Social Economics

Code:

1OP07

Acronym:

ESoc

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Agrupamento Científico de Economia
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Economics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LECO	19	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	42	81
LGES	9	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	42	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

 - To discuss concepts and main models in economics and social policy. - To understand the importance and potentialities of social economy and the different regimes of welfare state. - To analyse inequality, poverty and exclusion, and the need for compatible social policies. -  Essential topics for the knowledge in economics and social policy are supported by information on the Portuguese, European and International situations

 

Learning outcomes and competences

- To develop research, reflection and critical understanding skills among students, thereby encouraging them to become aware of analysing reality and actual problems, as well as their group work.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

- Social economy, third sector and non-profit sector - Conceptualization and characterisation. Importance and activities. - Models of social policy and of social intervention by the state. - Specificities of the third sector regarding the state and the market, as well the challenges of social state. - Inequalities, poverty and exclusion in Portugal and the European Union and the need for compatible social policies.

- Social economy’s potentiality regarding employment, local development, social cohesion and the fight against exclusion. - Innovation, social entrepreneurship and volunteering. - Corporate citizenship, ethics and social responsibility, social inclusion and sustainability. - Alternative and sustainable ways in production, trade, consumption and financing. - Solidary finance and micro-credit as active social policies in promoting micro-entrepreneurship and fighting unemployment and poverty. - Challenges of a social, solidary, plural and ethical economy by thinking in new economic paradigms.

Mandatory literature

Anheier, H. K.; Bem-Ner, A. (Eds.) ; The study of the nonprofit enterprise: theories and approaches, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003
Bartoli, H. ; Repensar o desenvolvimento. Acabar com a pobreza, Instituto Piaget, 2003
Bridge, S.; Murtagh, B.; O’Neill, K. ; Understanding The Social Economy and the Third Sector, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Castles, F. et al ; The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2010
Cattani, A. D. et al. (Coord.) ; Dicionário internacional da outra economia, Almedina/CES, 2009
Esping-Andersen, G.; Gallie, D.; Hemerijck, A.; Myles, J. ; Why we need a new welfare state, Oxford University Press, 2002
Jeantet, Th. ; Économie sociale – La solidarité au défi de l’efficacité, La Documentation Française, 2016
Hemerijck, A.; Changing Welfare States, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013
Hubert, A. et al.; Empowering people, driving change – social innovation in the European Union, , European Commission, Bureau of European Policy Advisers, 2010
OECD; The nonprofit sector in a changing economy, OECD, 2003
OECD; In it together: why less inequality benefits all, OECD, 2015
Ramos, M. C. P. ; Acção Social na Área do Emprego e da Formação Profissional, Universidade Aberta, 2005
Ramos, M. C. P.; Solidariedade, inovação social e empreendedorismo no desenvolvimento local. In Grandes Problemáticas do Espaço Europeu. Estratégias de (Re)ordenamento Territorial num Quadro de Inovação, Sustentabilidade e Mudança (p. 313-342), FLUP, 2013
Ramos, M. C. ; Economia solidária, plural e ética, na promoção do emprego, da cidadania e da coesão social, Laboreal, 7, (1), 81-104, 2011
Rodrigues, C. F. (Coord.) ; Desigualdade económica em Portugal, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisboa, 2012
Rodrigues, M. L.; Silva, P. A. (org.) ; Políticas Públicas para a reforma do Estado, Coimbra, Almedina, 2013
Salamon, L.; Sokolowski, S.; Haddock, M.; Ticen, H. ; Portugal’s non-profit sector in comparative context, Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies e Instituto Nacional de Estatistica , 2012
Sen, A. ; O Desenvolvimento como Liberdade, Gradiva, 2003

Comments from the literature

The full list of readings will be provided in the first class, in accordance with the research interests of students and the objectives of the program.

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Theoretical-practical classes consisting of explanation, analysis and discussion. - Presentation of the main issues of the subject, in which students shall participate by analysing and  discussing these issues. - Completion of a written and group research assignment on an issue covered by the subject under the lecturer’s guidance, which is to be presented orally in class. - Individual monitoring of learning, appointment of bibliographic material, presentation of articles to be read and discussed, support to the work being done and corresponding supervision.

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Teste	10,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	12,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Trabalho de investigação	27,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

- written reports partial, written and group research, written test. The frequency of discipline must be present 75% of classes.

- final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

- The students’ participation in the reading and discussion of texts, as well as in the oral presentation of their research assignments, - Written reports partial (30%); - Completion of a written and group research assignment on an issue covered by the subject under the lecturer’s guidance (60%); written test (10%).

- final exam.

Classification improvement

Only via final exam.