Poverty and Social Exclusion in Modern World

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(tylko po angielsku) GOALS AND “DUBLIN DESCRIPTORS”

At the end of the course, students should be able to navigate through different sociological perspectives regarding modern forms of discrimination and social exclusion, as well as linking and combining them properly. Generally speaking, this course will allow students to (-) improve their critical thinking;

(-) understand the main theoretical and empirical issues within the contemporary sociology of exclusion; (-) be well-acquainted with a variety of sociological imaginations; (-) be prepared to carry out sociological research on these topics; (-) hopefully, begin to look at social reality anew and have some epiphanies about its construction.

(-) “Knowledge and understanding”:

This course will provide key theoretical and empirical tools to understand discrimination and social

exclusion, their scope and importance in particular.

(-) “Applying knowledge and understanding”:

Students will be able to make the most out of the opportunity of seeing discrimination sociologically, getting familiar with a broadly applicable sociological toolbox.

(-) “Making judgments”:

Students will have the means for analyzing social exclusion and competently express their views on it. They will also demonstrate a deep understanding of some of the major sociological views on this phenomenon.

(-) “Communications Skills”:

Sociological concepts, appropriate terminology, and technical terms will be investigated. Students’ communicative skills will be enhanced, especially in terms of their ability to deliver scientific and academic presentations.

(-) “Learning skills”:

This course will allow students to improve their critical reasoning skills and their ability to think

through complex sociological problems. Moreover, students will articulate their own views on contemporary social issues.

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(tylko po angielsku) A meticulous exegesis of texts will be paired with simplified syntheses. Standard lectures will be combined with focused debates and case study analyses.

A number of classes will be designed as particularly interactive. In this sense, international experts and distinguished scholars will be invited, depending on the specific topic at issue. Rather than being something like keynote lectures, these situations are conceived to be extremely synergistic and participative: this is to say that you will have the opportunity to ask a question, or better yet, to make a (brief!) point, then treasuring the answers and thoughts of our guests. Extra credits will be given to the most deserving student(s).

(tylko po angielsku) For those of you who will regularly attend classes, the final examination will consist of a written presentation (e.g., a research project; a theoretical analysis; a public-sociology paper; etc.) on some aspects of discrimination and social exclusion in modern society to be delivered at the end of the course (i.e., by the beginning of June). Participation and (styles of) attendance will be taken into special consideration. Students are expected to be engaged in class discussions, in a proactive and involved manner. Extra credits, as already mentioned, will be systematically awarded due to class activities and focused debates.

(tylko po angielsku) The evaluation by the observation of the participation of students in the class discussions and solving the problems, and analysis of the written presentation.

Students will be evaluated if they have got:

- basic knowledge of the theory and methodology relevant to social and natural sciences, in particular: economics, sociology, environmental protection, and ecology (06GP-1P_W01)

- understands the basic processes of development and management in space in the context of modern theories (06GP-1P_W05; P6S_WG P6U_W)

- knows and understands the features of a human being as a creator of intangible assets that determine the identity of places and the image of local governments and other institutions (06GP-1P_W11; P6S_WG P6U_W)

- has theoretical and practical knowledge of methods of analyzing phenomena in spatial systems, including the use of IT tools (06GP-1P_W09; P6S_WG P6U_W)

- 06GP-1P_W12- rozumie miejsce i znaczenie nauk społecznych w rozwoju oraz ich związek z innymi dziedzinami nauki (P6S_WG P6U_W)

The students should also understand the need to develop territorial units following spatial order and sustainable development principles.

All aforementioned effects should relate to social work and social policy issues.

