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B001706 - SOCIAL POLICIES
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Academic Year 2010-11
Coorte 2010 - Second Cycle Degree in PSICOLOGIA
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Education and Psychology
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
40
Teaching Term
01/03/2011 ⇒ 03/06/2011
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
Historical digression on development and Social Policies transformations from the origins till contemporary times, with particular attention to the Politics of social and sanitary services. Examinations on: current Welfare State transformations, Third Sector ambivalent role, relationship between services and citizens, between sociality production and public sphere promotion, between globalization and social politics.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
- Kazepov Y. - Carbone D., Che cos'è il welfare state, Roma, Carocci, 2007.
- Conti F. - Silei G., Breve storia dello Stato sociale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- "La Costituzione della Repubblica italiana" (a cura di S. Suppa, Palomar Editore o una qualsiasi edizione aggiornata)
- Yeates N., Globalizzazione e politica sociale, Trento, Edizioni Erickson, 2004.
We recommend the use of Dizionario di Sociologia a cura di L.Gallino (UTET 2004).
- Conti F. - Silei G., Breve storia dello Stato sociale, Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- "La Costituzione della Repubblica italiana" (a cura di S. Suppa, Palomar Editore o una qualsiasi edizione aggiornata)
- Yeates N., Globalizzazione e politica sociale, Trento, Edizioni Erickson, 2004.
We recommend the use of Dizionario di Sociologia a cura di L.Gallino (UTET 2004).
Learning Objectives
The purpose is offering a basic knowledge and stimulating a critical knowledge of the subject underlining the thematic, conceptual and multidisciplinary connections required by a sociological perspective and the tensions to which the possibility to assure the develop of individual and collective welfare, in the advanced capitalism societies, is nowadays submitted.
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no one
Teaching Methods
frontal didactics, audio material and teamwork
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no one
Type of Assessment
written and oral examination
Course program
Sociological analysis of welfare systems by a historical as well as an institutional interpretation of the development and meaning of social policies, with a particular attention to the experience of Welfare State in Italy and to the relationship between the citizen-user and institutions. We will also analyse crisis and transformation of welfare systems within the most recent processes of economy "globalization" and the action of supranational institutions.