Learning outcomes

To become familiar with the international activity environment of social policy and in particular the effects of the expansion of the European Union, general internationalisation, economy, politics and cultural globalisation, and to become acquainted with the new challenges of social policy. The objective is also for students to 1) gain the basic information on the social policy of the European Union, 2) learn how to recognise social problems in global settings, 3) learn to compare different social political models and 4) learn the basic concepts of social policy in English.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

1. Kleinman, A European Welfare State? European Union Social Policy in Context. Palgrave 2002. 2. Held & McGrew, Globalisaation – puolesta ja vastaan. Vastapaino 2005. And one of the following: 3. George & Wilding, Globalization and Human Welfare. Palgrave 2002. 4. Leira, Working Parents and the Welfare State. Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia. Cambridge University Press 2002. 5. Parreñas, Servants of Globalization. Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Stanford University Press 2001.

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