(tylko po angielsku) Welcome to our class on “Discrimination and Social Exclusion in Contemporary Society”. (You might notice that the official title of the class is slightly different, since it was formally impossible to modify its previous denomination; although poverty will be taken into account too, our primary focus is going to be on social practices that exclude and disadvantage certain groups of individuals on the basis of ascribed traits) This course is intended to offer a guide to the modern foundations of the sociology of exclusion, analyzing the most influential and recent literature in the field, thus providing a broad overview of structural and institutional sources of discrimination regarding several aspects of identity (among others, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality) and social position. To use a slogan and paraphrase Walter Benjamin, our center of attention will almost constantly be on “social exclusion and discrimination in the age of their public untenability”. The point is that contemporary processes of this sort are produced and reproduced through highly subtle, euphemized, and even invisible mechanisms, that prevent them from being directly recognized as such. It’s not so much that these phenomena are not overtly verbalized or frankly stated; it’s that being inaccurately identified at a personal level is a key feature essential to making them the kind of sociocultural phenomena they are. “Racism without (avowed) racists” and “privilege without (declared) privileged” are notable recent examples. In such cases, quite tellingly, when actors are forced to account for their self-understandings, open denials ( I’m not a racist, some of my best friends are black ) turn out to be an accurate proxy for detecting the phenomenon, like upside-down images exposed in a camera obscure. Throughout the course, we will read and discuss selections from authors whose works have shaped this sub-discipline (even though, of necessity, we can only skim the surface of its rich history). Fairly comprehensive, the course ranges from Khan to Bonilla-Silva, from Wacquant to Zerubavel, from Rawls to Pager. Approaches covered include but are not limited to critical theory, structuralism, ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, social action theory, cultural-cognitive sociology, and discourse analysis. Furthermore, we will review those empirical results and theoretical achievements that have influenced the current debate. In each week of the course, we will focus on a specific author/perspective, as outlined below; intuitively, each part of the course builds on content from previous parts.

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Wykład akademicki w języku obcym, projekcje filmów dokumentalnych, raportowana praca własna studentów zgodnie z zadaniami przydzielanymi przez nauczycielkę w ramach zajęć on-line

Test z podstawowych pojęć i koncepcji. Ocena pisemnych raportów - portfolio zadań 06PC1-1A_W02, 06PC1-1A_W14; 06PC1-1A_U01, 06PC1-1A_U03, 06PC1-1A_U10; Ocena uśredniona na koniec semestru.

Test scoring version 1 (21-22 June):

22-25 p. = 3 sufficient

26-28 p. = 3+ (sufficient+)

29-31 p. = 4 (good)

32-34 p. = 4+ (good+)

35-37 p. = 5 (very good)

The test will be open on June, 21-22 and June, 28-29 (Monday 8.00 – Tuesday15.00). This is your choice which date is the most suitable for you. The deadline to send portfolio to the teacher is June, 29. In the test (about 15 questions, multiple choice), you will find questions related to basic definitions, concepts, theories, measures and key names related to different approaches, please pay attention to:

1. Poverty and marginalization in sociological perspective – as the phenomenon inbuilt in social order any kind, the old and new poverty

2. Poverty and social exclusion in sociological perspective – first research – Great Britain, Chicago School, Hull House, the term of marginality in first works of Chicago school

3. Defining poverty – Booth and Rowntree , Sen, participatory approaches,

4. Typologies of poverty – absolute and relative poverty, lines of poverty, EU measures – AROPE and severe material deprivation

5. Defining social exclusion – France in 1970s, USA, European Union, paradigms and discourses of social exclusion

6. Concepts of culture of poverty and underclass

7. Dimensions of social exclusion

8. Neighbourhoods of relegation – conceptualizations by W.J. Wilson, J. Q. Wilson and G. Kelling, L. Wacquant;

9. Child poverty – the definition. Key factors increasing the risk of poverty for children

10. Sexual orientation and marginalization – the case of Poland

11. Diversities in disabilities

12. The concept of tourists and vagabonds by Bauman

13. Social exclusion, stereotypes, discrimination and antidiscrimination strategies

1. Ubóstwo i marginalizacja społeczna w perspektywie historycznej

2-3. Ubóstwo i wykluczenie społeczne w definicjach. Paradygmaty i dyskursy wykluczenia społecznego

