CODE 66785 ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 MEDIA, COMUNICAZIONE E SOCIETÀ 11417 (L-20) - SAVONA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SPS/12 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION SAVONA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: THEORIES AND IMAGES OF SOCIAL MARGINALITY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course explores a variety of different themes within sociology of deviance and aims to encourage students to move beyond a mere theoretical approach to deviance and control in order to comprehend their public representation in movies and media communication. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course explores a multiplicity of themes and approaches developed within the sociology of deviance, encouraging students to move beyond a theoretical approach to deviance and control in order to understand their public representation. Particularly, it aims at: encouraging students' autonomy; increasing their ability in critically assessing how academic theories are translated into public discourses, for example in film and media; developing their critical capability in the analysis of media communication on social deviance and control. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The course has as its main objectives: to provide a compendium of the main sociological theories on deviance and social control; to describe their public representation; to understand the contribution of this theoretical discourse to the production and governance of the deviant. Upon completion of the course students will be able to: acquire a basic vocabulary on discourses on deviance and social marginality; understand how academic theories are translated in public speeches (e.g. in the cinema and media); critically interpret media communication on deviance and control; present the knowledge acquired in oral and written form. PREREQUISITES Students must have passed the General Sociology exam. TEACHING METHODS The lessons include both a theoretical frontal part and a workshop part. Classroom discussion of the topics covered, within which peer-to-peer lessons are also planned, is considered a fundamental part of the course. In order to broaden the perspectives through which the discourses on deviance and control are approached and to understand the sedimentation of these discourses in public representations, in the course of the lessons students will be encouraged to work in groups on different types of material such as film, traditional and new media. Teaching also includes the screening of documentaries or films in the classroom. Participation in the lectures provides students with the opportunity to engage in discussions with researchers, experts from outside the academic world and bearers of direct testimony related to the topics covered by the course. The course will be held in presence. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Mainly, the course is devoted to acquainting students with the basics of the main interpretative models of deviant phenomena and their control. In addition, the main research methods used in the sociological investigation of deviance will be outlined. Following this, through the presentation of concrete cases and empirical research, the focus will shift to the processes, practical and discursive strategies implemented by the institutional (and non-institutional) apparatuses that contribute to the production and governance of marginalised populations. Overall, the focus will be on the narratives on the construction of diversity and marginality, focusing on old and new ‘monsters’ and on the construction in the public discourse of the figure of the ‘public enemy’ staged on a daily basis through institutional and media representations and interventions in the public debate. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY • Prina, F. (2019). Devianza e criminalità. Concetti, metodi di ricerca, cause, politiche. Roma: Carocci. In addition, one of your choice from the following texts: • Campesi, G. (2015). Polizia della frontiera. Frontex e la produzione dello spazio europeo. Milano: Derive Approdi. • Fabini, G. (2023). Polizia e migranti in città. Negoziare il confine nei contesti locali. Roma: Carocci. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD ENRICO FRAVEGA Ricevimento: After classes, and at Difor (upon request). Mail: 115366@unige.it LESSONS LESSONS START April 2025 Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Attending Students. After the lectures, a written exercise on the topics covered in the course will be carried out, which will also include an independent elaboration of the proposed texts. Non-attending Students. The exam is written with open questions. The written exam may be supplemented, at the student's discretion, by an oral exam, which will take the form of an average score. ASSESSMENT METHODS The course assessment will be made up of tutorials and classroom discussions of assignments presented by working groups of students.
