Social Policy

Year
1
Academic year
2015-2016
Code
01741587
Subject Area
Social Work
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Accordingly to the defined aims for this curricular unit we will search, in every class, to conciliate expositive teaching methodologies,with electronic support, with more practical and interactive methodologies,for instance:analysis,discussion and synthesis from small texts, press materials, audio-visual records and others;production in little groups of debate “manifests”(arguments)concerning themes proposed by teachers and /or students (e.g.,“Being citizen,how and why?”; “Poverty: citizenship problem?”;“Human Rights:important for Social Policy?”);analysis and discussion about social policies

Learning Outcomes

Introduction subject concerning the basic knowledge and the critical reflexion about social policy and social protection, as well as the ideological, economical, historical and cultural bases and influencies. Like this the curricular unit intends to prepare

students to know and to understand critically: the connection between social policy and social work as an agent of citizenship,social justice and change; the different social policy models and the impacts in terms of social problems and inequalities regulation; the historical and current mutations in the concept of risk and the influences on social policies and social intervention; the national and European welfare systems and the underlying regulatory trends; the social policy particularities in the Portuguese context and the connexions with the European guidelines.     

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. SOCIAL POLICY CONCEPTIONS AND MODELS

-Social Policy concept

-Citizenship and Social Policy/ Particularities and constraints of social rights

II.SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY

SW and SP: connected histories

Access to rights: processes of inclusion/ exclusion

The status construction of the "assisted"

S work as executor/proponent/evaluater of social policies

II. STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY

-The social risk conception and the construction of the Welfare State

-Crisis of the welfare state model

-The European social model and the actual challenges;

-The current reforms and tendencies

-Particularities of the the “southern Europe” welfare model

III. SOCIAL POLICY IN PORTUGAL

-The (semi) welfare state in Portugal and the “welfare society”

-New approaches and reforms underway in Portugal and Europe: principles and trends

-Evolution and structuring principles of social protection in Portugal

-“Lisbon Strategy” and Social Policy in Portugal : Structural Plans.

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristina Maria Pinto Albuquerque

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam (100%) or Mediterm exam (75%) + Synthesis work (25%): 100.0%

Bibliography

Dean, H. (2006). Social Policy. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Dickens, J. (2010). Social Work and Social Policy. Routledge.

Esping-Andersen, G. (2000). Three worlds of welfare capitalism. In C. Pierson & F. Castels (eds). The Welfare State Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 154-169.

Ferrera, M. et al (2000). O Futuro da Europa Social. Oeiras: Celta Ed. Hespanha, P. et al (2000). Entre o Estado e o Mercado. As fragilidades das instituições de protecção social em Portugal.

Coimbra: Quarteto.

Hespanha, P. & Carapinheiro, G. (2002). Risco Social e Incerteza. Pode o Estado Social recuar mais? Porto: Edições Afrontamento.

Marshall, T. (1981). The right to welfare and other essays. London: Heinemann.

Rodrigues, M. J. (2003). A agenda económica e social da União Europeia. A estratégia de Lisboa. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.

Lund, B. (2002). Understanding State Welfare. Social Justice or Social Exclusion? Sage Publications.

Turner, B. S. (ed.) (1993). Citizenship and Social Theory. London: Sage.