everything.study
SOWK 5700

Special Topics in Social Policy

0.5 credit · Graduate

The School will offer courses on substantive topics related to social administration and policy. Topics vary depending on the interests of faculty and students and the availability of instructors. Students outside of the School may register with permission from the School.

2012

Readings

  • Hill, Michael (2006). Chapter 1, “Introducing the Comparative Study of Social Policy,” in Social Policy in the Modern World: A Comparative Text. Oxford: Blackwell
  • Alcock, Peter and Gary Craig (2009), Editors. Chapter 1, “The International Context,” International Social Policy: Welfare Regimes in the Developed World, Palgrave
  • MacMillan, (Second edition), 1-24.
  • Dixon, John (1999). Chapter 2, “Social Security’s Tradition,” in Social Security in Global Perspective, 41-79.
  • James Rice and Michael Prince (2000). “The Crisis of the Welfare State: Canadian Perspectives and Critiques,” Chapter four in, Changing Politics of Canadian Social
  • Policy, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 83-109.
  • Linda Hantrais (1999). “Contextualization in cross-national comparative research,” International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2:2, 93-108.
  • Hantrais, Linda (2009). Chapter 6, “Research and Policy in International Settings,” International Comparative Research: Theory, Methods and Practice, Palgrave MacMillan,
Sources