Teaching code

4S00817

Teacher

Debora Viviani

Coordinator

Debora Viviani

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Period

Sem. 2A, Sem. 2B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding The course aims to give students the cognitive tools to understand the social, cultural and political dynamics that have marked the transition to reflective modernity. 2. More properly, the course aims to focus on how the most relevant changes related to the macro level (institutional level) are reflected in the biographies of individual life, interpersonal and gender relations and the interrelation between individual-society (macro level). Applying knowledge and understanding 1. At the end of the course of study the student will be able to use sociological knowledge (theories, paradigms of reference and empirical data) to design or coordinate educational services in socio-cultural contexts with high levels of complexity, 2. More properly, the student will be able to use sociological knowledge in the light of the most relevant processes of de-institutionalization and privatization of individual life biographies.

Prerequisites and basic notions

There are no specific prerequisites different from those required for access to the master's degree programme.

Program

A) First part: After analyzing the concept of culture and its repercussions in sociological reflection, through the text of Charles Taylor we will deepen the dynamics that characterize the second modernity. Above all, the position of the subject within the social context and the relational, cultural and social changes to which he is subject.
Topics :
- concept of culture
- introduction to globalization processes
- the moral order of modernity: rationality, ethics of responsibility
- modernity / post-modernity: the radicalization of processes
- the limits of a reading of modernity only as a development of the capitalist economy
B) Second part: the theme of reflective modernity will be addressed starting from the perspective of economism, privatism and the development of technologies in the field of reproduction.
Topics:
- the new social imaginaries: the rediscovery of feelings, the ethics of self-realization
- changes in intimate and family relationships
- the commercialization of intimate life
- nature and technique: the risks of a liberal genetics
- the market for emotions

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Teaching methods: frontal lessons
Exam bibliography :
Parte generale
1. F.Crespi, Manuale di sociologia della cultura, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2003 (prefazione, capitolo 1 e capitolo 2)
2. BergerP.L, Luckmann T., La realtà come costruzione sociale, il Mulino, Bologna, 1997 (Prefazione, Introduzione, Capitolo I, Capitolo II)
3. C. Taylor, Il disagio della modernità, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2018
Parte monografica
4. H. Jonas, Tecnica, medicina ed etica, Einaudi, Torino, 1997
5. A. Russel Hochschild, Per amore o per denaro, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006
6. J. Habermas, Il futuro della natura umana. I rischi di una genetica liberale, Einaudi, Torino, 2010
Gli studenti possono sostituire il testo di Habermas, con uno dei seguenti, a scelta:
- A. Giddens, La trasformazione dell’intimità, il Mulino, Bologna, 1995
- E.Cabanas e E.Illouz, Happycracy. Come la scienza della felicità controlla le nostre vite, Codice edizioni, Torino, 2019
- M.J. Sandel, Contro la perfezione, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2008

Learning assessment procedures

Written exam

Evaluation criteria

The exam is aimed at verifying:
- knowledge of the most relevant dynamics of reflective modernity;
- ability to place oneself in the different perspectives of analysis (the micro level of interpersonal relationships, the meso level of relationships between groups, the macro level of social imaginaries) to thematize the social changes underway (demonstrate understanding of the perspectives of analysis) ;
- ability to develop independence of judgment with respect to the topics proposed and developed within the course, keeping in mind the different theories and perspectives.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The written exam involves assigning a score to each question

Exam language

italiano