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Poslední úprava: Bc. Aneta Csikósová, DiS. (30.10.2019)
This graduate course provides an overview to the introduction and development of social policy. Firstly, it describes contemporary aspects of providing welfare. Secondly, it provides some of the theoretical background to understanding social policy and welfare provisions – philosophically, ideologically and methodologically. Lastly, it offers an overview of the key areas of social policy and welfare services. Emphasis will also be placed on different social policy aspects, notably social need and pattern of inequality, delivering of welfare benefits (cash transfer), globalization and social policy, new thinking about social policy etc. The course will be organised in the form of (a) lectures (11) and (b) seminars (11) where students will actively work on topics covered in the recommended literature. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Aneta Csikósová, DiS. (30.10.2019)
Main Objectives:
The aim of the course is designed to give student the opportunity to gain basic insight into social policy in Europe. What is social policy, by what means is/could be provided in different societal context, what actors can provide social policy, in what social situation, what is the impact of social policy (how it is measured?) After completion of this course, students will be equipped with the knowledge necessary for understanding applied social policies and to understand some of the key areas of social policy (family policy; labour market policy, migration policy) |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (12.08.2020)
Core reference resource (available in Moodle): Reading for students. Study materials - Mandatory Baldock, John; Manning, Nicholas; Vickerstaff, Sarah. (eds.). Social policy. Oxford University Press, 2007. p. 6-58; 120-243; 350-380; 602-708 Jane, Pillinger (eds). The Migration-Social Policy Nexus: Current and Future Research. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). May 2008. p. 1-26 Supplementary sources: F. G. Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger, Ch. Pierson: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, 2010, part II, VII, VIII Pierson, Christopher; Castles, Francis. (eds.). The welfare state reader. Cambridge; Polity Press, 2006 |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Aneta Csikósová, DiS. (30.10.2019)
Study Obligations: All students are obliged to: Participate in lectures and seminars; Write 6 short homework papers dealing with a seminar topic; Write 1 final seminar paper at the end of the course.
Homework papers are supposed to concern a seminar topic covered by recommended scientific article/articles. It is required to be long at least 3 pages (1 page consists of 1800 signs). Short homework papers supposed to be send to Moodle at least one day before seminar - Tuesdays 15.00 p.m.
Active participation in seminars Evaluation: (maximum 1 bonus point pro seminar)
Final Paper: Date to be arranged during the first lecture and seminar
Evaluation of Final seminar paper (maximum points 70)
1. Required structure and length of seminar paper (12 pages) 10 point 2. How seminar paper is interesting and original? 40 points 3. Correctness and consistence of used arguments 10 points 4. Using an additional literature and scientific sources 10 points
Recommended structure of Final Seminar paper: (Context, Content, and Conclusion – The 3 Cs) Introduction (Context) - general statement, definition(s) (optional), scope of paper, (To tell the reader what you intend to cover in the paper, to introduce reader to the topic, to explain what is understood by some key words/concepts.) Main body (Content) of seminar paper – arguments, evidence, (To express important ideas and support them with examples) Conclusion – summary, relate the argument to a more general world view, (To underline the writer´s point of view and remind the reader of the key ideas)
Possible topics for Final Paper
1. The welfare and social policy definition and its development. 2. What does studying social policy involve? 3. What are the principal means through which government can implement social policy 4. Defining need and its importance in social policy 5. Why is demographic change important in social policy 6. The welfare state and inequality. 7. Why are young people more vulnerable to unemployment 8. Think about the different forms of welfare provided within families: who mainly provides, and who mainly receives, these different forms of welfare 9. “Young people are a threat and old people are a burden”. What does this statement tell us about the social construction of youth and old age? 10. What are the most important aims of social security system? 11. How effectives are means tests? 12. Identify at least three different approaches to comparative social policy. 13. Why is cross-national comparison not always the most suitable way to conduct comparative social policy analysis? 14. Discuss some possible social consequences of globalization. 15. What kinds of challenges to social policy are involved in the study of globalization? 16. Does increased spending on a policy mean that need is being better met? 17. Explain the difference between the inputs, outputs, and outcomes of social policy 18. How has social policy come to regard social inclusion as a key point of reference? 19. What are the main characteristics of different types of the European welfare?
