- ICT basic concepts: Algorithms and computation theory, Information encoding, Hardware, Software, Networks, communication and information technologies.
- Computer use: Operating systems, File system, Tools and Printing.
- Spreadsheet: Using excel, Cells, Managing spreadsheets, Arithmetic formula and functions, Text and number formatting, Graphs.
- Online collaboration: remote storage and on-line forms.
- Databases management system and languages for querying databases.
- Introduction to Python programming

Informatica di Base. Mauro Mezzini, Apogeo Education, Maggioli Editore, seconda edizione 2020


See also course pages on Formonline platform

The course examines the most relevant themes and moments in the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the rise and fall of European empires, nation-building and nationalism, totalitarianism, the Cold War, colonialism/decolonization, democratic transitions, European integration, with particular attention to the issues of minorities, migration, and human rights.
Furthermore, the course examines the political and cultural process of the foundation of the Italian Republic and the main dynamics of social change from the post-war period to the present day. It also offers a workshop on historiographical sources aimed at familiarizing students with the fundamentals of historical research and acquiring critical reading skills of reality.

Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo, Laterza [ultima edizione]

Marialuisa Lucia Sergio, Pio XII e l’indipendenza algerina. La Chiesa cattolica nella decolonizzazione dell’Africa francese, Edizioni Studium, Roma 2022

Camillo Brezzi - Patrizia Gabrielli, La forza delle memorie: l'archivio dei diari di Pieve Santo Stefano, Il Mulino, Bologna 2022

The first part of the course will introduce the fundamental concepts of social phenomena and problems central to the emergence and transformation of the welfare system and social service in an international perspective. Specifically, elements and aspects of social work will be presented in relation to the evolutionary dimension of the professionalisation of philanthropy.
In the second part of the course further basic elements of the professional action of the social work in Italy will be addressed: area of knowledge and intervention, objectives and functions, elements of professional methodology, research tradition and elaboration of the systematic body of disciplinary theoretical knowledge.
The third part will complete the programme by dealing with the value base of social work - inspirational values, operational principles and professional attitudes - and the ethical-deontological base, read in relation to the contents of the Code of Ethics for Social Workers.

Dal Pra Ponticelli (2010), Nuove prospettive per il servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma.
Stefani M. (2011) (a cura di), Le origini del servizio sociale italiano, Viella, Roma.
Filippini S. (2020) (a cura di), Nuovo Codice deontologico dell'assistente sociale: le responsabilità professionali, Carocci, Roma

Other recommended materials
Campanini A. (Eds) (2022), Nuovo Dizionario di Servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma.

The Laboratory's training objectives are as follows: the deepening of motivation for social work, the initiation of professional identity formation, the aims and purposes of professional training, an initial knowledge of the main territorial Social Services in close connection with the teaching of Principles and Fundamentals of Social Service.

The Workshop is structured in teaching units supplemented by laboratory-type activities to foster the circular theory-practice-theory connection, relating to first experiments observing social work practice.

- Campanini A. (2020), Gli Ambiti Di Intervento Nel Servizio Sociale, Carocci, Roma
In alternativa:
- Rossi P. (2020), L’organizzazione dei servizi socioassistenziali. Istituzioni, professionisti e assetti di regolazione, Carocci editore, Roma.
Indicazioni più precise verranno date nel corso delle lezioni.

title and topic of the course:
Introduction to sociology

The course will present problems and concepts common to the main sociological theories, with reference to both classical and contemporary authors.
The first objective of the course is to show the experiential and available traces of a class of objects with their own characteristics and referable to a distinguishable domain: the social.
The second objective is to show some of the results of the use of sociological theories and concepts in the study of contemporary social reality and in particular of society.

Exam texts

The exam interview will focus on the texts that the student will choose, one text for each of the following three groups. (The only text indicated in point 2 is therefore in fact mandatory.)
1. Ambrosini M., Sciolla L., Sociology. Second edition, Mondadori, Milan 2019 or, alternatively, Delli Poggi S., Delli Poggi B., Compendio di sociologia. Per le professioni e le attività sociali, Autori Associati, Roma 2023..
2. Weber M., Economics and Society (Part One: Theory of sociological categories: I - Fundamental sociological concepts; II - Fundamental sociological categories of economic action; III - The types of power; IV - Classes and classes). In any edition.
3. Diotallevi L., The imperfect order. Modernity, State, secularization, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2014 or, alternatively, Diotallevi L., End race. The crisis of Christianity as a confessional religion, Dehoniane, Bologna 2017.

Non-attending students, together with what has already been indicated, are also warmly invited o study:
- both texts indicated in point 1
- and - in addition to the one chosen from the two proposed in point 3 - one between:
o Addario N. edited by, Theory of systems and modernity, Carocci 2003 (or later),
o Addario N., Cevolini A., Sociology of modernity. Forms and consequences of social complexity, Tools, Milan 2012,
o Addario N., Fasano L., The logic of society. A study on the problem of social order, Egea, Milan 2012.

