QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS - LABORATORY OF GENDER AND DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

Course objectives

The course aims at providing knowledges and methodological-applicative skills. In particular, the course will focus on issues related to the impact of gender variables and sexual orientation differences on the management of human capital, but also on social design, decision and sense making and the evaluation and monitoring of projects and interventions. This will be geared towards application in innovative processes aimed at achieving sustainable development. Specific objectives The course proposes training to enable students to acquire theoretical knowledge and skills on gender and diversity management (a tool, with over thirty years of history behind it, aimed at enhancing diversity within complex organizational systems) and to apply them to the reading of innovative and sustainable processes through the intersectional approach. Taking sustainability as the paradigm of reference, the objective of including different genders and sexual orientations will be the driving force behind its extension to similar social diversities to be considered in sustainable social innovation processes. In order to analyze the different definitions and applications of social innovation, multidisciplinary cognitive tools (sociological, economic, historical, legal, political, statistical, etc.) and intersectional methodological tools will be provided to enable the development of specific student skills in the different phases. The first and main objective of the course (Dublin Descriptor 1) is to prepare students for decision-making and management roles in social planning and sustainable innovation, enabling them to interpret the variables determining social processes and their transformations through basic and advanced knowledges. These skills, combined with methodological ones, will enable graduates to intervene also in the monitoring and strategic assessment phase for revision and change interventions in different contexts (public, private, non-profit, economic, environmental, cultural, etc.). For the achievement of the second objective (Dublin Descriptor 2), particular attention will be given to the ability to adapt in different social and cultural contexts the knowledge and skills acquired with respect to the theoretical and applicative models of gender and diversity management, experimenting the strategies useful for their finalization for sustainable development. Since the objective of gender inclusion is already included in the sustainable development model, the intersectional approach will provide an experimental methodological set for its improving application. At the end of the course students will have acquired the results set by the following objectives: - with respect to the third objective (Dublin Descriptor 3), the articulation of practical and oral tests will allow to verify both the theoretical and methodological knowledge and the ability to apply in different contexts managing, decision-making and analytical models to promote gender inclusion and diversity as an essential strategy for sustainable innovation. - the practical and simulative tests, as well as the oral tests in class, in autonomy and in working groups, will aim to verify the student's ability to propose his/her own degree of deepening and explanation of the concepts and methods learned (Dublin Descriptor 4). - with regard to the fifth objective (Dublin descriptor 5), the training plan provides for specific theoretical studies integrated with methodological and practical studies to enable the student to work independently and in non-training contexts in the management of sources and in the selection of strategies learned during the training course.

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GIOVANNA GIANTURCO Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
The course intends to outline the constitutive concepts of sociology and their declinations in order to the main theoretical currents theme. This will be done with particular reference to the historical dimension and addressing the major authors (classical and contemporary) of sociology. (48 hours). Particular attention will be given to the methodological approach of analysis and interpretation of social phenomena to highlight the processes of historical change and the more recent ones, at national and international level, with a focus on the use of qualitative analysis tools (interactive teaching) (12 hours). In order to facilitate the use of the most functional cognitive tools for autonomous deepening and familiarity with theoretical models and analytical tools, some case studies will be addressed in their historical and comparative evolution (12 hours).
Prerequisites
No particular condition is required
Books
Two mandatory texts: B. Spirito, Le gemelle dizigotiche, Liguori; R. Wallace, A. Wolf, La teoria sociologica contemporanea, Il Mulino. 1 methodological text to CHOOSE between: G. Gianturco, L’intervista qualitativa, Guerini; F. Colella, Focus group. Ricerca sociale e strategie applicative, Franco Angeli. 1 thematic text to be chosen between: R. Cavallaro, Orizzonti della memoria, orizzonti del gruppo, Cierre. G. Gianturco, L. Fazio (a cura di), Mondi e modi sostenibili. Strumenti e buone pratiche per una società sostenibile, Edizioni Nuova Cultura.
Teaching mode
The Course will be mainly planned in taught-classroom lessons, some research seminars with the participation of experts and scholars and the presentation of case studies by students with the methodology of the self-directed learning and flipped classroom, especially on the fundamental issues of the Course and about the changing factors in the new sociological research lines. It will allow both teachers and students to test the comprehension and the competence to apply the concepts and the methodologies not only in the final exam, but also evaluating the ability in the in-depth analysis and in the case-studies proposed in the flipped classroom thanks to the debate with their mates and the supervision of the teacher. The exam can evaluate: 1. level of learning of the basic concepts of the discipline; 2. ability to orient themselves with respect to the historical contexts that characterize and differentiate the theoretical and methodological development of the discipline; 3. Critical skills and connection between the texts studied. It is possible to integrate the oral exam with a project that affects 10% on the evaluation. This project, in line with the training objectives, consists in carrying out an in-depth interview. In consideration of the Covid-19 emergency and with reference to the evolution of governmental provisions and health authorities, the course or some of its parts may also be carried out remotely or in a mixed mode (in presence and at a distance), however ensuring, on occasions in presence, compliance with safety standards.
Frequency
Attendance is recommended
Exam mode
The exam will be in written, practical and oral form. This mixed method will allow to evaluate different levels of learning of theoretical concepts, practical applications and critical evaluations. The attendance, the active participation during the lessons, the ability of reasoning and self-training will be evaluated as the performance in the final exam. The tests, beyond the final one in oral form, will be three, of which one written and two practical and they will be planned for each part of the program and at the end of it. For the first part of the program on the sociological and multidisciplinary definition of the discipline it will be planned a written test (with open reply) to permit the exploration of the main objects of the program in some practical cases: it can make familiar to them the reading of the text for the exam and the main sources about this object in a personal elaboration. The practical tests through detailed analysis for specific research fields and case studies will allow to test the learning level of the students, their ability to adapt the concepts to the society after they have learnt them during the previous lessons. During the classes the teacher will preliminarily propose students some issues for testing their ability of reasoning and then she will compare the students’ thoughts with the explanation of the same concepts.
Lesson mode
The Course will be mainly planned in taught-classroom lessons, some research seminars with the participation of experts and scholars and the presentation of case studies by students with the methodology of the self-directed learning and flipped classroom, especially on the fundamental issues of the Course and about the changing factors in the new sociological research lines. It will allow both teachers and students to test the comprehension and the competence to apply the concepts and the methodologies not only in the final exam, but also evaluating the ability in the in-depth analysis and in the case-studies proposed in the flipped classroom thanks to the debate with their mates and the supervision of the teacher. The exam can evaluate: 1. level of learning of the basic concepts of the discipline; 2. ability to orient themselves with respect to the historical contexts that characterize and differentiate the theoretical and methodological development of the discipline; 3. Critical skills and connection between the texts studied. It is possible to integrate the oral exam with a project that affects 10% on the evaluation. This project, in line with the training objectives, consists in carrying out an in-depth interview. In consideration of the Covid-19 emergency and with reference to the evolution of governmental provisions and health authorities, the course or some of its parts may also be carried out remotely or in a mixed mode (in presence and at a distance), however ensuring, on occasions in presence, compliance with safety standards.
  • Lesson code10600184
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseSocial planning for sustainability, innovation, and gender inclusion
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year1st year
  • Semester2nd semester
  • SSDSPS/07
  • CFU9
  • Subject areaDiscipline sociologiche