SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year - Curriculum Educazione ambientale e territorio
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 .

Improove analytical and methodological and skills required for understanding the dynamics of socialization and cultural transmission.


Detailed Course Content

Basic topics: Objectives, method, concepts : definition and research strategies, disciplinary approaches, methodologies, inter-disciplinary perspectives;

Peculiar topics: Sociological themes of classics


Textbook Information

M. Santoro, R. Sassatelli, Studiare la cultura. Nuove prospettive sociologiche, il Mulino, Bologna, 2009, pp. 9-81; 115-167; 195-238; 253-307

A.M. Leonora, La Moda. Di Fausto Squillace, Bonanno, Acireale-Roma 2010, (pp.9-109);

M. McLuhan, Media e nuova educazione. Il metodo della domanda nel villaggio globale, a cura di E. Gandini Gamaleri, Armando, Roma, 1998 (pp. 3-175)