Each of the texts indicated can be replaced with another book or with two essays indicated by the student. Any substitutions must be approved by the teacher via e-mail and the printout of the answer provided by the same teacher must be presented at the time of the exam.

The aim of this course is to provide knowledge and promote skills that will allow a student to critically examine the different theoretical models available in the field of experimental psychology, and the tools to identify meaningful psychological variables in the context of education and training. The course also aims to promote the development of a student's sensitivity in recognizing the psychological needs of others, a fundamental ability in any supporting relationship.

The first part of the course will introduce the history of psychology as a scientific subject, the main theoretical approaches, and research methods. The second part will focus on the investigation of cognitive and affective processes from the perspective of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Detailed programme:

1) Introduction to psychology and research methods.

2) Brain and behaviour.

3) Sensations and reality.

4) Attention.

5) Perception.

6) Conditioning and learning.

7) Memory.

8) Thought and mental imagery.

9) Language and communication.

10) Intelligence.

11) Motivation.

12) Emotions.

13) Personality.

1) Coon D., Mitterer J.O., Martini T.S. (2020 - Edizione italiana a cura di Stefano Mastandrea e Sabrina Fagioli). Psicologia generale. Terza Edizione. UTET, Torino.

The materials presented during lectures or in the Lab will be made available to students on the "formonline" platform, therefore no copy shop is authorized to sell them, and no site - outside the official channels of the University - is authorized to their dissemination.

The Social Policy and Social Services Legislation course consists of two modules.

The SOCIAL POLICY module intends to provide the cognitive and conceptual bases that make it possible to frame social policies in their modern historical evolution and to decode the meaning and orientations of the interventions that can be carried out in the field of social protection. At the end of the module the student:
- knows the aims of modern social policies and their historical evolution and is able to place the current guidelines of social protection within the framework of the types of welfare regime;
- is able to appropriately place the sectoral interventions of social protection in the scenario of contemporary social policies;
- has a suitable conceptual and terminological heritage to appropriately discuss the main issues of the social policy.

The SOCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION module intends to provide an essential framework of the main regulations governing the social services sector, with particular regard to the context of the Lazio Region. At the end of the module the student has learned the normative foundations that regulate the local systems of social services and knows the main laws concerning the social services sector.
In the first part of the course, a historical-theoretical framework of the concepts of social policy and the welfare system is proposed, the main models of which are described. The ways in which social change and the transformation of needs affect the structure of social policies are then discussed and the picture of the actors of the social protection system is presented. The transition from the welfare state to the welfare mix and the concept of local welfare is then illustrated. The policies of the social protection sector are also described (social security, health, assistance and social services) of which a general classification and profile is presented in the Italian context. Finally, the possible future scenarios of social policies in Italy are discussed.
The second part deals with the constitutional bases of the right to social assistance (Article 38 of the Constitution) and the path that between the 1970s and 1990s leads to the administrative decentralization of social assistance functions; the approval of the framework law 328/2000 for the implementation of the integrated system of interventions and social services, the main aspects of which are discussed; the reform carried out with Const. Law 3/2001 and its implications on the territorial system of social services; the development of regional legislation on social services; the system and the main elements of the Lazio regional law 11/2016, with particular reference to the principle for access to services, the definition of the essential levels of performance, the bodies that regulate the functioning and the actors involved in the system; the structure of the Lazio 2017-2019 Regional Social Plan and the contents relating to the essential levels of social benefits. In the final part, the course essentially presents some of the main national sector regulations for the area of ​​minors and families.

- Ferrera M., Le politiche sociali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019
- Franzoni F., Anconelli M., La rete dei servizi alla persona. Dalla normativa alla organizzazione, Roma, Carocci, 2021

- basic knowledge of the following references of general legislation with national relevance: art. 38 of the Constitution, art. 117 of the Constitution, artt. 128-133 d. lgs 112/98, Law 328/2000, L. Cost. 3/2001
- basic knowledge of the following national sector regulations: Law 833/1978, Law 180/1978, Law 184/1983, Law 104/1992, Law 68/1999, Law 285/1997, Law 147/2017, law 112/2016, law 162/1998
- detailed knowledge of Regional Law 11/2016 and in particular of Chapters I, III, IV, V and VI.

