Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa

Module/Subject matter

Basic knowledge of social structures and human behavior / History

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Contents

Social and Political Modern History

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Descriptors

In this subject, contents related to the great processes of contemporaneity will be taught, such as those related to the Liberal Bourgeois revolution and the process of industrialization, the development of capitalism and the formation of the working class, the protest movements, trade unionism and imperialism, the breaking of nineteenth-century Europe and the Great War, the revolutionary wave and the fascist movements, the Western democracies and their crisis, the Second World War, the construction of the Welfare State and the Decolonization process, Neoliberalism and the crisis of the Socialist bloc, as well as the problems that appear at the turn of the century. All this without renouncing the comments pertinent to Spanish history during the last two centuries.

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General proficiencies

Basic Proficiencies
BP1 - Students have demonstrated that they possess knowledge of and understand an area of study, based on general secondary education and usually at a level which, albeit with the support of advanced text books, also includes some aspects which imply knowledge of the latest developments in their field of study.
BP3 - Students are able to compile and interpret relevant information (normally within their area of study) in order to voice opinions which include reflection on relevant themes of a social, scientific or ethical nature.
BP5 - Students have developed those learning skills required in order to undertake further studies with a considerable degree of self-reliance.

General Proficiencies
GP1 - To apply knowledge of human behaviour and the social environment in analysis.
GP2 - To produce knowledge about social reality, social problems and the discipline of Social Work.
GP11 - To respect individual and group differences, and to know how to address intercultural contexts.

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Specific proficiencies

SP1 - The capacity to acquire and master the disciplinary knowledge necessary in order to analyse contemporary society, its structure and dynamics, including analysis of the complexity of social phenomena from a multidisciplinary perspective.
SP2 - The capacity to identify and analyse the social problems and needs in which Social Workers intervene.

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Learning outcomes

Students know well and know how to explain, in writting and orally, the historical context in which social policies arise and the professionalization of social assistance in Europe and Spain to understand their evolution and current situation.

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Methodology

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Languages

English

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Evaluation

* Only the mark of the practical part will be added if in this exam you get at least a 2.5 out of 6.

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Agenda

1. The industrial revolution and the transformation of agricultural societies.
2. The cycle of liberal revolutions (1789 - 1848) and european politics up to the 1870's.
3. The rise of the worker's movement. Marxism and anarchism. Development of capitalism to 1873. International workingmen¿s association (IWMA) and international worker's association (IWA).
4. The second industrial revolution. Political dynamics. Imperialist expansion until 1914.
5. The great war (WWI). The russian revolution (1917). The origins of fascism (1922). The german nazism.
6. The western democracies during the inter-war period. The italian fascism. The great depression of 1930s and the german nazism. The second spanish republic.
7. The second world war and post-world war ii. The cold war. International relations. The united nations (UN). Decolonisation and developing countries.
8. Economic growth and social transformation in the actual world. Welfare state. The world of our time and globalisation.
9. The social and economic question in contemporary Spain.

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.

- ARACIL, R., OLIVER, J., SEGURA, A. (1995). El mundo actual. De la Segunda Guerra Mundial a nuestros días, Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona.
- AROSTEGUI, J., BUCHRUCKER, C. y SABORIDO, J. (2001). El Mundo contemporáneo: Historia y sus problemas. Barcelona: Crítica.
- ARTOLA, M. y PEREZ LEDESMA, M. (2005). Contemporánea: la historia desde 1776, Madrid: Alianza.
- COMÍN, F., HERNÁNDEZ, M., y LLOPIS, E., (Eds.) (2010). Historia económica mundial, siglos X-XX, Barcelona: Crítica.
- FERRO, M. (1997). Colonization: A Global History, London: Routledge.
- FONTANA, J. (2019). Capitalismo y democracia, 1756 ¿ 1848. Como comenzó el engaño. Barcelona: Crítica.
- FONTANA, J. (2017). El siglo de la revolución. Una historia del mundo desde 1914, Barcelona: Crítica.
- FONTANA, J. (2011). Por el bien del imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945. Barcelona: Pasado y Presente.
- HOBSBAWM, E. (1996). The age of revolution: Europe 1789 ¿ 1848, New York: Vintage books edition.
- HOBSBAWM, E. (1996). The age of capital: 1848 - 1875, New York: Vintage Books edition.
- HOBSBAWM, E. (1994). The age of extremes: a history of the world, 1914 - 1991, New York: Pantheon Books (division of Random House).
- HOBSBAWM, E. (2014). Worlds of Labour, London: Orion Publishing Co.
- KERSHAW, Ian (2018): Roller - Coaster: Europe, 1950 - 2017, London: Penguin Press.
- MARICHAL, C. (2010). Nueva historia de las grandes crisis financieras. Una perspectiva global, 1873-2008, Barcelona: Debate.
- MARKS, R. (2007). The origins of the Modern World, Lanham (Maryland): Rowman & Litllefield Publisher.
- MARTINEZ, J. (2006). Historia Contemporánea. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanc. (Acceso on-line desde la biblioteca: http://biblioteca.tirant.com/cloudLibrary/ebook/show/9788499851723)
- NUÑEZ SEIXAS, X. (2015). Las utopías pendientes. Una breve historia del mundo desde 1945, Barcelona: Crítica.
- OSTERHAMMEL, J. (2014). The transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton (New Jersey; Oxford: Princeton University Press.
- PIKETTY, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century, Cambridge (Massachusetts); London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
- VILLARES, R. Y BAHAMONDE, A. (2001). El Mundo Contemporáneo. Siglos XIX y XX. Madrid: Taurus.

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Location

Campus Arrosadía of the Public University of Navarra. For specific classroom, see the website of the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty.

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