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Lecturer(s)
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Klimentová Eva, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. General characteristics of social policy. Some of its definitions. Policy in its static and dynamic meaning. Social policy as one of the policy categories. Social policy as a practical activity. Perspective and retrospective social policy. Main goals of social policy. 2. State functions fulfilled through social policy. Therapeutic and conservation functions; preventive, stimulating, homeopathic, humanizing and homogenizing. Historical development of social policy functions, its agents and tools in relation to various target groups. 3. Definition of the most important terms of social policy. Social disintegration, social discrimination, quality of life, social and existence minimum, minimal income, security social net, social (life) situation, social event, social needs, social policy institutions, social management. 4. Relationship between social policy and other sciences. Relationship to economy and economics. Sociology. Demography. Social law and social legislation. Other sciences related to social policy: history, medicine, psychology, cultural anthropology, and so on. 5. Types (models) of social policy. Redistributive (institutional redistributive) type, power or corporative type (industrial power model), and residual type. Differences between the social policy types. Social policy model in present Czech republic. 6. Functions of social policy. Protective function, redistributive function and its mechanisms. Homogenization function and income settlement, stimulating function as a productivity function, preventive function of social policy. The issue of schemas in distinguishing social policy function. 7. Tools of social policy. Qualitative and quantitative development of social policy tools. Law and legislative order, programme and plan, economic tools, collective negotiation and various types of collective contracts. State and non-state social programmes, coercive activities, mass medias, organization structures and so on. 8. Agents of social policy. Their function in the process of preparation and realization of social policy - citizen, family, broader family groups, neighbourhood, churches, self-helping groups, non-profit organizations, companies, trade unions and associations, employers, political parties, mass medias, public power and management and their institutions, local communities, coercive groups. 9. Social policy doctrines. Conservatisms, Cristian social theory and democratic socialism. The influence on forming factual character of social policy in various social conditions. 10. Principles of social policy I. Equality principle. The principle of social justice - each the same, each according to the needs, each according to the credits. Social solidarity principle. 11. Principles of social policy II. Subsidiarity principle as a principle of security and help "upwards". Participation principle as a principle of citizens participating on the process of social policy projecting and realizing. 12. Social economics. Social policy and the market, bonds, dependences, connections. Social economics, social business, social firm, social responsibility of the companies, mandatory share.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
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Learning outcomes
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The course introduces the students into the issue of social policy not only as a scientific discipline but mainly as a branch of practical activities influencing everyday lives of the citizens of modern states, with an emphasis on the practice of personnel management. Disquisitional orientation in the field is provided by introduction into the past and the present of social policy in welfare states, its objective and purposes, principles, aspects, agents, tools.
- student knows general definitions of social policy; - student knows general terminology of social policy; - student names and describes basic functions of social policy, its agents and tools, basic types of social policy; - student knows general terminology of social economy. - student can critically evaluate various formulations of social policy; - student can explain and logically argue about general terminology of social policy; can adequately use the terminology of social policy to describe particular social policy provision; - student can constructively evaluate the advantages and limits of individual types of social policy; - student argues the general relationship between the social policy agents and social policy tools. - student understands general terminology and context in relation to the social policy topics, he/she is able to analyse individual social policy provisions from the social policy principals point of view; from the social policy provisions´ function point of view; from the point of view of the social policy agents and tools and in the perspective of personal management.
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Prerequisites
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KSA/ANSPM, KSA/ UAPM, KSA/ANDPM, KSA/SCPPM, KSA/OSPM
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Written exam, Seminar Work
Only a student who fulfilled the duties connected with the credit can attend the exam. It means that the student receives the confirmation in the e-learning system from the tutor to his/her two individual correspondence tasks (see above) at least one week before the exam takes place. The exam has a written test form.
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Recommended literature
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BROŽOVÁ, Dagmar. Společenské souvislosti trhu práce. 1. vyd. Praha: SLON, 2003. 140 s. ISBN 80-86429-16-4.
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Klimentová, E. (2013). Sociální politika pro personální manažery. Studijní text pro kombinované studium.. Olomouc: VUP.
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Klimentová, Eva, Kadlec, Tomáš. Sociální politika II, 1. vyd.,Olomouc, UP, 2009, 89 s., ISBN 978-80-244-2208-4.
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Klimentová, Eva. Sociální politika I, 1. vyd. Olomouc, UP, 2009, 96s., ISBN 978-80-244-2207-7.
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KONOPÁSEK, Zdeněk. Estetika sociálního státu. 1. vyd. Praha: GplusG, 1998. 341 s. ISBN 80-86103-14-5..
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Krebs, V. a kolektiv. (2015). Sociální politika. Praha: Wolters Kluwer.
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KREBS, Vojtěch a kolektiv. Sociální politika. 4. přepracované a aktualizované vydání. Praha: Aspi, 2007. 504 s. ISBN 978-80-7657-276-1..
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MAREŠ, Petr. Nezaměstnanost jako sociální problém. 3. rozšířené vyd. Praha: SLON, 2002. 172 s. ISBN 80-86429-08-3..
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POTŮČEK, Martin. Křižovatky české sociální reformy. 1. vyd. Praha: SLON, 1999. 317 s. ISBN 80-85850-70-2..
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POTŮČEK, Martin. Nejen trh. 1. vyd. Praha: SLON, 1997. 188 S. ISBN 80-85850-26-5..
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Potůček, Martin. Sociální politika. 1. vyd., Praha, SLON, 1995, 142 s., ISBN 80-85850-01-X.
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Tomeš, Igor. Sicoální poltika, teorie a mezinárodní zkušenost. 2. přepracobané vydání, Praha, Socioklub, 2001, 262 s., ISBN 80-86484-00-9.
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VEČEŘA, Miloš. Sociální stát. Východiska a přístupy. 2. upravené vyd. Praha: SLON, 2001. 112 s. ISBN 80-85850-16-8..
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