The course will deal with the following topics: theories and concepts of culture; culture and nature; relationship between culture and society; sub-culture, counterculture; the "cultural diamond" theory, communication; culture in a connected world, cultural pluralism; multiculturalism in global society, the theory of social change in Karl Mannheim.
Furthermore, different research methods to face the world of culture and religion will be presented
The issue of religious pluralism and secularism in their different forms will be addressed: religious pluralism and the role of women and gender relations in religions, in particular in the Mediterranean area, particular attention will be paid to intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

1. Casavecchia A. Merico M. (2024), Manuale di sociologia dei processi culturali ed educativi, Armando Editore, Roma.

2. Casavecchia A. (2022), Karl Mannheim e le trasformazioni sociali del nostro tempo, Carocci, Roma.

3. Casavecchia (a cura di) (2022), Attraversare il guado. Il dialogo nella laicità tra religioni e culture durante il distanziamento pandemico, Aracne Editore Roma.

4. A book to choose:
a) C.C. Canta (a cura di), Il 'Femminino mediterraneo, Aracne, 2018.
b) C.C. Canta (a cura di), Voci di donne dal Mediterraneo, Aracne, Roma 2017.

The program is divided into the following parts:
- Origins and developments of contemporary economic sociology: this first part introduces the student to the knowledge of the origins of economic sociology, through a brief review of the classic authors, some more recent developments and the main differences between economic sociology and economic science.
- Studying the economies of past and present societies: the second part proposes an analysis of the assumptions underlying the so-called New Economic Sociology (starting from the works of Karl Polanyi and Mark Granovetter) useful for understanding the diversity of economies in different historical and cultural contexts, the ways in which economic relations are rooted in social contexts, and the roles of individual and collective actors, of institutions, power dynamics, trust, cultural and moral values.
- Themes and perspectives of investigation for the economies of the 21st century: proposes a path of in-depth analysis and elaboration of some themes relating to some fields of investigation of particular relevance for economic sociology.
- Social change and development: aims at the historical reconstruction of the different elaborations of the concept of social change by development economics, modernization theory, dependency theory, approaches to alternative development and new critical development paradigms .
- Development policies: this last part aims to delve into the most recent theoretical elaborations of the concept of development, analyzing their political and strategic implications in the context of international cooperation.
Scenarios, concepts and fields of investigation under investigation are:
- non-economic factors in the functioning of the economy,
- the sociological analysis of labor markets,
- welfare systems in the service economy,
- modernization, economic development and social change,
- socioeconomic systems,
- inequalities, poverty, exclusion,
- training systems and the labor market,
- “development” as a problem,
- the theory of dependency,
- sustainable development,
- alternatives to development.

Marino Regini (a cura di), La sociologia economica contemporanea, Editori Laterza, 2007.
Gianfranco Bottazzi, Sociologia dello sviluppo, Editori Laterza, 2009.

Theories and research methods in social psychology. Knowledge and perception of the social world. Social cognition. Dual models and implicit social cognition. Attitudes, stereotypes, and prejudice. Social relations: small group processes and intergroup relations. Communication, persuasion and social influence. Applied social psychology: health, environment and sustainable development.

- Hogg e Vaughan. Psicologia sociale. Pearson Editore
- Passafaro, Carrus, Pirchio. I bambini e l’ecologia: Aspetti psicologici dell’educazione ambientale. Carocci editore

Attitudes: definitions and structure. Persuasion and attitude change. Measurement of attitudes. Attitude-behaviour relations. Practical implications

- Cavazza. Psicologia degli atteggiamenti e delle opinioni. il Mulino

The course aims to provide knowledge on human development in the life cycle, with a focus on theoretical and methodological aspects and the application of this knowledge in the social field. The resources, challenges, processes and mechanisms involved during development and major transformations will be examined. Specific attention will be paid to special transitions (e.g. separated/divorced families; adoptive/foster families) and dysfunctional conditions (e.g. disability).

The topics of this course are the following:
- The first changes during development: the childhood
- The challenges of growing up: the adolescence
- Becoming an adult: maturity and parenthood
- Separated and divorced families
- Foster and adoptive families
- Families and children with disabilities
- Health challenges: the ageing

Testo di base
Kloep M., Hendry L.B., Sica L.S., Aleni Sestito L.(2021). Lo sviluppo nel ciclo di vita. Il Mulino

Dispensa integrativa a cura della docente ed edita da Mulino.
La dispensa contiene i capitoli tratti dai 3 seguenti libri
1.Palmonari (2011). Psicologia dell’Adolescenza. Terza Edizione (Capitolo 3. Le fasi adolescenziali e giovanili nello sviluppo psicosociale; Capitolo 5. Pubertà e sviluppo Fisico; Capitolo 10. Le relazioni familiari);
2. De Beni Borella (2015). Psicologia dell’Invecchiamento e della longevità. Seconda Edizione (Capitolo 2. Temi, problemi e prospettive della psicologia dell’invecchiamento e della longevità; Capitolo 7. Emozioni, motivazioni, e personalità nell’invecchiamento attivo; Capitolo 14. La valutazione Psicologica dell’anziano);
3. Soresi (2016). Psicologia delle disabilità e dell’inclusione (Capitolo 2. Dalla classificazione delle menomazioni e delle disabilità alla partecipazione alle ‘like skills’; Capitolo 4. Procedure e strumenti per la valorizzazione delle persone; Capitolo 8. Il ruolo della famiglia).
La dispensa è in vendita presso le seguenti librerie di Roma; Nuova Cultura, piazzale Aldo Moro 5 (chioschi gialli all’interno della città universitaria, accanto economato); La Sapienza Viale Ippocrate 158; Libreria Dias, Viale Ippocrate 103; La libreria, Viale Ippocrate 99.

