SOp132 Social policy and social patology

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ema Štěpařová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lenka Gulová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Tue 19:00–19:50 učebna 60
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
SOp132/01: each even Tuesday 14:00–15:50 kancelář vyučujícího, D. Klapko
SOp132/02: each odd Tuesday 14:00–15:50 učebna 34, D. Klapko
Prerequisites
The course introduces the discipline and its theoretical problems, terminology, basic interrelations and trends in development of social politics and social prevention as well as it presents cases of social practice. Its priority is to cover the subject, its purpose and impacts of the mechanism (institutions, social support, services, counselling etc.) social politics and social pathology on an every-day life of a society member.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course the students will be able to: • define basic terminology and topics of the discipline • explain particular phenomena and social events in social context • explain the principles of primary prevention • understand the relation among school, family and other institutions cooperation on solutions of problems of both individuals and groups • analyse structures and functions of social politics as a scientific discipline • analyse the cases of particular social pathology from the social educator´s point of view • suggest possible solution and prevention.
Syllabus
  • 1. Subject of social politics. Basic principles, aims, terminology, structure, importance, functions and tools of social politics. Social state (classification, attitudes, principle, models) Theoretical approaches: theory of equality, theory of respect, theory of justice, critical theories) 2. Social welfare. Genesis of the social welfare systems. Criteria of EU considering social welfare. International institutions in social welfare. Legislation of social welfare. Social help and social services. Intention, structure, subjects, financial sources, social service typology. Social care support. Welfare of the poor and excluded. Hospice care. 3. Employment policy. Labour market specifics, classification of unemployment and its impacts. Welfare in unemployment. Globalization in context of national states and multinational corporations. 4. Medical care politics. Subject, health care system, health insurance. Invalidity, ageing, retirement age. 5. Family policy. Changes in family itself, family support systems, development, characteristics, transformation, demographic aspects. Women in pregnancy and motherhood. Housing policy. Functions of the state, tools, transformation, support and reproduction of housing fund. 6. Education policy. Content, aims, principles, documents, changes, financing and effects. Characteristics of school system reforms in context of social mobility. 7. Social pathology – theoretical background of the discipline, basic terminology. Social deviation – definition, classification, theories. Social norms and rules, social control and conformity. Anomie. 8. Socialization and re-socialization, prevention and correction – primary, secondary, tertiary socialization. Pedagogue and his competences in the field of social pathology. Role of a teacher, school counsellor, school prevention methodist, leisure time educator, school psychologist, teacher´s assistant, social educator. 9. The system of pedagogical-psychological counselling in the field of social pathology – school counselling facility, pedagogical-psychological counselling, educational care centres for children and youth. Behaviour disorders – subject, its aetiology and classification, behaviour disorders and problem behaviour. 10. Truancy as a phenomenon of school environment. Subject, aetiology, classification and correction. 11. Aggression and bullying in children collective. Violence on a workplace – mobbing, bossing. Criminality and delinquency as serious forms of social pathology. Addiction disorders (gambling and other forms of addiction). 12. Drugs – current thread in a life of an individual. Drug addiction classification. Development of drug addiction. Overview of other social pathology phenomena threatening individuals in society (homelessness, prostitution, divorce rate, domestic violence, aggression, xenophobia, racism, suicides, extremism, sects and cults, negative influence of mass media, globalization).
Literature
    required literature
  • KREBS, Vojtěch. Sociální politika. 5., přeprac. a aktualiz. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2010, 542 pp. ISBN 978-80-7357-585-4. info
    recommended literature
  • TOMEŠ, Igor. Obory sociální politiky. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2011, 366 stran. ISBN 9788073678685. info
  • TOMEŠ, Igor. Úvod do teorie a metodologie sociální politiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2010, 439 s. ISBN 9788073676803. URL info
  • MARTÍNEK, Zdeněk. Agresivita a kriminalita školní mládeže : druhy agresí, přístupy k agresívnímu chování, poruchy chování, šikana. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2009, 152 s. ISBN 9788024723105. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
Written test, seminar work.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1101
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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