SW 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Thinking, Human Behavior, Deeper Understanding
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Social welfare: helps maintain the stability and well-being of society. Institutions: allocation of resources, money, personnel, expertise. Social welfare policy: what impacts how a person thinks about policy issues, political, social, religious, and economic ideologies, safety net, means testing, who is eligible, how services will be delivered, duration of services, outcome evaluation and measurement. Social control: policies and practices designed to, regulate people. Increase conformity and compliance: social worker involvement in the policy arena, helps society address individual needs, helps confront social control, possibly helps shift/redistribute economic and political power, poor and vulnerable can better help themselves. Social justice: protect human rights, provide for basic human needs, the goal of social justice motivates social workers to be advocates, goals of advocacy may include, fairness, equality, freedom, service, nonviolence. Increase in immigrants: shift from agriculture to urbanization, charity organizations societies. Individual factors related to poverty: friendly visitors, settlement movement, environmental factors related to poverty, hull house developed in chicago for services.
