete, nuova edizione aggiornata,
FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2015
Parte monografica
3. J. Habermas, C. Taylor, Multiculturalismo. Lotte per il riconoscimento, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2007
4. R. Sennett, Rispetto. La dignità umana in un mondo di diseguali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004
5. R. Castel, Incertezze crescenti. Lavoro, cittadinanza, individuo, Editrice socialmente, Bologna, 2015


Programma per non frequentanti
Gli studenti non frequentanti aggiungono al programma due dei seguenti testi:
R. Castel, L’insicurezza sociale, che significa essere protetti?, Einaudi, Torino, 2004
S. Moller Okin, Le donne e la giustizia. La famiglia come problema politico, Dedalo, Bari, 1999
M. Sandel, Giustizia. Il nostro bene comune, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2010
S. Sasken, Espulsioni. Brutalità e complessità dell’economia globale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015
M.C. Nussbaum, Giustizia sociale e dignità umana. Il mulino, Bologna, 2002
Modalità di valutazione: Esame orale.
Nella valutazione orale verranno certificate le seguenti conoscenze e competenze:
- conoscenza delle più rilevanti dinamiche della modernità riflessiva;
- capacità di porsi nelle diverse prospettive di analisi (teorie macro, micro e meso) per tematizzare i
cambiamenti sociali in atto (dimostrare di avere compreso le diverse teorie)
- capacità di sviluppare autonomia di giudizio rispetto ai temi proposti e sviluppati nell’ambito del corso,
tenendo presente le diverse teorie e prospettive

Evaluation: oral examination

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