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Short courses PhD
Work, Family and Social Protection
16-20 February
Workload: 2 ECTS
Faculty:
Prof. Dr. Chiara Saraceno,
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für
Sozialforschung
Assessment:
Content and objectives
Family policies are the most
marginalized area of welfare state
and social policy research,
particularly at the comparative
level. Yet the role assigned to the
family (gender division of labour,
intergenerational solidarity) is at
the core of many social policies
and of their cross country (and
cross time) differentiation. The
familisation/de-familisation
dichotomy – or continuum – is as
important for welfare state analysis
as the commodification/decommodification
one.
This course compares different
family policies and their link with
other social security policies.
Specific attention will be given to
policies supporting the cost of
children, policies addressing the
needs of care of children and of the
frail elderly, equal opportunity and
conciliating policies. The course
aims to
a) make students familiar with
relevant concepts and debates;
b) help students to develop the
ability to “read” expectations”
concerning family arrangements in
different kinds of policies (non
exclusively explicit family
policies)
c) present students with main
research findings in the field as
well as with the most relevant data
bases
Literature
- Boje T. and Leira A.(eds),
Gender, Welfare State and the
Market, London, Routledge, 2000:
chapters 1 (Mary Daly), 5 (Gornick),
6 (Saraceno), 10 (Millar)
- B. Pfau-Effinger and B.
Geissler (eds), Care and social
integration in European
Societies, Policy Press, Bristol
2005: Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,
13, 15
- Lewis J., M. Campbell and C.
Huerta, “Patterns of paid and
unpaid work in Western Europe:
gender, commodification,
preferences and the implications
for policy”, Journal of
European Social Policy, Vol. 18
(1), 2008, pp. 21–37
- Lewis J., T. Knijn, C.
Martin, I. Ostner, Patterns of
development in work-family
reconciliation policies for
parents France, Germany, the
Netherlands and the UK in the
2000s, Social Politics, Fall
2008, pp. 261-286
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