Class Seminário Temático I - Desigualdades, Inclusão e Bem-Estar Social

The curricular unit of Thematic Seminar I - Inequalities, Inclusion and Social Well-Being aims to enable students to have a critical and reasoned reading of current social problems and the challenges facing social service professionals in this context.
Its objectives are: to situate the major contemporary issues and debates within the scope of social research and the challenges they pose to social work; reflect on new theoretical approaches to contemporary social problems; situate and characterize social problems; identify inequalities, exclusion and citizenship indicators, as well as the mechanisms that produce them, at different levels and identify instruments and strategies for social intervention, within the scope of insertion devices and activation processes of territorialized public social policies.

1. Perspectives of social inequality and inclusion
2. Production and reproduction of inequalities
3. Critical analysis of inequality: (ethnicity, gender, age, vulnerable groups)
4. Sustainable communities and territories (in terms of equality and inclusion)
5. Social policies for equality and inclusion
6. Equality and human rights: reflections from Social Work

The teaching-learning will be developed from a pedagogical approach that will combine more expository methods, for the transmission of concepts and fundamental and structuring analysis methods, with participatory methods around work constructed and presented by the students. Classes are framed and accompanied by a detailed script with developed summaries, specific bibliographic guidelines and tasks.

Albuquerque, C.; Arcoverde A. C. (2017). Serviço Social Contemporâneo - Reflexividade e Estratégia. Pactor Ed.
Almeida, J. F. (2013). Desigualdades e Perspetivas dos Cidadãos: Portugal e a Europa. Mundos Sociais.
Miguel do Carmo, R., Sebastião, J., Azevedo, J., Martins, S. e Firmino da Costa, A. (organizadores) (2018). Desigualdades Sociais. Portugal e a Europa. Editora Mundos Sociais
Costa, A. F. (2012). Desigualdades Sociais Contemporâneas. Mundos Sociais.
Carvalho, H. (2022). Desigualdades Sociais e Grupos Sociais Vulneráveis. Editora Húmus.