ENVIRONMENTAL AND TERRITORY SOCIOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Sociology of the Environment and Territory

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MAZZETTE Antonietta

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

10000054

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

The exam will be written.
Students' learning will be assessed through class discussions.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course aims to:
a) lay-out the fundamentals of the discipline;
b) focus on the main issues concerning the relationship between space and society;
c) draw the attention to the issue of security;
d) study the territory through the methods of the sociology of places. On this subject, students will be actively involved in a field-research supervised by Dr. Sara Spanu e Dr. Daniele Pulino.

Contents

The course will be organized in two modules:
The first module will consist of a general overview of the discipline, focusing on the spatial approach (Simmel) and the ecological approach in its different phases.
The second module will focus on the issues of safety and on its growing importance in public debates.
The course will be structured around the following topics:
1. lay-out the fundamentals of the discipline;
2. relationship between space and society;
3. the concept of safety;
4. the study of territory through the sociology of place, focusing on case studies.

Recommended Bibliography

Simmel G. (1908), "Lo spazio e gli ordinamenti spaziali della società", in Sociologia, Edizioni di Comunità
Mazzette A., E. Sgroi (2007), "Di cosa è fatta un città" in La metropoli consumata. Antropologie, architetture, politiche, cittadinanze, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 13-35
Gieryn T.F. (2000). A space for place in sociology. In “Annual Review of Sociology”, n.26, pp. 463- 496. doi: 10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463
Mazzette A., Spanu S. (2015), Forme di uso illegale del territorio: il caso delle coltivazioni di cannabis in Sardegna, in Sociologia urbana e rurale, n. 108
Mazzette A., Spanu S., (2016), Alla ricerca della sicurezza totale negli spazi urbani: due studi di caso, in SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE, n. 110

Teaching Methods

Lessons and scheduled seminars will be face-to-face. Students will be involved in a field-research.

Contacts/More Information

Office hours: By appointment. Please write an email to mazzette@uniss.it; saraspanu@uniss.it; dpulino@uniss.it.

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