Construction of students’ performance evaluation:
Final Evaluation
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Aneta Csikósová, DiS. (08.09.2020)
Course title: Introduction to Social Policy Course number: JSM709 Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Academic year: 2020/2021 The web page of the course Moodle: Introduction to Social Policy (Password: IntroSP2020) Course Guarantor and Teacher: MMMgr. Esien Eddy Bruno. Email: eddy@hiba.at Study programs: (different) bachelor programmes, Master (or doctoral) program Public and Social Policy (VSP), Scope of instruction: 1/1 Credits available: 4 Characteristic of the course: This graduate course provides an overview to the introduction and development of social policy. First, it describes contemporary aspects of providing welfare. Second, it provides some of the theoretical background to understanding social policy and welfare provisions – philosophically, ideologically, and methodologically. Lastly, it offers an overview of the key areas of social policy and welfare services. Emphasis will also be placed on different social policy aspects, notably transformation of the welfare state, migration, work, and employment, social need, values, and pattern of social inequality, delivering of welfare benefits (public expenditure, cash transfer), globalization and social policy, new thinking about social policy etc. The course will be organised in the form of (a) lectures (11) and (b) seminars (11) where students will actively work on topics covered in the recommended literature.
Main Objectives:
The aim of the course is designed to give student the opportunity to gain basic insight into social policy in Europe. For instance, what is social policy, by what means is/could be provided in different societal context, what actors can provide social policy, in what social situation, what is the impact of social policy (how it is measured?) After completion of this course, students will be equipped with the knowledge necessary for understanding social policies and to understand some of the key areas of social policy (family policy; labour market policy, migration policy, childcare, disability, elderly care, healthcare, homelessness, housing, etc)
The schedule of the course: Lectures and Seminars: Wednesday, 14:00 – 15:20 room JP 211 (Second floor) in Pekarska 16 (subway Nove Butovice)
LECTURES and SEMINARS: Dates: 30.09.2020, 07.10.2020, 14.10.2020, 21.10.2020, 28.10.2020, 04.11.2020, 11.11.2020, 18.11.2020, 25.11.2020, 02.12.2020, 09.12.2020,
Conditions of enrollment: The course is optional for students of Czech and English Bachelor`s and master’s degree programs of Public and Social Policy and some Doctoral students of Public and Social Policy.
The course language is English
Study Obligations: All students are obliged to: Participate in lectures and seminars Write 1 final seminar paper at the end of the course
Active participation in seminars Evaluation: (maximum 1 bonus point pro seminar)
Evaluation of Final seminar paper (maximum points 100)
1. Required structure and length of seminar paper (12 pages) 15 point 2. How seminar paper is interesting and original? 55 points 3. Correctness and consistence of used arguments 15 points 4. Using an additional literature and scientific sources 15 points
Recommended structure of final seminar paper: (Context, Content, and Conclusion – The 3 Cs) Introduction (Context) - general statement, definition(s) (optional), scope of paper, (To tell the reader what you intend to cover in the paper, to introduce reader to the topic, to explain what is understood by some key words/concepts.) Main body (Content) of seminar paper – arguments, evidence, (To express important ideas and support them with examples) Conclusion – summary, relate the argument to a more general world view, (To underline the writer´s point of view and remind the reader of the key ideas)
Possible topics for final paper
1. The welfare and social policy definition and its development. 2. What does social policy study involve? 3. What are the principal means through which government can implement social policy? 4. Defining need and its importance in social policy 5. Why is demographic change important in social policy? 6. The welfare state and social inequality. 7. How and why are young people more vulnerable to unemployment? 8. Think about the different forms of welfare provided within families: who mainly provides, and who mainly receives, these different forms of welfare 9. “Young people are a threat and old people are a burden”. What does this statement tell us about the social construction of youth and old age? 10. What are the most important aims of social security system? 11. How effectives are means tests? 12. Identify at least three different approaches to comparative social policy. 13. Why is cross-national comparison not always the most suitable way to conduct comparative social policy analysis? 14. Discuss some possible social consequences of globalization and social policy. 15. What kinds of challenges to social policy are involved in the study of globalization? 16. Does increased spending on a policy mean that need is being better met? 17. Explain the difference between the inputs, outputs, and outcomes of social policy 18. How has social policy come to regard social inclusion as a key point of reference? 19. What are the main characteristics of different types of the European welfare?
