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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Sociology |
| Mestrado Universitario en Políticas Sociais e Intervención Sociocomunitaria |
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| Comparative social policies |
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| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Comparative social policies | Code | 615525001 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Background of Welfare State | 1.1. The change in the role of the State: Liberal, Providence, Welfare (basic differences) 1.2. Social risks and the birth of the first social insurance: labour accidents, health, pensions and unemployment 1.3. Characteristics of the first models of social insurance: financing, coverage and benefits. 1.4. Limitations in the protection from the State: mixed economy of well-being. State, private sector, families and civil society |
| 2. The expansion of the Welfare State: key concepts and basic models | 2.1. The Beveridge Report: essential elements that drove the birth of the Welfare State. 2.2. Welfare State concept. 2.3. Ideologies and models of well-being: critical analysis 2.4. The evolution of the Welfare State in Spain: basic characteristics. |
| 3. From the Welfare State to the Neoliberal State: the great transformation | 3.1. Fundamental concepts to understand Capitalism and its crises 3.2. The crisis of 73 & Washington Consensus: the social and political consequences. 3.3. Rise of neoliberal ideology: defining characteristics. 3.4. The 2008 financial crisis: a turning point? |
| 4. Health Systems in Spain and the European Union | 4.1. The risk of disease: long-term evolution 4.2. Typology of health systems in the European Union. 4.3. Specific characteristics of the health insurance in Spain. |
| 5. Labour accident management policies in Spain and the European Union | 5.1. The risk of labour accidents: long-term evolution 5.2. Typology of labour accident management systems 5.3. Specific characteristics of the occupational accident management system in Spain |
| 6. Employment policies in Spain and in the European Union | 6.1. Employment policy in Spain: long-term evolution 6.2. Unemployment & precarious employment in Spain and in the European Union 6.3. The structural imbalance of the labour market in Spain and unemployment subsidy |
| 7. Pension policies in Spain and the European Union | 7.1. Pensions in a context of demographic change 7.2. Typology of pension systems in the European Union 7.3. Specific characteristics of the pension system in Spain: an unsustainable system? |
| 8. Educational policies in Spain and in the European Union. | 8.1. Comparative studies at the educational level: educational indicators and problems in the OECD countries. 8.2. Main problems of educational systems: school dropout, social inequality and social reproduction. |
| 9. Family policies in Spain and in the European Union | 9.1. Main family policies in Europe. 9.2. Family policies in Europe and Spain: family subsidies, co-responsibility, and new social challenges. |
| 10. Housing policies in Spain and in the European Union | 10.1. Main policies of access to housing in Europe. 10.2. Housing policies in Europe and Spain: market vs state. |
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