SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERCULTURAL PROCESSES

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK

Disciplinary Sector:

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

COCCO Mariantonietta

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The Course of General Sociology is propaedeutic to this teaching (only for L39)

AF code:

A000274

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

At the end of the course students will have acquired:
- The main conceptual tools for the understanding and study of the current phenomena of human mobility
- The analytical categories necessary to interpret the social construction of difference and cultural diversity
- The sensitivity and critical thinking skills necessary to those who work in culturally plural contexts.

Contents

The program will cover the following issues:
Theories on the causes of migration; different aspects of the migration phenomenon in Italy; the news phenomena of transnationalism; the memberships and the representation of the Other; culture, identity and alterity.

Recommended Bibliography

Students attending lectures: all information about teaching materials will be given during lectures.

Students not attending lectures: L. Zanfrini, Introduzione alla sociologia delle migrazioni, «Manuali Laterza», Roma,  2016; E. Colombo, G. Semi (a cura di), Multiculturalismo quotidiano: le pratiche della differenza, Angeli, Milano, 2007.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures

Contacts/More Information

During the lectures will be held some meetings with scholars, local policy makers, organizations operating in the field of migration and interculture.

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