B000364 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

italian

The purpose of the couse is to offer the student (a) a basic knowledge of sociological concepts and institutions, (b) a wide general sociological outline of actors, methods and instruments that contribute to racism production against immigrants. The issues will be discussed with the following purposes:
a) disclosing the common-places linked to the meanstream thinking about this phenomenon;
b) stimulating a sociological "vision" based on a critical competence and an intellectual autonomy.

Course Title: Immigrant conditions between "State racism" and social inequalities.
A "critical Sociology" approach to the racism issue against immigrants, with a particular attention to the connections among institutional racism, division of labour, social conflict and inequality.

- Frontal lessons
- To meet privileged witnesses and experts of immigrant conditions
- Vision and discussion of documentaries and films about the subjects dealt with.

written and eventual oral examination

This course intends to analyze (a) the main sociology concepts and institutions, (b) immigrant conditions by using the approach of a "critical Sociology". In particular it will be analysed how that condition is so far structurally determined by a continuous racism production through the agency of Countries Institutions. A "State racism" whose main purposes are to depreciate immigrant manpower and to create scapegoats on which they can channel difficulties and frustations of autochthonous, in particular of those social groups mainly damaged by economical crisis.

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