Social Economics

Code:

1OP07

Acronym:

ESoc

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2024/2025 - 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	7	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	42	81
LGES	15	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	42	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Students should learn the main concepts and models of economics and social policy and understand the importance and potentials of social economy and different regimes of welfare state. Students should also be able to analyse issues of inequality, poverty and exclusion and the need for compatible social policies. Students should be able to identify topics and methodologies essential to understand economics and social policy, being provided with information regarding the Portuguese, European and international contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should develop scientific research skills and critical reflection regarding social economy and social security, a capacity to analyse social reality and specific economic problems, as well as stimulate teamwork skills.

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

Bartoli, H.; Repensar o desenvolvimento: acabar com a pobreza, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 2003
Blowfield, M.; Murray, A.; Corporate Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 4 ed.,, 2019
Cattani, A. D. et al. (Coord.) ; Dicionário internacional da outra economia, Almedina/CES, 2009
Diogo, F. (Coord.); A pobreza em Portugal, Lisboa, FFMS, 2021
European Commission; Building an economy that works for people: an action plan for the social economy, Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2021
European Commission; The future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU, Brussels, CE, 2023
Fayolle, A (ed); Handbook of Research on Social Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, 2012
Ferreira, S. (Org.); Trajetórias Institucionais e Modelos de Empresa Social em Portugal, Coimbra, CES, 2021
INE; Inquérito ao trabalho voluntário 2018, Destaque INE, 2019
INE; Inquérito ao setor da economia social 2018, INE, 2020
; INE;Conta satélite da economia social 2019-2020, Destaque INE, 2023
Monzón, J. L.; Chaves, R.; Recent evolutions of the Social Economy in the European Union, Bruxelas, European Economic and Social Committee, 2017
Moulaert, F. et al. (eds); The International Handbook On Social Innovation, Edward Elgar, 2014
OECD, European Union; Inclusive business creation. Good practice compendium, Paris, OECD, 2016
OECD; In it together: why less inequality benefits all, OECD, 2015
OECD; International migration outlook, , OECD, 2022
OIT; Trabalho digno e a economia social e solidária, Genebra, OIT, 2022
Ramos, M. C. P; Trabalhadores mais velhos: aprendizagens, competências e empregabilidade in Vozes da educação. Pesquisas e escritas contemporâneas (Vol. 2) (p. 209-228), Cruz Alta (Brasil), Editora Ilustração, 2021
Ramos, M. C. P; Desafios do Estado social no contexto europeu e a (in)sustentabilidade da segurança social. In Seguridade social, interculturalidades e desigualdades na contemporaneidade (p. 16-57) , Natal, EDUFRN, 2016
Ramos, M. C.; Patrício, O.; Políticas e estratégias de coesão económica, social e territorial para um desenvolvimento sustentável. In The Overarching Issues of the European Space - The Territorial Diversity of Opportunities in a Scenario of Crisis (p.316-335), Porto: FLUP, 2014
Ramos, M. C.; Economia solidária, plural e ética, na promoção do emprego, da cidadania e da coesão social, Laboreal, 7, (1), p. 81-104, 2011
Tirole, J; Economia do bem comum, Lisboa, Editora Guerra e Paz, 2018

Comments from the literature

The full list of readings will be provided in the classes, 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	15,00
Teste	30,00
Trabalho escrito	55,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	15,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Trabalho de investigação	27,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

- written reports partial, written and group research, written test.

- 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 (20%); - Completion of a written and group research assignment on an issue covered by the subject under the lecturer’s guidance (60%); written test (20%).

- final exam.

Classification improvement

Only via final exam.