Abstract
Our work consists of a secondary data analysis of Sociological (LM-88) Masters Syllabi displayed in MIUR dedicated website (http://www.universitaly.it). For each course, we regrouped the available data in two main dimensions: the first is inherent the structure of the formative paths of students and graduates; the second one is inherent the Syllabi “promises”, regarding the prospected acquisition of cognitive and professional competencies. We choose to work on textual data in order to achieve two different goals. First of all, we can outline recurrent semantic areas through a lexicometric analysis. Then, we will be able to discuss the relations between the above-mentioned dimensions, pointing out the distance between the promises and the existing structure. We think that this approach will be helpful to light up what is often ignored in the evaluation of master degrees, namely the content of official syllabi. We appreciate this analytical perspective because it shows how the sociological courses supply is widely differentiated and evaluate the distance between this varied supply and the actual condition of the graduates.
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Borrelli, D., Serpieri, R., Taglietti, D., Trezza, D. (2017). The Promises of Sociological Degrees: A Lexical Correspondence Analysis of Masters Syllabi. In: Lauro, N., Amaturo, E., Grassia, M., Aragona, B., Marino, M. (eds) Data Science and Social Research. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55477-8_21
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