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 the practices of social policy and the administration of deviance.
To know and to handle oneself in a critical way regarding the main paradigms of sociological description of deviance and criminality, as well as social control dispositives.
In particular, the lectures aims to:
- reconstruct the main theories of deviance and criminality;
- investigate social control and marginalization devices of individuals;
- reflect on policies and intervention strategies.
Critical and gender perspectives will be privileged in all three directions.
At the end of the course, the students will acquire adequate knowledge and interpretative tools to critically analyze deviant phenomena and social exclusion, and to develop empirical research and interventions in this field.
Students must have passed the General Sociology exam.
- Frontal and remote synchronous lessons;
- Exercises/small groups activities;
- Classroom discussions on the topics dealt with, starting from the analysis of case studies.
Students with disabilities or DSA are allowed to use specific modalities and supports that will be determined on a case-by-case basis in agreement with the Delegate of the Education courses in the Committee for the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities. Students are invited to contact the teacher of this course and copy the Delegate (https://unige.it/commissioni/comitatoperlinclusionedeglistudenticondisabilita.html).
Specific indications on reference bibliography will be provided by the professor at the beginning of the lectures
Ricevimento: Students may contact the professor by e-mail.
September 2025
SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE
The examination will be in oral form.
The exercises, the small group activities, the classroom thematic discussions and finally the oral interview will aim at evaluating the learning and the reworking of the contents from the candidates, as well as their critical reasoning skills and their public speaking ability.
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