Learning objectives
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Prerequisites
not required.
Course unit content
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Full programme
1 The sociological discipline:
a) birth of the discipline and historical context;
b) the founding fathers of the discipline;
c) the main theoretical currents and their contextualization in time and space;
d) the main "objects" of sociology: the elements of social life (groups, interactions, symbols, nets, etc);
e) communication dynamics in sociology (verbal and non-verbal reality applied to health).
2 The sociology of health:
a) health, illness, medicine: the sociological perspective through the contemporary;
b) Birth of the sociology of health and environment strorico reference;
c) the social representations of the disease and the individual patient (both diachronic and synchronic);
d) The doctor-patient relationship; by Talcott Parsons in our days;
e) The main sociological paradigms of health;
f) theoretical models emerging in the sociology of health.
Bibliography
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Teaching methods
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
No
2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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