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Understanding social welfare : a search for social justice
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- Creator
- Ralph Dolgoff, Donald Feldstein
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- English
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- Publication
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- 9th ed
- Boston : Pearson, ©2013
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 409 pages ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780205179701, 0205179703
- OCLC
- ocn748941803
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Socioeconomic Structure, Human Needs, and Mutual Responsibility -- Overview -- The Impact of Social and Economic Structures -- Cascading Effects -- Defining Social Welfare and Social Work -- The American Myth of the Hero -- Balancing Individual and Societal Responsibilities -- Human Rights, Social Justice, Social Work, and Social Welfare -- Beliefs about Social Justice -- The Social Minimum: The Standard for Social Justice -- The NASW Standard: Equal Access and Rights -- Toward the Social Minimum -- Equality of Opportunity -- Views of Social Welfare -- The Authors' Perspective -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 2 Social Values and Social Welfare -- Overview -- Modern views of Humanity -- Self-Actualization Versus Irritation Response Theories -- Economics and Human Motivation -- An Overview of History -- Altruism and Mutual Aid -- Ancient Cultures -- Egypt -- Hebrew and Judaic Societies
- Note continued: Greece and Rome -- Early Christianity -- Holy Poverty and Expectations of the Wealthy -- Eastern Cultures -- China -- India -- Islam -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 3 Social Values and Social Welfare: England from the Middle Ages Onward -- Overview -- The Early Middle Ages -- The Middle Middle Ages -- The Late Middle Ages to Elizabethan Poor Laws -- Work and Religion -- The Poor Laws -- The Poor Law Compilation of 1601 -- Speenhamland -- The Workhouse -- The Poor Law of 1834 -- Principles of the Poor Laws -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 4 Social Values and Social Welfare: The American Experience I -- Overview -- American Poor Law Mentality -- Settlements, Labor, and Imported "Poor Laws" -- The Early Spanish Influence, the Mexicans, and other Hispanics -- Voluntary Mutual Aid Efforts -- Mutual Aid among African Americans -- Voluntary and Public Responsibilities
- Note continued: The American Frontier: The Myth and Values -- Mutual Aid Among Immigrant Groups -- Rugged Individualism and/or Cooperation? -- American Indians and U.S. History -- The Federal Role in Social Welfare -- The Freedmen's Bureau -- Veterans and a Suspension of the Ethic -- City, Town, and County: A Local Institution -- Social Darwinism -- The Coming of Social Insurance -- Society, Social Values, and Modern Views of Human Nature -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 5 America and Poverty: Two Paths: The American Experience II -- Overiew -- Three Discoveries of Poverty -- First Discovery -- The Fading of the First Discovery -- Second Discovery -- Third Discovery -- The War on Poverty -- Eight Outcomes -- The Skirmish against Poverty -- Families, Children, and Poverty -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children ("Welfare") -- An Old-New Path -- Social Security -- Contrasting Values and Aims -- The Paths Forward
- Note continued: Human Nature and the American Dream -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 6 Concepts for Social Welfare -- Overview -- What Is Social Welfare? -- Social Policy, Social Services, and Social Work -- Social Policy -- Social Services -- Social Work -- Ideology, Social Policy, and Government Intervention -- Five Routes to Social Policy -- The Federal and Pluralist System -- The Economic Sphere -- Fiscal Policy -- Monetary Policy -- The Importance of Fiscal and Monetary Policy -- A Tarnished Business Sector? -- A Second Welfare System -- Corporate and Individual Welfare -- Globalization and Social Justice -- The G. W. Bush Administration -- Obama Administration: A Return to Federalization -- Ideology or Pragmatism? -- The Debt Commission and Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- International and National Background Features and The Search for the Dream -- International -- The United States -- Summary
- Note continued: Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 7 Examining a Social Welfare Program within the Context of Social Justice: Structural Components, Alternative Program Characteristics, and Evaluation -- Overview -- Structural Components -- What are the Needs and Goals to Be Met? -- What Is the Form of Benefit that the Program Produces? -- Who Is Eligible for the Program? -- How Is the Program Financed? -- What Is the Level of Administration? -- Alternative Program Characteristics -- Residual, Institutional, Developmental, or Socioeconomic Asset Development -- Selective or Universal -- Benefits in Money, Services, or Utilities -- Public or Private -- Central or Local -- Lay or Professional -- Evaluating the Program -- Adequacy -- Financing -- Coherence -- Latent Consequences -- Testing for Social Justice -- Whose Social Justice? -- Views and Proponents -- The Social Work Clinical Practice Sphere and Social Justice -- Reader's Choice
