PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY

Specific prerequisites are not required, except those normally associated with the possession of a good preparation in scientific and literary subjects present in the secondary schools education programs.

Class attendance is not compulsory, according to what is foreseen by the didactic regulation. However, it is recommended for the insights it can guarantee.

First part: Culture and Society Contents: Sociology, its institutional themes and its research topics; action, relationship and social interaction; the notion of social structure; the sociological concept of individual and collective social actor; the elements of culture and their relevance for social action; the various phases of the socialization process. Second part: Institutions and social change Contents: Values, norms and institutions; deviant behavior; religion and society; secularization and religious fundamentalisms; social stratification (topic developed as supplementary teaching); families and intimate relationships. Third part: Groups and organizations Contents: Organized groups, health facilities and use of therapeutic resources. The culturalization of the disease and the therapeutic process. The health-Illness dichotomy at the heart of the social system. Sociological analysis projected on the Health-Illness Related Behavior. The stages of the professionalization of medical practice. The organization of palliative care (topic developed as supplementary teaching).

Text 1: Bagnasco A., Barbagli M., Cavalli A., Corso di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012; Text 2: Giddens A., Sutton P., Fondamenti di Sociologia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2014. Text 3: Vignera R., Protagonisti e interpreti della sociologia sanitaria, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2005. Text 4: Perino A. Flocco M. (eds), Le cure palliative, Salute e Società, 3, 2017.

The examination will consist of a written test with open questions. To answer the questions the student will have max 120 min available. That is, with N = number of questions asked, a necessary but not sufficient condition to pass the examination will be to answer N-1 questions. Naturally, the maximum score of the evaluation (30/30) will be acquired only respecting the necessary, but not sufficient, requirement to answer to the totality of the questions. The results of the test (student's registration number and grade) will be entered into the Studium platform (Documents section) as soon as possible, and in any case guaranteeing the margin of time of one week from the beginning of the following session. Within 3 (three) days of publication, the student must communicate to the teaching holder, through a certified entry channel (PEC, UNICT Portal, etc.) his / her decision to withdraw from the test. After this deadline, the examination will be recorded in the electronic report.