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Corso di laurea magistrale in

Sociologia delle reti, dell'informazione e dell'innovazione

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Sociology and legal decisions

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Carlo PENNISI

Expected Learning Outcomes

Course Structure

The course has three main phases: the first is dedicated to an alignment of knowledge on the topics and the sharing of the necessary key concepts; the second concerns the exposition and discussion of specific contents; the third, in seminar forms, is dedicated to exercising the use of the concepts and theories exposed to the internship and thesis activities in which

Required Prerequisites

It is appropriate to have already passed sociology of law or, at least, some examination of sociology and law. In the first part of the course lessons and specific materials will be dedicated to align the class on the topics necessary for the following.

Attendance of Lessons

The lessons are designed to encourage face-to-face interaction which is considered part of the objectives of the course and subject to evaluation. 

Detailed Course Content

Through the most recent reflections and the most reliable research proposed by sociological theory it will be a matter of deepening how the technological revolution is affecting the relationship between decisions and communication in legal proceedings.
After a phase in which the terms of the autonomy of the legal decision will be defined, the concepts of communication and decision will be treated in the light of the sociological theory of action. The aim is to show the problems that digitalization poses in the construction of social powers, in their institutionalization in cultural, economic and political terms and in the role of legal culture in this process.
The proposed materials will put students in a position to reconsider, in the third part of the course, their areas of interest and study in order to specify their sociological profile and enhance their originality, both from a scientific and operational point of view.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The checks will consist in the presentation of an individual paper and in a discussion of it. 
The papers covered by the final exam must concern an area of issues (theories, concepts, research, norms and legal disciplines) raised in the lessons and referred to the areas of interest to which the student is dedicating the thesis work, internship and teaching of your choice.
The evaluation will take into account the contribution of each of the students to the improvement of the presentation of the work of colleagues, through questions, observations and suggestions.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

The checks will consist in the presentation of an individual paper and in a discussion of it. 
The papers covered by the final exam must concern an area of issues (theories, concepts, research, norms and legal disciplines) raised in the lessons and referred to the areas of interest to which the student is dedicating the thesis work, internship and teaching of your choice.
The evaluation will take into account the contribution of each of the students to the improvement of the presentation of the work of colleagues, through questions, observations and suggestions.
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