SUBJECT

Welfare safety net and minority

lecture

master

Faculty of Social Sciences

Ethnic and Minority Policy MA

4

Semester 3

Autumn semester

The course is designed to examine basic questions of social policy and the welfare state, with a special emphasis on the different minorities in Hungary and their disprivilaged situation. The course will cover the most important issues of the social security system and the current social policy measures in particular to the minority policy issues. The course syllabus: the concept and institutions of social policy, values and ideologis affecting social policy, welfare redistribution, welfare pluralism, poverty, unemployment, social desintegration, 'underclass', poverty policies and the current Hungarian social policy issues.

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