Social justice, social welfare and caring

Question 1

What are the feminist ethics of caring?

Answer 1

Care as being constituted of both relationship and the moral obligation emerging from the relationship

Question 2

What is central to care relations? what are the main ones? - give examples

What are the importance of these?

Answer 2

Considerations of context

Care constellations: 
Unpaid informal (families)
Paid informal - idk
Paid formal (support workers)
Unpaid formal (volunteers)

They strengthen the position that care provision sets the infrastructure to the contemporary welfare state.

Question 3

Connect the guest presentation about caring for caregivers to previous lectures? - talk through

Answer 3

Constraints - funding and access to services
Neoliberalism
Downloading - offloading responsibilities to families, restructuring the welfare state by closing institutions
Issues with immigration disability and family reunification

Question 4

Why take SOWK 1001? Talk through

think: what have you learned so far - why is it useful?

Answer 4

Inspiration, what we can do - power to change

What’s available, having a foundation

Possibilities - not accepting status quo

Finding / identifying the faults within a policy

Understanding restrictions - funding, resources, policies
How policies frame the clients lives

Relationship between government - policy and the welfare state

Question 5

Who is responsible for initiating change within the welfare state? - talk through

Answer 5

ocial workers
Everyone - non profit organisation, government bodies for everyone, youth, public figures
Equating opportunity with responsibility
Educators
Media

Question 6

Define advocacy - what are the goals?

Answer 6

The act or process of supporting a cause or proposal

Communicate individual or group needs
Demand individual or group rights
Educate, inform or shape public opinion, or the opinion of a certain group (e.g those in power)
Demand change or increased support to a specific police or service