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Social Policy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:32
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SUPK_089 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Politics and Organisation of Social Work | Target Audience: | Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Taņa Lāce | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
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| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 5 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 9 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 10 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Alcoc P. May M. Rowlingson K. The Student’s Companion to Social Policy. Blackwell Publ. 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | Clasen, Jochen. Comparative Social Policy and the European Union. http://www.institute-ofgovernance.org/__data/assets/pdf_fil… | ||||||||
| 3 | Classen, Jochen. Comparative Social Policy: Concepts, Theories and Methods. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1999. http://www.nuibooks.com/comparative-social-policy-concepts-… | ||||||||
| 4 | Deacon, B. Hulse M. Stubbs P. Global Social Policy. SAGE Publications, 1997 | ||||||||
| 5 | Dean H. Social Policy. Polity Press, 2008. | ||||||||
| 6 | Diversity and Commonality in European SocialPolicies: TheForgingof aEuropeanSocialModel. Warsaw, 2009. http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/warschau/06223.pdf | ||||||||
| 7 | Esping-Andersen, G. (ed.). WhyweNeed a NewWelfareState. Oxford: OxfordUniversityPress, 2002. 244 p. | ||||||||
| 8 | Geyer R. TheStateofEuropeanSocialPolicy. 1999. | ||||||||
| 9 | http://aei.pitt.edu/2274/1/002631_1.PDF | ||||||||
| 10 | Hill M. SocialPolicyintheModernWorld. A ComparativeText. BlackwellPublishing, 2006. | ||||||||
| 11 | Lāce T. Sociālā atstumtība Latvijā. Rīga: Zinātne, 2012. | ||||||||
| 12 | Pestieau, Pierre. TheWelfareStateintheEuropeanUnion: EconomicandSocialPerspectives. Oxford: OxfordUniversityPress, 2006. 169 p. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bernotas, D. A.Guogis. ReformingSocialSecurityin a TransitionEconomy: TheComparativeCaseofLithuania, LatviaandEstonia. // SocialScienceTribune. Issue 49. – UniversityofThessaly, 2007. | ||||||||
| 2 | Blau, J. M.Abramovitz. The Dynamics ofSocialWelfarePolicy. – OxfordUniversityPress, 2003. | ||||||||
| 3 | Cousins, M.EuropeanWelfareStates: ComparativePerspectives. – SagePublication,2005. | ||||||||
| 4 | DirectorateGeneralforEmployment, SocialAffairsandEqualOpportunities. Unit E 2. – http://europa.eu.int | ||||||||
| 5 | Midgley, J. M.B.Tracy, M.Livermore. TheHandbookofSocialPolicy. – SagePublication,2000. | ||||||||
| 6 | Mishra, R. GlobalizationandtheWelfareState. – Macmillan, 2000. | ||||||||
| 7 | Rajevska, F. Sociālās tiesības. // Grām. Ievads politikā. – Rīga, 1998. | ||||||||
| 8 | Sociālā atstumtība un sociālā iekļaušana: situācijas izvērtējums Latvijā. Zinātnisko rakstu krājums (atb. red. F.Rajevska). – Rīga: LU akadēmiskais apgāds, 2006. | ||||||||
| 9 | Spicker, P. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. – PolicyPress, 2006. | ||||||||
| 10 | Spicker, P. PolicyAnalysisforPractice. – PolicyPress, 2006. | ||||||||
| 11 | Spicker, P. TheIdeaofPoverty. – PolicyPress, 2007. | ||||||||
| 12 | Spicker, P. TheWelfareState: A GeneralTheory. – SagePublication, 2000. | ||||||||
| 13 | UnderstandingSocialSecurity. Ed. by J. Millar. – PolicyPress, 2003. | ||||||||
| 14 | Walker, R. SocialSecurityandWelfare. – OpenUniversityPress, 2004. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Koncepcija par sociālās apdrošināšanas sistēmas stabilitāti ilgtermiņā. polsis.mk.gov.lv/view.do?id=3518 | ||||||||
| 2 | Latvija. Pārskats par tautas attīstību 2012/2013. Ilgtspējīga nācija.Galv. red. Baiba Bela. Rīga: LU Sociālo un politisko pētījumu institūts, 2013. | ||||||||
| 3 | http://www.szf.lu.lv/files/petnieciba/publikacijas/TAP-make… | ||||||||
| 4 | LR likums Par sociālo drošību. www.likumi.lv | ||||||||
| 5 | LR likums Par valsts sociālo apdrošināšanu. www.likumi.lv | ||||||||
