AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course has the following detailed training objectives and learning outcomes:

- Strengthen understanding of the impact of social capital and proximity networks in the prevention and mitigation of health risks;

- To improve critical capacity towards the processes of creation and dissemination of technological and scientific innovations with a direct impact on health;

- Outline an initial access to the concept of "intersectionality" in the understanding of inequalities: social class, space, health.

TEACHING METHODS

Oral lectures.

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, should contact the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liaise and arrange the specific teaching methods so that the learning aims and outcomes may be met.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course programme is structured in five lectures:

- Introduction to the basic theoretical frameworks of the sociology of environment and health;

- Social capital and environmental risk: heat waves in Chicago;

- Mortality risk and social classes: socio-health inequalities in Turin and Genoa;

- Social modelling of biotechnological innovations: the case of Covid-19 protein vaccines;

- Review and comparison of the main topics of the previous lessons.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

It is mandatory to study these three scientific articles, that will be provided by Prof. Marciano:

Klinenberg E. (1999) - Denaturalizing disaster: a social autopsy of the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Theory and Society, 28: 239-295. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006995507723

Cardano M., Costa G., Demaria M., (2004) - Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study. Social Science & Medicine, 58. DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00354-X

Marciano C. (2024) - I sentieri dell'innovazione. Il caso dei vaccini proteici contro il Covid-19. Stato e Mercato: (in press).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARIO SALISCI

ELISABETTA GARBARINO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

II semester

Class schedule

SOCIOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination.  Attendance of at least 70% of the lectures is compulsory (in relation to the entire Sociology integrated course, therefore including the lectures of the Sociology of Cultural Processes module).

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The colloquium consists of three questions covering the theoretical frameworks and empirical research presented during the lecture. 

Exam schedule