SOCIAL WELFARE 09.05.18

Question 1

social problem

Answer 1

• situation that is incompatible with some standard or norm held by a significant number o fpeople in society
• internal and external factors
• always changing
• changes through the years
• eg: poverty disabilities, human rights..

Question 2

social welfare

Answer 2

• network of social services (non-material) and income security programs (material) to maintain the well-being of individuals and families
• can be informal and formal support

Question 3

who provides social welfare

Answer 3

• government or the state
• not-for-profit organizations
• community
• private sector
• the market
• families

Question 4

universal programs

Answer 4

• everyone gets and can be less expensive to administer
• benefits the wealthy
• promotes sense of citizenship, solidarity, and nation hood
• fulfill various economic functions

Question 5

selective

Answer 5

• means or needs test

- often stigmatizing and can be costly to administer

Question 6

social welfare is comrised of

Answer 6

• policies
• services
• institutions
• specialized personnel

Question 7

welfare state

Answer 7

• define a social minimum
• guarantees that people will not fall below
• government
• minimum income
• narrowing the extent of insecurity by enabling individuals and families to meet “social contingencies”
• best standards available

Question 8

social welfare policy

Answer 8

• overall rules, regulations, laws that set the framework and objectives for social welfare activity
• intentions and activities of governments that are broadly social in their nature

Question 9

social worker

Answer 9

• conduct research on policy development
• implementation
• evaluation

Question 10

welfare state’s key function

Answer 10

1. using state power to ACHIEVE desired goals
2. ALTERING normal operation of the private market place
3. using grants, taxes, pensions, and social services, minimum income programs

Question 11

contingencies

Answer 11

1. threatens economic survival
2. threaten the integrity of the person
3. affects the family

Question 12

public welfare

Answer 12

• takes place at MULTILEVEL GOVERNMENT

- can affect the income of CDN

Question 13

private welfare

Answer 13

• non profit and/or for profit organizations

Question 14

minimum income programs

Answer 14

• provide monetary assistance to those with little or no other source of income

Question 15

income supplementation programs

Answer 15

• income obtained somewhere else

Question 16

social insurance programs

Answer 16

• shared risk

- those who contribute become eligible for benefits should the need arise

Question 17

demogrants

Answer 17

• flat-rate payments to the individuals or households on the basis of demographic characteristics