TW23 - WELFARE THEORIES

courses

ID:

TW23

Duration (hours):

36

CFU:

SSD:

SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE

Located in:

CHIETI

Url:

Course Details:

SOCIAL WORK/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2026 - 31/05/2026)

Course Objectives

This module aims to provide students with the basic tools for understanding, from an eminently sociological and partly political point of view, the history and current developments of the welfare state in Italy in light of the broader European and partly global context, combining attention to general principles and systematic theories with an in-depth analysis of individual fields and the debate about the most pressing problems and the proposed remedies, according to the approach developed in the scientific circles of the University of Milan. The second part of the module will focus on the theme of family policies in Italy and Europe, with the necessary connections to other fundamental aspects that interact with it (demography, relationships between genders and between generations, education and instruction, work, multiculturalism, conceptions of existence), trying to highlight, from an exquisitely sociological perspective, the reasons for the current crisis of the family and the useful strategies to stem it.

Assessment Methods

Oral

Texts

M.Ferrera-M.Jessoula (eds.), Le politiche sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2025 (quarta ed.).
D.Bramanti-M.L.Bosoni,
Sociologia della famiglia. Uno sguardo relazionale, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2024.

Other Recommended Texts

V.Cesareo (ed.), Welfare responsabile, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2017.
C.Saraceno, Il welfare, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021 (seconda edizione).
C.Saraceno-M.Naldini, Sociologia della famiglia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2020 (quarta ed.).
P.Donati, La famiglia. Il genoma che fa vivere la società, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2013.
V.Cesareo-N.Pavesi (eds.), Il welfare responsabile alla prova. Una proposta per la società italiana, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2019.
L.Fornasier-G.Lucchini-F.Streliotto-G.Vecchiato,
Welfare 4.0. Competere responsabilmente. Aziende con l'anima: responsabilità sociale, welfare e community relation, Angeli, Milano, 2019.
S.Ricciuti, Riflessioni sociologiche sul welfare, SIGRAF Edizioni Scientifiche, 2016, seconda ed. 2023.
S.Ricciuti, Il giardino cosmico e la città celeste. Lavoro, solidarietà e salute nel magistero cattolico, SIGRAF Edizioni Scientifiche, Pescara, 2020.
S.Ricciuti, Teoria sociologica del volontariato, SIGRAF Edizioni Scientifiche, Pescara, 2019.
S.Ricciuti, I confini mutevoli della solidarietà.
Saggio sull'etica sociale contem-poranea, SIGRAF Edizioni Scientifiche, Pescara, 2019.
M.Hill, Le politiche sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1993.
U.Carlone, Per il welfare. Materiali e contenuti sulle politiche sociali, Morlacchi Editore U.P., Perugia, 2015.
R.Rajan, Il terzo pilastro. La comunità dimenticata fra Stato e mercati, EGEA Università Bocconi Editore, Milano, 2019.
C.Giorgi (ed.), Il welfare. Attualità e prospettive, Carocci, Milano, 2022.
V.Paglia, la forza della fragilità, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2022, seconda ed. 2023.
M.Salvati (ed.), Solidarietà, Treccani, Roma, 2023.
M.Marazziti, La grande occasione. Viaggio nell'Europa che non ha paura, PIEMME-Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano, 2023.
S.Ricciuti, La gallina dalle uova d'oro. Lo Stato sociale bismarckiano e le sfide contemporanee, SIGRAF Edizioni Scientifiche, Pescara, 2022.
P.Gatrell, L'inquietudine dell'Europa. Come la migrazione ha rimodellato un continente, Einaudi, Torino, 2023.

This module aims to provide students with the basic tools for understanding, from an eminently sociological and partly political point of view, the history and current developments of the welfare state in Italy in light of the broader European and partly global context, combining attention to general principles and systematic theories with an in-depth analysis of individual fields and the debate about the most pressing problems and the proposed remedies, according to the approach developed in the scientific circles of the University of Milan. The second part of the module will focus on the theme of family policies in Italy and Europe, with the necessary connections to other fundamental aspects that interact with it (demography, relationships between genders and between generations, education and instruction, work, immigration and multiculturalism, conceptions of existence), trying to highlight, from an exquisitely sociological perspective, the reasons for the current crisis of the family and the useful strategies to stem it.