- Docente: Antonio Francesco Maturo
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Wellness, Sport and Health (cod. 5813)
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from Feb 27, 2025 to May 08, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course is aimed to describe and analyse the several connections between wellness, social contexts and health. The student at the end of the course will be able to discriminate, using sociological frames, between wellness, wellbeing and welfare. Moreover, the student will be able to analyse the different social aspects of wellness and the different sociological approaches on happiness. Also, the student will be able to identify the relationships between health and wellness with respect to the main features of contemporary social life (acceleration, perfomance, competition, anxiety).
Course contents
Main concepts that will be discussed in the course:
The social construction of health
Health and social determinants
A critical view on mindfulness
Age of anxiety: between acceleration, performance and medicalization
Obesity, physical activity and healthism
Wellness, happiness, positive thinking and the medicalizazion of sadness
Wellness, wellbeing, welfare
Readings/Bibliography
BOOK:
Maturo A. Setiffi F. (2023), Wellness, Social Policy and Public Health, Emerald, London
ARTICLES:
Kleinman P. (2010), Four social theories for global health, The Lancet, 375: 1518-1519
Barker, K.K. (2014). Mindfulness meditation: Do-it-yourself medicalization of every moment. Social Science & Medicine, 106, 168-176.
Setiffi, Francesca; Maturo, Antonio, The Institutional Promotion of Happiness: Proposals, Perspectives, Problems , «RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE», 2024, 3, pp. 1-15
Scalvini M. (2010), Glamorizing sick body: how advertising has changed the representation of HIV/AIDS, Social Semiotics, 20(3): 219-231
Farmer P. (2005), Pathologies of Power, University of California Press, Berkeley: Ch. 1 On suffering and structural violence, pp. 29-50.
Teaching methods
Group discussion, class work, presentations.
Assessment methods
Final examination.
Presentations in the classroom
Teaching tools
Powerpoint, videos, curiosity...
Office hours
See the website of Antonio Francesco Maturo
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.