SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year - Curriculum Servizi educativi territoriali e sviluppo sostenibile
Teaching Staff: Anna Maria LEONORA
Credit Value: 9
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Knowledge of the main sociological theories and analytical categories of cultural phenomena also useful to a reflection of closer relations between educational processes and companies .

Development methodological and analytical skills required for understanding the dynamics of socialization and cultural transmission and detection of training needs.


Course Structure

The course will provides (in variable number depending on the needs) lectures, lessons-laboratory and tests (optional but recommended) in itinere (one for each module of the program). The examination programme in itinere is organized in the form of test consisting of 30 questions on topics contained in texts with multiple response option of which only one is correct. The in itinere test can be supported by all the members, even those not attending the lecture course as long as they communicate their intentions to the teacher in good time: this for logistical and organizational reasons. The result is in 30ths and is for an academic year. The result is communicated to each student individually during the oral examination and integrated by a verification of the tests themselves and by a conversation about one of the topics covered in the tests in progress (if supported). Special needs, with respect to the program or the carrying out of the examination and verification tests, must be communicated and agreed personally with the teacher on the days of receipt
Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.


Detailed Course Content

Basic topics: - Introduction to the discipline; Object, method, objectives of research in sociology of cultural processes; Concepts, dimensions, theories and approaches to cultural processes.

Monographic topics: Authors and themes of the first Italian sociology for cultural processes; Authors and contemporary themes for communicative dynamics.


Textbook Information

L. Sciolla, Sociologia dei processi culturali, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 7-275

G. Lombroso (a cura di M. Nocenzi), La donna nella società attuale MIMESIS, Milano-Udine, 2015 (pp. 9-63);

M. McLuhan, La sposa meccanica, Sugarco, Milano, 1996 (pp. 7-300)