COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL POLITICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 2002 SOCIAL POLITICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TIJEN ERDUT

Offered to

Economics (Evening)
Economics

Course Objective

This course aims to ensure that students know the multidiscipline and interdisciplinary character of social politics, associate the development of social politics to social change process, and realise the parties contribute to policy-making and the methods of policy-making.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To describe the capitalist economic system and the social problem
2   To recognise social politics is not limited with the protection of the most vulnerable people
3   To demonstrate the development of social politics in economic/technological, social, politic/ideological and legal contexts
4   To analyse social problems
5   To analyse social problems by taking into consideration Turkey and other countries
6   to argue the role of social politics for achieving full employment and social justice.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concept of social politics
2 The conditions of the emergence of social politics and the effective ideologies
3 The conditions of the emergence of welfare state
4 Economic and social order in welfare state
5 The conditions of the emergence of workfare state
6 Economic and social order in workfare state
7 Trade unions and social politics
8 International Labour Organization and social politics
9 Mid Term
10 Mid Term
11 Employment and unemployment problem
12 Flexibility and decentralisation in labour relations
13 Wages, income distribution and poverty problem
14 Social security

Recomended or Required Reading

Ömer Zühtü ALTAN; Sosyal Politika Dersleri. Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, No. 1592, Eskişehir, 2004.

Sami GÜVEN; Sosyal Politikanın Temelleri. Ezgi Kitabevi, Bursa, 2001.

Meryem KORAY; Sosyal Politika. Imge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2008.

Bağımsız Sosyal Bilimciler; 2008 Kavşağında Türkiye, Siyaset, Iktisat ve Toplum. Yordam Kitap, Istanbul, 2008.

Tijen ERDUT; Işgücü Piyasasında Enformelleşme ve Kadın işgücü, Çalışma ve Toplum Dergisi. 2005/3, s. 11 49.

Tijen ERDUT: Endüstri Ilişkileri Bakımından Insan Kaynakları Yönetimi, Mercek Dergisi. Temmuz 2001, s. 56 66.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class participation
Examinations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tijen.erdut@deu.edu.tr
420 20293

Office Hours

Monday: 14.00 17.00
Wednesday : 14.00 17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 129

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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