Teaching code

4S00817

Teacher

Paola Di Nicola

Coordinator

Paola Di Nicola

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

1. Knowledge and understanding
General objective. At the end of the course the student will be able to: know and understand the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics that marked the transition to reflective modernity, redefining, at the macro level, the institution of the society and, at the level micro, interpersonal relationships and between social groups.
Specific training objectives of the course: The course aims to focus on the profound changes that have affected contemporary society in reflective modernity. To highlight how economic, political and cultural changes affect society as a whole and on individual life biographies.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
General objective. At the end of the course the student will be able to: use the sociological knowledge to design projects or coordinate services in socio-cultural contexts with high levels of complexity, in light of the most relevant processes of de-institutionalization and privatization.
Specific training objectives of the course. The course has the objective of to highlight how the processes of politicization of the economy, the decline of the Fordist mode of production, sunset of the Fordist mode of production, weakening of the boundaries of nation-states, privatization of interpersonal and intimate relations and multiculturalism invest the most relevant social institutions (family and educational system) and give rise to - at the micro level - a profound redefinition of the relationship between individual and society and the processes of identity building

Program

Course programme:
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 and ciange modern osicial imaginaries.).
Topics covered:
- introduction to processes fo globalization
- the moral order of modernity: rationality, ethics of responsibility and work, civic engagement, the birth of the public and private sphere
- modernity / post-modernity: radicalization of processes
- the limits of a reading of modernity only as capitalist development
- how trust and risk environments change from the transition from traditional society to modern society
- the dark side of modernity: bureaucracy and totalitarianism

B) Second part: the second part of the course will address the issue of reflexive modernity from specific perspectives of economism and privatism.
Topics covered:
-the new social imaginaries: the rediscovery of feelings, ethics of self-realization, privatism, civic disengagemen and economy as an objectified reality
- changes in intimate and family relationships: privatization and de-institutionalization of the family, new family forms and new forms of parenting
- the commodification of intimate life
- diversity and equality in multicultural societies

Examination Methods

Teaching methods: lectures and group work at the end of the first part and the second part to verify students' ability to apply the acquired knowledge to analyze and understand the dynamics and social processes in progress.

Assessment methods: Oral examination.
In the oral assessment the following knowledge and skills will be certified:
- knowledge of the most important dynamics of reflexive modernity;
- ability to focus on the different perspectives of analysis (the micro level of interpersonal relationships, the meso level of group relationships, the macro level of social imaginaries), to address the ongoing social changes (to demonstrate to understood th edifferent prospecst of analysis;
- the ability to develop autonomy of judgment in relation to the topics proposed and developed within the course, taking into account the different theories and perspectives.
Reading List: Attending students:
First Part
1. A. Giddens, Le conseguenze della modernità, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1994
2. C. Taylor, Il disagio della modernità, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2011

Second Part
3. P. Di Nicola, Famiglia: sostantivo plurale, II edizione aggiornata, FrancoAngeli, 2017
4. V. Cesareo, Società multietniche e multiculturalismi, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2004
5. A. Russel Hochschild, Per amore o per denaro, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006

Readin List for non-attending students
Non-attending students add one of the following texts to their program:
- 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
- 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