Learning objectives
Through the key concepts of agency and interpretive reproduction, we will discuss the process by which children, as part of the different institutional systems in which they participate, experience the culture they produce and put it in relation to the one instituted by the adult cultural framework. The aim of the course is to provide participants with adequate sociological tools required for successful interventions to promote the agency of children in educational contexts.
Course unit content
The course addresses issues and perspectives that emerge from the sociological approach
proposed by William A. Corsaro. The lectures aim to provide cognitive tools proper to the field of study of the sociology of childhood, focusing in particular on the contemporary reconsideration of the socialisation process and the renewed centrality of the question of agency. Specifically, the course will address the main issues of the emergence of Childhood Obesity through the lens of interpretive reproduction.
Bibliography
1) Corsaro W.A., Sociologia dell’infanzia, a cura di Colombo M., Aroldi P.,
Maccarini A., FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2020.
2) Prandini R., Maestri G., Bassi A. (a cura di), Cibo, stili di vita, salute.
Un’indagine empirica nel territorio della ASL di Reggio Emilia,
FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2021 [open access], cap. 5.
