Sociology

1. Knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students will know: differences and similarities between the concepts of social, collective and public action; building blocks of the concept of public action; historical and epistemic variables of the argumentative turn; main approaches, methods and tools of the interpretive analysis 2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able to define a research problem about the forms and contents of public action, apply the analytical tools learned to analysis of specific case studies, to analyse a discursive artefact using the appropriate methodology, to read and comment texts about public action and to write a research project, in particular focusing on the identification of problem and research questions and methodology. 3. Critical faculties should be developed through activities aimed at: evaluating strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the analysis of public action; identifying the main differences between Keynesian and neoliberal public action; identifying research methods and tools consistent with the research objectives. 4. Communications skills. The ability to communicate what was learned should be developed exposing in front of an audience the content of complex texts about public action, the results of analysis, a research project or its main results 5. Learning skills. The ability to continue studying the topics should be developed learning how to make a literature search and write a literature review.