SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL PROCESSES

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

COCCO Mariantonietta

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

A basic knowledge of general sociology (only for L39)

AF code:

40001739

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral and Written assignment

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 consist of two modules and will cover the following content:
1. Theories on the causes of migration; different aspects of the migration phenomenon in Italy; the functions of social networks; the new phenomena of transnationalism.
2. Cultural diversity; memberships; multiculturalism and the production of cultural differences; conflict/integration; groups and ethnic relations; the regulation of interethnic coexistence.

Recommended Bibliography

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

Students not attending lectures: Compulsory texts: S. Benhabib, La rivendicazione dell'identità culturale, il Mulino, Bologna, 2005; L. Zanfrini, Sociologia delle migrazioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2007. Choose one text among: E. Colombo, G. Semi (a cura di), Multiculturalismo quotidiano: le pratiche della differenza, Angeli, Milano, 2007; V. Cesareo, Società multietniche e multiculturalismi, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2000

Teaching Methods

Lectures

Borrowed courses

SOCIOLOGY OF THE INTERCULTURAL PROCESSES
SERVIZIO SOCIALE A INDIRIZZO EUROPEO - PERCORSO COMUNE

Other courses

Course year: 1

ITALIAN LINGUISTICS
12 credits - Base

Course year: 2

ENGLISH LANGUAGE II
12 credits
ENGLISH LANGUAGE II
12 credits
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
6 credits - Base
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL PROCESSES
6 credits - Base

Course year: 3

CHINESE LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Base
COMPARATIVE LITERATURES
6 credits - Base
CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE
12 credits - Base
ENGLISH LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Base
FRENCH LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Base
GERMAN LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Base
ITALIAN LITERATURE - WOMEN'S WRITING
6 credits - Base
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Base
SPANISH LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Base
CHINESE LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
ENGLISH LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
FRENCH LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
GERMAN LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
SPANISH LANGUAGE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
FILM HISTORY AND CRITICISM
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
PHILOSOPHY OF MULTICULTURALISM
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa

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