Copie autorizzate di alcuni capitoli tratti da 2 libri:
1. Rosnati R e Iafrate R (2023). Psicologia dell’Adozione e dell’Affido. Vita e Pensiero (Capitolo 1. Accogliere i figli altrui; Capitolo 2. Adozione e Affido)
2. Dowling Barnes (2018). Lavorare con i bambini nel processo di separazione e divorzio. Franco Angeli, Milano (capitolo 1. Il cambimaneto delle famiglie e le enagosce dei bambini; capitolo 2. Cornice teorica: transizioni e fattori di rischio nella separazione e divorzio)
Le copie autorizzate sono disponibili presso la Copistera Ge.RI Via Farini, Roma.

The course program will be organized in three parts:

1. Tools and strategies in the care relationship with people.

- The care relationship: characteristics and problematic aspects
- The Phases of the methodological process
- The functions of accompaniment and help process
- The assessment
- The professional social work interview
- The visits Home

2. Tools and strategies in the complexity of social work

- Group work and working with groups
- Network of/with/in work
- Community work
- Development and evaluation of social work projects

3. Social work organization and intervention areas

- Italian and international context of social work
- Types of organizations and the role of social workers
- Social and health care integration.
- Social work and children and families
- Social work and mental health
- Social work and non-self-sufficient people
- Social work juvenile justice
- Research and social work
- Social work documents in different work settings

TESTI OBBLIGATORI:
Zilianti, A. e Rovai, B. (2007). Assistenti sociali professionisti. Metodologia del lavoro sociale, Carocci Faber, Roma (studiare solamente DAL capitolo 1 AL capitolo 6)

Allegri, E. (2015). Il servizio sociale di comunità. Carocci Faber (studiare solamente i capitoli 4 e 5)

Leone, L. e Prezza, M. (1999). Costruire e valutare i progetti nel sociale. Franco Angeli, Milano (studiare solamente i capitoli 2, 3, 4 e 5)

Campanini A. M. (2016). Gli ambiti di intervento del servizio sociale. Carocci Faber (studiare solamente i capitoli 2, 4, 9, 11, 13 e 14)

Normativa di riferimento per ogni ambito di intervento del servizio sociale.

Raineri, M.L. e Corradini, F. (2022). Linee guida e procedure di servizio sociale. Erickson (studiare solamente DAL capitolo 4 AL capitolo 15)

Bini, L. (2003). Documentazione e servizio sociale, Carocci, Roma (studiare solamente i capitoli 2 e 5)

Un articolo di ricerca a scelta tra quelli presenti nella lista caricata su formonline o concordato insieme al docente (almeno un mese prima), in merito ad un ambito di intervento del servizio sociale.

Romano Spica V, Brandi G. Igiene, Educazione alla Salute e Sanità Pubblica. Quaderni Sanitari, Volume 5. Antonio Delfino Editore, Roma 2014.
Materiale didattico fornito dal docente per approfondire specifici argomenti

Opuscoli e siti web
www.wikigiene.it
www.sanita.gov.it/temi
www.iss.it/epicentro

The course program will be organized in three parts:

1. Tools and strategies in the care relationship with people.

- The care relationship: characteristics and problematic aspects
- The Phases of the methodological process
- The functions of accompaniment and help process
- The assessment
- The professional social work interview
- The visits Home

2. Tools and strategies in the complexity of social work

- Group work and working with groups
- Network of/with/in work
- Community work
- Development and evaluation of social work projects

3. Social work organization and intervention areas

- Italian and international context of social work
- Types of organizations and the role of social workers
- Social and health care integration.
- Social work and children and families
- Social work and mental health
- Social work and non-self-sufficient people
- Social work juvenile justice
- Research and social work
- Social work documents in different work settings

Zilianti, A. e Rovai, B. (2007). Assistenti sociali professionisti. Metodologia del lavoro sociale, Carocci Faber, Roma (no capitolo 7)

Allegri, E. (2015). Il servizio sociale di comunità. Carocci Editore.

Mastropasqua, I. (2004). Architettura delle reti sociali: teorie, luoghi, metodi. Carocci Faber.

Fabbri, V. (2013). Il gruppo e l'intervento sociale: progettare, condurre, valutare. Carocci Faber.

