The course is organized in two parts.

The first part focuses on family studies from a social psychology perspective. In particular it provides students with tools to understand the family and parenting changes in the late modernity societies . The increasing diversity of family forms will be analyzed from the theoretical perspective of the difference that rejects the normative vision of the nuclear family as the only reference model and recognizes the specific processes and modes of operation of the different family models.

The second part focuses on the social psychology that, from the critical perspective of gender, studies masculinity and femininity changes i.

It ill be analyzed, from the theoretical and empirical research produced in the field of gender studies, the ways in which gender structure symbolic and social processes that focus on the concept of identity between nature and culture.

Particular attention will be paid to the fluidity of gender identity and risks of differentialism.

The program consists of two parts .

First part:

The first part of the course will address the following issues : the socio-demographic and family life changes; the systemic approach and the recent theoretical developments in social psychology of family relationships ; parenting in late modernity societies; different family models ; instability of the couple and the management of parental conflict .

Second part:

The second part aims to deepen the following issues : gender as an analytical concept ; the construction of identity and the risks of differentialism ; the fluidity of identity and the narrative of subjectivity ; the men 's studies

The course aims to promote knowledge of some discilpline key concepts. It is also promoted the capability to identify connections with other disciplines (sociology, history, law, anthropology), to apply the knowledge learned in contexts of students' experience with particular reference to their future professional role.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Students should attend course and active education laboratories based on documents provided by the professor. 

Attendance

Attendance of al least three quarters of the classes. Study of text.

Course books

First part:

Fruggeri L., Diverse normalità, Carocci, Roma, 2005

Zanatta A. L. Nuove madri e nuovi padri. Essere genitori oggi, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011

Further information on bibliography will be given by the professor during classes

 

Second part:

Bianca Gelli, Psicologia della differenza di genere, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009 (ad esclusione dei cap. 3 – 4- 9)

Andreani Monia, Vincenti Alessandra (a cura di), Coltivare la differenza, Milano, Unicopli, 2011

 

Assessment

Oral examination. 

Opportunity for attending students to produce a written report on course topics. In the first part of the course, students can attend a written exam.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Attendance

Study of texts

Course books

First part:

Migliorini L., Rania N. Psicologia sociale delle relazioni familiari, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2008

Fruggeri L., Diverse normalità, Carocci, Roma, 2005

 

Second part:

Bianca Gelli, Psicologia della differenza di genere, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009 (ad esclusione dei cap. 3 – 4- 9)

Andreani Monia, Vincenti Alessandra (a cura di), Coltivare la differenza, Milano, Unicopli, 2011

 

Susan Moller Okin, Diritti delle donne e multiculturalismo, 1999, tr. it Raffaello Cortina Editore 2007

 

Assessment

Oral examination

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

1) The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography

2)Social psychology and group I / II is an integrated course . The examination will take place with both teachers who express a separate evalution for the two parts of the course . The final evalution is calculated by averaging the two parts