Final Evaluation A – Excellent B – Very good C - Good D - Satisfying E – Sufficiently F- Fail
Construction of students’ performance evaluation:
Core reference resource (available in Moodle): Reading for students. Study materials - Mandatory Baldock, John; Manning, Nicholas; Vickerstaff, Sarah (2007). Social policy. Oxford University Press Jane, Pillinger (2008). The Migration-Social Policy Nexus: Current and Future Research. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), p. 1-26 Supplementary sources: F. G. Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger, Ch. Pierson (2010). The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, part II, VII, VIII Pierson, Christopher; Castles, Francis. (2006). The welfare state reader. Cambridge; Polity Press, 2006
Organization of the course:
Date: 30.09.2020: Lecture and seminar 1: Welcome and Introduction to the course.
Date: 07.10.2020: Lecture and seminar 2:What is social policy? Tools and mechanism of social policy (cash benefits, grants, subsidies, tax/wages deduction or credits, and social services). Text 1: Alison McClelland: What is Social Policy, Retrieved from http://lib.oup.com.au/he/samples/mcclelland_SPA3e_sample.pdf Text 2: The Structure of Social Services – current status in the Czech Republic, Retrieved from https://www.mpsv.cz/files/clanky/1998/2646.pdf Text 3: Financial support to Families: Tax Measures- Tax reduction, subsidies, and credits: The Case of Czech Republic (Source to read: https://www.mpsv.cz/en/1607 (Read Page 18-19 titled, financial family support); https://www.mpsv.cz/files/clanky/4731/financni_situace_en.pdf THE OECD TAX-BENEFIT MODEL FOR CZECH REPUBLIC Description of policy rules for 2018 (Read here: http://www.oecd.org/els/soc/TaxBEN-Czech-Republic-2018.pdf
Date: 14.10.2020: Lecture and seminar 3:The transformation of the welfare state, actors, institutions, and their role in social policymaking and development.
Text 1: Manning, Nick (2003): The politics of Welfare. In Social Policy (Eds), Baldock et al. 31-49 https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/489618/mod_resource/content/2/Text%202.pdf Text 2: Assar Lindbeck (2006). The Welfare State – Background, Achievements, Problems, Retrieved from http://www.ifn.se/Wfiles/wp/wp662.pdf
Date: 21.10.2020: Lecture and seminar 4: Values and norms in social policy.
Text 1: Sarah B. Garlington (2014): Value orientations of social welfare policy structures. Int J Soc Welfare: 23: 287–295. DOI: 10.1111/ijsw.12056,Retrieved from http://szociologiaszak.uni-miskolc.hu/segedanyagok/SocialWelfare.pdf Text 2: Esien E. B. (2020) Decision making, Interest Intermediation, and Value: In Government, Public and Private Agencies Corporatism for Work Promotion,
Date: 28.10.2020: Lecture and seminar 5: Work, welfare, and social policy – the importance of work for social policy. How the world of work has changed?
