Università Roma Tre

The course intends to analyze the family as a system in a social network in order to generate a complex process that includes biological, social and symbolic aspects. Family transformation and its capacity to produce social resources will be analyzed through the principal sociological theories, in the context of the social networks analysis. The family system, source of fiduciary and network relationships, is the starting point of the study of social changes. It will be also studied the theory of social capital as primary source of families and social networks. In this context the theory of social networks is analyzed as an analytical concept and social source through the paradigm of the present, of the reciprocity, of the confidence and relationship. The analysis intends to highlight the role of networks in the social welfare production, as answer to community and relation renewal processes. Particular attention will be given to the role of primary and secondary networks of the cooperation sector as strategy to answer to fragmented policies and services for marginal families. There will also be an analysis about the role and function of social intervention for the family considered as a
complex system and not only as a consumption actor.
The course also intends to consider quantitative and qualitative researches about families and social networks.
• The family and the sociological research;
• The sociological definition of family;
• Society, transformation and new families;
• The social generativity;
• Family, marginalità and family networks;
• Social network theories;
• Social networks: methodologies;
• Social networks: operative models;
• Network opportunities: gift and reciprocity;
• Families and primary social capital;
• Primary and secondary networks and social capital;
• Networks and social support;
• Cooperation and network intervention;
• Privatization of family life: the crisis of sociality;
• Network project and intervention in suburban and marginal areas;
• Families, children and social space in social network analysis.

A.L. Zanatta, Le nuove Famiglie, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008.
L. Sanicola, a cura di, L’intervento di rete, Liguori, Napoli1994, pp 15-202.
P. Donati, a cura di, Famiglia e capitale sociale nella società italiana. Ottavo rapporto sulla famiglia Italiana San Paolo, Milano, 2003, pp.31-101.
M. Giardiello, Sociologia della marginalità sociale. Il contributo di Gino Germani, Carocci, Roma, 2012.

Testi di approfondimento (uno a scelta)
M. Ingrosso, Senza benessere sociale. Nuovi rischi e attesi di qualità della vita nell’era planetaria, FrancoAngeli, Milano,2003.
M. Burgalassi, La cooperazione sociale protagonista del welfare locale. Il caso del Consorzio Nuovo Futuro, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2008.
T. Musatti, M. Picchio, Un luogo per bambini e genitori nella città. Trasformazioni sociali e innovazione nei servizi per l’infanzia e le famiglie, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005.
D. Del Boca, A. Famiglie sole, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009
P. Donati, L. Tronca, Il capitale sociale degli Italiani. Le radici familiari, comunitarie e associative del civismo, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2008
M. Aime, A. Cosetta, Il dono al tempo di internet, Einaudi, Torino, 2010