B025887 - TERRITORIAL ANALYSIS FOR SOCIAL PROJECTING

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.

For attending students:
documents on moodle

For non attending students, 3 texts of reference:

1) a text to be selected among
a) Oberti M., Preteceille E, La segregazione urbana, Aracne, Roma, 2017
b) Dominelli L. (ed.) (2018), The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work, Routledge, London, Part 1 + 3 capitoli a scelta

2)Petrillo A., Peripherein: pensare diversamente la periferia, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2013

3) Magnier A., Andorlini C. (2020), Un giusto ufficio. Costruire luoghi di innovazione aperta nei servizi sociali?, Pacini, Pisa

- 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

Attending 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 evaluated on the knowledge acquired on the theoretical and 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. It underlines the spatial mechanisms of inequalities and exclusion, their construction and reproduction, and the importance of such dimension in social projecting and in social work organisation.
It includes three modules:
Urban Sociology and Social Work
1. The environmental approach to social work: a short history
2. The morphological approach to social phenomena
3. Proxemics and space perception analysis
4. Center and periphery
5. Power structure analysis
6. For a reference dictionary (community, local identity, mobility, spatial conflict and competition...)

To observing and represent spatial inequalities in social projecting
7. Statistical data sources
8. Secondary analysis and great reseaches
9. Direct inquiry
10. Graphic reprersentations
11. Social work and urban projects

Space and innovation in social work
12.The social worker office
13. The street
14. The homes
15. The neighborhood
16. Spaces for social re-qualification

To the attending students will be proposed at the beginning of the course a workshop exercise, to develop in group: research design building, inquiry, its oral presentation and concluding written report on its results.