SOWK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Redistribution Of Income And Wealth
8 Dec 2015
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Social policy is all about social purposes and the choices between them. These choices and the conflicts between them have continuously to be made at the governmental level, the community level and the individual level. At each level by acting or not acting, by voting or not voting, by option in or contracting out, we can influence the direction in which choices are made. (titmuss, 1974, p. 131) Policies describe what should be done in general when confronted with a need or problem (wharf & mckenzie, 1998, p. 35) Policy occurs on internal, federal, provincial, municipal, community, organizational & individual levels. Question of: well being & citizenship, financial resources & dignity, income redistribution & access to services, participation or empowerment of ppl & communities (vaillancourt, 2003) Social workers implement policy in their practice through the choices, judgements & decisions they make. Answering questions such as how is an issue defined? can in fact reflect specific policy.
