Dynamics of the Welfare State: from Beveridge to Crisis

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Course ID:	3502-FAKL2-LIC-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Dynamics of the Welfare State: from Beveridge to Crisis
Name in Polish:	Dynamika państwa opiekuńczego: od Beveridge’a do kryzysu
Organizational unit:	Institute of Sociology
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses General university courses in the social sciences
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Przydatna co najmniej bierna znajomość języka angielskiego – w stopniu wystarczającym do przeczytania i zrozumienia tekstów w tym języku
Short description:	The course will be devoted to trends of welfare state institututions – from Beveridge’s Plan to crissis of welfare state at 1970th. The subject of reflection will be arguments the followers and opponents of welfare state regime as well as results that social policy has brought for social order.
Full description:	The first part of course will be devoted to conceptualisation of welfare state idea, social security system as well as various welfare state models. In the next step will be described sequences of political, economical and social occurrences which have influenced development of the welfare state institutions. Postwar political division was the reason for appearing of ‘socialistic welfare state’ in the East Europe and this question will be devoted three next lectures. The crisis of welfare state in the middle of 70th. coused that opponents of welfare state have become very loud. Introduction of various critical arguments towards welfare policy will be subject of this course. Particularly we would like to respond on the questions what actions in the face of welfare state crisis have been undertaked, what was results of this and why so many results have not been attained (resistance to change).
Bibliography:	Bibliography R. E. Goodin: “Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State…”, Princenton University Press, 1988; P. Flora, A. J. Heidenheimer (eds.): “The Development of Welfare State in Europe and America”, Transaction Publisher, London 1987; T.H. Marshall: “Citizenship and Social Classs, Pluto Press, London 1992”; “Historia, kryzys i przyszłość państwa opiekuńczego”, skrypt; W. Narojek: „Socjalistyczny Welfare State”, Krytyka, Warszawa 1991; G. Magnuszewska-Otulak:’ Rozwój zabezpieczenia społecznego w W. Brytanii’ – Raport Beveridge’a, IPiSS, Warszawa 1992; M. Księżopolski: „Modele polityki społecznej”, IPiSS, Warszawa 1999; G. Esping-Andersen: „trzy światy kapitalistycznego państwa dobrobytu”, Difin, Warszawa 2010;
Learning outcomes:	Has basic knowledge about social structures and selected social institutions, and their interrelations Has awareness of various forms of social organization existing in the past and in the present Has basic knowledge about the tools and goals of social policy Can use basic theoretical categories to describe social changes in modern societies Can discuss measures presented as solutions to particular social problems (in micro and macro scale), based on acquired knowledge Can formulate a general evaluation of a measure undertaken to solve a particular social problem, based on acquired knowledge Can find, gather and synthesize information about social phenomena Can argue a thesis Can critically assess sources
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Written exam – test covering the subject matter of the lectures and recommended literature

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