Learning objectives
Through the key concepts of agency and interpretive reproduction, the course will deal with the process by which children, within the different institutional systems in which they participate, experience the culture they produce and place it in relation to that established by the adult cultural system. The final objective of the course is to provide students with adequate sociological tools for interventions to promote children's agency in educational contexts.
Course unit content
The course deals with themes and perspectives emerging from the sociological approach proposed by William A. Corsaro. The lectures aim to provide cognitive tools typical of the field of study of the sociology of childhood, with a particular focus on the contemporary re-thinking of the process of socialisation and on the renewed centrality of the question of agency. In particular, the course will address the main nodes of the emergence of Childhood Obesity through the lens of interpretive reproduction.
Bibliography
Corsaro W.A., Sociologia dell’infanzia, a cura di Colombo M., Aroldi P., Maccarini A., FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2020.
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].
