SOCIAL POLICIES AND WELFARE SYSTEMS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in SOCIAL WORK EUROPE ORIENTED

Disciplinary Sector:

Sociology of Political Phenomena

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PIGA Maria Lucia

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The student must have already passed the exam of General Sociology

AF code:

A000609

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral, and Half-course test (open-answer test)

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims at providing students with the main conceptual and methodological tools to analyze the welfare state system in the contemporary societes and their transformations from the II world war up today, understanding the potential future direction.At the end of the course the student knows how to analyse the institutional design of welfare system and to recognize the main advantages and critical points. Finally, the student will be able to project and implements social policies against social exclusion and for supporting persons, groups and communities. During the course, almost 10 hours will be devoted to Social legislation.

Contents

The main of the course is the study of the systems and welfare policies, the study of their historical origins and the study of the actual crisis and transformations. The perspective is comparative, aimed at comparing different experiences and evolutionary processes in South European countries, with specific reference to the Italian case.

Recommended Bibliography

As attendance is compulsory at the course, bibliographical information is relative only to students who attend the course:
- G. Esping – Andersen, La rivoluzione incompiuta. Donne, famiglia e Welfare, il Mulino, Bologna.
- Piga ML. (a cura di), 2016, Dinamiche della partecipazione. Politiche sociali e attivazione della cittadinanza, FrancoAngeli, Milano.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures, Lessons and guided tours

Contacts/More Information

Suggested bibliography:
U. Ascoli (2011), Il welfare in Italia, Bologna, il Mulino.
S. Cervia, 2014, Nuove povertà. Vulnerabilità sociale e disuguaglianze di genere e generazioni, Pisa University Press, Pisa.
G. Costa (a cura di), (2012), Diritti in costruzione. Presupposti per una definizione efficace dei livelli di assistenza sociale, Milano, Bruno Mondadori.
A. Decataldo, E. Ruspini a cura di (2014), La ricerca di genere, Carocci Editore, Roma.
L. Gallon, a cura di (2014), La femminilizzazione della povertà: Donne, povertà e servizi, Edizioni Accademiche italiane.
Y. Kazepov, E. Barberis, (2013), Il welfare frammentato. Le articolazioni regionali delle politiche
sociali italiane, Roma, Carocci.
M. Naldini (2006), Le politiche sociali in Europa, Carocci Editore.
Remo Siza, Le povertà delle classi medie e dei "ceti popolari", in Alcock, P. e Siza, R. (a cura di), Povertà diffuse e classi medie, in Sociologia e politiche sociali, vol.12; 3, 2009, pp. 25-52.
Other information will be given during the lessons.

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