2023-2024 / SOCI2258-1

Sociological analysis of social intervention policies

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)2 crédits 
 Master in human resources management (120 ECTS) (Management)2 crédits 
 Master in labour sciences (120 ECTS)3 crédits 
 Master in labour sciences (60 ECTS)3 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences)3 crédits 

Lecturer

Laura Beuker, Didier Vrancken

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course actualizes and implements social policies in order to question the reconfiguration of social welfare.
It is based on three points :

  • Discussing the contemporary evolutions of the Welfare State.
  • Provide an empirical perspective of the theories of the Welfare State.
  • Data's collection related to social intervention policies.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of the course, the student will be able to :

  • analyze social policies and the evolution of the Belgian Welfare State,
  • handle the complexity of the "social" and its evolution,
  • master the references and the theoretical knowledge related to the theories of the "social",
  • apply them to a field of social intervention.
Moreover, through this learning, the student will have developed his capacities of critical analysis and reflection, as well as the interview's techniques. 
Finally, the student will have developped his writting skills, his expertise in the field of restitution and his synthesis skills as a result of the analysis and the putting in perspective of concepts. 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The course represent a straight continuation of the course : Sociological analysis of social politics.
SOCI2257-1 is corequisite.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lectures and interaction with students
The course is based on Didier Vrancken's books " Social Barbar " and "Les invisibilités barbares" and on Welfare State's theories.

The objective is to reveal the main concepts and the paradigms of social policies in order to confront them by the realization of an interview with a social policies' user. 
The course aims to be participative and feeds on student's opinions and reflections.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Face-to-face course

Recommended or required readings

  • Books: Vrancken Didier, 2010, Social Barbare, Charleroi : Couleurs Livre, 2010 and Les invisibilités barbares, Liège-Genève, Presses de l'Université de Liège-Ies éditions, 2019.
  • Various vectors (Powerpoint, video, intervention, etc.).
 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

None

Contacts

Professor Didier Vrancken.

Assistant: Laura Beuker

laura.beuker@uliege.be
 

 

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