Sciences and techniques of social work

The course aims to provide analytical, conceptual and research tools to identify, analyze, understand and explain the main forms, relationships and structures of families in contemporary society, also comparing the Italian society to other European and Western countries. The program provides an introduction with historical and anthropological notes on the different forms of family that have made the European and Italian past along the structural changes in the cultural, economic, demographic, political and technology domains. Furthermore, the study program develops around the relationships between families and kinship, includes the processes of formation of family formation - the transition to adult life, cohabitation and/or marriage, parenting and it examines gender and generational relationships within and outside the household, the relationship between the family (and its components) the economy and the labour market, theory and norms form family law, the relationship between families and social policies, the reproduction of gender and generational inequalities as well as class inequalities via the family background.

A basic knowledge of the foundations of anthropology and family history might be helping. This basic knowledge does not, however, represent an obligation to have passed preparatory examinations in the two subjects.

Both for attending and non attending students 1. Chiara Saraceno e Manuela Naldini, (2021), Sociologia della famiglia, Il Mulino, Bologna. 2. Simonetta Piccone Stella e Luca Salmieri, (2016), Convivere in Italia. La famiglia fuori dal matrimonio, Carocci, Roma. 3. Luca Salmieri, (2022), Servizi sociali e misure a contrasto della povertà. Teorie, pratiche e strumenti per gli assistenti sociali, Franco Angeli, Milano. I capitoli 1, 2, 4, 6. Further resources available at: https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=8294

Teaching takes place with lectures, work groups, flipped classroom and also activities in blended e-learning mode on: https://elearning.uniroma1.it/

Attendance is not mandatory

The final exam is oral. However, attending students may opt for the assessment of the ongoing written assignments as a base for the final oral exam.

Teaching takes place with lectures, work groups, flipped classroom and also activities in blended e-learning mode on: https://elearning.uniroma1.it/