Social Policy, Family and Migration
Code: 102145 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500262 Sociology | OB | 2 | A |
Contact
- Name:
- Massoud Sharifi Ahmadipour
- Email:
- massoud.sharifi@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Teachers
- Thales Speroni Pereira Da Cruz
- Massoud Sharifi Ahmadipour
- Romina Paola Tavernelli
Prerequisites
None
Objectives and Contextualisation
The main goal of the course is to introduce students to the study of social conditions that favor or hinder the wellbeing of people, by understanding the processes of production and reproduction and distribution of resources within a society (state, market, family and civil society/community)
The course presents the vertebral axis of the subject "Social Policy" from the articulation of three parts. The first part emphasizes social policy in the most general sense, based on the approach to its history and the international comparison of the different welfare regimes.
The second part is set in the family and in the post-industrial transformations of this institution, paying special attention to family policies, on the basis of a critical look at their impacts from a gender perspective
Finally, the third part focuses on current international migrations and the challenges posed by governability of human mobility, on one hand (which highlight the ineffectiveness of the unilateral policies of states), and by the management of inclusion and cultural diversity in increasingly plural societies, on the other.
Competences
- Analysing the problems arising from the implementation of public policies and conflict situations by recognising the complexity of the social phenomena and political decisions affecting democracy, human rights, social justice and sustainable development.
- Applying the concepts and approaches of the sociological theory, specially the explanations of social inequalities between classes, between genders and between ethnic groups, to the implementation of public policies and to the resolution of conflict situations.
- Assessing the contributions of sociological approaches to the study of culture, education, interaction between society and environment, social policy, and work.
- Demonstrating a comprehension of the analysis of social phenomena presented in English, as well as observing their strengths and weaknesses.
- Demonstrating a comprehension of the approaches of the sociological theory in its different aspects, interpretations and historical context.
- Describing social phenomena in a theoretically relevant way, bearing in mind the complexity of the involved factors, its causes and its effects.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Searching for documentary sources starting from concepts.
- Students must be capable of assessing the quality of their own work.
- Students must be capable of managing their own time, planning their own study, managing the relationship with their tutor or adviser, as well as setting and meeting deadlines for a work project.
Learning Outcomes
- Comparing the reading of social policies from several ideologies of the social reality of Spain and Catalonia.
- Comprehending the social interpretations of social policy in accordance with these approaches.
- Defining the sociological concepts that interpret social policy.
- Defining the underlying social phenomena of social policies and conflicts about social needs.
- Demonstrating a comprehension of the analysis of social phenomena presented in English, as well as observing their strengths and weaknesses.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Distinguishing sociological concepts about social policy.
- Distinguishing the explanations of the access inequalities and the impact of social policies between classes, between genders and between ethnic groups that these actors take for granted.
- Expressing the debates regarding these approaches, that refer to social policy.
- Relating the concepts, methods and techniques used to analyse social policy with general theoretical and methodological debates.
- Relating the debates regarding these approaches, that refer to social policy, with the historical context in which they emerged.
- Relating them with the debates about state, social change and inequality.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Searching for documentary sources starting from concepts.
- Students must be capable of assessing the quality of their own work.
- Students must be capable of managing their own time, planning their own study, managing the relationship with their tutor or adviser, as well as setting and meeting deadlines for a work project.
Content
PART ONE: SOCIAL POLICY
Teacher: Phd. Massoud Sharifi
Block I. Theoretical foundations of social policy
1. What is social policy?
2. Social policy and social structure
Block II. Points of interest
3. Welfare regimes
4. Sociopolitical changes and Welfare States. New social risks
5. From the State of Protective Welfare to the Social Investment Welfare State
Block III. Origin and evolution of social policy and the Welfare State in Spain
6. The "Authoritarian" Welfare State in Spain
7. Social policy in the Constitution and during the transition
8. The deepening of neoliberal policies
9. Social policy in the Autonomous Communities and local administrations
SECOND PART: FAMILIES
Teacher: Phd. Massoud Sharifi
Block I. Substrate of family policies
1. Production regimes, social policies and family models
2. Family diversity and equal opportunities from a gender perspective
3. Concept and dimensions of family policies
Block II. Family policy instruments
4. Economic support policies for families
5. Parental licenses
6. Child care and education for children 0-6 years old
Block III. Results of family policies
7. Fertility guidelines
8. Child welfare and gender equity
9. Intergenerational mobility and sustainability of the welfare state
THIRD PART: MIGRATORY POLICIES
Teacher: Phd. Romina Paola Tavernelli and Phd. Thales Speroni
Block I. Introduction to international migration
1. International migration as a social phenomenon
2. Evolution of migration flows in Spain
Block II. Immigration, Public Policies and Citizenship
3. Migration managementin Spain and the EU
4. Integration andrecognition policies: debates, models and trends in Europe
5. Political participation and citizenship. The representation policies
Block III. Policies and Governance of migrations: the Catalan case
6. The "Catalan integration model" under discussion
7. The role of local administrations in the implementation of social policies. Local management of migration and diversity
Methodology
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Master classes and Seminars | 105 | 4.2 | 1, 4, 5, 8, 7, 16, 10 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutoring (individual and groups) | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 7, 9, 16, 10, 11, 12 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Readings. Teamwork. Preparation of written tests (exams) | 150 | 6 | 2, 3, 9, 11, 12 |
Assessment
Single evaluation activities
The course will be passed if the final grade of the different evaluation activities reaches the grade of 5. The average grade of the written test and the resolution of the PBL case must have a minimum grade of 4 to be able to make average.
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Title |
Weight |
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PBL resolution report delivery |
25% |
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A written exam of the three blocks of the course. |
75% |
Students who do not reach an average grade of 4, will have the option of repeating the written exam on the day of recovery.