Campanini A. M. (2016). Gli ambiti di intervento del servizio sociale. Carocci Faber

Normativa di riferimento per ogni ambito di intervento del servizio sociale.

Un articolo di ricerca a scelta tra quelli presenti nella lista caricata su formonline o concordato insieme al docente (almeno un mese prima), in merito ad un ambito di intervento del servizio sociale.

- ICT basic concepts: Algorithms and computation theory, Information encoding, Hardware, Software, Networks, communication and information technologies.
- Computer use: Operating systems, File system, Tools and Printing.
- Spreadsheet: Using excel, Cells, Managing spreadsheets, Arithmetic formula and functions, Text and number formatting, Graphs.
- Online collaboration: remote storage and on-line forms.
- Databases management system and languages for querying databases.
- Introduction to Python programming

Informatica di Base. Mauro Mezzini, Apogeo Education, Maggioli Editore, seconda edizione 2020


See also course pages on Formonline platform

title and topic of the course:
Introduction to sociology

The course will present problems and concepts common to the main sociological theories, with reference to both classical and contemporary authors.
The first objective of the course is to show the experiential and available traces of a class of objects with their own characteristics and referable to a distinguishable domain: the social.
The second objective is to show some of the results of the use of sociological theories and concepts in the study of contemporary social reality and in particular of society.

Exam texts

The exam interview will focus on the texts that the student will choose, one text for each of the following three groups. (The only text indicated in point 2 is therefore in fact mandatory.)
1. Ambrosini M., Sciolla L., Sociology. Second edition, Mondadori, Milan 2019 or, alternatively, Delli Poggi S., Delli Poggi B., Compendio di sociologia. Per le professioni e le attività sociali, Autori Associati, Roma 2023..
2. Weber M., Economics and Society (Part One: Theory of sociological categories: I - Fundamental sociological concepts; II - Fundamental sociological categories of economic action; III - The types of power; IV - Classes and classes). In any edition.
3. Diotallevi L., The imperfect order. Modernity, State, secularization, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2014 or, alternatively, Diotallevi L., End race. The crisis of Christianity as a confessional religion, Dehoniane, Bologna 2017.

Non-attending students, together with what has already been indicated, are also warmly invited o study:
- both texts indicated in point 1
- and - in addition to the one chosen from the two proposed in point 3 - one between:
o Addario N. edited by, Theory of systems and modernity, Carocci 2003 (or later),
o Addario N., Cevolini A., Sociology of modernity. Forms and consequences of social complexity, Tools, Milan 2012,
o Addario N., Fasano L., The logic of society. A study on the problem of social order, Egea, Milan 2012.

Each of the texts indicated can be replaced with another book or with two essays indicated by the student. Any substitutions must be approved by the teacher via e-mail and the printout of the answer provided by the same teacher must be presented at the time of the exam.

After an initial presentation of the main analytical paradigms of the social sciences, the lectures will focus on how to define a research project and the main techniques for collecting and processing the information collected. To this end, the research design (both quantitative and qualitative), the methods of empirical operationalisation of research , the main survey techniques (questionnaires, data collection, in-depth interviews, observation, etc.) and data analysis will be presented.

Texts will be indicated during the lectures. A special programme will be defined for Erasmus students

Anol Bhattacherjee, Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices (Revised edition), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, 2019
M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Rajendra Baikady, Principles of Social Research Methodology, Springer, Singapore, 2022

After an initial presentation of the main analytical paradigms of the social sciences, the lectures will focus on how to define a research project and the main techniques for collecting and processing the information collected. To this end, the research design (both quantitative and qualitative), the methods of empirical operationalisation of research , the main survey techniques (questionnaires, data collection, in-depth interviews, observation, etc.) and data analysis will be presented.

Texts will be indicated during the lectures. A special programme will be defined for Erasmus students

Anol Bhattacherjee, Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices (Revised edition), University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, 2019
M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Rajendra Baikady, Principles of Social Research Methodology, Springer, Singapore, 2022

Order, Law, State. Subjective legal situations. Freedom rights and social rights. The right to protection of personal data. The sources of law. Italy and the European Union. The organization of public authorities. The division of responsibilities between the State and the Regions. The relationships between politics and administration. Principles and rules of administrative proceedings. Territorial autonomies and the rules of administrative action. Public administration documents. The right of access to administrative documents. Public services. Public evidence procedures. Judicial protection. The economic Constitution and the impact of European law. Accurate analysis of Law no. 241 of 1990.

