Examination of the Quality of Social Change

Major: Social Welfare
Code of subject: 6.232.01.E.076
Credits: 3.00
Department: Sociology and Social Work
Lecturer: Mariana Shkoliar, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: 1.3. Identify the main areas of cooperation between government agencies and NGOs; 1.4. Critically evaluate the obtained results, process and argue the decisions based on factual / empirical data of practice; 1.6. Apply their knowledge and understanding to carry out professional activities in the field of social welfare, aimed at socio - economic change; 1.8. Provide objective professional information to central and local authorities, local governments, public organizations on social development, formation and evaluation of social security services, social policy; 1.9. Provide informational and normative-legal assistance to public organizations on the formation of social projects financed from regional and local budgets; regional and local budgets.
Required prior and related subjects: prerequisites: • Social audit and inspection in the social services system co-requisites: - • Monitoring and evaluation of social programs and projects • Quantitative and qualitative analysis in social work • Prevention and counteraction of corruption in social welfare
Summary of the subject: Social changes: definitions. Evolutionary theories of social changes. Neoevolutionism. Conflict theory in the interpretation of social change. Theories of modernization. Concepts of neomodernization and neoconvergence. Theories of globalization. Cyclical theories of civilizations. Activity approach to the problem of social change. Social change in the context of historical sociology. Social movements as a factor of social changes.
Assessment methods and criteria: • oral interviews, participation in discussions and interactive exercises, presentation of the study project (40%) • final control (verification event, exam), written form (60%)
Recommended books: 1. Afonin E.A., Bandurka O.M., Martynov A.YU. Sotsialni tsykly: istoryko-sotsiolohichnyy pidkhid. KH.: Vyd-vo «Tytul», 2008. 504 s. (in Ukrainian) 2. Havrylenko I.M., Melnyk P.V., Nedyukha M.P. Sotsialnyy rozvytok: Navchalnyy posibnyk. Kyiv, 2001. 484 s. (in Ukrainian) 3. Kononenko O.YU. Aktualni problemy staloho rozvytku: navchalnometodychnyy posibnyk. K.: DP «Print servis», 2016. 109 s. (in Ukrainian) 4. Teoriya sotsialnykh zmin: cuchasni sotsiolohichni kontseptualizatsiyi: navchalnyy posibnyk / P. V. Kutuyev, O. V. Bohdanova, M. I. Klymenko, T. V. Kolomiyets [ta in.] ; NTUU «KPI». Kyiv : NPU im. M. P. Drahomanova. 2014. 220 s. (in Ukrainian) 5. Shtompka P. Sotsyolohyya sotsyalnykh yzmenenyy. M., 1996. 416 s. (in Russian)