SOCIAL HISTORY

This course provides skills and sensitivity especially for students who want to deepen a historical or anthropological path. It can be inserted as a choice exam in various master's degree courses

The educational objectives of this course consist in introducing methods for interpreting crises and transformations of contemporary society, in addition to identifying both their problematic issues and the ways to use the most suitable historical sources for social history. Students are therefore led to recognize the factors of various social phenomena, to grasp the characteristics of the mentality of an era and to elaborate patterns of social interpretation of an event or historical period. Approach to the use of certain sources for social history research.

No prerequisite required, beyond the general knowledge of the phenomena of modern and contemporary history.

In the general , present an overview of the main schools of social historiography.
In the monograph , launch a reflection on the social frameworks of memory.

1) Per la parte generale, uno dei seguenti testi:
a) Claudia Pancino, Storia sociale: metodi esempi strumenti, Venezia, Marsilio, 2003.
b) Paolo Macry, La società contemporanea. Una introduzione storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.

2) Per la prima parte del corso monografico, uno dei seguenti testi:
a) Carlo Ginzburg, I benandanti: stregoneria e culti agrari tra Cinquecento e Seicento, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
b) Marc Bloch, I re tumaturghi: studi sul carattere soprannaturale attribuito alla potenza dei re particolarmente in Francia e in Inghilterra, Torino, Einaudi, 2016

3) Per la seconda parte del corso monografico, questi due testi:
- Marc Bloch, La guerra e le false notizie, Roma, Donzelli 2004 (oppure: Fazi, 2014)
- L'invenzione della tradizione, a cura di Eric J. Hobsbawm e Terence Ranger, Torino, Einaudi, 1986.

4) Per un approfondimento, e per gli studenti non frequentanti, uno dei seguenti testi:
Cesare Bermani, Spegni la luce che passa Pippo. Voci, leggende e miti della storia contemporanea, Roma, Odradek, 1996
Cesare Bermani, Il bambino è servito. Leggende metropolitane in Italia, Bari, Dedalo, 1991

Questions on various aspects touched by the course and discussion on the contents learned. During the oral examination the student must demonstrate not only to know the topics covered during the course, but also to know how to expose them in an appropriate form.

Lectures and in-class discussions. Analysis of some sources.

Italian

The professor holds office hours during the time indicated in the personal webpage. For email contacts: fincardi@unive.it

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development