SOCIAL POLICIES FOR FAMILIES
cod. 1003150

Academic year 2013/14
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Sociologia generale (SPS/07)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course intends to propose the profiles of families and a map of social policies, focusing on tools to interpret and analyze. Among the actors of social policies will be the family to be the subject of study for students, from the perspective of the evolution of society and its needs (poverty, children and the elderly). Lessons will be an occasion for analysis of concrete situations, on which students will be invited to make application assessments of different social policies.

Prerequisites

None

Course unit content

The contents include: models of social transformations political family through the socio-demographic analysis the Italian model of social policies for families

Full programme

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Bibliography

C.Borzaga, L. Fazzi, “Manuale di politica sociale”, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005/ oppure G. Magistrali (a cura di), “ Il futuro delle politiche sociali in Italia”, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2003

L. Leone, M. Prezza, “Costruire e valutare i progetti nel sociale. Manuale operativo per chi lavora su progetti in campo sanitario, sociale, educativo e culturale.”, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2011.

Scegliere tra uno di questi romanzi per l'esame:
1)Simonetta Agnello Hornby “Vento scomposto”, Feltrinelli, 2010
2)Vanessa Diffenbaugh, “Il linguaggio segreto dei fiori”, Garzanti, 2011
3)Catherine Dunne, “La metà di niente”, TEA, 2011

Teaching methods

Case Study and lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

oral exam

Other information

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