Università Roma Tre

The course focuses on the basic theoretical and conceptual frames of sociology, observed in their historical development and in connection with the coeval social changes.
These are the main topics:
- The origins of sociological thought
- Positivism and sociology
- Marxist sociology
- Durkheim and functionalism
- Simmel and the formal sociology
- Weber and the action theory
- Chicago (sociological) school
- Mead, self and society
- The Italian sociology
- Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge
- The Frankfurt School
- Parsons and Merton
- The phenomenological sociology
- Frame analysis
- The Palo Alto School
- The theory of communicative action
- The systems theory
- Giddens and the constitution of society
- The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

Finally, we will see how the sociological concepts can be applied to the study of the present age, examining in particular the socio-anthropological changes in the neoliberal era.

1. Jedlowski P., "Il mondo in questione. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero sociologico", Carocci, Roma 2009.

2. Romano O., «La regolazione istituzionale dell’energia e del valore. Politiche di modernizzazione anti-riflessiva nella società del dopo-sviluppo», in Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione, n. 3/2022, Doi: 10.32049/RTSA.2022.3.03. Free download: http://rtsa.eu/RTSA_3_2022_Romano.pdf