1) R. Bin – D. Donati – G. Pitruzzella, Lineamenti di diritto pubblico per i servizi sociali, Giappichelli, 2021;

in addition

2) E. Codini – A. Fossati – S.A. Frego Luppi, Manuale di diritto dei servizi sociali, Giappichelli, 2019
as an alternative
2) Lecture notes prepared by the teacher about legal sources of the administrative activities (Law no. 241 of 1990 and its institutes: The phases of the administrative procedure; The deadline for completing the proceedings; The justification for the provision; The person responsible for the procedure; The silence of the public administration; The participation of private individuals in the proceedings and the investigative means; Effectiveness and validity of administrative acts; The defects of the administrative act; etcetera)

Social Statistics
- Introduction.
- Frequency distributions: absolute frequencies, relative frequencies, percentages, cumulated frequencies. Classes of modalities for quantitative variables.
- Statistical plots: bar charts, pie charts, stem and leaf, histograms, time series plot.
- Position indexes: mean, median, mode. Position index properties.
- Variability indexes: variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, range. Concentration.
- Box-plot
- Concentration
- Data transformation. Linear transformation. Standardization.
- Contingency tables. Pearson chi-square index. Independence and dependence on average.
- Covariance and correlation.
- Simple linear regression model.
- Statistical indexes for social science.

Borra S., Di Ciaccio A. (2014). Statistica: metodologia per le scienze economiche e sociali, McGraw-Hill, Milano

or

Monti A.C. (2009). Statistica per le Scienze Giuridiche e Sociali, ESI, Napoli.

or

Diamond I., Jefferies J. (2001). Introduzione alla Statistica per le Scienze Sociali, McGraw-Hill, Milano.

The course will deal with the following topics: theories and concepts of culture; culture and nature; relationship between culture and society; sub-culture, counterculture; the "cultural diamond" theory, communication; culture in a connected world, cultural pluralism; multiculturalism in global society, the theory of social change in Karl Mannheim.
Furthermore, different research methods to face the world of culture and religion will be presented
The issue of religious pluralism and secularism in their different forms will be addressed: religious pluralism and the role of women and gender relations in religions, in particular in the Mediterranean area, particular attention will be paid to intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

1. Casavecchia A. Merico M. (2024), Manuale di sociologia dei processi culturali ed educativi, Armando Editore, Roma.

2. Casavecchia A. (2022), Karl Mannheim e le trasformazioni sociali del nostro tempo, Carocci, Roma.

3. Casavecchia (a cura di) (2022), Attraversare il guado. Il dialogo nella laicità tra religioni e culture durante il distanziamento pandemico, Aracne Editore Roma.

4. A book to choose:
a) C.C. Canta (a cura di), Il 'Femminino mediterraneo, Aracne, 2018.
b) C.C. Canta (a cura di), Voci di donne dal Mediterraneo, Aracne, Roma 2017.

The program is divided into the following parts:
- Origins and developments of contemporary economic sociology: this first part introduces the student to the knowledge of the origins of economic sociology, through a brief review of the classic authors, some more recent developments and the main differences between economic sociology and economic science.
- Studying the economies of past and present societies: the second part proposes an analysis of the assumptions underlying the so-called New Economic Sociology (starting from the works of Karl Polanyi and Mark Granovetter) useful for understanding the diversity of economies in different historical and cultural contexts, the ways in which economic relations are rooted in social contexts, and the roles of individual and collective actors, of institutions, power dynamics, trust, cultural and moral values.
- Themes and perspectives of investigation for the economies of the 21st century: proposes a path of in-depth analysis and elaboration of some themes relating to some fields of investigation of particular relevance for economic sociology.
- Social change and development: aims at the historical reconstruction of the different elaborations of the concept of social change by development economics, modernization theory, dependency theory, approaches to alternative development and new critical development paradigms .
- Development policies: this last part aims to delve into the most recent theoretical elaborations of the concept of development, analyzing their political and strategic implications in the context of international cooperation.
Scenarios, concepts and fields of investigation under investigation are:
- non-economic factors in the functioning of the economy,
- the sociological analysis of labor markets,
- welfare systems in the service economy,
- modernization, economic development and social change,
- socioeconomic systems,
- inequalities, poverty, exclusion,
- training systems and the labor market,
- “development” as a problem,
- the theory of dependency,
- sustainable development,
- alternatives to development.

Marino Regini (a cura di), La sociologia economica contemporanea, Editori Laterza, 2007.
Gianfranco Bottazzi, Sociologia dello sviluppo, Editori Laterza, 2009.

the 3 cfu Ethnography Workshop reconstructs the path, the reflection and a first approximation to the methodology of empirical research in anthropology: the ethnography. Is turned in the classroom, then through seminar meetings and a selection of online materials and articles from scholarly journals. After reconstructing the generative paths of ethnographic practice, with Malinowski and the first generation of scholars, critical perspectives will be considered, particularly reflections on ethnographic description in the 1980s and 1990s and the decolonial approach. Based on these considerations, a path for designing field research will be proposed.

The Workshop is structured through the analysis of some classical texts, video and online materials. A handout, along with a dedicated checklist will be indicated by the lecturer at the beginning of the course.

