SOC240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Child Care
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Social policy and social change: chapter 3 pg. Shift to conservative approaches; focus on licensing for social workers instead of social reform activities. Critics said: agencies more concerned with status quo, schools not using updated materials, protested social works views of social problems as individual issues and ignored black revolution. The professionalization of social work created labour unions and associations (ex. The american federation of state, county, and municipal employees). Mid 1970"s saw the energy and passion fading behind social issues. Reagan administration (1980"s) stated: expansion of social welfare programs to reduce poverty was not successful as individuals became dependent on government and refused work, federal government was not equipped to solve nations problems and. Govt interventions only made problems worse by interfering with the self-correcting mechanisms of the market system and violating the sanctity of private property rights : remove social responsibility from federal govt.
