chapter 2

Question 1

social welfare system

Answer 1

collection of programs, resources, and services available to help people

Question 2

institutional

Answer 2

preventative social welfare services built into the institutional structures of society

Question 3

residual

Answer 3

social welfare services designed to address an identified problem

Question 4

Elizabethan Poor Laws

Answer 4

first social welfare policy implemented in colonial America, which outlined the public’s responsibility for people who were poor

Question 5

Social Security Act of 1935

Answer 5

legislated federal policy that provides long-term protections through social insurance and aid to people in poverty through public assistance

Question 6

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Answer 6

legislation that gave people of color the right to vote

Question 7

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Answer 7

legislation that gave people of color the right to vote

Question 8

War on Poverty

Answer 8

social welfare policies and programs of the 1960s that were designed to eliminate poverty

Question 9

devolution

Answer 9

decreasing the federal government’s role in social welfare and turning responsibility back to the local level

Question 10

cash assistance

Answer 10

provision of resources through financial transfers

Question 11

in-kind benefits

Answer 11

aid in the form of tangible items

Question 12

entitlements

Answer 12

guaranteed social support to all eligible persons through services or financial remuneration without time limits

Question 13

public assistance programs

Answer 13

means-tested social welfare programs designed to alleviate poverty

Question 14

social insurance programs

Answer 14

social welfare programs designed to prevent poverty that are used on shared contributions made while people are working to be used later to provide services and benefits

Question 15

Charity Organization Society

Answer 15

associations began in the 1870s with the primary goals of learning what caused individual poverty and providing organized services to alleviate poverty, and an emphasis on serving individuals and their families

Question 16

Settlement Movement

Answer 16

started in 1887; organized social welfare efforts to help poor people, especially immigrants; included workers living within the community and providing services from their settlement