Ateneo - UPO

Sociology of care and care networks

For further information, these will not be exam texts:
Bakker, I. (2007) Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy, New Political Economy, 12 (4), pp. 541 556
Tronto, J. C. (2006) Confini morali. Un argomento politico per l'etica della cura, trad. it. N. Reggio Emilia, Edizioni Diabasis; ed. Moral Boundaries. A political Argument for an Ethic of Care, Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc., 1993
Ferrera, M. (2006) Le politiche sociali, Bologna, Il Mulino
FERRERA M., (1993), Modelli di solidarietà. Politica e riforme sociali nelle democrazie, Bologna, il Mulino
FERRERA M., (1996), The Southern Model of welfare in social Europe, in Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 6, n. 1, pp. 17-37
FERRERA M., (2006) Le politiche sociali. L’Italia in prospettiva comparata, Bologna, il Mulino
Vosk, Arno MD; Milofsky, Carl. The Sociology of Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine News 24(2):p 3,32,34-35, February 2002
Vosk, Arno MD; Milofsky, Carl PhD. The Sociology of Emergency Medicine: Gatekeeping, Protocols, and Consultants. Emergency Medicine News 24(3):p 4,42-44, March 2002
Bashir Qureshi, Transcultural Medicine: Dealing with patients from different cultures, Springer Dordrecht, 2012

Acquire useful concepts and definitions for the analysis of care, considering the structuring dimensions (gender, class, nationality)
Develop a critical approach to "ahistorical" and universalistic visions of care, in order to interpret needs and actions in relation to the contexts of each case
Acquire knowledge on the actors of formal and informal care
Know how to analyse care networks by distinguishing between types of networks and actors involved in the care of a non-independent individual
Knowing how to analyze the context of interaction of different care providers in a community welfare logic, analyzing the social space of the emergency room and the social worlds that intervene in disasters

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Interactive frontal lessons
Application of concepts learned with collective exercises

1. Care work in sociological theories: definitions compared (care and domestic work, productive and reproductive work); care as a process
2. The historical, social, political and ideological context of family care work: economic and social changes, inside and outside the family; social and family identity of females: the family of feelings and education; the “immobility" of gender relations in family work; Feelings as a distinctive feminine element; the ethics of care; Informal care work as a form of social injustice; The political dimension of care and power relations in societies; The ethics of the commodification of care
3. Care actors: state, market, family and third sector and care networks (informal primary networks such as family, friends and neighbours, family carers; informal secondary networks, i.e. voluntary organisations; and formal secondary networks: health services and social)
4. Welfare and welfare models; primary and secondary welfare; treatment strategies: European recommendations; social and health policies in Italy
5. Concepts of medical anthropology and transcultural medicine
6. The social space of the emergency room: social structure, roles and relationships between professionals in the emergency room and between services. Critical issues and potentiality for integration
7. Introduction to the sociology of disasters, individual behaviours, organizations, and communities before and after a disaster

At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of the basic knowledge related to:
- Sociological concepts of care and the context in which it takes shape
- Actors who are currently involved in care and assistance networks
- To the sociological concept of community and to the community as an actor of care
- the definition and detection of the integration of services and professionals in the health and socio-health sectors and the integration between the various actors who, in various capacities, are involved in the process of caring for non-self-sufficient individuals (long-term sick people, elderly people, disabled people and invalids)
- the cultural dimensions of medicine and care, which allow a non-ethnocentric reading of the patient, the symptoms and the experience of illness
- the analysis of contexts and possible solutions before and after natural or technological disasters