Identifying Data

2022/23

Subject (*)

Austerity and precarity in the age of globalization

Code

615525002

Study programme

Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria

Descriptors

Cycle

Period

Year

Type

Credits

Official Master's Degree

2nd four-month period

First

Obligatory

Language

Spanish

Galician

Teaching method

Face-to-face

Prerequisites

Department

Socioloxía e Ciencias da Comunicación

Coordinador

Rodríguez Barcón, Alberto

E-mail

alberto.barcon@udc.es

Lecturers

Rodríguez Barcón, Alberto

E-mail

alberto.barcon@udc.es

Web

General description

No marco do Mestrado en Política Social, esta asignatura representa unha reflexión crítica sobre a evolución do capitalismo. Iso implica coñecer as crises do sistema e as solucións e modelos propostos para superalas. O curso estudará en detalle as consecuencias do modelo económico imposto trala crise de finais dos anos setenta, e as consecuencias sociais derivadas da aplicación de políticas económicas de oferta e axustes sociais: crecemento das desigualdades e crises de lexitimidade do sistema e os seus impactos no mercado de traballo. Especial atención merecerá o caso de Europa.

Study programme competencies

Code	Study programme competences
A2	CE2 - Interpretar os feitos e as políticas sociais desde os distintos paradigmas teóricos vixentes na análise da exclusión.
A3	CE3 - Deseñar e desenvolver procesos de observación e documentación para o estudo das políticas e os sistemas de benestar social.
A4	CE4 - Recompilar e interpretar a información suficiente para chegar a diagnósticos fiables sobre os riscos de exclusión e os factores de vulnerabilidade social.
A5	CE5 - Interpretar as situacións e os procesos de marxinación social e económica de colectivos desde unha perspectiva histórica e macroestrutural.
A6	CE6 - Avaliar a capacidade e eficacia das medidas de intervención para corrixir ou previr situacións e procesos de exclusión social.
A7	CE7 - Identificar e valorar a posibilidade de intervención e prevención en procesos de conflitividade social.
A8	CE8 - Identificar procesos e factores de cohesión social, e deseñar medidas para a súa potenciación.
B1	CB1 - Demostrar coñecementos avanzados, de carácter multidisciplinar, para a investigación e o exercicio profesional no ámbito da exclusión social.
B2	CB2 - Aplicar e integrar os coñecementos a contornos e problemas emerxentes e indefinidos, na práctica investigadora e profesional.
B3	CB3 - Seleccionar o marco científico adecuado para avaliar as evidencias dispoñibles e postular hipóteses razoadas sobre a avaliación previsible dos feitos sociais estudados.
B4	CB4 - Identificar os dilemas éticos e a responsabilidade social tras os retos formulados na práctica profesional e investigadora.
B5	CB5 - Comunicar con claridade os coñecementos e problemas científicos sobre os que se traballa tanto a un público non experto como de especialistas.
B6	CB6 - Posuír e comprender coñecementos que proporcionen unha base ou oportunidade para ser orixinais no desenvolvemento e/ou a aplicación de ideas, a miúdo nun contexto de investigación.
B7	CB7 - Que os estudantes saiban aplicar os coñecementos adquiridos e a súa capacidade de resolución de problemas en contornos novos ou pouco coñecidos dentro de contextos máis amplos (ou multidisciplinares) relacionados coa súa área de estudo.
B8	CB8 - Que os estudantes sexan capaces de integrar coñecementos e enfrontarse á complexidade de formular xuízos a partir dunha información que, sendo incompleta ou limitada, inclúa reflexións sobre as responsabilidades sociais e éticas vinculadas á aplicación dos seus coñecementos e xuízos.
B11	CB11 - Participar en proxectos de investigación e colaboracións científicas no ámbito da exclusión social, en contextos interdisciplinares e de transferencia de coñecementos.
B12	CB12 - Manter responsabilidade e compromiso co desenvolvemento profesional continuo de forma autónoma.
B13	CX1 - Comprender e integrar coñecementos complexos para traducilos en propostas de investigación e programas de intervención en contextos sociais problemáticos.
B15	CX3 - Deseñar, aplicar e avaliar proxectos de investigación en ciencias sociais relacionados cos procesos e as situacións de exclusión social.
B16	CX4 - Dirixir e coordinar equipos de investigación e profesionais de carácter multidisciplinar que traballen nos principais ámbitos da exclusión social.
B17	CX5 - Elaborar e defender informes, proxectos e memorias no campo das ciencias sociais.
B18	CX6 - Valorar a adecuación das distintas ferramentas teóricas, metodolóxicas e técnicas ás preguntas e os obxectivos específicos formulados sobre a realidade social e as políticas sociais.
B19	CX7 - Dar respostas innovadoras e orixinais ante situacións problemáticas emerxentes relacionadas coa exclusión social.
B20	CX8 - Aplicar a perspectiva comparada na comprensión das problemáticas sociais e das respostas e solucións políticas.
B21	CX9 - Aplicar unha perspectiva interdisciplinar na análise e a valoración de problemáticas de exclusión e políticas sociais de inclusión e cohesión.
C1	CT1 - Adequate oral and written expression in the official languages.
C2	CT2 – Mastering oral and written expression in a foreign language.
C3	CT3 - Using ICT in working contexts and lifelong learning.
C5	CT5 - Understanding the importance of entrepreneurial culture and the useful means for enterprising people.
C6	CT6 -Acquiring skills for healthy lifestyles, and healthy habits and routines.
C7	CT7 - Developing the ability to work in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams in order to offer proposals that can contribute to a sustainable environmental, economic, political and social development.
C8	CT8 - Valuing the importance of research, innovation and technological development for the socioeconomic and cultural progress of society.

