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