Modern Social Welfare Thoughts

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code:
Course Name: Modern Social Welfare Thoughts
Course Type: specialization
Periods: 48
Credits: 3
Target Student: major of sociology and social work
Assessment: exam
Preparatory Course: Introduction to Sociology

2. Brief Course Introduction

     Taking the schools of main social welfare thoughts in modern western countries as a mainline, this course aims at studying, elaborating and teaching the content of main social welfare thinkers and schools from a broad perspective. This course systemically and completely introduced the leading problems that the social welfare thoughts are going to solve, the historical background, representative figures, basic analytical methods and main ideas of main schools in the history of social welfare thoughts development, and the historical track of the formation and development of each school. In particular, to strengthen student’s ability of studying and applying classical historical economics and utilitarian social welfare thoughts, social welfare thoughts of Marxism, neo-liberalism and collectivism of England, Keynesian and new-Keynesian and theories of national development by associating microscopic views, macroscopic views and theories of political economics, and by learning the theories to enhance students with a perceptual knowledge over the economic society of the past and the reality, develop the students’ abilities to explain the reality by taking advantage of theories and logical inference.