LM8711 - SOCIOLOGY OF WELFARE

courses
ID:
LM8711
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
SOCIOLOGIA GENERALE
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT FOR WELFARE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (08/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

The educational objectives of the course are to acquire the basic concepts that are at the basis of welfare, then analyze the evolutionary aspects of the state with particular reference to the welfare state.
The intent is to examine the elements underlying the evolution of the main models that distinguish, in the various national realities, different ways of understanding welfare.
We will also perform an analysis of the main social policies and areas of intervention, both public and private, especially as regards the new individual and collective needs that characterize our welfare system.
The aim is to provide students with the ability to orient themselves in the Italian social welfare system, comparing them with the main reference models, through a sociological approach that takes into due consideration also the historical evolutionary and economic aspects.

Course Prerequisites

No specific knowledge and skills nor prerequisites are required

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment Methods


The final assessment consists of an oral exam on the entire syllabus. The aim is to assess students’ skills and in particular, an understanding of the issues discussed during the course, an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme, a correct command of the specific language as well as critical and methodological abilities will be evaluated. The grading scale goes from 1 to 30 with honours (cum laude): 1-17 fail, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 fair, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with honours (cum laude) excellent.

Texts


One to be chosen among the following texts
Ascoli U. (a cura di), Il welfare in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011;
Paci M., Pugliese E. (a cura di), Welfare e promozione delle capacità, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011;
Rizza S., Welfare e democrazia. I soggetti FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2009;
Cesareo V. (a cura di), Welfare responsabile, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2017.

Further reading.
One to be chosen among the following texts
Ferzetti F., L’assistenza sociale. Evoluzione, complessità e prospettive nella realtà italiana, II Ed., Collana di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Sociali, Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, 2022.

Ferzetti F., Politiche sociali a difesa dei soggetti deboli. Un’analisi socio-giuridica alla luce dei più recenti interventi, Collana di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Sociali, Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, 2025.

Contents

The course is divided into three blocks, coordinated with each other, which are articulated through different moments of observation ranging from the general to reach the specific case.
The first part of the course is dedicated to the general analysis of the origins of welfare through the deepening of the evolutionary aspects and transformations of the state, with particular reference to the social state.
In the second part a comparative analysis of the main models, systems and welfare regimes is conducted.
The last part tends to examine the Italian welfare example, starting from its origins, retracing the steps and the reasons that have outlined the current paradigm. In particular, the main responses given to the various social needs will be highlighted, including through an appropriate study of the protection of social rights. We will then proceed to an analysis of the answers provided by the State, the market and the Third sector to the various individual and collective needs.

Course Language


Italian

More information


The program is the same for attending and non-attending students

Degrees

Degrees

POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT FOR WELFARE 
Master’s Degree
2 years
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