Inclusion, Sustainability and the Social Economy

Code:

MSOCI028

Acronym:

ISES

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Sociology
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Sociology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MFPE	4	Study plan	1	-	6	41	162
MSOCI	21	Study plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

(1) To understand the main theoretical and intervention paradigms of social inclusion and sustainability in the social and solidarity economy nowadays.

(2) Recognize and understand the modalities of  intervention towards social inclusion and territorial development based on the assumptions of environmental, economic and social sustainability, with particular emphasis on the consequences of advanced capitalism and globalization in the reconfiguration of social issues.

(3) Identify and analyze the most important theoretical, ideological and intervention implications of the new paradigms of social and solidarity economy, in addressing issues of inclusion and sustainability and bearing in mind the Portuguese social reality.

Learning outcomes and competences

(1) Dominance of theoretical paradigms of approach to social and solidarity economy and its implications for analysis and intervention on issues of inclusion and sustainability.

(2) To understand the genesis and the evolution of the perspectives about the inclusion from alternative economic, social and environmental paradigms.

(3) Development of the capacity of reflection and critical analysis based on contemporary societies and their repercussions at the level of intervention proposals.

(4) Sedimentation of a critical and reflexive citizenship culture based on ethical principles.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Do not apply.

Program

1.Concepts and assumptions
1.1. Development and social inclusion.
1.2.  Sustainability, ecology and development 
1.3. Alternatives economies: social and solidarity economy

2. State, public policies and social inclusion
2.1. Policies to combat poverty and social exclusion

3.The theoretical paradigms mobilized around the alternative economies. The  social and solidarity economy.
3.1. Organizational development.
3.2.Social innovation, public policies and sustainability

4. The experiences and practices of social and solidarity economy.

Mandatory literature

Bignetti, L. P. ; As inovações sociais: uma incursão por ideias, tendências e focos de pesquisa, Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2011
Cattani, A. D, Laville, J.-L., Gaiger, L.L. et al ; Dicionário Internacional da Outra Economia, Almedina, 2009
Hespanha, P e Santos, A. M.; Economia solidária. Questões teóricas e epistemológicas, Almedina, 2009
Dees, G. e Anderson, B.; Framing a theory of social entrepreneurship: Building on two schools of practice and thought, Business, 2006
França-Filho, G.; Terceiro setor, economia solidária, economia social e economia popular: traçando fronteiras conceituais, Bahia análise & dados, 2002
Friedmann, John; Empowerment. ISBN: 972-8027-50-8
Parente, Cristina 340; Empreendedorismo social em Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-8648-16-7
Pinto, Madureira J.; Desigualdades Sociais: os modelos de desenvolvimento e as políticas públicas em questão, Caleidoscópio Editora, 2011
Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. A.; Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Profile Books, 2012
Carmo, Renato Miguel do, João Sebastião, Joana Azevedo, Susana da Cruz Martins e António Firmino da Costa; Desigualdades Sociais. Portugal e a Europa, Editora Mundos Sociais, 2018
Pickett, K e Richard Wilkinson ; O Espírito da Igualdade Por que razão sociedades mais igualitárias funcionam quase sempre melhor, Editorial Presença, 2010. ISBN: 9789722343411

Complementary Bibliography

Gaiger; L. I. ; Antecedentes e expressões actuais da economia solidária, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
Nicholls. A. ; Social Entrepreneurship: New models of sustainable social change, Oxford University Press, 2006
Sobottka, E. A. ; Organizações civis: buscando uma definição para além de ONGs e “terceiro setor”. Civitas, Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2002
Moulaert, Frank 340; The^international handbook on social innovation. ISBN: 978-1-84980-998-6
Monzón Campos; J. L. & Chaves Ávila; R. ; The Social Economy in the European Union, European Union, 2012
Lains, P. e Silva, E.G. ; Globalization, Growth and Inequality, “Globalization, Growth and Inequality”, in Explorations in History and Globalization, Routledge, 2015

Teaching methods and learning activities

keywords

Social sciences > Sociology > Social changes
Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	74,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Trabalho de investigação	49,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation is distributed with final exam: written exam (60%), work of case analysis (including work sheets) (40%), participation and attendance (10%).

Written exam and case study work are compulsory.

To obtain a positive evaluation, never the evaluation obtained in any of the evaluation components can be less than 8 values.

The second period of evaluation is composed by the same number of exams carried out during the semester and respective weights, according to the status of the student.

It also has the right to the second period of evaluation, all students that have one of the evaluation component already done in the normal period of evaluation with a classification equal or superior to 9,5. In this case, the second period of evaluation only can be used to realized one, and just one, of the evaluation components.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighting of each evaluation components:
i) Written exam: 50%;
ii) Case study analysis (including work in classroom - evaluated in written and oral aspects): ordinary students - 40%; students not covered by the attendance component - 50%;
iii) Participation and attendance: 10%.

If you obtain a classification lower than 8 values in one of the elements of evaluation, this implies that you will have to do your evaluation in the second period of evaluation.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Do not apply.

Internship work/project

Do not apply.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The special evaluation will be consisted of a written exam and an individual work of case analysis to be presented after the date of the written exam and whose realization must match the work sheets elaborated in the class. Weighting criteria of each evaluation components: written exam: 60%; case study work: 40%.

The organizational case study work is done individually. Decisions on the case study work should to prior discuss with the teacher until the last day of the semester classes. The working day delivery is defined in the official calendar of exams.

Classification improvement

Observations

It is edited in the page of the Sigarra a guidance dossier with a set of detailed information on the components of evaluation and the operation of the class. It is essential a careful reading of the dossier where there is a development of all operating items of the class. Throughout the semester, support materials and texts of development and critical reflection will be available on page of the Sigarra.