Teaching code

4S000948

Credits

12

Coordinator

Sandro Stanzani

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding - Knowledge and understanding of main values underpinning social policies and social services Ability to apply knowledge and understanding - Ability to recognize the main causes of people needs and distinguish among their social, family and personal roots. - Ability to integrate one’s own action with the meanings and values of the welfare state reforms both at national and at the local level. LEARNING OUTCOMES The course aims at providing students with that knowledge and skills necessary to understand and analyze structures and changes of two relevant institutions in terms of social integration: welfare system and family. More specifically the part dedicated to Social policies will deal with the conceptual, methodological and cultural basis needed to analyze and interpret the genesis and modification of Welfare and Citizenship systems, with particular reference to the factors of the crisis affecting social policies and social inclusion systems. The part dedicated to the sociology of family will provide students with students critical tools for reading and interpretation of the relationship between families and social policies, taking as analysis perspective the role of women.

Program

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MM: SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA
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Lessons will offer an analysis of the socio-cultural processes that have supported the modernization of Western societies. The topic will be developed by analyzing the changes they have caused as regards: a) the conception of the individual and subjective well-being; b) interpersonal relationships; c) the relationship between the individual and society; d) the role entrusted to the main social systems / institutions (market, state, family, third sector) in promoting well-being. In particular, the economic, social, cultural, demographic and political factors that support the dynamics of social change will be highlighted. The condition of women, in particular what is defined by Esping-Andersen as the "unfinished revolution", constitutes a key to understanding on the one hand the growing difficulties of having a family and fathering children, and on the other how to create a better welfare system. fair, efficient and supportive. In detail, the following contents will be addressed: Connections and interdependencies between family and welfare state in contemporary society and in post-Fordist society The human being and the family between nature and culture. Sociological interpretations of the family (analysis in historical perspective of the different sociological approaches to the theme). The modernization process and the main changes in the relationship between the individual and society. How does the semantics of family relationships change (the code of love). How family structures and relationships change. The problems that the practice of the profession encounters: in services for minors; in family mediation; in intercultural relations; in gender-based violence.
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MM: POLITICA SOCIALE
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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)

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Examination Methods

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MM: SOCIOLOGIA DELLA FAMIGLIA
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The exam test aims to assess the student's ability to identify the cultural, social and political factors that underlie changes in the family, the new needs of families and the impact that new configurations of families structures have on welfare policies. For students who want to use it, at the end of the lessons, a written test will be held on a part of the program agreed with the teacher. The remainder of the program will be verified with an oral exam in the ordinary exam sessions of January, February, June, July, September. Those who do not complete the exam by taking the second oral exam by February 2023 must take the exam on the entire program in oral form. Those who do not take the written exemption tests must take the entire oral program, in normal oral exams. Attending the course lessons is compulsory. Attendance is considered fulfilled, only if students have attended at least 2/3 (24 hours) of lessons in person or online (via Zoom in streaming mode). Listening to the recorded lessons is not counted for the purpose of fulfilling the obligation to attend
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MM: POLITICA SOCIALE
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The assessment of the learning outcomes will be: - written assessment of the acquired knowledge. 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. 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 related to the topics of social policy discussed in the course. Also the material presented during the lessons (slide, any scientific articles) will be evaluated: 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.