Phd in APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

email: giuseppe.ricotta@uniroma1.it
phone: +39 0649910429
building: Piano 3 Ex Fac. Scienze Statistiche
room: (3)15

Professor of Sociology (Full); Programme Coordinator of the Bachelor's degree in "Sociology". He graduated with honors in Sociology in 1996 and achieved a Ph.D. in Social Systems and Public Policy Analysis in 2001, at the Sapienza University of Rome.
He was Visiting Scholar at: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark (United States of America); Uerj, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); and Visiting Professor at: Unijuì, Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil); Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia (Spain).
He is Professor of:
"Advanced sociology course" in the bachelor degree in Sociology;
"Contemporary Sociological Theory" in the master's degree in Sociology for Sustainability and Analysis of Global Processes (SoSAG).
He is member of the PhD programme in Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome.
Main research areas: classical and contemporary sociological theory; modernization, risk and insecurity; postcolonial critique and social exclusion; perceptions of safety in cities, urban security policies, conflict for space, and socio-territorial exclusion; inequalities and health promotion in urban areas; evaluation of sociological undergraduate education; representations and attitudes about legality, civicness, and organized crime.