Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Organization
- TÁTK Department of Social Policy
- Code
- ESZOCBA128
- Title
- Current Social Problems and Sociopolitical Answers
- Usual semester
- Both
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Education purpose: The object of the course is to introduce students with social policy answers to social problems arising in moderns societies and through this let them become familiar with the role, organizational structure, basic technics of social policy and the development of the welfare state.
- Course content
- March 2: Interpretations of social policy March 9: Liberty, equality, social justice: political values and social policy March 16: The Welfare State March 23: The Social Dimension of the EU 1 March 30: The Social Dimension of the EU 2 April 6: Where did we get from? The last forty years of Hungarian social policy April 13: Disability and social policy April 20: A challenge for social policy: demographic ageing April 27: Child welfare, child protection May 4: Education policy May 11: Will robots take our jobs? May 18: “...if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat.” Dilemmas of providing welfare for the poor May 25: Closed-book exam (online test on the Coospace interface of the course)
- Assessment method
- Requirement type: Closed book written examination (online, ont he course’s Coospace interface)
- Bibliography
- Gosta Esping-Andersen: The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State.International Jpurnal of Sociology, Fall 1990, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 92-123 Joel Blau: Theories of the Welfare State. Social Service Review 1989, Vol 63, No. 1 Bohle, Dorothee – Greskovits Béla (2006) Capitalism without Compromise: Strong Business and Weak Labor in Eastern Europe’s New Transnational Industries Studies in Comparative International Development 41:1 Spring, 3-25. European Commission (2020) Report on the Impact of Demographic Change https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/d1fbb2d5-c966-4252-8d1b-63f7c5a90035_en?filename=demography_report_2020.pdf European Commission (2021) Green Paper on Ageing. Fostering Solidarity and Responsibility Between Generations https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/606ae5fd-10bf-4abb-9724-aae6d64eba91_en?filename=green_paper_ageing_2021_en.pdf Gerald C. MasCallum Jr: Negative and Positive Freedom. The Philosophical Review Jul 1967, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Uploaded to the Cospace interface of the course) Papava, Vladimer (2010): Economy of Post-Communist Capitalism under the Financial Crisis. Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 27 No. 2., pp. 135-147. https://ideas.repec.org/a/eme/sefpps/v27y2010i2p135-147.html T.M.D.: Social justice. Life of the Spirit, August-September 1960, Vol. 15, No. 170-171 (Uploaded to the Cospace interface of the course)