Quiz 1 Flashcards
Chapters 1-3
What 3 things do social policies establish?
- GUIDLELINES AND REGULATIONS FOR WHICH INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES CAN MEET THEIR BASIC NEEDS
- STANDARDS AND THRESHOLDS OF ENTITLEMENT AND EXPECTATION AMONG CITIZENS
- A WAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE TREATED BY INDIVIUDALS, GROUPS AND THE GOVERNMENT
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
- A FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF ALL CANADIANS
What kind of concept is social welfare?
- ABSTRACT CONCEPT
What levels occur in social welfare? (4 levels)
- INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES
- WITHIN COMMUNITIES
- NON-GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS
- GOVENMENTAL POLICIES
What are the more structured ways of social welfare? (2 ways)
- SERVICE DELIVERY ORGAZNIZATIONS (SHELTERS AND DAYCARES)
- INCOME SECURITY PROGRAMS
The welfare state refers to what
- GOVERNMENTS THAT COMMIT THEMSELVES TO THE DEVELOPEMTN OF SOCIAL POLICIES FOR THE COLLECTIVE WELL-BEING OF ALL
What three influences have helped Canada’s social welfare?
- NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- VOLUNTEERISM
- PHILANTHROPY
What has helped shape social welfare? (4 groups)
- GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS
- PRIVATE SECTOR ENTITIES
What is a welfare regime?
- INTERSECTING ROLES AND RESPONSIBLITES PLAYED BY DOMINANT SOCIETAL SECTORS THAT PRODUCE SOCIAL WELFARE IN A COUNTRY
Canada’s contemporary system of social welfare has 4 sectors. What are these 4 sectors?
- GOVERNMENT
- NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR
- PRIVATE SECTOR OR MARKET
- INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES
True or false Canada has the SECOND largest per capita nonprofit sector in the world.
TRUE
What role do families have in social welfare? (3 responsibilities)
- CARING FOR SICK OR AGED RELATIVES
- SPONSORING MIGRATING FAMILY MEMBERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
- IN CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM, KEEPING CHILDREN WITH FAMILY MEMBERS
What is social welfare? (see page 6)
- PROMOTION OF, AND PROVISION FOR, IMPROVED SOCIETAL LEVEL WELL-BEING
United Nations uses 10 measures of societal level well-being to indicate social health of a country. These measures are:
- PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
- EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL ACHIEVMENTS
- DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
- WEALTH AND INCOME
- CONDITIONS OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
- PATTERNS OF RECREATION
- PATTERNS OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
- PATTERNS OF SOCIAL MORALITY
- SOCIAL DEVIANCE AND ALIENATION
- EFFORTS TO MITIGATE INCREASING INCOME INEQUALITY, TO REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES, TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY, AND TO INCREASE THE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY OF LOWER INCOME POPULATIONS
Define: Socio-economic well-being
- EFFORTS TO MITIGATE INCREASING INCOME INEQUALITY, TO REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES, TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY, AND TO INCREASE THE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND UPWARD SOCIAL MOBILITY OF LOWER INCOME POPULATIONS
Define: socio-political well-being
- EFFORTS TO CREATE EQUAL POLITICAL REPRESENTATION, TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS, AND TO CREATE SHARED POWER RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF SOCIAETY
Define: social cultural well-being
- EFFORTS THAT PROMOTE RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY, THE PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND RACISM, AND EFFORTS TO PROMOTE SOCIAL COHESION AMONG DIVERSE GROUPS
Define: Psycho-social well-being
- EFFORTS THAT ADDRESS THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH NEEDS OF THE POPULATION AND IMPROVEMENTS TO INDIVIDUAL LEVEL FUNCTIONING
What is social policy?
- THE PROMOTION OF, AND PROVISION FOR, IMPROVED SOCIETAL WELL-BEING
What did Richard Titmuss known for?
- MODELS OF SOCIAL POLICY
What was Martin Rein known for?
- VALUE-DRIVEN POLICY
What was David Gil known for?
- SOCIAL JUSTICE
What were Braybrooke and Lindblom known for?
