Teaching code

4S007410

Teacher

Paola Di Nicola

Credits

3

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/08 - SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Period

Sem. 1B dal Nov 19, 2018 al Jan 12, 2019.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Learning outcomes

The aim of the module is a critical analysis of the movements of claims of cultural identities in order to highlight elements of similarity and differences with respect to the struggles for recognition. Although the defensive movements of cultural identities can be traced back to the widest range of struggles for recognition, the different articulation between individual rights and collective rights is the hallmark of the two movements, which in view of promoting multicultural policies do not it can be underestimated and neglected.
In a multicultural society, the social worker in the organization, planning and provision of services must possess the knowledge necessary to review the theoretical frameworks of reference. The principle of universalism of services and protection of the social rights of citizenship must be complemented by a new perspective that takes into account the new dialectic between individual law and collective law, between the recognition of cultural identities and integration processes in a society that based on civil, political and social rights defined according to the Western Enlightenment tradition.
The social worker must possess the theoretical and empirical tools to face the problem of the relationship between 'sovereignty, human rights and nation-state'. The assumption of the new paradigm of the 'egalitarian difference' is the reference horizon that allows the social worker to read the reality of users' needs and identify the most effective methods of intervention.

Program

Program: The module is divided into two types of teaching: lectures and in-depth laboratories.
In the context of the lectures (12 hours), the fundamental concepts, and related empirical repercussions, will be presented to introduce the new paradigm of the egalitarian difference. In particular, the following themes will be introduced:

1. the role of culture in the formation of individual and group identities: culture as a 'social fact' (holistic perspective) and culture as a social construction (the individualistic perspective);
2. struggles for recognition: redistribution and recognition. Two ways to tackle the problem of social inequality;
3. multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity: the regulation of inter-ethnic and multicultural coexistence;
4. Rights and human self-determination in a global world: citizenship as a social practice.

Within the laboratory activities (12 hours) each student, starting from the concepts introduced in the lectures, will have to develop a work aimed at developing the ability to translate the concept, in its complexity, into social indicators. In empirically detectable dimensions.
Before the workshop activities, the teacher will make available the work material.
In view of the teaching type, frequency the laboratory is mandatory.

Examination Methods

Evaluation method for attending students the laboratory:
For attending students, individual or group work carried out during the workshop activities will be evaluated.
For evaluation purposes: oral exam on a text chosen from a list prepared by the teacher and a brief summary of the work done in the classroom on an indicator, among those constructed.

For non-attending students the laboratory: oral exam on two texts chosen from the attached list. Object of the evaluation:
Understanding of the key concepts developed within the module
Critical evaluation of the impact that the individualistic or communitarian perspective can have in the planning and organization of services
Implications and potentiality of the egalitarian difference, with respect to integration, assimilation and inclusion

Text list for the exam
- Seyla Benhabib, La rivendicazione dell'identità culturale. Eguaglianza e diversità nell'era globale, Il Mulino, Bologna2005
- Vincenzo Cesareo, Società multietniche e multiculturalismi, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2000
- Axell Honneth, Lotta per il riconoscimento. Proposte per un'etica del conflitto, Saggiatore, Milano, 2002
- Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Multiculturalismo. Lotte per il riconoscimento, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2007
- Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Redistribuzione o riconoscimento?, Meltemi, Roma, 2007