The 6 credits course offers a survey of central themes and problems of cultural and social anthropology. After retracing some research points - the concept of culture, the overcoming of "race", relativism / ethnocentrism, ethnic identity, the analysis of the historical-social processes of contact that from the colonial situation reach the current realities of globalization, some lines of research will then be explored: the first related to the dynamics of contact creolization and transculturation, then to the analysis of some critical terrains of global present (Gender, Islam, Work). This program is integrated with the Ethnography Workshop by 3 cfu through seminar meetings and a selection of articles from scientific journals.

1. F. Pompeo, 2018, Elementi di antropologia critica, Meti, Torino.
2. F. Pompeo 2024, (a cura) Transculturazione, colonialità e resistenza. Contributi per un’Antropologia globale, Roma TrE-Press. (in press)
3.A selection of articles on Islam, Gender, Labor, indicated by the professor.

Émile Durkheim: Understanding a classic to interpret the present

This course aims to present the complexity and theoretical prominence of one of the founders of sociological thought, Émile Durkheim. Each week we will raise a main question that will allow us to read and comment on parts of his work, reconstructing its historical and conceptual development. To do so we will follow a threefold scan devoted: to the method and object of sociological knowledge; to the understanding of legal and political institutions; and to the historical and reflective consideration of forms of collective idealization.Through the study of Durkheim's work, we intend to subtract this author from the inevitable simplifications to which he has often been destined in his textbook reductions, partly because of the dominance of the Weberian paradigm in a widespread part of Italian sociological culture. Our aim will be not only to understand the thought of a classic by addressing the entirety of his reflection but, equally, to detect its interest in interpreting the present. In this regard, the course intends to compend the weekly reading of anthological texts from Durkheim's work with some selections of essays from secondary literature. With the exception of a few texts, almost the entirety of the bibliographic material-both primary and secondary literature-will be uploaded to the course website and updated throughout the semester.

PART I - KNOWLEDGE
1. What is modernity? Individual and society
2. What are the pathologies and risks of modern societies? Society and criticism
3. In what does the sociological method consist? Social facts and collective representations
4. What are the aspirations and risks of modern individuals? Individual and critique

PART II - INSTITUTIONS
5. Does modernity make us freer? Collective morality and autonomy
6. What is the state? Intermediate bodies and individualism
7. Local justice or universal justice? Cosmopolitanism and contract
8. Does modernity make us more equal? Temporal power and sociology

PARTE III – IDEALI
9. Le modernità ci rende più riflessivi? Potere spirituale e sociologia
10. Come capire il mutamento sociale? Autorità e rivoluzione
11. Il nostro pensiero è sociale? Credenze e categorie
12. Che relazione intrattengono scienza e religione? Rituali e conoscenza

All the primary texts can be easily found in french and/or in english

Theories and research methods in social psychology. Knowledge and perception of the social world. Social cognition. Dual models and implicit social cognition. Attitudes, stereotypes, and prejudice. Social relations: small group processes and intergroup relations. Communication, persuasion and social influence. Applied social psychology: health, environment and sustainable development.

- Hogg e Vaughan. Psicologia sociale. Pearson Editore
- Passafaro, Carrus, Pirchio. I bambini e l’ecologia: Aspetti psicologici dell’educazione ambientale. Carocci editore

Attitudes: definitions and structure. Persuasion and attitude change. Measurement of attitudes. Attitude-behaviour relations. Practical implications

- Cavazza. Psicologia degli atteggiamenti e delle opinioni. il Mulino

The course aims to provide knowledge on human development in the life cycle, with a focus on theoretical and methodological aspects and the application of this knowledge in the social field. The resources, challenges, processes and mechanisms involved during development and major transformations will be examined. Specific attention will be paid to special transitions (e.g. separated/divorced families; adoptive/foster families) and dysfunctional conditions (e.g. disability).

The topics of this course are the following:
- The first changes during development: the childhood
- The challenges of growing up: the adolescence
- Becoming an adult: maturity and parenthood
- Separated and divorced families
- Foster and adoptive families
- Families and children with disabilities
- Health challenges: the ageing

Testo di base
Kloep M., Hendry L.B., Sica L.S., Aleni Sestito L.(2021). Lo sviluppo nel ciclo di vita. Il Mulino

