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

The monographic section will focus on the figure and the work of Hereto Herzog, whose theoretical, methodological and research contribution has been longtime hidden, due to the gender gap in the sociological canon and in the academic community.

1. Jedlowski P., "Il mondo in questione. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero sociologico", Carocci, Roma 2009.
2. Gjergji I., "Il volto acustico della voce. Pubblico, serialità e genere in Herta Herzog", Meltemi, Milano 2023.