Learning objectives
At the end of the course, students must show knowledge and understanding, and ability to apply knowledge and understanding with respect to the topics presented during the classes, about health and mental disease in the medicalization' frame, about deviance and prison system, where the profession of eductor is required. Students should develop a specific communicative ability : they must be able to remember and apply the specific lexicon of the discipline.
Prerequisites
No one
Course unit content
The module will present some approaches provided by sociological analysis to understand social and legal phenomena related to the professional educator role.
In particular, the sociological knowledge covered in the previous module (general sociology) will be applied to understand the dis-continuities between social and legal rules especially about the definition of deviance and conformity, health and disease.
Particular attention will be given to the socio-juridical analysis of medicalization and to the socio-juridical field of the penitentiary.
Lessons will present the contribution of sociology to understand some social phenomena such as juvenile deviance, suicide and abuse of alcohol and other drugs.
Finally, the lecturer will take care the students properly use the sociological vocabulary.
Full programme
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Bibliography
A. Dino, C. Rinaldi, a cura di, Sociologia della devianza e del crimine, Mondadori Università, 2021; SOLO i capitoli:
n.16, Alcol e altre droghe; n. 17, Il carcere; n.18, Coercizione e sofferenza mentale; n. 22, Medicalizzazione, n. 23, Minori e giovani; n. 27, Suicidi.
Teaching methods
Lectures; discussion of topics and problems; exercises; seminars with
professionals in social and legal fields.
Slides and further didactic materials will be uploaded on the Elly platform (monthly).
Assessment methods and criteria
The written test consists of 7 open -ended questions to be answered briefly ( 10-15 lines) within a given number of characters.
The evaluation of the answers takes place according to the following criteria:
1) Content skills, i.e. how much the student deals with the topic in detail: up to 10 points
2) Exposure skills, i.e. how precise is the language used by the student to writing the concepts: up to 10 points
3) Argumentative skills, i.e. how coherent and logical is the concatenation of the written concepts: up to 10 points
The final grade will be given by the average between the different parts
Other information
The lecturee will highlight the connection with the previous teaching modules.
Students interested in an appointment may write an email to : chiara.scivoletto@unipr.it
