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Kar

Társadalomtudományi Kar

Szervezet

TÁTK Szociálpolitika Tanszék

Kód

ESZOCBA128

Cím

Current Social Problems and Sociopolitical Answers

Tervezett félév

Mindkét

Meghirdetve

2023/24/2

ECTS

3

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

Education purpose: The course aims to introduce students to the answers social policy answers may give to social problems in modern societies. During the semester, the course helps students become familiar with the role, organizational structure, basic social policy techniques and the welfare state's development.

Tantárgy tartalma

February 15: Welfare States as problem solving systems (Gábor Juhász) February 22: Liberty, equality, social justice: political values and social policy (Gábor Juhász) February 29: The Social Dimension of the EU 1 (István Sziklai) March 7: The Social Dimension of the EU 2  (István Sziklai) March 14: Health policy (Zsófia Kollányi) March 21: Interpretations of social policy (Katalin Tausz) March 28:  (Easter Holiday) April 4: Disability and social policy (István Sziklai) April 11: Demographic ageing (Csaba Kucsera) April 18: Child welfare, child protection (Dorottya Sik) April 25: Education policy (János Zolnay) May 2: Where did we get from? The last forty years of Hungarian social policy (Péter Mózer) May 9: “...if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat.” Dilemmas of providing welfare for the poor (Katalin Tausz) May 16: Will robots take our jobs? (László Hubai)

Számonkérés és értékelés

Requirement type: Closed book written examination (online, using the course’s Coospace interface)

Irodalomjegyzék

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)

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