ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO THEORIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II. THEMES IN SOCIAL THEORY AND LATE MODERNITY

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
20
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
20
CFU 3
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Modalità esame

Oral, possible written essay.

Programma

Goal of the course is to address themes and approaches that developed in social theory to account for late modern society, understood as the social order emerging as a result of the systems crisis that took place between the late 1960s and the early 1970s. The topics that will be addressed include: post-modernism; artificial intelligence; post-politics; the risk society; new materialisms; science and governance.The course will be organized in meetings, each one dedicated to a specific topic, building also on discussions of assigned readings.

Obiettivi formativi

The main objective is to draw attention to the way in which major socio-political and techno-scientific changes, begun in the latter part of the twentieth century and of increasing significance, have been recognised and interpreted, reflecting on how social theory has both been influenced by these changes and has sought to provide conceptual tools to govern them.