| Course Name | Poverty and Social Policy |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC 375 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The goal of this course is to provide students with the tools necessary for the analysis of poverty and social policy. It, first, will introduce the sociology of poverty. Then, it will turn to examine social policies and welfare state, especially with respect to the impact of social policies on poverty reduction. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course focuses on poverty and social policy. By studying main theoretical approaches to poverty and welfare policies and welfare state as well as the research from the discipline of economy, it explores a variety of topics that include social and economic inequality; the causes and the persistence of poverty; the reduction and alleviation of poverty; welfare state; the effect of welfare policies on social inequality; and the impact of different type of welfare policies on different social groups. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction and Overview of the Course | |
| 2 | Definition of Poverty | Royce, Edward. 2009. Poverty and Power: The Problem of Structural Inequality. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 1- 24. |
| 3 | Inequality and Poverty | Townsend, P and D. Gordon. “Introduction: The human condition is structurally unequal”, In Peter Townsend and David Gordon (Eds.) World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy (Policy Press, 2002) pp. xi- xxiv |
| 4 | Causes of Poverty | Abihijit Banerjee, Roland Bénabou, and Dilip Mookherjee, eds., Understanding Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006): 19- 63. |
| 5 | The Faces of Poverty: Women, Chidren, Immigrants | Debbie Budlender (2005) Women and poverty, Agenda, 19:64, 30-36 Meltem Dayioğlu & Sirma Demir Şeker (2016) Social Policy and the Dynamics of Early Childhood Poverty in Turkey, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 17:4, 540-557 |
| 6 | Politics and Poverty | Göran Therborn, The Killing Fields Of Inequality (Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press, 2013), 132- 151. |
| 7 | Global Poverty | Harvey, David. 2004. The New Imperialism: Accumulation by Dispossession. Socialist Register, vol. 40: 63-83. Lera St. Clair (2006) Global poverty: Development ethics meets global justice, Globalizations, 3:2, 139-158 |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | Welfare State | Briggs, Asa. “The Welfare State in Historical Perspective”, In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 16- 29. Paine, Thomas. “The First Welfare State?” In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 9- 14. |
| 10 | Welfare State | Offe, Claus. “Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State”, In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 66- 75. Hayek, F. V. “The Meaning of the Welfare State”, In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 90- 95 |
| 11 | Poverty and Welfare State | Andersen, Gosta-Esping. “Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism”, In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State: a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 160- 174. Schulte, Bernd. “A European definition of poverty: the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union”, In Peter Townsend and David Gordon (Eds.) World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy (Policy Press, 2002) pp.119- 46. |
| 12 | Poverty and Welfare State | Kanji, Nazneen. “Social funds in sub-Saharan Africa: how effective for poverty reduction?”, In Peter Townsend and David Gordon (Eds.) World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy (Policy Press, 2002) pp. 233- 250. Townsend, Peter. “Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation: the need to construct an international welfare state”, In Peter Townsend and David Gordon (Eds.) World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy (Policy Press, 2002) pp. 3- 24. |
| 13 | Future of the Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policies | Andersen, Gosta-Esping. “A Welfare State for the Twenty-First Century”, In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 434- 454. Townsend, Peter and David Gordon. “Conclusion: constructing an anti-poverty strategy”, In Peter Townsend and David Gordon (Eds.) World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy (Policy Press, 2002) pp. 413- 431. |
| 14 | Future of the Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policies | Lister, Ruth. “Investing in the Citizen-Workers of the Future: Transformation in Citizenship and the State under New Labor”, In C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (eds)., The Welfare State a Reader (Polity, 2006), pp. 455- 472. |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 27 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 30 | |
| Total | 180 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | X | ||||
| 2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | |||||
| 3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | |||||
| 8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | |||||
| 9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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