SOCIOLOGY OF GENDERS
SOCIOLOGIA DEI GENERI
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2024/2025 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Isabella Quadrelli | By appointment (send a mail to the teacher to book an appointment) |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course intends to provide students with tools to understand and critically use the concept of gender, applying it to the analysis of differences and inequalities in the family and extra-family context in the national and global dimension.
Program
During the lessons the following will be explored:
- Gender as an analytical category
- Gender, body and sexuality
- Gender stereotypes and socialization
- Differences and inequalities
- Gender and couple relationships
- Gender and parenting
- Family, work and the problem of conciliation
- Transnational families
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the main theoretical cornerstones of the sociology of genders in the light of the social transformations of the last century. This knowledge is to be acquired through participation in lectures and the study of texts.
Applied knowledge and understanding: ability to identify research and in-depth topics to be declined on the basis of the knowledge and skills acquired in the training course. These skills will be developed through classroom exercises and active participation in lessons.
Making judgements: ability to critically analyze social processes involving genders; ability to use the gender lens for analysing social facts. The skills are to be acquired through the discussion of texts and study materials in relation to news and current events.
Communication skills: ability to communicate both orally and in writing the concepts and topics concerning the discipline also using specialized language. These skills will be practiced through classroom presentations and in-depth discussions.
Ability to learn: autonomous study and in-depth study skills, through the search for additional bibliographic sources. This objective will be evaluated on the basis of contributions to classroom discussions.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lessons, activieties in small groups, debates,
- Innovative teaching methods
Activities in smal groups, debates
- Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory. Attendance of at least 27 class hours is required for the qualification of attending student.
- Course books
Ghigi R., Sassatelli R. Corpo, genere e società. Il Mulino 2018 (no chapter 4)
Saraceno C., Naldini M., Sociologia della famiglia, Il Mulino 2021.(no chapter 7)
One of the following texts of your choice:
Criado Perez C. (2019) Invisibili, Einaudi
Gui L. (a cura di) Fare i genitori senza certezze. Genitorialità e servizio sociale. Franco Angeli. 2024
- Assessment
Written test. The final exam will be a test with open-ended questions in which the knowledge and ability to elaborate and argue in relation to the topics of the course and the textbooks will be verified. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the test result.
In particular, the following skills will be evaluated:
- The ability to build links between concepts and approaches in an organic and original way showing the ability to know how to move between different texts.
- The correct use of language and the mastery of the specialized disciplinary language.
- The completeness and mastery of the topics of the course.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory
- Course books
Ghigi R., Sassatelli R. Corpo, genere e società. Il Mulino 2018
Saraceno C., Naldini M., Sociologia della famiglia, Il Mulino 2021.
One of the following texts of your choice
Criado Perez C. (2019) Invisibili, Einaudi
Gui L. (a cura di) Fare i genitori senza certezze. Genitorialità e servizio sociale. Franco Angeli. 2024
- Assessment
Written test. The final exam will be a test with open-ended questions in which the knowledge and ability to elaborate and argue in relation to the topics of the course and the textbooks will be verified. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the test result.
In particular, the following skills will be evaluated:
- The ability to build links between concepts and approaches in an organic and original way showing the ability to know how to move between different texts.
- The correct use of language and the mastery of the specialized disciplinary language.
- The completeness and mastery of the topics of the course.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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