Psychology Applied to Social Relations, Communication and Group Dynamics

The teaching module aims to provide students with the basics for:
· knowing the essential of general sociology, its origins, concepts and paradigms; the theoretical and epistemological references, the founders of the discipline;
· learning the processes of socialization and construction of collective and individual identity; social reproduction of social and gender inequality;
· driving students towards an interpretation of health and illness through some basic elements of sociology of health and illness;
· providing tools for an interpretation of the relationship between human reproduction and social reproduction, through the medicalization process

At the end of the course, students must be able:
· to know and discuss theoretical and epistemological peculiarities of sociology;
· to know and distinguish the research methods of the discipline and identify methods and tools;
· having acquired some tools for reflection, analysis and applicability of the discipline;
· having learned about the relationship and interconnection between sociology, society and medicine;
· to have acquired some interpretative elements of sociology of health and illness;
· having learned the medicalization process applied to human reproduction and the social change connected to it;
· having a knowledge, albeit partial, of health in relation to global society.