Study-unit Forms of emerging violence
| Course name | Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security |
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| Study-unit Code | A003476 |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Lecturer | Uliano Conti |
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| CFU | 9 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2023 |
| Supplied | 2024/25 |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline sociologiche |
| Sector | SPS/07 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Type of learning activities | Attività formativa monodisciplinare |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | The course analyzes tools and techniques useful to know violent dynamics, with reference to social contexts in which they persist over time, and with reference to sudden emergency situations. The method for knowing violent dynamics is presented with reference to the main modalities to find information and data and for their rigorous use. The course analyzes the ways to use adequate empirical bases, for the knowledge of social and political violence, in relation to different phenomena, such as terrorism, in order to develop procedures for combating vulnerabilities and for security. |
| Reference texts | Conti U., 2022, ed. by, Le donne e i conflitti armati. Una riflessione su pace e sicurezza, Franco Angeli, Milano |
| Educational objectives | The objectives concern: knowledge and understanding of emerging dynamics connected to violence. In detail, the objectives concern: the knowledge and understanding of different social phenomena (political violence, terrorism, crime). These objectives also concern: definition of sources for information and data in violent situations; understanding of terrorism; ability to manage and understand different kinds of violence. In particular: objectives concern the knowledge and the ability to understand violent dynamics; and main case studies with reference to the Italian case; knowledge and understanding applied to the retrieval of information and data. The objectives related to independent judgment - understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments starting from the interpretation of a database, arriving at coherent reflections on social issues - concern the definition of a phenomenon as violence; and the methods of intervention. With regard to communication skills - conceived as the ability to express information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors - objectives concern propaganda and communication in violent situations. With regard to the ability to learn - understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy - the objectives concern the analysis of methods for dealing with violent dynamics. |
| Prerequisites | knowledge of the methodology of social research; knowledge of the main of sociological theories |
| Teaching methods | frontal lesson |
| Other information | office hours: after class. Piazza G. Marzio 9, cap 0035, Narni (Italy). And-or on TEAMS. And also contacting me by email: uliano.conti@unipg.it (Office n. 0744-763200) |
| Learning verification modality | Oral exam info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa About Knowledge and Understanding – Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Summary. The exam verifies, with regard to knowledge and understanding, the knowledge of the methods and techniques for understanding information and data and the ability to understand the complexity of violent situations, both with reference to the definition of a phenomenon as violence, and with reference to techniques for managing violence of different kinds. About Knowledge and Understanding – Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: Detail. The exam verifies: knowledge and understanding of social and political violence; and the main case studies with reference to the Italian case; knowledge and understanding applied to the retrieval of information and data and their processing. With regard to the independence of judgment occurs the autonomy of judgment on the definition of a phenomenon as violence; and the methods of intervention. In this sense, independent judgment is verified - understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments starting from the interpretation of a database, arriving at coherent reflections on social issues. With regard to communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors, it should be noted that these communication skills are tested on: communication in violent situations; ability to propose solutions to complex social problems. The ability to learn is understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The exam verifies the ability to learn operating methods to face social and political violence and to interpret them. In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded. |
| Extended program | The course analyzes different fields of research on violence, through procedures for processing information and data. In the case of violence, social changes are read through the main fields of transformation: from cities to terrorism, from migration to war, the conceptualization of violence is proposed in a critical way. The critical reading deconstructs the main contemporary themes of violence, terrorism and threat. In this perspective, information and data management corresponds to the effort to overcome, through methodological rigor, the media narratives relating to some specific forms of violence. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | Peace, justice and strong institutions |