Social Policy

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

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.

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)

Joana Carla Marques Vale Mendes Guerra

Assessment Methods

Final assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous assessment
Frequency: 100.0%

Bibliography

Comín, Francisco (2007) - El surgimento del Estado del Bienestar (1883-1980). Disponível em: http://www.economia.unam.mx/academia/inae/inae4/u1l3.pdf

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

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

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.

Pedroso, Paulo (2010) – Modelos de estado de bem-estar: estrutura política e institucional. In Coleção Cogitum, nº 37. Lisboa: GEP/MTSS.

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