Sociology and Methods of Education On Legality

The course aims to enhance the strategic importance of the processes of lawfulness education for the quality of democracies, with particular reference to social systems, such as the Italian one, characterized by a high presence of corruption and organized crime. Its premise is that the fight against corruption and crime must take place by operating on a vast system of cultural, elitist or widespread complicity. And that this work, instead of being peaceful, leads to conflict with models of thought, social customs and consolidated languages.To this end, it selects some analytical categories of social, legal and political thought, from Machiavelli to Gramsci, from Kelsen to Bobbio or Bourdieu, from Leopardi to Pasolini or Don Milani, to understand the mechanisms that concretely hinder the processes of education and civil progress. And it tries to draw the paths that, without any subjective reference to legality, contribute to his construction in daily life: from the attributions of meaning and value to the development of the values of solidarity and freedom or the sense of justice. In this context it contextualizes and studies educational movements, for active citizenship or anti-mafia, which have grown especially in the youth world and which appear to be potential carriers of a new public ethic as well as a renewed theory of conflict and civil modernization.

The course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the weaknesses and ambiguities of the Italian "public spirit", and the skills to recognize in one's own time the attitudes and mentalities that can positively or negatively influence the relations between civil culture and criminal phenomena