Social Psychology - Modulo I: parte istituzionale (2008/2009)

Learning outcomes

The course’s objective is set

- to clarify the capisaldis of the historical, theoretical and scientific run of the discipline from the origins to our days. The fundamental themes of the Social Psychology and the work of search and study of the principal thinkers will be treated, with particular reference to the themes of the communication and the behavior of the individuals inside the small groups.
- to face the sphere of the daily experience according to the modern approaches of the cultural psychology and particularly of the positive psychology.

In the first part, particular relief will be given to the positive psychology, to the understanding of the scientific model, of the biological background orientations, of those psychoanalytic, of those behaviorists, of those gestaltistis and pre-cognitivists. In according to place it will detain on the interaction perspectives and partner-constructive as well as on the critical afterthought and on the new perspectives and sceneries of the modern social psychology, to conclude with the study of the European seams of the theory of the "social identity" and of the theory of the "social representations".
Particular attention will be given to the principal theoretical and conceptual references of the processes of social influence and the persuasion both in the relationships among single that inside the groups. Some casuistic connected practices will be studied the spheres of the communication in partner-political circle as well as their ethical implications and ethical; particular relief will be given to the problematic afferentis the pathological communication, the television communication and that mediated by the computer.

The second part will be treated thematic pertaining to the mutual relationship between construction of the identity and social trials in a perspective of improvement of life conditions in the social one and inside the organizations: the theories of reference are those of the complexity, of the quality of the subjective experience and those afferentis the circle of the cultural psychology and the positive psychology, seen in their more actual and inherent aspects of the practice of the "Profession of help to the other", as that of the social assistant.


Texts for the examination:
1. Palmonari A., Cavazza N., Rubini M., 2002, Psicologia Sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna
2. Inghilleri, P., 2004, La Buona Vita, Guerini e Associati, Milano, cap. 1,2 and two chapters to choice in the second part of the book..
3. Notes and material delivered during the lessons.

the examination will be conducted in form of oral interview.