Download Issues of our time: leadership challenges in complex societies

Issues of our time: leadership challenges in complex societies
Academic Year: ( 2016 / 2017 )
Review date: 24-09-2016
Department assigned to the subject: Department of Social Analysis
Coordinating teacher: GOMEZ GARCIA, MARIA VICTORIA PALOMA
Type: Compulsory ECTS Credits : 3.0
Year : 1 Semester : 1
COMPETENCES AND SKILLS THAT WILL BE ACQUIRED AND LEARNING RESULTS.
- Development of skills appropriate for leadership responsibilities within both the political and social spheres.
- Ability to compare, confront and contrast theoretical interpretations and opposing approaches as a basis for potential
future decisions.
- Critical reflection training, ethical commitment, assumption of gender equality principles and social responsibility
practice.
- Ability to contextualize and identify key and responsible actors in any situation
- Capacity for the diagnosis of complex social and political scenarios, understanding the challenges of leadership in
these circumstances and the dilemmas of decision-making associated with them.
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS: PROGRAMME
1. Economic and political globalization
- Scope of globalization
- Problems of economic globalization: liberalization, deregulation and standardization of economic policies
- Is a global governance possible?
- Tensions between globalization and democracy
2. Economic inequality
- The measurement of inequality
- Causes of inequality
- The debate on the justifications of inequality
- Economic, political and social consequences of inequality
- Policies against inequality
3. Changes in the world of work
- From the Fordist model to flexible work
- Market uncertainty and outsourcing
- The future of employment: technology and work
4. Managing cultural integration in a context of fragmentation of national cultural identities
- Types of social intervention
- Recognition of context
- Socio-identity conflicts in EU related to migration
- Social integration
- Key aspects in social intervention with immigrant population
- Intercultural Perspective
- Gender Perspective
5. Climate change and social change (I)
- The reality of climate change
- Increasing the temperature of the planet; the sea level rise; decreased ice at the poles
- Impacts of climate change: global impact / impact on world regions
- Social consequences of climate change
- Political and social leadership
6. Climate change and social change (II)
- Change the energy model: from fossil fuels to renewable energy
- Flagship cases (cities) of change
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- Political and social leadership
LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND METHODOLOGY
Sessions consist of:
- Theoretical presentation
- Practical section (participation, practical exercises, exchange and debate among students)
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
100% of the mark will be distributed as follows:
- 50% practical exercises
- 50% group work
Students who fail the course in the first call should sit an exam in which the basic knowledge of each of the topics will
be required.
% end-of-term-examination:
0
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals…):
100
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Berger, P.L. y Huntington, S.P. Globalizaciones múltiples. La diversidad cultural en el mundo contemporáneo.,
Paidós, 2002
- Boltanski, L.; Chiapello, E. El nuevo espíritu del capitalismo, Akal, 2002
- Cachón, L. (dir) Inmigración y conflictos en Europa. Aprender para una mejor convivencia ., Hacer, 2011
- Durán, R. Migraciones y gestión de la diversidad" , Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas, 10, 2, pp.
131-153, 2011
- Galbraith, J. K. "La desigualdad genera concentración oligárquica de poder" en SinPermiso.info , SinPermiso,
8/10/2006
- Held, D.; McGrew, A. Globalización / Antiglobalización. Sobre la reconstrucción del orden mundial,, Paidós,
Barcelona
- Milanovic, B. Los que tienen y los que no tienen, Alianza, 2012
- Nozick, R. Anarquía, Estado y utopía, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991
- Pardo, M. El impacto social del cambio climático, Panorama Social 5: 22.35, 2007
- Parekh, B. Repensando el multiculturalismo, Istmo, 2005
- Piketty, T. El capital en el siglo XXI, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014
- Rodrik, D. La paradoja de la globalización Democracia y futuro de la economía mundial, Antonio Bosch, 2011
- Sennett, R. Juntos, Anagrama, 2012
- Stiglitz, J.E. El precio de la desigualdad, Taurus, 2012
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Beck, U.; Giddens, A.; Lash, S. Modernización reflexiva, Alianza, 2001
- Castaño, C. Las mujeres y las tecnologías de la información: Internet y la trama de nuestra vida, Alianza, 2005
- Castells, M. La sociedad de la información, Volumen I: La sociedad Red, Alianza, 1999
- Finkel, L. La organización social del trabajo, Pirámide, 1994
- George, S. y Wolf, M. La globalización liberal. A favor y en contra, Anagrama, 2002
- Oloffson, G. The dark side of professions ¿the role of professional autonomy in creating ¿great professional
disasters¿, 8th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow, 2007
- Sachs, J. Mitos y soluciones mágicas en El Fin de la pobreza: cómo conseguirlo en nuestro tiempo 431-456,
Debate, 2005
- Sassen, S. Los espectros de la globalización, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003
- Sen, A. Identidad y violencia. La ilusión del destino, Katz, 2007
- Sztompka, P. Sociología del cambio social, Alianza, 2004
- Wajcman, J. El tecnofeminismo, Cátedra, 2006
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