166-525 Globalisation and Social Policy

Admission to the master of Social Policy or master of Public Policy and Management one-year program or fourth-year honours in Sociology.

This subject locates contemporary social policy and debates about its future in the context of the social, cultural and political changes associated with globalisation. The subject focuses on individualisation, the changing relationship between individual and collective, and the implications for social policy and forms of social solidarity; the changing relationship between state and society; implications of emerging forms of risk, mobility and social diversity for social policy; emerging forms of inequality and social policy; competing moral grammars and changing patterns of citizenship; the implications of increasing social complexity for social policy; the relationship between social policy and international organisations; gender, race and social policy; and different social policy responses to globalization.

A literature review of 3000 words 30% (due mid-semester) and a research essay of 7000 words 70% (due during the examination period).

A subject reader will be available.