Continuous evaluation activities
The course will be passed if the final grade of the different evaluation activities reaches the grade of 5.
The average grade of the three written tests (individual) and the resolution of the PBL case must have a minimum grade of 4 to be able to make average.
Students who do not reach an average grade of 4 (from the sum of the three written tests), will have the option to repeat only one of the three tests on the day of recovery. The recovery does not contemplate that the student who reaches an average grade, equal or superior to 5 (from the sum of the three written tests) can improve the grade, even if he has failed any of the three tests.
The students that during the course have done an adequate follow-up of the PBL and do not exceed the minimum grade of the group evaluation (lower than 5), may opt for the recovery, and re-deliver the work.
Inthe evaluation report only those who have not carried out the evaluation activities corresponding to 50% of the grade will have the qualification of "not submitted".
At the beginning of the course, a calendar will be published in the moodle classroom with the course schedule, and the dates of the different evaluation activities.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group evaluation (teams of 3 people): Report PBL | 25% | 0 | 0 | 14, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 7, 9, 16, 10, 11, 12, 13 |
| Individual evaluation: 3 writtten tests/ exams (one for each block) | 60% (20% par test) | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 7, 9, 16, 10, 11, 12 |
| Presential participation: individual and group activity | 15% | 0 | 0 | 15, 14, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 7, 9, 16, 10, 11, 12, 13 |
Bibliography
FIRST PART: SOCIAL POLICY
Esping-Andersen, G. (2000). Capítulo 5: Un nuevo examen comparativo de los distintos regímenes del bienestar. En Fundamentos sociales de las economías postindustriales (p. 101-127). Editorial Ariel.
González de Durana, A. A., & Rodríguez Cabrero, G. (2019). El Papel de Las Políticas Sociales a La Salida de La Crisis: Los Servicios Públicos y Las Prestaciones Sociales Entre La Regresión y Las Reformas. En G. F. Maíllo (Ed.), VIII Informe sobre exclusión y desarrollo social en España, 2019 (p. 329-390). Caritas Española : Fundación Foessa.
Moreira, A., Léon, M., Moscarola, F. C., & Roumpakis, A. (2021). In the eye of the storm…again! Social policy responses to COVID-19 in Southern Europe. Social Policy & Administration, 55(2), 339-357.
Moreno Fernández, L., & Mari-Klose, P. (2016). Bienestar mediterráneo: Trayectorias y retos de un régimen en transición. En E. del Pino, M. J. Rubio Lara, & J. Adelantado Gimeno (Ed.), Los Estados de bienestar en la encrucijada: Políticas sociales en perspectiva comparada (2a ed. ampliada, p. 139-160). Tecnos.
Orloff Ann Shola. (2009). Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda. Sociological Theory, 27(3), 317-343.
SECOND PART: FAMILIES AND SOCIAL POLICY
Allen, K. R., & Henderson, A. C. (2016). Family Systems Theory. En Family Theories: Foundations and Applications (p. 103-123). John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.
Ayuso Sánchez, Luis & Bascón Jiménez, Milagrosa (2021). El descubrimiento de las políticas familiares en España: entre la ideología y el pragmatismo. Revista Española deInvestigaciones Sociológicas, 174: 3-22.
Berger, L. M., & Carlson, M. J. (2020). Family Policy and Complex Contemporary Families: A Decade in Review and Implications for the Next Decade of Research and Policy Practice. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(1), 478-507.
Daly, M., & Ferragina, E. (2018). Family policy in high-income countries: Five decades of development. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(3), 255-270.
Flaquer, L. (2016). La família davant els reptes de la Segona Transició Demogràfica. En S. Giner & O. Homs (Ed.), Raó de Catalunya. La societat catalana al segle XXI (p. 359-376). Institut d’Estudis Catalans/Enciclopèdia Catalana.
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THIRD PART: MIGRATORY POLICIES Castles, Stephen. 2006 "Factores que hacen y deshacen las políticas migratorias". A: Alejandro Portes y Josh Dewind (coords.) Repensando las migraciones. Nuevas perspectivas teóricas y empíricas, México, Miguel Ángel Porrúa/INM/UAZ. (pp. 33–66). Disponible a: https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/4262/4084 Oso, L., López-Sala, A., & Muñoz-Comet, J. (2021). Migration Policies, Participation and the Political Construction of Migration in Spain . Migraciones. Publicación Del Instituto Universitario de Estudios Sobre Migraciones, (51), 1–30. Disponible a: https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/16736/14789 Rodriguez, Dan (2007) “Inmigración y modelos de incorporación: contextos, claves del debate y tendencias de futuro (Prólogo)”. A: John Biles, Ines Michalowski i Lara Winnemore, Políticas y modelos de acogida. Una mirada transatlántica: Canadá y Alemania, Francia y los Países Bajos, Barcelona: CIDOB (pp. 8-37) Disponible a: https://www.cidob.org/publicaciones/series_pasadas/documentos/migraciones/politicas_y_modelos_de_acogida_una_mirada_transatlantica_canada_alemania_francia_y_los_paises_bajos Sánchez, Blanca. (2011) “La política migratoria en España. Un análisis de largo plazo”. REIS, Monográfico nº 1 (pp. 243-268). Disponible a: http://revintsociologia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/revintsociologia/article/viewArticle/393 Zapata, Ricard & Blanca Garcés (coords.) (2008). La gestió municipal de la immigració a Catalunya. Barcelona: Associació Catalana de Municipis. (pp. 11-23; 129-171). Disponible a: https://www.acm.cat/sites/default/files/publicacions/fitxers/llibre_gestio_municipal_immigracio.pdf |
Software
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