Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
SP50173 Social policy in knowledge-based societies |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: CW100 |
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Aims:
* To review and evaluate critically the literature on social policy in knowledge-based societies using a variety of social science perspectives. * To demonstrate a critical understanding of the diverse trajectories of knowledge-based societies in different world regions. * To enable students to identify, research and develop their own arguments in relation to social aspects of knowledge-based societies. * To develop practical skills in evaluating of social policy aspects of knowledge-based societies. Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and understanding of the social policy aspects of knowledge-based societies under diverse national social, economic and political conditions, in different world regions. Skills: * Ability to analyse and evaluate international experiences and outcomes of such policies. * Ability to analyse critically the relationship between local, national and global policies in relation to social policy aspects of knowledge-based societies. * Ability to identify, research and develop arguments in relation to such policies. * Ability to analyse and evaluate such policies taken from a comparative or international context. * Ability to carry out independent and original analysis of concrete policy problems. * Ability to analyse and synthesise multidisciplinary perspectives on the same problems. Content: * Political context of debates about the 'knowledge economy': EU and OECD * Measuring the knowledge economy and its social dimension: indicators and statistics * Social policy and the knowledge economy: human investment and economic dynamism * Social cohesion and exclusion in the knowledge economy. |