Text 1: UNRISD (2015): Social Policy and Employment: REBUILDING THE CONNECTIONS, http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/AEB4A2E095603CCCC1257B09004A005E/$file/03%20-%20Social%20Policy%20and%20Employment.pdf Text 2: Esien, E. B. (2020). Enabling state and third-country nationals: in local government and private agencies contracting for counselling. In: Kariérové poradenstvo v teórii a praxi [online], 2020 (17), pp. 21-43. Available at: https://www.euroguidance.sk/. ISSN 1338-8231
Date: 04.11.2020: Lecture and seminar 6: Family and social policy. Changes taking place in the life of families and their members. http://www.sociology.org.uk/notes/fpolicy.pdf
Date: 11.11.2020: Lecture and Seminar 7: The principles that underline family policy and the impact of recent policy changes.
Text 1: Gerda Neyer (2010): Welfare States, Family Policies, and Fertility in Europe, Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe, SPaDE Retrieved from http://www.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.105072.1350482738!/menu/standard/file/WP_2012_10.pdf
Date: 18.11.2020: Lecture and seminar 8: Inequalities and social policy: The role of poverty, inequality, and social policy
Text 1: Regina Jutz (2015): The role of income inequality and social policies on income-related health inequalities in Europe. Jutz International Journal for Equity in Health 14:117 DOI 10.1186/s12939-015-0247-y. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4628290/pdf/12939_2015_Article_247.pdf
Date: 25.11.2020: Lecture and seminar 9: Dependency, and social policy implications.
Text 1: PETER TOWNSEND: The Structured Dependency of the Elderly: A Creation of Social Policy in the Twentieth Century" Retrieved from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c104/0aecf4384748514c906533cae08c06809f02.pdf
Date: 02.12.2020: Lecture and seminar 10: Global Social Policy: Impacts of globalization on welfare states and social policy
Text 1: Alexander Rygner H. (2010): The consequences for globalization for Welfare States, Retrieved from https://ibpunion.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the-consequences-of-globalization-for-welfare-states-ps-exam101.pdf
Date: 09.12.2020 Lecture and seminar 11: (Im) Migration, welfare state and social policy
Text 1: Elena Jurado, Grete Brochmann & Jon Erik Dølvik (2013): Immigration, Work and Welfare: Towards an integrated approach. A discussion Paper, Policy Network Paper, Retrieved from file:///C:/Users/TEMP.JINONICE.025/Downloads/PN%20PAPER%20-%20IMMIGRATION-WORK-WELFARE%20v5-1.pdf
Text 2: Esien, E., B. (2019). Principal-Agent Relations and Contracting-out for Employment Case Management to Enable Third-Country Nationals’ Transition to Work. The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Volume XII, Number 2, p.9-28 DOI:https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0012
Text 3: Esien E., B. (2020). "Open Information, Contract Management, Transparency and Ethical Standards: In Local Government Units Contracting Out for Case Management Service Delivery", In De Vries, M., Memec, J., Junjan, V., (ed) The Choice-Architecture behind Policy Designs: From Policy Design to Policy Practice in the European Integration Context. Bratislava: NISPACee, pg. 267-281. ISBN 978-80-999390-1-2
Final Paper: Date to be arranged during the first lecture and seminar !!!!
Social Policy Journals:
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjcs21/current
Journal of Social Policy: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy
Critical Social Policy - SAGE Journals: http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/cspa
Journal of European Social Policy - All Issues: SAGE Journals: http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/espa
The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice (JCPA): https://comparativepolicy.org/
Global Social Policy - All Issues: SAGE Journals: http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/gspa
Social Policy Review: http://journals.cambridge.org/spd/action/home
Social Policy and Society: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-policy-and-society
Links to diverse Journals: https://blogg.hioa.no/espanet/links/journals/
Social policy websites and blogs
Paul Spicker blog about an introduction to Social Policy: http://www.spicker.uk/social-policy/content.htm
Social Work Library - Social Policy Websites: https://www.library.wisc.edu/socialwork/research-help/social-issues-websites/social-policy-websites/
Social Policy and Social Work: Key Websites: http://libguides.ucd.ie/appliedsocsci/websites Social Policy - Useful websites: http://guides.library.lincoln.ac.uk/c.php?g=110718&p=717619
The European Network for Social Policy Analysis: https://blogg.hioa.no/espanet/
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