Course code

RIA7001.YK

old course code

RIA7001

Course title in Estonian

Postmodernistlik heaoluriik

Course title in English

Postmodern Welfare State

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

It is the subject for masters studies. The course will give knowledge of the newest special literature, the ability to discuss the literature and to implement the knowledge in the analysis of Estonian society and politics.

Brief description of the course

The course will focus on the modern and postmodern welfare state; alteration of the roles of the institutions of the welfare state - family, market and state;
the class structure and employment patterns of postmodern welfare state; the impact of ideological discursion and value revolution to the models of welfare state; policy-making in postmodern state; the problems and reforms of main welfare policies; transient state peculiarities; welfare state adaptation to globalizing environment.

Teacher

Anu Toots

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