CORSO DI DOTTORATO
Sociological theory and applied research
Milan
RESEARCH AREAS
The course is staffed by scholars from different disciplinary fields (general sociology, economic, labour and organisational sociology; sociology of cultural processes, education and communication; sociology of the family; sociology of welfare, and migration; sociology of development; research methodology; Economic Policy, Anthropological Disciplines), most of whom are part of the Department of Sociology of Università Cattolica. Each of them is part of important research networks at national and international level, as well as engaged in the professions and the third mission. Some professors from foreign universities are also members of the board.
Students therefore have the opportunity to carry out their doctoral project in one of the many research fields for which they will find support among the professors of the college, including:
- social theory;
- generative studies;
- economic and organisational processes;
- work and the labour market;
- labour and human resources policies;
- platform economy;
- migration and integration processes;
- communication and new media;
- cultural processes;
- fashion studies;
- learning systems and processes;
- inclusive and intercultural education;
- disability studies;
- family;
- welfare and social policies;
- family impact analysis of policies;
- health;
- cooperation and development;
- Public Policies and Evaluation;
- social and cultural anthropology.
- women's studies;
- food studies;
DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
In recent years, students have developed doctoral projects on innovative and often frontier topics
Francesco DAMILANO
Riccardo GOSTOLI
Luca MONTI
Joy PAONE
Chiara PRINA
Cesare RUSSO
Matteo BARUFFA. Work with and about emotions in social work: practices and professional culture
Francesca BELLINI The short week between well-being and productivity
Giacomo CHECCHIN. Rationalization and performance pervasiveness: youth performance and performativity in the digital environment
Marta GUERRESCHI. Beyond the paradox of punishment: restorative justice, institutions and generative forms of the social bond
Martina LANZETTA. The balance between economic, social, regulatory and technical logics in the practice of pawn credit. The cases of Milan and Naples
Costanza MARTIN Hoping in uncertain times: hope as a symbolic-relational device in parenting paths
Gabriele D'AMICO SUBJECTS
Alessandra BARZAGHI. Boundaries in the learning processes of unaccompanied foreign minors
Sebastiano CASATI. Participation and digitization. The impact of a social regeneration platform in a historic village: a case study.
Francesco COTTATELLUCCI. Cultural barriers to the implementation of participatory processes in policy making as dictated by regulations.
Alphonsine KADIO. Les pratiques de codéveloppement des associations ivoiriennes de la Lombardie en Italie.
Giulia PANEPINTO. Local energy production, in particular in rural/mountain areas in a circular economy perspective and with an eco-welfare oriented approach
Marco ROSICHINI. Journalism and AI: practices, negotiations and professional resistance
Fazilat RADJABOVA. Intragenerational mobility in contemporary Italy from a gender perspective
Sabina UBERTI-BONA. Milan San Siro district. Narratives and stigmatization. A case study on processes of territorial representation and stigmatization.
Alessandro RICOTTI. Reception of scientific information by adolescents
Sumaya ABDEL QADER. Fashion, religion, identity. A survey among young Muslim women in Italy and modest fashion as a reconciliation strategy
Gloria MUSSETTO. The evaluation of international development cooperation initiatives. A survey of CSOs in Italy
Alessia CAMBIANO. The organization of the agency of the poor through the movements of demands for income and for work. Premises and objectives of the politicization of precariousness
Samuele CASARTELLI. Instaurating fractures and regenerative processes in the supersociety. Theoretical perspectives and case studies.
Matteo PARMIGIANI. Digital platforms in the body-care sector. Impact and redefinition of professions.
Alessandra CARAGIULI. Teachers in the schools of Italian Islam
Anna FACCHETTI. The experience of social workshops: towards sustainable integration
Chiara PAGLIUCA. Among the Hydra Heads. Loose coupling as a process of organising applicants and holders of international protection in the asylum system
Consuelo PINTUS. Khadi in ethical fashion: an example of contemporary Craftivism
Alessia RAMBELLI. Paths of re-existence of young women welcomed in Italy with humanitarian corridors
Gianluca TRUSCELLO. The impact of in-work poverty in the province of Reggio Emilia: an exploratory study based on data provided by CAF-CGIL
Martina VANZO. Caring for the Soul: Spirituality in Palliative Care in Italy
Michele VARINI. Imaginations from the other side. A critical perspective on digital fashion and gaming. Definitions, production and consumption