B019255 - CITY AND URBAN POLICIES

Italian

The course presents the urban sociology tools (theoretical and methodological) most useful in social projecting. Starting from the analysis of milieu particularly significant of the Italian currrent configuration of inequalities and exclusion, it underlines the spatial mechanisms of their construction and reproduction, and the importance of such dimension in social projecting and in social work organisation.

Attending students: lecture notes on Moodle

Non-attending students:
- Oberti M., Preteceille E, La segregazione urbana, Aracne, Roma, 2017
- Petrillo A., Peripherein: pensare diversamente la periferia, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2013
-Magnier A., Andorlini C., Un giusto ufficio, Pacini, Pisa, 2020

- knowledge of the basic urban sociology tools for the theoretical and empirical analysis of: space perception, contextual social relations, social-territorial conflict, spatial segregation
- basic knowledge of the history of urban sociology whenever it may constitute reference for social projecting
- acquisition of the capacity to build autonomously a research design oriented to social programming
- improvement of the comunicative capacities (written and oral) uaeful for presenting research results

Basic notions of general sociology

Lectures and workshop activities

Attemnding students will be evaluated on
- acquired knowledge of the scientific tools presented in the lecture notes; through oral examination (50%)
- results of their workshop exercise they will present orally and in a written report (text or power point, on their own choice)(50%).

Non-attending students will sustain an oral examination. They will be valutated on the knowledge acquired on the theoreticaland methodological tools presented in the reference texts and on their capacity to use them in a disciplinary coherent analysis of the concerned social phenomena.

The course presents the urban sociology tools (theoretical and methodological) most useful in social projecting. Starting from the analysis of milieu particularly significant of the Italian currrent configuration of inequalities and exclusion, it underlines the spatial mechanisms of their construction and reproduction, and the importance of such dimension in social projecting and in social work organisation.
It icludes two parts, completed through a workshop activity.

A. A conceptual assessment
1. The ecological approach to community work
2. Some misleading labels (community, territorial identity...) and some crucial notions (mobility, conflict, competition...)
3. How we build, and we can analyse, our space perception

B. Territories, inequalities and exclusion
4. Ghetto speaces in Italy; from popular neighborhoods to "inetrn areas"
5. Total institutions spaces: prisons, mugrants and rom camps...
6. Public urban spaces, social conflict and segmentation

C. Excercise "The spaces of social work: its offices and relations with the neighborhoods".
What of the city do we find in the "servizio sociale"' What is the city we can read observing its social services?
To answer these question, we shall construct, from the, interdisciplinary, reference literature, a set of dimensions for the qualification of the spaces (their offices and their context) in which are active the "assistenti sociali": their physical characteristics, the corresponding relational dynamics (between workers, between workers and citizens) and symbolic value. On these dimensions will be analysed the interpretations of social workers, qualified observers, citizens.