Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding: is encouraged and required capacity for analytical understanding of the texts according to criteria of logical rigor and philological. It also requires capacity for synthesis. Overall, knowledge of the topics covered will not be reduced to their repetition, but attitudes highlight the reinterpretation staff realized with appropriate language discipline.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the knowledge required is not a merely descriptive. The student will demonstrate personal attitudes in the solution of the questions raised. She will develop a critical original locations within the agenda.
Making judgments: Requires independent judgment on the matters proposed and ability to use on their own methods of sociological research proposals. The course calls for students to develop individual judgments and in small groups.
Communication skills: will be carried out during the course and required in the exam. The study narrative interview as a technique for qualitative research and simulations to be carried out during lessons in order to learn the use intended to exercise the student's communication skills.
Prerequisites
Requires knowledge of sociology, history and philosophy.
Course unit content
Title:
How does the image of the city change in sociological research and journalistic research?
Topic:
The course is divided into two parts.
In the first, two sociological researches, conducted almost twenty years away, are analyzed in the same urban environments with similar methodologies and goals.
In the second, the cadents analyze and collect documents about how the image of their cities changed in the local press.
The course pays particular attention to languages, methods and tools that share and distinguish sociological research from journalism.
The course was conceived together with Dr. Fausto Pagnotta.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Texts for Exam:
Alessandro Bosi, La corte dei miracoli. Quattro passi per le strade di Parma, Battei, Parma, 1998.
Alessandro Bosi, Gente di strada. Disagio nello spazio pubblico, Battei, Parma, 2014.
Marco Galeotti, Marco Valesi, Duri come i muri, Emil, Bologna, 2015.
The exam program and texts are the same for students who attend classes and for those who do not attend.
Teaching methods
The course includes: front lessons, discussions on the topics covered in the lectures, focus group on detailed arguments; moments with laboratory simulations and case studies.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral test
Other information
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