SPP416 Social Exclusion and Policy of Social Inclusion

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Miroslava Rákoczyová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is thought at Master study program. Its aim is to make students familiar with concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion in the context of contemporary theories and empirical evidence. The course pays attention to complexity and multi-dimensionality of social exclusion and to the measures of social policy, which are designed to deal with the problem at the European, national as well as local levels. The graduates will acquire overview of various approaches to social exclusion. They will learn how to measure social exclusion and they will develop analytical skills in order to study the problem’s dimensions and their interactions. They will also learn about development of agenda of social inclusion and develop a critical approach to the social policy measures.
Syllabus
  • 1. Social exclusion. Paradigms of social exclusion, relation to typologies of welfare state.
  • 2. Economic dimension of social exclusion 1. Exclusion from consumption. Relation between koncept of social exclusion and poverty.
  • 3. Economic dimension of social exclusion 2. Exclusion on the labour market.
  • 4. Institutional dimension of social exclusion. Exclusion from social security and from institutions determining life chances.
  • 5. Political, cultural and spatial dimension of social exclusion. Segregation, ghetto and its transformation. Ethnicity and ethnic enclaves. Concept of underclass.
  • 6. Measurement of social exclusion. Indicators, statistics, methodological issues. Empirical evidence.
  • 7. Social inclusion.
  • 8. Mechanisms of social inclusion. Inclusion via family, state and market.
  • 9. Policy of social inclusion in the EU. Development, objectives, principles.
  • 10. Policy of social inclusion in the Czech Republic.
Literature
  • - Silver, H.: Social exclusion and social solidarity: Three paradigms, International Labour Review, Vol. 133, 1994/5-6, str. 531-578
  • - Mingione, E. (ed.): Urban Poverty and the Underclass, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1996, kap. 9 – Space and race in the post-fordist city: the outcast ghetto and advanced homelessness in the United States today, str. 176 - 216
  • MAREŠ, Petr. Chudoba, marginalizace, sociální vyloučení (Poverty, Marginalisation, Social Exclusion). Sociologický časopis. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 2000, vol. 36, No 3, p. 285-297. ISSN 0038-0288. info
  • Social inclusion : possibilities and tensions. Edited by Peter Askonas - Angus Stewart. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000, x, 311 s. ISBN 0-333-79198-3. info
  • Social inclusion : possibilities and tensions. Edited by Peter Askonas - Angus Stewart. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000, x, 311 s. ISBN 0-333-79198-3. info
  • BECK, Ulrich. The brave new world of work. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000, v, 202 s. ISBN 0-7456-2397-2. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Work, consumerism and the new poor. 1st pub. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1998, ix, 106 s. ISBN 0-335-20155-5. info
Assessment methods
The course consist of lectures followed by discussions and two separated workshops. Students prepare two seminar papers that serve as a base for the workshops. At the end of the course students take an exam consisting of both written and oral part.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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