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Socio-Psychological Sciences - mod. GENERAL SOCIOLOGY (MC)
SABRINA PETRELLI

Seat Medicina e Chirurgia
A.A. 2013-2014
Credits 2
Hours 24
Period 1^ semestre
Language ENG
U-gov code MT02-11-11 MT125

Prerequisites

No requirements.

Development of the course

Acquisition of more important sociological theories and principles will be useful to a greater awareness, especially in terms of ability to gather information in a scientific manner on major issues of our time, their origins, their tendencies and the main interpretive approaches.
The course aims to provide the conceptual and operational tools for the critical study of the processes of change in modern and postmodern, which sees the rise of risk and uncertainty, the advent of new forms of subjectivity, the impact of processes globalization and new forms of communication, the deep changes of the major social institutions, the "liquidity" of the postmodern context. The general sociology should then be connected to the nursing profession in various areas to be treated, sometimes complex but fascinating.

Learning outcomes

The course aims to give students a greater knowledge of the structures and dynamics underlying the functioning of society, thus allowing a better analytical ability and critical of the reality in which they are and where their work will take place. Furthermore the aim is to reconstruct the particular contribution of sociology as a scientific discipline with a specific logical investigation and integration of theory and empirical research.

Program

Birth and evolution of sociological thought. Post-modern and modern society, social change, social stratification. Process of socialization and identity (resilience strategies of "coping" to be adopted in organizations or to be incurred in patients with severe disease). Theoretical and methodological assumptions of sociological analysis with a precise reference to sociological research and its instruments also reported to the healthcare setting. Sociological analysis of health topic by reading some documents of the WHO and the application of certain models of social intervention in issues of health organization, such as organizational conflict, ultimately addressing the issue of educating health as a policy choice strategic.

Development of the examination

Oral examination or multiple choice test.

Recommended reading

1. Title: Fondamenti di sociologia
2. Author: A. Giddens

Publisher : Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008

Integrato da dispense dell’insegnante tratte da

 

1. Titolo: La salute possibile. Manuale di sociologia per infermieri e altri professionisti della salute
2. Autore: Franca Beccaria, M. Grazia Morchio
3. Casa Editrice: Carocci Faber, 2004

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