- INCREMENTALISM
What were Turner and Yelaia known for?
- GROUP GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
What were Gilbert, Specht, Rice, Prince, Finkel, and Lightman known for?
- SOCIAL ACTION
Wharf suggests social work insufficiently oriented to social change will fail in four ways. Name these four ways.
- IT ASSUMES THAT ONCE A PROBLEM IS IDENTIFIED, CHANGE WILL OCCUR AND THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED
- IGNORES POWER AND ITS DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA
- SOCIETY DOES NOT ASSIGN SOCIAL WORKERS RESPONIBILITY FOR BRINGING ABOUT CHANGE
- ISSUE OF AUSPICIES (APPROVAL) IS NOT ADDRESSED
Why is it important for social workers to understand the policymaking process? (see page 16)
- SOCIAL WORKERS CAN LEARN TO ADVOCATE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
- TO UNDERSTAND AND BE SENSITIVE TO THE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES
- PROVIDES INFORMATION ON CURRENT SOCIAL STRUCTURES
Summarize Hunting-Gathering Society
- GENEROUSITY AND SHARING PREVAILED OVER HOARDING
- MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL BONDS WAS ESSENTIAL DUE TO THE THREAT OF RAIDS FROM OTHER TRIBES AND THE HARSH PHYSICAL CLIMATE
Summarize Medeival and Elizabethian Europe
- 3 NON-GOVERNMENATAL FORMS OF CHARITY – MEDIEVAL GUILDS, PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS, AND THE CHURCH
- HOSPITALS, POORHOUSES, WORKHOUSES, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS WERE OVERCROWDED – AS BAD AS LOCAL JAILS
Summarize 19th Century Europe
- POOR LAW REFORMS – TOO MANY PEOPLE RECEIVING RELIEF VS. RISING COSTS OF BRITISH POOR RELIEF
- INTRODUCED PROVISIONS THAT WERE TO BE LESS THAN THE LOWEST-PAYING AVAILABLE JOB
- INDOOR VS OUTDOOR RELIEF – INDOOR FOR THOSE WHO WERE SICK, AGED, ORPHANED, OR WIDOWED; OUTDOOR FOR ABLE-BODIED MEN DEEMED EMPLOYABLE
Summarize Canada up until 1945
- COLONIZATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
What was the treatment of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples during colonialism?
- DECIMATED BY DISEASE AND WAR
- FORCED ONTO RESERVES
- MARGINALIZED ECONOMICALLY, POLITICALLY, AND SOCIALLY
When did British North America unite to become Canada?
- 1867
- CANADA BECAME A COUNTRY
Describe the workmens compensation act
PROVIDED INJURED WORKERS WITH REGULAR CASH INCOME AS A RIGHT (1914)
Describe the unemployment Insurance now known as EI.
TEMPORARY INCOME TO SUPPORT UNEMPLOYED WORKERS WHILE LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT (1940)
Describe mothers pensions
INCOME TO WIDOWS AND DIVORCED OR DESERTED WIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN (1916)
Describe old age pension (OIA)
MONTHLY PAYMENT AGED 65 OR OLDER (1927)
What was the name of the report that changed social policy in 1943?
- REPORT ON SOCIAL SECURITY FOR CANADA (THE MARSH REPORT)
Who wrote the Social Security report for Britain and Canada? (2 individuals)
- LEONARD MARSH
- BEVERIDGE (BEVERIDGE REPORT IN BRITAIN)
What did the Marsh report do?
- BUEPRINTS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE AND UNIVERSAL WELFARE STATE
- PROVIDED THE RATIONALE FOR THE INSTITUTIONAL MODEL OF SOCIAL POLICY
What important policy was established in Saskatchewan in 1945?
- UNIVERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE (TOMMY DOUGLAS AND CANADIAN COMMON WEALTH FEDERATION)
- SOCIAL ASSISTANCE MEDICAL CARE PLAN COVERING OLD AGE PENSIONERS’, RECIPIENTS OF MOTHERS’ ALLOWANCES, BLIND PENSIONERS, AND WARDS OF THE STATE
*CANADA ESTABLISHED 1966