4-6. Wykluczenie społeczne jako zjawisko wielowymiarowe

7. Zubożałe sąsiedztwa

8. Ubóstwo i marginalizacja w cyklu życia i w indywidualnym doświadczeniu biograficznym. Ubóstwo dzieci, dzieci w instytucjach

9. Ubóstwo, wykluczenie społeczne, marginalizacja społeczna i kwestie płci

10. Różne "twarze" wykluczenia społecznego i marginalizacji - orientacja seksualna i styl życia.

11. Różne oblicza wykluczenia społecznego - niepełnosprawność

12. Różne oblicza wykluczenia społecznego - etnos i mniejszości etniczne

13. Społeczeństwo głównego nurtu a "margines społeczny". Stygmatyzacja i dyskryminacja. Funkcje społeczne marginalizowanych

14. Jedenaste - nie bądź obojętny

15. Test i ocena

• Bunio Mroczek, P., Potoczna M., Warzywoda-Kruszyńska W. (2016), Poverty and Social Exclusion. During and After Poland’s Transition to Capitalism. Four Generations of Women in a Post-Industrial City Tell Their Life Stories. Łódź: University Press.

Golczyńska-Grondas A., Potoczna M., 2020, A trap of systemic changes – Pola’s biographical drift, in: K. Kaźmierska, K. Waniek (eds), Telling The Great Change. The Process of the Systemic Transformation in Poland in a Biographical Perspective, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, p. 443-474.

Lister R. (2004, 2005…), Poverty, Cambridge: Polity Press.

• Parodi G. Sciulli D. (2012), Social Exclusion. Short and Long Term Causes and Consequences, Berlin-Heidelberg: Physica Verlag. A Springer Company

• Phillipson Ch., Allan G., Morgan D. (2004), Social Networks and Social Exclusion, Farnham, Burington: Ashgate

• Walls J. (2006), Glass Castle, New York: Scribner

• Wacquant L. (2008), Urban Outcast. A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, Cambridge: Policy Press

• Wilson W.J. (1990), The Truly Disadvantaged. The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press

Filmy:

My street dir. Marcin Latałło

Waste Land, dir. Lucy Walker

Glass castle dir. DD Cretton

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Wykład akademicki w języku obcym, projekcje filmów dokumentalnych, od 11 marca 2020 raportowana praca własna studentów zgodnie z zadaniami przydzielanymi przez nauczycielkę w ramach zajęć on-line podczas lockdownu

Ocena pisemnych raportów 06PC1-1A_W02, 06PC1-1A_W14; 06PC1-1A_U01, 06PC1-1A_U03, 06PC1-1A_U10; Ocena uśredniona na koniec semestru

1. Poverty and social marginalization in the historical perspective

2-3. Poverty and social exclusion in definitions. Social exclusion paradigms and discourses

4-6. Social exclusion as multidimensional phenomenon

7-8. Neighbourhoods of relegation

9-11. Poverty and marginalization in life cycle and in individual biographical experience

a/child poverty

b/ female poverty

c/ breaking through the vicious circle...

12. Mainstream society vs “social margins”. Stigmatisation and discrimination. Social functions of marginalised ones

13. Summary task - pandemic, social isolation, social exclusion

• Lister R. (2004, 2005…), Poverty, Cambridge: Polity Press.

• Parodi G. Sciulli D. (2012), Social Exclusion. Short and Long Term Causes and Consequences, Berlin-Heidelberg: Physica Verlag. A Springer Company

• Phillipson Ch., Allan G., Morgan D. (2004), Social Networks and Social Exclusion, Farnham, Burington: Ashgate

• Walls J. (2006), Glass Castle, New York: Scribner

• Wacquant L. (2008), Urban Outcast. A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, Cambridge: Policy Press

• Wilson W.J. (1990), The Truly Disadvantaged. The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press

Filmy:

My street dir. Marcin Latałło

Waste Land, dir. Lucy Walker

Glass castle dir. DD Cretton