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Learning outcomes

The course aims to give the students critical tools for reading and interpretation of the relationship between families and social policies. In a mediterranean model of welfare system, which is anchored and has played on the family as a private producer of goods and services of 'public importance' (with a strong impact on the level of welfare of the community), the trends of change in families change their social role. The families face increasing difficulties in carrying out their duties of care. The lack of social policies for the family, however, constitute one of the factors that most affected the increasing difficulties that families face in carrying out their duties of care.

Program

An analysis of economic, social, cultural and political factors will be developed to focus the dynamics of the social change. In particular, one will put attention to the processes of individualization and the movements between the private/public sphere, and their influence on the relations and the inter-generational ties, creating new familiar configurations. Particular attention will be devoted to the lack of social policies for the family, which emphasizes the processes of increasing privatization and individualization of family relationships. Reflections on changing families will be brought back within the broader framework of policy change in local welfare system.


Essays for the oral exam:

- Y. Kazepov (a cura di), La dimensione territoriale delle politiche sociali in Italia, Carocci, Roma, 2009, in particolare: Introduzione, La sussidiarizzazione delle politiche sociali in Italia; Cap.1: Trasformazioni socio-demografiche ed evoluzione dei bisogni sociali; Cap. 2: Le dinamiche del mercato del lavoro italiano. Occupazione, disoccupazione e differenze territoriali; Cap. 3: Livelli di governo e processi di governance; Cap. 6. Il sistema di spesa e finanziamento delle politiche sociali: assetti territoriali e mutamento; Cap. 7: Assistenza sociale e politiche locali di contrasto alla povertà; Cap. 9: Le politiche di assistenza agli anziani; Cap.10: La dimensione territoriale delle politiche per gli immigrati; Conclusioni: La de-sincronizzazione, il disallineamento, e la frammentazione territoriale delle politiche sociali. Alcune considerazioni preliminari
- P. Di Nicola, Famiglia: sostantivo plurale. Amarsi, crescere e vivere nelle famiglie del terzo millennio, Angeli, Milano, 2008
- D. Del Boca, A. Rosina, Famiglie sole. Sopravvivere con un welfare insufficiente, il Mulino, Bologna, 2009

Examination Methods

Oral exam