2018/2019

2020/2021

DM270

SPS/07 (GENERAL SOCIOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, CONTROL AND CORPORATE FINANCE

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

1st semester (28/09/2020 - 22/12/2020)

6

44 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

CORRADI FIAMMETTA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic notions in economic history and a sound knowledge of the classics of economics (in particular, Smith, Ricardo and Malthus).

The course should provide students with improved critical skills, especially with regard to the methodologies underlying empirical studies and the outcomes of surveys. Moreover, it should equip them with new interpretative categories, meant to help them to understand and manage social complexity, and with a sensibility towards the problem of social order.

The course is divided in two parts. In the first, students are introduced to the main alternative conceptions of society and to key concepts of the discipline (role, status, institution, ideology...). It follows a critical overview of the classics of sociology (Comte, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Marx), both from a theoretical and methodological perspective. In the second part the epistemological status of sociology is discussed and the language of variables displayed. The course ends with a presentation of the main tools for data gathering (survey, in-depth interview, participant observation, focus group) and with a critical discussion of their own advantages and limits.

Lectures and seminars

Handbook in general sociology:Franco Rositi, Sociologia, Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2015.

Selected chapters from Alberto Marradi, Metodologia delle scienze sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna 2007

The exam is written. The student must answer three open questions choosing them in a list of six.

Answers are expected to be as precise and detailed as possible.

Students will also be provided with the complete set of slides on Kiro at the end of the course.