Learning aims

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
Coñecer o concepto de globalización é as suas dimensións	AC2 AC3 AC4 AC5 AC8	BC1 BC2 BC4 BC5 BC6 BC8 BC12 BC13 BC15 BC19 BC20 BC21
Analizar os efectos da austeridade sobre os Estados do Benestar: a economía política e as respostas nacionais	AC2 AC3 AC5 AC8	BC11 BC17 BC18	CC1 CC2 CC3 CC5 CC6 CC7
Coñecer as consecuencias da globalización sobre o emprego, os salarios, e a desigualdade	AC2 AC3 AC4 AC5 AC8	BC1 BC2 BC4 BC5 BC6 BC16	CC1 CC2 CC3 CC5 CC6 CC7
Análise e propostas de políticas públicas para a reducción das desigualdades	AC2 AC3 AC4 AC5 AC8	BC1 BC2 BC4 BC5 BC6 BC8 BC11 BC12 BC13 BC15 BC19 BC20 BC21	CC1 CC2 CC3 CC5 CC6 CC7
Coñecer o papel da cidade contemporánea nas novas realidades de austeridade e precariedade	AC5 AC6 AC7	BC3 BC7	CC7 CC8

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
The evolution of global capitalism in the last 70 years	- The postwar pact. The years of organized capitalism - Introduction to the crisis, the end of Keynesianism
Globalization and capitalism since the 1990s	- the management of the economy and markets - The increase in inequalities - Emerging economies
The consequences of the model on employment, wages and inequality	- Analysis of labor markets - Old realities and new inequalities - The figure of the poor worker
Welfare States in crisis: What inequality?	- The change in welfare provision models - Towards new designs in public policies to reduce inequalities
The city as a key actor in the era of globalization	- A critical look at the contemporary city in the global era - The urban dimension of inequality - The conflict over space: the new socio-spatial phenomena

Planning

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Supervised projects	A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B2 B3 B4 B7 B11 B12 B13 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 C2 C7	0	18	18
Oral presentation	C1 C5 C6 C7	8	12	20
Workbook	A2 B1 B6 B8 B17 B18 B21	4	8	12
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A2 A4 A5 A7 A8 B5 B6 B15 B19 B20 B21 C3 C5 C8	45	45	90

Personalized attention		10	0	10

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies

Methodologies	Description
Supervised projects	A supervised work will be carried out that will consist of the design of a policy to reduce inequality in favor of some disadvantaged group.
Oral presentation	The final works will be presented orally and discussed in the classroom
Workbook	The professor will be able to provide a selection of readings for later discussion in class or to support the theoretical aspects developed throughout the subject.
Guest lecture / keynote speech	The teacher will introduce the different contents of the subject in the lectures that will be participatory, encouraging the students to debate. The principal of democratic debate will be supported in the class sessions: listening to and respecting all of the diverse opinions concerning the topics addressed, whether they are raised by teachers or students.

Personalized attention

Methodologies

Supervised projects

Oral presentation

Description

Personalized tutorials will be carried out, in the teacher's office or through thematic means, to support the development of the supervised works, the oral presentation and the doubts about the readings. T

For students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic exemption from exemption from attendance, a specific tutorial calendar compatible with their dedication will be agreed at the beginning of the course.

Assessment

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Supervised projects	A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B2 B3 B4 B7 B11 B12 B13 B15 B16 B17 B18 B19 B20 C2 C7	It will consist of the design of an active policy measure to correct inequality in favor of vulnerable groups	85
Oral presentation	C1 C5 C6 C7	Os traballos finais serán expostos oralmente na aula	15

Assessment comments
The evaluation of students taking the online modality will be as follows: - Tutored work: 100% of the qualification

Sources of information

Basic
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Other comments
The principal of democratic debate will be supported in the class sessions: listening to and respecting all of the diverse opinions concerning the topics addressed, whether they are raised by teachers or students.

(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.