Dispensa integrativa a cura della docente ed edita da Mulino.
La dispensa contiene i capitoli tratti dai 3 seguenti libri
1.Palmonari (2011). Psicologia dell’Adolescenza. Terza Edizione (Capitolo 3. Le fasi adolescenziali e giovanili nello sviluppo psicosociale; Capitolo 5. Pubertà e sviluppo Fisico; Capitolo 10. Le relazioni familiari);
2. De Beni Borella (2015). Psicologia dell’Invecchiamento e della longevità. Seconda Edizione (Capitolo 2. Temi, problemi e prospettive della psicologia dell’invecchiamento e della longevità; Capitolo 7. Emozioni, motivazioni, e personalità nell’invecchiamento attivo; Capitolo 14. La valutazione Psicologica dell’anziano);
3. Soresi (2016). Psicologia delle disabilità e dell’inclusione (Capitolo 2. Dalla classificazione delle menomazioni e delle disabilità alla partecipazione alle ‘like skills’; Capitolo 4. Procedure e strumenti per la valorizzazione delle persone; Capitolo 8. Il ruolo della famiglia).
La dispensa è in vendita presso le seguenti librerie di Roma; Nuova Cultura, piazzale Aldo Moro 5 (chioschi gialli all’interno della città universitaria, accanto economato); La Sapienza Viale Ippocrate 158; Libreria Dias, Viale Ippocrate 103; La libreria, Viale Ippocrate 99.

Copie autorizzate di alcuni capitoli tratti da 2 libri:
1. Rosnati R e Iafrate R (2023). Psicologia dell’Adozione e dell’Affido. Vita e Pensiero (Capitolo 1. Accogliere i figli altrui; Capitolo 2. Adozione e Affido)
2. Dowling Barnes (2018). Lavorare con i bambini nel processo di separazione e divorzio. Franco Angeli, Milano (capitolo 1. Il cambimaneto delle famiglie e le enagosce dei bambini; capitolo 2. Cornice teorica: transizioni e fattori di rischio nella separazione e divorzio)
Le copie autorizzate sono disponibili presso la Copistera Ge.RI Via Farini, Roma.

- Exploratory statistic.
- Sampling theory: population and sample definition. Probabilistic samplings: random sampling with and without reimission. Stratified sampling. Cluster sampling. Non probabilistic sampling.
- Probability theory. Discrete and continuous random variables. Bernoulli and normal distributions.
- Statistical inference: the estimation. Point and interval estimation. Confidence interval for the proportion. Confidence interval for the mean. Sampling size.
- Statistical inference: the significativity test. The system of hypotesis and the test. The first and second type errors. The significativity test for the mean. The significativity test for the proportion. P-value.
- Comparison between two groups. Comparison between two proportions. Comparison between two means. Comparison for dependent data.
- Contingency tables and the chi-square test of indipendence.
- Linear regression and correlation. The simple linear regression model. Parameter estimation of the regression model. Correlation coefficient estimation. Test for the regression coefficient and for the correlation coefficient. R-square index.
- Analysis of variance.

Agresti, A., Finlay B. (2012). Metodi Statistici di Base e Avanzati per le Scienze Sociali, Pearson, Milano. (Capp. 1-9, 12)

The course aims to provide students with historical and theoretical tools concerning the development of sociological debate in France from the 1960s to the present day.

It will run over two semesters and will mainly deal with the problem of the relationship between reflexivity and critique in postwar French sociology.

It will be divided into five sections.

An initial introductory section will focus on the historical-intellectual premises that have made, since Saint-Simonism, the links between epistemology, reflexivity and critique a central theme in the French sociological school. In particular, we will emphasize how this paradigm diverges from the philosophical tradition headed by Immanuel Kant and German idealism. In addition to Saint-Simon, the authors we will refer to are Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss. In parallel, also in this first part we will introduce some elements of the historical epistemology current and especially some aspects of Gaston Bachelard's thought.

A second section will be devoted to Pierre Bourdieu's sociological reflection. In particular, we will be concerned with the development of the theme of sociological criticism in light of two historical phenomena that have profoundly influenced this author's thinking: the experience of French colonialism in Algeria and the French May riots of 1968. In light of these two events, we will question concepts such as those of reflexivity, sociology of sociology and critical sociology.

A third section will be devoted to the thought of Luc Boltanski. In a first part we will deal mainly with the novelty that this author has imposed on sociological reflection by questioning the critical paradigm of his master Pierre Bourdieu through the valorization of the critical resources of social actors and the shift from “ critical sociology ‘ to ’ sociology of criticism.” In a second part we will devote ourselves to the extension of Boltanski's critique of neo-liberalism and his partial return to a Bourdieusian-inspired conception of sociological criticism.

A fourth section, will be devoted to some aspects of Bruno Latour's thought. A first section will reconstruct the beginnings of his reflection and his “ethnography of the laboratory” that focuses on the problem of the social conditions of knowledge. A second section will reconstruct the developments of this reflection through a social ontology that, questioning the nature/culture couple, breaks with the concept of society in favor of a conception of the social understood as an assemblage of humans and non-humans. Latour's critical ecology will be exposed in this context.

A fifth concluding section will be devoted to some of the approaches that have characterized the French sociological debate of the past 20 years and have developed in light of these issues, seeking to enhance the concept of critique through a dialogue between sociology and philosophy.

La quasi totalità dei testi sono reperibili in lingua inglese