| source Lund University (X) |
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department Sociology (X) |
The course focuses on global social policy and social welfare within the contemporary development paradigm. It critically analyzes contemporary social policy and welfare deficits, and ways in which they are produced and reproduced in developing countries through governance structures and agencies of development. It also considers the problem of inequality and the future prospects of poverty alleviation and empowerment within the ideological framework of social policy at supranational level. Students will be utilizing an analytical approach that gives capacity to understand and critically examine the opportunities and obstacles of welfare policies and their association with key actors, ideology, trends and processes at global level. The course is given as a basic level course within sociology. The language of instruction is English.
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This course examines the link between migration and development. A large share of the migration in the world goes from the periphery in the world system to core states. What are the causes of migration to the rich and wealthy states? How does migration affect the sending countries? How does the unequal relations between the countries in the world influence migration? These are all questions on a macro-level, and they compel us to analyse migration as a product of the unequal relations in the world, or as something inherent in development and underdevelopment. In this course you will also study migration on a micro-level, for example as an individual decision to move to another country, or as a family strategy in sending regions to increase income. Migrants send a large share of their income back to their families. How do these remittances affect communities in sending regions? You will also study how social networks between sending and receiving countries drive migration and how states influences migration streams. The objective of the course is to give students the ability to identify the causes of migration and how migration affects both sending countries and receiving countries. The course is given as a basic level course within sociology. The language of instruction is English.
Score: 10.180233 Details | Listing | Web page
Score: 10.180233 Details | Listing | Web page
The course focuses on globalisation and culture. As a theoretical starting point to understand global cultural processes today, the course introduces Cultural Studies theories and the topics that have contributed to its formation and development. In focus for the course is an analysis of the relationship between globalisation processes and contemporary cultural changes throughout the world. In connection to cultural changes, we will discuss so-called post-colonial theories.
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The course focuses on globalisation and gender relations. The first part of the course focuses on main concepts and perspectives crucial to the understanding of changes in social institutions and gender relations in globalisation processes. Gender relations are studied on a structural as well as an everyday life level. Current findings on gender differences and inequalities will be discussed. Variations in the feminist movement will be analysed in relation to differences in the cultural, institutional and political context in different parts of the world.
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In the course some key social institutions that together have come to be called the "Swedish" or "Scandinavian" Model are presented. The course will present the historical development of the Swedish welfare state, both in relation to institutional changes and to the political project of the welfare state. It departs from an analytical and historical perspective where the internal contradictions and impetus for change of the Swedish Model are central. The course will therefore include recent developments such as the possible dismantling of the Swedish welfare state and emergence of a new welfare model. The emergence of social rights and social citizenship will be included in this section. The course will discuss welfare state policies directed towards the family, which includes a gender perspective in which feminist critique of the welfare state is introduced. The course will also discuss the particularities and the development of the Swedish Model on labour market and labour relations, reviewing different theoretical perspectives on the triad state, capital and labour.
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