SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- MARCO INGROSSO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- SPS/07
Training objectives
- a) Knowledge on discipline
• Learn the fundamentals of the sociological approach to health and well-being;
• Know the main sociological orientations in the field of health and care;
• Know the debate on the definitions of health;
• Deepen the field of care in its relational, organizational and professional aspects;
• Deepen the issues of self-care, health promotion and communication, education to care.
b) Know how and capabilities
• Develop skills on methods of education and self-education to health;
• Develop skills on health promotion and communication processes;
• Develop skills on the professionalization processes in the field of educational, social and health care.
c) Soft skills
• Develop a personal point of view and argued on some relevant issues in the field of sociology of health;
• Develop analytical skills and exposure on social and health-specific issues;
• Develop ability to use contemporary sociological research in the field of sociology of health;
• Develop capacity to draw up a report on a practical experience in the field of health and care. Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the main contemporary sociological analysis and of the main theories and sociological methodologies.
Course programme
- • Basic knowledge of the main theories and sociological analysis related to the sociology of health;
• Knowledge of the debate on the definition of health;
• Care practices in history and culture;
• Practices, professions and organizations of care today;
• Care relationships in the digital age;
• Collaboration between educational care and health care;
• The perspective of health promotion and self-care education. Didactic methods
- Conventional (lectures and group meetings); asynchronous video-lessons available on the University platform and periodic in-depth meetings in streaming (following the indications of the University)
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination (in online mode if indicated by the University). Judging criteria of responses are those of the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the displayed content.
Reference texts
- 1 – Ingrosso M., La cura complessa e collaborativa. Ricerche e proposte di sociologia della cura, II edizione, Aracne, Roma, 2018 (everything except caps VI, VII, VIII);
2 - Ingrosso M. e Pierucci P., a cura, Relazioni di cura nell'era digitale. Le persone in cura come partner nei percorsi terapeutici, Aracne, Roma, 2019 (everything except Part II).
PAY ATTENTION: this program is valid for a year, until February 2022.
