SOWK 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fraser Institute, Food Bank, Parental Leave
19 Jan 2017
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Institutions: families, states , markets and civil society. Other social structures concerned with human surviving and thriving: education, health care, immigration, housing. Facts always proceed from a question and a question has assumptions. People make their own history but not just as they choose. People are constrained to the confines of their lives. We live in a social system, but it has distinct and interacting parts. We need to always ask, who benefits? and who pays? . A very intellectual overview of the development of social welfare in canada through the lens of policies around single mothers. Come into policy perspective during and after wwi. Absolute measure of poverty : market basket. This measure is based on the cost of a basket of goods and services that is enough to meet the most basic needs. Lowest amount of people are considered poor in this. Developed by hrdc and promoted by the fraser institute - a conservative think tank.
