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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. Equality principle. The principle of social justice - each the same, each according to the needs, each according to the credits. Social solidarity principle. 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. 11. Poverty. Definition of poverty and its problems, historical development of the poverty conceptions. Subjective and objective concept of poverty. Absolute and relative poverty. Modern poverty. Causes of poverty, their social connotations and consequences. 12. Tools to monitor and solve poverty. Monitoring consume and monitoring incomes. Defining the official poverty line in different countries. Possible ways to solve poverty - prevention and subsequent solutions. Minimum income quantities. Poverty in the CR, development trends. 13. Social policy development I. 14. Social policy development II. 15. Overview of the social policy in the Czech countries. 16. Social state - the introduction. 17. Foundations of social state. 18. Definitions of the social state. 19. The core of the social state I. 20. The core of the social state II. 21. Development of the social state, developmental line of the social state. 22. Present crisis of the social state. 23. Factors of the social state development. 24. Social economics.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), 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 social work. 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.
Students have knowledge of the basic definitions of social policy. Students have knowledge of the the basic concepts and terms of social policy. Students can name and describe the basic functions of social policy, its actors and instruments. Students can identify the basic types of social policy. Students have knowledge of possible definitions of poverty as a basic social-political concept. Students are able to critically evaluate various definitions of social policy. Student are able to appropriately use the terminology of social policy to describe particular social-political measures. Student can express the basic context of poverty. Student knows possible definitions of poverty as a basic social political concept. Student knows basic periods of social policy development in the world and in the region of nowadays Czech republic. Student understands the term social state and knows the connections, characteristics and types.
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Prerequisites
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No prior requirements.
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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 followed by an oral exam.
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Recommended literature
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Heywood, A. (2005). Politické ideologie.. Praha: Eurolex Bohemia.
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Keller, J. Soumrak sociálního státu. 1.vyd., Praha, SLON, 2005,158 s., ISBN 80-86429-41-5.
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Klimentová, Eva; Kadlec, Tomáš. Sociální politika II. Olomouc: UP, 2009..
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Klimentová, Eva. Sociální politika I. Olomouc: UP, 2007..
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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 kol. Sociální politika. 4. přepracované a aktualizované vydání. Praha: Aspi, 2007..
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MAREŠ, P. Sociologie nerovnosti a chudoby. 1. vyd. Praha: SLON, 1999..
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Potůček, M. Sociální politika. 1. vyd. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1995..
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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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Smutek, M. Sociální stát: Úvod do studia. 1. vyd., Kradec Králové, Gaudeamus, 2005, 135 s., ISBN 80-7041-691-2.
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TOMEŠ, I. Sociální politika, teorie a mezinárodní zkušenost. 2. přepracované vydání. Praha: Socioklub, 2001..
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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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