Università Roma Tre

FIRST PART: ESPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
The origins of sociology and its epistemologic status. Epistemology, methodology and social theory. The main paradigms in sociology. Quantitative and qualitative methods.
SECOND PART: MAIN SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND THEMES
Culture - Structures, social actions and power – Groups and organizations - Social stratification, social classes and global inequalities - Ethnicity and migrations - Gender and sexualities – Families and socialization process – Deviance - Social changes, globalization and social movements.
THIRD PART: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIALOLOGICAL THEORIES
The birth of sociology: sociology and positivism - Karl Marx – Emile Durkheim – Georg Simmel – Max Weber – The Chicago School of Sociology – George H. Mead - Italian sociology at the beginning of '900 – Sigmund Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis - Critic theory – Functionalism – Alfred Schutz – Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann – Erving Goffman – Contemporary sociology
FOURTH PART: POVERTY, INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION

FIFTH PART: THE SOCIOLOGY OF GEORG SIMMEL: DOMINATION

First and second part:
– CROTEAU D., HOYNES W. (2015), SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE. TEMI, STRUMENTI, CONCETTI, SECOND EDITION (EDITED BY ANTONELLI F., ROSSI E.) MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO [with the exception of the following chapters 11 E 12].
Third part :
–JEDLOWSKI P. (2017) IL MONDO IN QUESTIONE. INTRODUZIONE ALLA STORIA DEL PENSIERO SOCIOLOGICO, CAROCCI EDITORE, ROMA, [with the exception of the following chapters 1, 13, 14].
Fourth part
• – ROSSI E., (2012), IN DISPARTE. APPUNTI PER UNA SOCIOLOGIA DEL MARGINE, ARMANDO EDITORE
• – SIMMEL G., (2015), IL POVERO, (edited by EMANUELE ROSSI), MIMESIS
Fifth part
– SIMMEL G., (2017), IL DOMINIO, (edited by CARLO MONGARDINI), ROMA, BULZONI

PART ONE: ESPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
The origins of sociology and its epistemologic status. Modern science and scientific paradigms. Verificationism versus falsificationism. Epistemology, methodology and social theory. The main paradigms in sociology. Quantitative and qualitative methods.

PART TWO: MAIN SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND THEMES
Culture (with a brief introduction on socialization processes) - Structures, social actions and power - Social stratification, social classes and global inequalities - Ethnicity and migrations - Gender and sexualities (with a brief introduction on the sociology of family) - Social changes, globalization and social movements.

PART THREE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIALOLOGICAL THEORIES
The birth of sociology: sociology and positivism - Karl Marx – Emile Durkheim – Georg Simmel – Max Weber - Italian sociology at the beginning of '900 - Critic theory - Functionalism.

PART FOUR: SOCIAL THEORIES AND GLOBALIZATION
Zygmunt Bauman: critic sociology and ethical commitment in the globalization era – Ulrich Beck: risk sociology and cosmopolitism – Pierre Bourdieu: genetic structuralism – Alain Touraine: modernity and social movements.

PART FIVE (MONOGRAPHIC)
The Europeanization process and the anti-Europeanism.

PART ONE AND TWO:
– CROTEAU D.,HOYNES W. (2018), SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE. TEMI, STRUMENTI, CONCETTI, NEW ITALIAN EDITION EDS. BY ANTONELLI F., ROSSI E. MC GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO [NO CHAPTERS 2, 6, 10, 11 E 12].

PART THREE:
– JEDLOWSKI P. (2009), IL MONDO IN QUESTIONE. INTRODUZIONE ALLA STORIA DEL PENSIERO SOCIOLOGICO, CAROCCI EDITORE, ROMA [NO CHAPTERS 1, 9, 12, 13, 14].

PART FOUR:
– GHISLENI M. PRIVITERA W. (2009), SOCIOLOGIE CONTEMPORANEE, UTET, TORINO [NO CHAPTER 4].

PART FIVE:
- ANTONELLI F., GIOBBI L., ROSATO V. (2016), L'EUROPA DEL DISSENSO. TEORIE E ANALISI SOCIOPOLITICHE, FRANCO ANGELI, MILANO.