Study-unit SOCIOLOGY OF SECURITY

Course name Investigation and security sciences
Study-unit Code 40013012
Curriculum Comune a tutti i curricula
Lecturer Isabella Corvino
Lecturers
  • Isabella Corvino
Hours
  • 72 ore - Isabella Corvino
CFU 12
Course Regulation Coorte 2023
Supplied 2024/25
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline sociologiche
Sector SPS/07
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The teaching aims to:
- provide theoretical and methodological tools for interpreting the relationship between education and society, in the light of the transformation of contemporary contexts and identities;
- provide design information to use this knowledge in the management of contemporary educational processes.
Reference texts -La società della sicurezza. La costruzione sociale della sicurezza in situazioni di emergenza, Magrazia Galantino, FrancoAngeli, 2010
-Federici M.C., Romeo A. (a cura di), Sociologia della sicurezza. Teorie e problemi, Mondadori, Milano 2017.
-R. Castel, L'insicurezza sociale, Torino, Einaudi 2004.
-Uncertainty virus and social metamorphosis, Isabella Corvino; -The construction of urban (in)security, Tatiana Lysova and Laura Schmidt, in Multidimensional risks in the XXI century, Egea. Capitoli scaricabili gratuitamente a questo link: https://www.egeaeditore.it/ita/prodotti/sociologia/multidimensional-risks-in-the-xxi-century.aspx

Per gli studenti Erasmus:
- Davies W., Nervous State: How Feeling Took Over the World, Jonathan Cape, UK 2018.
- BecK U., Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, Sage, London 1999.
Educational objectives The course is aimed at the acquisition of: 
- socio-cultural knowledge that allows to understand and understand the evolution of formal and informal educational agencies, even in an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective, in the light of social change; 
- analytical skills related to the ability to apply acquired knowledge. In particular, it refers to the ability to read and interpret socio-educational phenomena by carrying out empirical research activities and by reading academic and scientific texts and by analyzing educational materials of various kinds (eg multimedia And digital). 
Ability to synthesize and create thematic and cross-disciplinary links of disciplinary content. 
- autonomy of judgment, useful to read critically the most controversial and controversial issues of the discipline, also in relation to the development of public debate, also in order to elaborate and support one's own position supported by arguments. 
- communicative, socio-relational and design skills that enable you to work individually and in a group and to communicate the concepts and ideas that are acquired and elaborated in an original way in an adequate and convincing manner. Ability to design innovative and targeted and targeted targeting actions.
- ability to learn to learn: to acquire the ability to continuously implement its knowledge base, making it spendable in the workplace and professional in general.
Prerequisites In order to be able to deepen and develop a critical analysis of the issues that will be addressed in the course, you must know the basics of general sociology. In specific knowledge concerning: socialization processes, social institutions and social roles.
Teaching methods The course is organized as follows:
- Classroom lectures on all subjects of the course;
- supplementary seminars that will be organized by the lecturer or his / her co-ordinators on issues of in-depth study.
Other information Follow integrative seminars that will be organized by the teacher or by colleagues of the CdS on issues of deepening.
Frequency is strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Learning verification modality The exam includes an oral, a discussion lasting about 15-20 minutes, aimed at ascertaining the level of knowledge and understanding achieved by students on the theoretical and methodological implications mentioned in the program. The questions focus on the program as described by the teacher in the relevant data, taking into account to verify the communication skills of the student / or properties of language and autonomous organization of the exhibition, to the knowledge of the subject, the ability to reason, to the logic of 'argument and learning the method devised by the individual teaching. The exposure of the elaborate consists exclusively or completion of the oral examination in the discussion of a topic chosen from among those covered in class with a depth that can be done according to the following methodology: presentation of a case to the class with theoretical references and research, statistical data and conclusions personal criticism. Such work may be presented in power point (or other software program) or only orally, but both in a special meeting held in the presence of all the students, either individually or as a team.
Extended program - Problems of cohesion and social integration;
- Social security theories;
- The concept of sociology of security.