SOWK 1001- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Social welfare: programs provided to those in need of assistance to create a healthier life style. Social policy: the laws that governs varies problems and issues and implemented to promote the wellbeing of speci c problems in society. factors in uence social policy: values, status quo, group power. The welfare state: how the programs that the government creates enact social policy and improve social welfare. Government structure in canada: federalism in canada, division of power, three levels of government, each have areas for which they are responsible, federal: whole of canada, provincial: e. g. ontario, municipal: e. g. ottawa. Fiscal federalism: the financial relationship between the federal government and the provincial government, coordinate taxes, grants to provinces for programs, equalization payments to equalize standard of service programs. They in uence how we work towards social welfare. What should be done about it - who should act and why. Whether we think the action was success.
