Università Roma Tre

The family as a system, as a source of fiduciary relationships and networks, is the perspective through which so much to analyze the changes in society, the phenomenon of anomie, crumbling solidarity as the marginality of material and immaterial problems of the contemporary family. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the theory of individualization, the family transformation primarily and the generativity of social bonds. To this purpose we refer to the theory of social capital as a primary source of family and social networks. In this context, it analyzes the theory of networks as an analytical concept and social resource through the paradigm of generativity. It is an analysis that aims to highlight the role of networks in producing social well-being, in 'implement the process of social support, in responding to the marginalization processes and in determining Community regeneration processes and relational. Second it is analyzed the quality of primary and secondary networks in generating social cohesion inclusive or exclusive especially compared to households and marginal. This also implies a reflection on the role and social role of intervention in relation to the family no longer seen as isolated atom or as the subject of consumption but as a complex system that is in network with other families in the neighborhood, in services, in schools, educational spaces and socialization, central interlocutors to build a supportive community.
With regard to application, the course aims to provide examples of quantitative and qualitative studies, encouraging micro research on topics covered in the course.
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 individualization and new families;
• The concept of social generativity;
• Family, marginalization and family networks;
• Social cohesion and social networks;
• The network resources: gift and reciprocity;
• Families and primary capital;
• primary and secondary networks and social capital;
• networks and social support;
• Third network sector and intervention;
• Margins, families and social networks;
• Privatization of family life: the crisis of sociability;
• Design and operation of networks in the peripheral and marginal contexts
• Family, preteens, generative and degenerative processes of social and civic spaces.

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Testi di approfondimento (uno a scelta)

S. Mazzucchelli, S. Nanetti, A. Scisci, Le nuove dinamiche partecipative delle famiglie in Italia e in Europa, Quaderni del Centro Famiglia, Vita e Pensiero, 2020;
S. Piccone Stella, L. Salmieri, Convivere in Italia. La famiglia fuori dal matrimonio, Carocci, 2016
M. Magatti, C Giaccardi, Generativi di tutto il Mondo Unitive ! Manifesto per la società dei liberi, Feltrinelli, 2014
L. Pasqualotto, Rendere generativo il lavoro sociale, Meridiana, 2016
B.C., Han, La scomparsa dei riti. Una tipologia del presente, Nottetempo, Milano, 2021
A.L. Zanatta, Nuove madri e nuovi padri, Il Mulino, 2011.
F. Folgheraiter, La cura delle reti. Nel Welfare delle relazioni (oltre i Piani di zona), Erickson.
A. Sapio, Famiglie reti familiari e cohousing. Verso nuovi stili del vivere, del convivere e dell’abitare, FancoAngeli, 2015.
A. Censi, Nuove Famiglie, in Censi A., Famiglia e Sociologia. Dai Classici al pensiero contemporaneo, Pearson, Milano, 2014 (disponibile su formonline).