Social Policy

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EE56
Μονάδες ECTS
6
Εξάμηνο
Εξάμηνο 7
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Learning outcomes
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the complexities associated with the study of social policy as a core subject area in social sciences
  • Discuss and critically analyse key social policy concepts and principles
  • Demonstrate a familiarity with the historical perspective in the analysis of social policy
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the main research methods used in the empirical analysis of social policy
  • Compare and contrast competing ideological perspectives on welfare
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the nature and problems of policy provision in some key social policy areas
  • Use the ‘welfare regime’ concept to discuss how concepts of ‘welfare’ and welfare systems themselves constructed in different societies
  • Describe and critically analyse the role of the EU in shaping national social policy reforms
General Competences 

 

SYLLABUS
  •  Week 1: Introduction to social policy (Venieris)
  • Week 2: Principles and values in social policy (Paparrigopoulos)
  • Week 3: The historical perspective in the study of social policy (Gazi)
  • Week 4: Research methods in social policy (Spyridakis)
  • Week 5: Ideology and Social Policy (Feronas)
  • Week 6: Management of social services (Geitona)
  • Week 7: Planning of social policy (Venieris)
  • Week 8: Health Policy (Souliotis)
  • Week 9: Work and Labor market (Spyridakis, Feronas)
  • Week 10: Poverty and social exclusion (Feronas)
  • Week 11: Social Economy (Fefes)
  • Week 12: Comparative social policy (Feronas)
  • Week 13: European Social Policy (Venieris)
TEACHING METHODS
Activity
Semester workload

Lectures

39

Writing of a full length essay  with presentation

 

Final Exams

 

Course total  

150
STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Final grades of students are based on the evaluation of the submitted and presented essay (100%).

Suggested Reading
  • Alcock, P. Erskine, A. and May, T. (1998), The Students Companion to Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Baldock, J., Manning, N. and Vickerstaff (1999), Social Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Hill, M. (2006), Social Policy in the Modern World, Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Pierson, C. and Castles, F. (2006), The Welfare State Reader, Campridge: Polity.
  • Esping-Andersen G. (1990), The Three Worlds f Welfare Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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