OVERVIEW

The course deals with actors, processes and dynamics of social and political change in contemporary societies. The goal is to analyze the homogeneous and heterogeneous characters between different geoghraphical and cultural areas.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is aimed at providing students with: the specific knowledge through which the sociological approach defines and analyses the social innovation and considers it as a phenomenon related with the political change of contemporary societies; the ability to understand the most relevant contemporary transformations in the reference field in relation to the ongoing social change; the ability to apply knowledge and understanding skills to other specific contexts or case-studies aimed at critical and autonomous analysis.

TEACHING METHODS

Combination of traditional lectures (approx. 30 hours) and classroom discussion of the project selected by each student (approx. 6 hours).  

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Starting from modernization’s theories the course deals with actors, processes and dynamics of political change in various geographical areas (Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Asia). The goal is to analyse the relations between political change and social change processes by a comparative approach. Special attention is given to the transformation of this relationship by considering the social change of contemporary societies.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beck U. (2015), The Reinvention of Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order, Polity Press, Cambridge

Arnanz E., Barba C., Manovel M.J., Mayol I., Pérez Arróspide J.A. (2015), Ciudadanía y calidad democrática Recuperar la dignidad de la política, Fundación Esplai, Madrid downloadable at:

http://fundacionesplai.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ciudadnia_calidad_democratica_cast.pdf

Ndiaye A. (2016), Paradigmes du développement. Quels systèmes et approches pour l’Afrique?, L’Harmattan, Paris

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANDREA FABRIZIO PIRNI (President)

STEFANO BONABELLO

ANDREA CATANZARO

AGOSTINO MASSA

STEFANO MONTI BRAGADIN

PAOLO PARRA SAIANI

LUCA RAFFINI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

II semester

Class schedule

SOCIAL INNOVATION AND POLITICAL CHANGE

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral examination. The evaluation criteria are: competence and fluency of argumentations, precision of scientific language, link capability between related subject, arguments in support of autonomous reasoning, synthesis capabilities.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

https://unige.it/off.f/2015/cds/10177.html