Social Economy

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)

No

Syllabus

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)

Joana Carla Marques Vale Mendes Guerra

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