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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.

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.
As part of the course will be studied two areas most critical of families: work-family life balance, the new forms of parenthood, the growing of poverty in the family context.

Examination Methods

Oral exam