The Seminar Themes and Debates in Social Service I, in line with the objectives to pursue in the first half of a PhD, aims to promote a complex reflection on the major social and contemporary scientific debates, which are considered essential for analytical reasoning of the privileged in the PhD program approaches and reflective construction of the object of study and the appropriate analysis model. to identify and discuss issues and paradigms, social, political and economic, in the light of the (new) current corporate data. At the end of the course the doctoral student should be able to demonstrate skills of critical analysis, reflexivity and argumentation suitable to the object of study that he aims to investigate.