英語オムニバス講義前期(1)
 

【Instructor】
Assistant Professor Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee (GCOE・Assistant Professor)
開講日　5月19日、26日、6月2日
【Title】 Social Policy and Gender

【Description of Lecture】

This course is intended to provide an introduction to social policy and welfare state with a focus on topics related to gender. We will especially discuss on family change, women in workplace and new challenges that welfare states and people encounter due to these changes. The aim of the lectures is to provide an overview of key social policies related to gender and also to provide students with an opportunity to examine and debate the issues on work-life balance and females in labour market in greater depth. The first week comprises an introduction social policy and welfare state in a comparative perspective. The second week will focus on the changing role of female employment patterns as well as the family in regards to social policy. Finally in the third week, issues regarding woman in workplace will be discussed in more details.

【Syllabus】
Each week’s lecture is guided by some key questions as the following.

Week 1: Introduction to social policy and welfare state
What is social policy and what are its goals? What ‘needs’ should be met by social policy? What is welfare state and under what conditions have welfare states developed? What were the key assumptions on which the welfare state was founded? What are the major challenges that confront the advanced welfare states today?

Week 2: Family change and Social Policy
What are the prominent changes in family and its implications? How has social policy approached ‘the family’? How has it contributed or adapted to changes in family life? Why has work-family reconciliation emerged as a key policy area in recent years? What are the aims of work-family reconciliation policies? How do family policies increasingly constitute to the core of welfare state?

Week 3: Women in workplace
What are the comparative empirical changes regarding females in labour market? Where and in what kind of jobs are women participating in? To what extent can production regimes explain the various patterns of women working in the labour market? What are some key issues around women in workplace and how are they related to different policy arrangements across countries especially in East Asia?

【Structure of the lecture】

Each week comprises of two 90 minutes classes. First 60 to 70 minutes will be lectures by the lecturer and it will be followed by 20-30 minutes of Q&A. This will be the time for both students and the lecturer to ask questions to each other and have short discussion on the topic. This is to provide an opportunity for students to review what they have learned from the lecture and ask questions on their readings. Asking questions are strongly encouraged for students to engage more deeply with the topic and to develop their critical thinking skills.

【Reading list】

1st week:
   • Arts, W. and Glissen, J. (2002) ‘Three worlds of welfare capitalism or more? A State of the Art Report’, Journal of European Social Policy 12(2), 137-159.
   • Pierson, C. and Castles, F. (eds.) (2006) The Welfare State Reader, Cambridge: Polity Press
   • Esping-Andersen, G. (2002) Why we Need a New Welfare State, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   • Esping-Andersen, G. (1999) Social Foundations of the postindustrial economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   • Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press.
   • Pierson, C. (2006) Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Polity Press.

2nd week:
   • Gilbert, N. (2008) A Mother’s Work. How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
   • Esping-Andersen, G. (2009) The Incomplete Revolution. Adapting to Women’s New Roles. Cambridge: Polity Press.
   • Lewis, J. (1992) ‘Gender and the development of welfare regimes’, Journal of European Social Policy 2(3), 159-173.
   • Esping-Andersen, G. (2002) Why we Need a New Welfare State, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 3.
   • Esping-Andersen, G. (1999) Social Foundations of the postindustrial economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 3 and 4. 
   • Bonoli, G. (2005) ‘The politics of the new social policies: providing coverage against new social risks in mature welfare states’, Policy and Politics, 33 (3), 431-449.

3rd week:
   • Estevez-Abe, M. (2006) Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: A Study of Occupational Segregation by Sex in Advanced Industrial Societies, World Politics, Volume 59, Number 1, pp. 142-175.
   • Bonoli, G. (2007) ‘Time matters: postindustrialization, new social risks and welfare state adaptation in advanced industrial democracies’, Comparative Political Studies, 40 (5), 495-520.
   • Lee, Sophia. S. (2011) “Labour market risks in de-industrializing East Asian economies: the cases of Korea, Japan and Taiwan” G. Hwang (eds.) New welfare states in East Asia. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, chapter 4.
   • Toivonen, T. (2010) Is There Life after Work for Japan? Political ‘Work–Life Balance’ Research Begins to Address the Hard Questions. Social Science Japan Journal. September 2010, pg1-7. 
   • Estevez-Abe, M.; Iversen, T. and Soskice, D. (2001) “Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State,” P. Hall and David Soskice (eds.) Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford: University Press, 145-183.

【Evaluation】

Students are expected to write one essay (1500-2000 words) from the list of questions below. Please submit your essay (in MSword file) by June 19th via email (sophialee@socio.kyoto-u.ac.jp). Writing of the essay is to provide students with an opportunity to critically engage with the literature and arguments introduced in the lectures. The lecturer will comment on each student’s essay and provide feedbacks by the end of June. Please plan you essays from the beginning of the course and incorporate arguments from the reading lists and from the lectures.

• What is social policy and welfare state?
• What are the major challenges that confront the advanced welfare states today?
• Why has family policy become such a contested issue in recent years?
• What are some key issues around women in workplace?
• How do the changes in labour market and policy arrangements matter for women working in the labour market?