Social policy with the elements of demography 3402-21PSDZ

1. General issues of social policy: values, aims, scope, genesis, methods and instruments. 2. Genesis of social policy. Methods and instruments of social policy. Measurement of phenomena and processes (system of measures, indicators and norms). 3. Conditions of the development of social policy. 4. Objective and subjective scope of social policy. 5. Demographic policy. Types of demographic policies. Instruments and means of social policy and its subjects. Demographic conditions of social policy. 6. Social policy and a family. 7. Policy of income creation and conditions of material welfare of population and individual social groups. 8. Poverty. Definitions and measuring poverty. Factors and conditions causing poverty. Programmes and means of social policy counteracting poverty. Extreme indications of poverty. 9. Counteracting marginalization and social exclusion of weaker groups. 10. Employment policy and labor protection. Economic and social conditions and factors of the development of employment and labor market. Unemployment. Gratification for labor and its role. Labor protection. 11. Educational and cultural policy. 12. Social policy in the scope of social protection: social insurance, family provisions, health care, social aid. 13. Creation of social order. 14. Problems and dillema of the integration of social policy in European Union.