210040 PS D3: PS Childhood and generational order - The age orientation of welfare states (2009S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Contact: helmut.wintersberger@univie.ac.at
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Tu 24.02.2009 08:00 to Tu 03.03.2009 16:00
- Registration is open from We 04.03.2009 16:00 to Th 05.03.2009 16:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 20.03.2009 08:00
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 10.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 17.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 24.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 31.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 21.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 28.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 05.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 12.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 19.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 26.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 09.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 16.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 23.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
- Tuesday 30.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
The final assessment will be made on basis of the oral presentation, the paper handed in, as well as of the continued collaboration in the seminar.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The aims of the seminar are
- to increase knowledge on theories and findings in recent social childhood studies,
- to combine this with welfare state analysis by introducing age and generation as a structural dimension,
- and finally to analyse the position of the child population with a view to this generational order of welfare states.
- to increase knowledge on theories and findings in recent social childhood studies,
- to combine this with welfare state analysis by introducing age and generation as a structural dimension,
- and finally to analyse the position of the child population with a view to this generational order of welfare states.
Examination topics
After the introduction to the seminar, time will be used predominantly for oral presentations by students as well as for debates and discussions. Students attending are expected to make an oral presentation as well as to hand in a paper, both in English.
Reading list
Bradbury B./ Jäntti M. (1999) Child poverty across industrialized nations. Unicef Florence
Bradbury B./ Jäntti M., eds. (2001) The dynamics of child poverty in industrialized nations. Cambridge
Bradshaw J.R./ Finch N. (2002) A comparison of child benefit packages in 22 countries. Department of Work and Pensions Research Report Nr. 174. Her Majesty¿s Stationary Office
Cornia G. A. ed. (1997) Child poverty and deprivation in industrialized countries. Oxford
Cornia G. A. et al. ed. (1991) Children and the transition to market economy. Aldershot
Daly M./ Rake K. (2003) Gender and the welfare state: care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA. Cambridge
Esping-Andersen G. et al. (2002) Why we need a new welfare state. Oxford/ New York
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Cambridge
Evers A./ Wintersberger H., eds. (1990) Shifts in the welfare mix. Frankfurt/ Boulder, Colorado
Folbre, N. (1994) Who pays for the kids? New York/ London
Folbre, N. (2008) Valuing children. Cambridge
Franklin B. (1995) The handbook of children¿s rights. London/ New York
Freeman M.A.D. (2007) The best interests of the child. Leiden
Freeman M.A.D. (2004) Children¿s rights. Aldershot
Freeman M.A.D., ed. (1996) Children¿s rights ¿ a comparative perspective. Aldershot
Jensen A.-M. / Saporiti A. (1992) Do Children Count? EUROSOCIAL Series No. 36/17, Vienna
Jensen A.-M. et al., eds. (2004) Children¿s welfare in ageing Europe. 2 vol. Trondheim
Lister R. (2005) Poverty. Cambridge
Lister R. (1997) Citizenship ¿ feminist perspectives. Basingstoke
Lynch J. (2007) Age in the welfare state. Cambridge
Qvortrup J. ed. (2005) Studies in modern childhood: society, agency and culture. Basingstoke
Qvortrup J., Childhood as a social pheomenon ¿ An introduction ... EUROSOCIAL Series No. 36/0, Vienna
Qvortrup J., ed. ( 1994) Childhood matters. Aldershot
Ruxton S. (1999) A Children¿s Policy for 21st Century Europe: First Steps. Brussels
Ruxton S. (2005) What about us? Children¿s rights in the EU: next steps. Brussels
Ruxton S./ Bennett F. (2002) Including children? Brussels
