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Study Plan
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Laurea in Scienze del servizio sociale - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Family and social policies - POLITICA SOCIALE (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S000948
Teacher
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY
Period
Sem. IA dal Sep 25, 2017 al Nov 11, 2017.
To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link: Course organization
Learning outcomes
The teaching aims to provide 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 crisis affecting social policies and social inclusion systems .
The aim of the course is to help critically read the role of the Italian Social Work inside 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 of Welfare (health, social welfare) and between the public and private sector (association and cooperativeism).
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)
5.Policies and the management of immigration
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kazepov Y, Carbone D. | Che cos'è il welfare state | il Mulino | 2007 | 9788843042784 | |
| Franzini Maurizio, Pianta Mario | Disuguaglianze. Quante sono, come combatterle | Laterza | 2016 | 978-88-581-2378-2 | |
| Maurizio Ferrera | Rotta di collisione. Euro contro Welfare? | Laterza | 2016 | 978-88-581-2229-7 | |
| Allievi Stefano, Dalla Zuanna Gianpietro | Tutto quello che non vi hanno mai detto sull'immigrazione | Laterza | 2016 | 978-88-581-2372-0 |
Examination Methods
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 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 ("Le politiche di Welfare", il Mulino, Bologna).
2. Question about the immigration problem.
3. S question about the contents discussed during the lessons
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.
