Political science and international relations

Professor: Fausto PAGNOTTA
Academic discipline: Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi (SPS/08)
Field: A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity: Student's choice

36 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

hub: PARMA

course unit
in ITALIAN

lectures timetable unavailable

exam calls

Learning objectives

Respect to knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 1 = knowledge and
understanding), at the end of the course the student
must have acquired the fundamental historical knowledge on the cultural and political origins of gender discrimination and on some of the ideas that have connoted the figure of women within the history of Western political thought.
The student must have achieved full knowledge
stereotypes on the female figure that are at the origins of gender discrimination and political ideas through which the female figure has been characterized in the history of Western political thought. The student must have gained knowledge of some of the texts of those authors and
those authors who were among the first to develop a political thought on women's emancipation.

With respect to knowledge and ability to
applied understanding (Descriptor 2 = applying
knowledge and understanding), the student
through an educational path marked on
Lesson method / Socratic heuristic must have acquired the ability to understand and analyze the topics of the lessons. With this ability the student will have to demonstrate that he is able to elaborate his own critical thinking on the topics exposed in class.

With respect to independent judgment (Descriptor 3 =
making judgments) the students
must have acquired at the end of the course the ability to analyze the subjects learned in class in order to know how to relate to them critically.

With respect to communication skills (Descriptor 4 = communication skills) through the methods of
method of the heuristic / Socratic lesson the student must acquire a satisfactory property
expressive both at the terminological and conceptual level.
The student will have to learn to expose the topics of the lesson with autonomy.

Respect to the ability to learn (Descriptor 5
= learning skills) students will have acquired those bibliographic and linguistic-lexical tools as well
conceptual that will allow them to independently develop a critical reflection on the problems dealt with in teaching. The student must also have acquired the ability to
to develop an autonomous thinking based on teaching topics and to express it to the teacher and colleagues.

Prerequisites

None

Course unit content

The course aims to study in depth the socio-cultural origins of gender discrimination in Western culture and the forms of inequality that derive from these in contemporary society.

Particular attention will be given to the issue of the digital gender gap and new forms of online gender violence.

Full programme

First Part: "SOCIOCULTURAL MODELS OF GENDER INEQUALITY"

- Forms of exclusion of women in the Greek polis;
- The woman in the Homeric poems;
- Socrates; Plato; Aristotle;
- Medical theories on the female body;

Second Part: "GENDER INEQUALITIES IN GLOBAL SOCIETY"

1) THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE GENDER
- Gender and society
- Gender and mass media
- Gender: social transformations of a concept
2) GENDER INEQUALITIES TODAY
- Gender and politics
- Gender and education
- Gender and work
3) GENDER VIOLENCE
- Society and gender-based violence: some data
- Violent loves
- New digital forms of gender-based violence

Seminars "Women and rights: perspectives between law, history, politics and society"

Bibliography

- F. Sartori, Differenze e disuguaglianze di genere, il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.

- E. Cantarella, Gli inganni di Pandora, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2019.

- A. Rossi-Doria, Le donne nella modernità, Pazzini, Villa Verucchio, 2007.

Teaching methods

The teaching activities will be conducted through the method of the frontal lesson /presentation and the method of the lesson Heuristic/ Socratic; a sequential type of expositive teaching (with steps of knowledge) will be alternated with a hypothetical or heuristic teaching based on questions/ stimulus. This mode of teaching aims to promote in the students the autonomous research of meaning on the topics of the frontal lessons. With the use of the Simulation/Role playing and Cooperative Learning methods, we will try to involve the students actively in the construction of the lesson.

Assessment methods and criteria

written exam.

Other information

All students are advised to register on the page dedicated to teaching on the Elly platform.

Synthetic teaching materials will be uploaded and made available to students on the page dedicated to teaching on the Elly platform.

Both lectures and seminars are material for exam preparation.

SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER INEQUALITIES cod. 1009164