Teaching code

4S02392

Teacher

Sergio Cecchi

Coordinator

Sergio Cecchi

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

Period

Sem. IA dal Sep 25, 2017 al Nov 11, 2017.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the conceptual, methodological and cultural basis needed to analyze and interpret the genesis and modification of Welfare systems, with particular reference to crisis factors affecting social policies. The professional educator operates within public and private care systems that need to be analyzed in their genetic and change factors in order to understand the educational realities in which this figure works.The general aim of the course is also to help critically read the role played by the professional social service in the Italian Welfare System at its central and peripheral levels, and to increase the knowledge and skills of students in reading the relationships between the various public sectors Welfare (health, social security, social welfare) and between the public and private sector (association and cooperativeism).The specific goal of the course is to show future professional educators the dynamics of the development of the Welfare Public Services system and the related constraints on educational action.

Program

The program is centered on the following points:

1. The origin and development of Welfare public systems: social factors and dynamics and sociological interpretations;

2. The crisis of public welfare systems: social factors and dynamics.
2a. the transition from Keynesian capitalism to the new liberal capitalism and consequences on social policies;
2b. the crisis of social policies is also a crisis of the legitimacy of democratic systems. .

3. From Solidarity and Public Inclusion to Penal Control.

4. Towards New Welfare System Configurations?
4a. New actors in social policies (association, cooperative system, market)
4b. Community Welfare
4c. Associative welfare
4d. The welfare mix.

5.Policies and the management of immigration

Examination Methods

The assessment of the learning outcomes will be:

- a preliminary written assessment of the acquired knowledge and an oral supplementary examination only at the request of the individual students in case of integration of the mark vested in the written test.
 
The written test is intended to ascertain the knowledge of the topics under discussion and the ability to read critically the evolutionary dynamics of Welfare systems.
Any supplementary oral examination consists of an interview aimed at developing the questions that emerged in the written test, with questions also on other parts of the study program.

Content and method of carrying out the assessment tests

Written exam questions may cover all the topics discussed in the course. There will be 3 open questions, one question for each of the three texts listed in the study program and related to the three topics of social policy discussed in the course. Also the material presented during the lessons (slide, any scientific articles) will be evaluated:

1. Question about the first text of social policy (Ferrera M., Rotta di collisione. Euro contro Welfare?).

2. Question about the economic inequalities.

3. Question about the immigration problem.

Each of the 3 questions will be assigned a score ranging from 0 to 10 points, for a total of 30 / 30 in case of all correct answers.

ERASMUS students are asked to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courses to agree on the teaching and examination procedures together.