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European Social Policy - JSM525
Title: Evropská sociální politika
Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 9
Examination process: summer s.:written
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:10/2, Ex [HS]
Extent per academic year: 12 [hours]
Capacity: 45 / unknown (45)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Teaching methods: combined
Level: specialized
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Věra Tomandlová (15.04.2008)
The course is available for students of Master?s Degree Programs provided by the Faculty of Social Sciences and the faculty of Humanities. The course is compulsory for students of Master?s degree programs of Public and Social Policy.
Aim of the course -
Last update: PhDr. Věra Tomandlová (15.04.2008)

To allow for deeper understanding of core concepts, issues, and policies of the European Union?s social dimension, and the social welfare provision within its Member States.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

F.G.Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger, Ch. Pierson: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, 2010, bude upřesněno.

Esping-Andersen: Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press 1999, pp. 147-169

G. Esping-Andersen (eds.): Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. Sage 1997, pp. 32-65, 66-87

Esping-Andersen, G. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism 1990. Princeton: P. Univ.Press, s. 9-38. In Sociologický časopis, 1991, č. 5. (s.. 545-567).

Golinowska, S.,  Žukowski, M. (2009) Chapter III: European social policy (supranational).In Golinowska, St., Hengstenberg, P., Zukowski, M. (eds.) Diversity and Commonality in European Social Policies. The Forging of a European Social Model. Warsaw: Wydawnicztwo Naukowe Scholar and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Keller, J. Soumrak sociálního státu. 2006 Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství Slon

Potůček, M. Welfare State Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. In:  Hayashi, T. - Ogushi, A. (eds.) Post-Communist Transformations: The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective. Slavic Eurasian Studies No. 21, Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 2009. (p. 99-144) http://www.martinpotucek.cz/

 Večeřa, M. Sociální stát. Východiska,  přístupy. 1996. Praha, Sociologické nakladatelství Slon.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (14.05.2020)

Celkové hodnocení bude provedeno podle klíče:

Aktivity

Body

Seminární práce

30

Písemná zkouška

30

Celkem

60

 

Body (celkem)

Známka

55 a více

A

49 - 54

B

43 - 48

C

37 - 42

D

31 – 36

E

30 a méně

neprospěl

 

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (19.02.2016)

European Social Policy

Course number:

Course leader: Ing. Mgr. Olga Angelovská


Scope of instruction: lectures 10 hours, individual study (50 hours), written examination (2 hours)

Credits available: 9

Goal

To allow for deeper understanding of core concepts, issues, and policies of the European Union?s social dimension, and the social welfare provision within its Member States.

Conditions of enrollment

The course is available for students of Master?s Degree Programs provided by the Faculty of Social Sciences and the faculty of Humanities. The course is compulsory for students of Master?s degree programs of Public and Social Policy.


Study obligations - lectures

Students are required to study the core literature in advance, submit a written study, and pass the written examination. When delivering written study and examination paper, reference to items in core and complementary literature will be highly appreciated. The topic of a study will be selected by each student at the beginning of the course and approved by the course leader. The course leader and seminar assistants would like to have the course as interactive and creative as possible. They will provide students with a basic background material in advance.

Construction of students? performance evaluation
Activity Points (up to)
Written study
(student?s original paper or critical reviews of two English papers, to be submitted before the written examination) 30
Short essays  10
Written examination 30

Final evaluation
Points (total) Result
61 and more Excellent (výborně, A)
60 - 46 Very good (velmi dobře, B)
45 - 36 Good (dobře, C)
Up to 35 Fail (neprospěl)

Core literature:

F.G.Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger, Ch. Pierson: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Esping-Andersen: Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press 1999, pp. 147-169

G. Esping-Andersen (eds.): Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. Sage 1997, pp. 32-65, 66-87

Esping-Andersen, G. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism 1990. Princeton: P. Univ.Press, s. 9-38. In Sociologický časopis, 1991, č. 5. (s.. 545-567).

Golinowska, S.,  Žukowski, M. (2009) Chapter III: European social policy (supranational).In Golinowska, St., Hengstenberg, P., Zukowski, M. (eds.) Diversity and Commonality in European Social Policies. The Forging of a European Social Model. Warsaw: Wydawnicztwo Naukowe Scholar and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Keller, J. Soumrak sociálního státu. 2006 Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství Slon

Potůček, M. Welfare State Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. In:  Hayashi, T. - Ogushi, A. (eds.) Post-Communist Transformations: The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective. Slavic Eurasian Studies No. 21, Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 2009. (p. 99-144) http://www.martinpotucek.cz/

Večeřa, M. Sociální stát. Východiska,  přístupy. 1996. Praha, Sociologické nakladatelství Slon.



Main themes of the course:

Theme One: Understanding Welfare States: concepts, functions, developments, types, contradictions.

Theme Two: Comparative analysis: principles and approaches.

Theme Three: European Union as an actor in social policy making.

Theme Four: Case study: Social policy transformation in the Czech Republic

Entry requirements
Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (14.05.2020)

Evaluation

 

Points

Essay

30

Test

30

Total

70

 

Points (total)

Grade

55 and more

A

49 - 54

B

43 - 48

C

37 - 42

D

31 – 36

E

30 and less

fail

 

 
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