Social Economy
2
2015-2016
01010224
Sociology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
4.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
NA
Teaching Methods
The curricular unit will seek to articulate more expository teaching methods with concrete knowledge of the social economy initiatives, including promoting the participation of professionals or experts within the classroom and making visits to social economy organizations or projects.
Learning Outcomes
The curricular unit intends to introduce and clarify the semantic universe of the social economy and its boundaries, as well as understand its role as agent of development and of promoting processes of social inclusion and participation in contemporary societies. Thus, it is intended to provide students with conceptual and operational knowledge about social and solidarity economy, about the role of the 3rd sector as a partner/ prosecutor agent of social and economic innovation, as well as the different efforts in course in this universe and its capabilities and limits in contemporary societies.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1.Introduction to Social Economy
Features and foundations
Historical evolution and current social economy- potential and ambiguities
Different models of social economy
2. Social economy, policies and social change
The notion of social change and its operability
Social innovation: innovation cycle and contribution of social economy
The " Animator state " and the legal frameworks for the emergence of civil society initiatives
Functional areas of intervention of the different agents in a “plural welfare” approach: limits and potential
Local / global relations
Relationships between economy/"other" economy
3. Development and social economy initiatives
Organizations / initiatives in the social economy: similarities and distinctions
Employment and social economy
Local development and social economy
Innovative initiatives: economic exchange, fair trade, transition.
Head Lecturer(s)
Cristina Maria Pinto Albuquerque
Assessment Methods
Avaliação
Exam (100%) or Midtern exam (50%) + work of characterization of a social economy initiative considered innovative(30% final grade) and a study visit report or conference report (20%): 100.0%
Bibliography
Adalbert Evers e Jean-Louis Laville, The Third Sector in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004
Cattani, Antonio D., Jean-Louis Laville, Luiz I. Gaiger, Pedro Hespanha (orgs.). Dicionário
Internacional da Outra Economia, Coimbra: Almedina, 2009
Evers, Adalbert; Jean-Louis Laville (orgs.) — The Third Sector in Europe, Cheltenham/Edward Elgar, 2004
Franco, Raquel et al. (2005), O Sector Não-Lucrativo Português numa Perspectiva Comparada. Lisboa/Baltimore: UCP/Johns Hopkins University.
Jeantet, T. (2009). A Economia Social. Uma alternativa ao capitalismo. Outro Mundo/ Le Monde Diplomatique.
Marangas, J. (2011). Alternative Perspectives of a good society. Perspectives from social economics. Palgrave.
Nyssens, Marthe (org.) — Social enterprise: at the crossroads of market, public policies and
civil society, London/Routledge, 2006 http://www.bcsdportugal.org/files/544.pdf
Walter, Richard Steinberg (orgs.) — The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, New Haven/Yale University, 2006