Unicef (2007) Child poverty in rich nations. Innocenti Report Card Nr. 7
Wintersberger H. ed. (1996) Children on the way from marginality towards citizenship. Vienna
Wintersberger H. et al., eds. (2007) Childhood, generational order and the welfare state. Odense
Zeiher, H. et al., eds. (2007) Flexible childhood. Odense
Zelizer V.A. (1985) Pricing the priceless child: the changing social value of children. New York
Bradbury B./ Jäntti M., eds. (2001) The dynamics of child poverty in industrialized nations. Cambridge
Bradshaw J.R./ Finch N. (2002) A comparison of child benefit packages in 22 countries. Department of Work and Pensions Research Report Nr. 174. Her Majesty¿s Stationary Office
Cornia G. A. ed. (1997) Child poverty and deprivation in industrialized countries. Oxford
Cornia G. A. et al. ed. (1991) Children and the transition to market economy. Aldershot
Daly M./ Rake K. (2003) Gender and the welfare state: care, work and welfare in Europe and the USA. Cambridge
Esping-Andersen G. et al. (2002) Why we need a new welfare state. Oxford/ New York
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Cambridge
Evers A./ Wintersberger H., eds. (1990) Shifts in the welfare mix. Frankfurt/ Boulder, Colorado
Folbre, N. (1994) Who pays for the kids? New York/ London
Folbre, N. (2008) Valuing children. Cambridge
Franklin B. (1995) The handbook of children¿s rights. London/ New York
Freeman M.A.D. (2007) The best interests of the child. Leiden
Freeman M.A.D. (2004) Children¿s rights. Aldershot
Freeman M.A.D., ed. (1996) Children¿s rights ¿ a comparative perspective. Aldershot
Jensen A.-M. / Saporiti A. (1992) Do Children Count? EUROSOCIAL Series No. 36/17, Vienna
Jensen A.-M. et al., eds. (2004) Children¿s welfare in ageing Europe. 2 vol. Trondheim
Lister R. (2005) Poverty. Cambridge
Lister R. (1997) Citizenship ¿ feminist perspectives. Basingstoke
Lynch J. (2007) Age in the welfare state. Cambridge
Qvortrup J. ed. (2005) Studies in modern childhood: society, agency and culture. Basingstoke
Qvortrup J., Childhood as a social pheomenon ¿ An introduction ... EUROSOCIAL Series No. 36/0, Vienna
Qvortrup J., ed. ( 1994) Childhood matters. Aldershot
Ruxton S. (1999) A Children¿s Policy for 21st Century Europe: First Steps. Brussels
Ruxton S. (2005) What about us? Children¿s rights in the EU: next steps. Brussels
Ruxton S./ Bennett F. (2002) Including children? Brussels
Unicef (2007) Child poverty in rich nations. Innocenti Report Card Nr. 7
Wintersberger H. ed. (1996) Children on the way from marginality towards citizenship. Vienna
Wintersberger H. et al., eds. (2007) Childhood, generational order and the welfare state. Odense
Zeiher, H. et al., eds. (2007) Flexible childhood. Odense
Zelizer V.A. (1985) Pricing the priceless child: the changing social value of children. New York
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- the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and its almost universal acknowledgement by the international community as a set of normative regulations guiding child welfare practice and childhood policies both nationally and internationally;
- innovations in sociological childhood research, finding its expression in new childhood research paradigms, such as childhood as agency and as social category, as well as in the establishment of a new special sociology: the sociology of childhood.
However, welfare state theory and practice have proved so far to be rather resistant with a view to acknowledging children as citizens having their own rights and responsibilities. Originally welfare state discourses had evolved around conflicts and compromises between social classes, particularly Capital and Labour; and decommodification of labour had served as key concept for developing the most widespread typology of Western welfare states (Esping-Andersen 1990). Subsequently Feminist researchers (Folbre 1994) had argued for including gender, in addition to social class, as a structural dimension in welfare state analysis. However, while Folbre held the view, that with this step the process of extending welfare state theory was in principle concluded, in more recent literature a further extension, namely by age and generation, is pleaded for (Esping-Andersen et al. 2002; Lynch 2007; Wintersberger et al. eds. 2007).
In the seminar generational distributive justice and the generational order of welfare states will be addressed theoretically, empirically and cross-nationally.