The aim of the course is to provide knowledge and skills that allow the student to know how to orientate himself in the panorama of different contemporary sociological theories, to know how to frame the most recent forms of social change and to be able to adequately describe the modalities of social interaction.
At the end of the course the student:
- has become familiar with the concepts used by contemporary macro and micro sociological theory and knows interpretative forms and methods of analysis of the social reality proposed by it.
- is able to critically orient himself among the different theoretical models offered by contemporary sociology to understand the central axes around which his cognitive activity revolves: from social change to social interaction.
At the end of the course the student:
- has become familiar with the concepts used by contemporary macro and micro sociological theory and knows interpretative forms and methods of analysis of the social reality proposed by it.
- is able to critically orient himself among the different theoretical models offered by contemporary sociology to understand the central axes around which his cognitive activity revolves: from social change to social interaction.
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Programma
This course will introduce some of the fundamental authors of classical European and American sociology. After two weeks of introduction devoted to the historical conditions of sociology's emergence we will turn to the classics of the discipline up to the 1930s.Bibliografia Di Riferimento
Elias, N., “Sulla sociogenesi della sociologia”, Cambio. Rivista Sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, 9(17), 2019 Spaemann R., L’origine dela sociologia dallo spirit della restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002. Aron R., Le tappe del metodo sociologico, Milano, Mondadori, 1972 Montesquieu L.-C., Lo spirito delle leggi, Torino, UTET, 2005 Ferguson A., Saggio sulla storia della società civile, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999. Rousseau J.J., Il contratto sociale, Milano, Mondadori, 2008 Tocqueville A., La democrazia in America, Milano, Rizzoli, 1999. Smith A., La ricchezza delle nazioni, Torino, UTET, 2013 Durkheim É., La divisione del lavoro sociale, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2021 Durkheim É., Le regole del metodo sociologico, Milano, Edizioni di Comunità, 2001 Durkheim, Il sucidio, Milano, BUR, 2014 Weber, Sociologia della religione, Milano, Edizioni di Comunità, 2002. Weber, La scienza come professione. La politica come professione, Torino, Einaudi, 2004. Simmel, Sociologia, Milano, Meltemi Marx K., Manoscriti economico-filosofici del 1844, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2018 Marx K., L’ideologia tedesca, Roma-Bari, Laterza. Tarde, Che cos’è una società?, Napoli, Cronopio, 2010.Modalità Frequenza
Attendance is highly recommended but optionalModalità Valutazione
Assessment will be made through a feedback of the student's skills regarding both history and classical sociological theory