- Note continued: Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 8 The Welfare Society and Its Clients -- Overview -- Who is a Client of Social Welfare? -- What is Poverty? -- Understanding Poverty -- Absolute Poverty -- Relative Comparison Poverty -- A Description of the Poor -- Income and Wealth Inequality -- Causes of Rising Inequality -- Housing Wealth -- Counterintuitive Statistics -- Intergenerational Mobility -- The Effect of Some Government Programs -- The Near-Poor and Expectations -- Other Views of Poverty -- Relative Inequality -- Lack of Power, Access, and Inclusion -- The Underclass/Culture of Poverty Thesis -- Strategies for Fighting Poverty -- Social Utilities -- Investment in Human Capital -- Income Transfers -- Rehabilitation -- Aggregative and Selective Economic Measures -- Participation and Organization -- Ideology Revisited -- The Second Bush Administration -- Tax Cuts -- Social Security -- Medicare -- Starve the Beast
- Note continued: The Obama Administration -- Ideology Once Again -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 9 Current Social Welfare Programs -- Economic Security -- Overview -- Social Insurance Programs -- Social Security (OASDI) -- Unemployment Insurance -- Temporary Disability Insurance -- Workers' Compensation -- Income Support Programs -- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- Supplemental Security Income -- General Assistance -- Earned Income Tax Credit -- Socioeconomic Asset Development -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 10 Social Welfare Programs: Sustaining the Quality of Life -- Overview -- Managed Care -- Strategies to Achieve Savings and Profits -- Public Criticism, Courts, and Legislation -- Halth Care Programs -- Medicare -- Medicaid -- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- Implementation Steps began in 2010 -- Effective (2012) -- Effective (2013) -- Effective (2014)
- Note continued: Effective (2015) -- Effective (2018) -- How Is the New System to Be Financed? -- Issues -- Legal Challenges -- Payment Advisory Board -- Abortion -- What is Medical Care? -- Universal Health Care: Public or Private Auspices? -- Nutrition Programs -- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children -- School Lunch and Breakfast Programs -- Housing -- Veterans' Benefits -- Employment Programs -- Personal Social Services -- Title XX (Social Services Block Grant) -- Defense Department Social and Mental Health Services -- Services to Families -- Services to Children -- Mental Health Services -- Corrections -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 11 Nonprofit and Private Social Welfare -- Overview -- Early Patterns -- The Nonprofit Sector -- Types of Nonprofit Agencies -- The Proprietary Private For-Profit Organization
- Note continued: Services of the Nonprofit and Private Sectors -- Getting and Spending -- Privatization -- Private and Nonprofit Agencies as Social Welfare Programs -- Finances, Recessions, Budgets, and Mergers -- A Point of View -- Leadership, Class, and Gender -- Trends in Volunteering -- Private and Public Spheres -- Uses of Public Funds and Power -- Tax Laws and Policy -- Accountability -- National Policy: Church and State -- The Marketplace and the Nonmarket Domain -- Family and Freinds -- Toward the Future -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 12 Social Work: The Emergence of a Profession -- Overview -- The Workers of "Good Works" -- The Process of Professionalization -- A Brief History of Practice and Methods -- Development of the Professional Association -- Social Work with Groups -- Community Organization and Social Planning -- Toward a Unified Profession -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections
- Note continued: ch. 13 Social Work: Functions, Context, and Issues -- Overview -- The Purposes of Social Work -- The Professional within Complex Organizations -- Complex Organizations and Professional Culture -- Complex Organizations and Authority -- The Profession and Professional Autonomy -- Alternative Roles and Settings -- Society, the Functions of Social Work, and Services for People -- The Bottom Line -- The Two Tracks of Social Work: Cause and Function -- Generic -- Specific Social Work -- Professionals and Volunteers -- Issues Confronting the Profession -- Multiculturalism -- Technologies -- Managed Care -- Religion and Spirituality -- Leadership -- Sufficiency of Qualified Social Workers and Other Resources -- Accountability -- 2010 Social Work Congress -- Proposed Imperatives -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 14 Social Trends Affecting Social Welfare -- Overview -- National Society -- Individual and Shared Goals
- Note continued: The International Economy -- Population Growth and Resources -- Food Security -- The Downside of the Upside -- A Human/Nature Crisis and Worldwide Emergency -- The United States: A Changing Population, a Selected Social Welfare Agenda, and Social Justice -- Productivity and the Service Economy -- Ethnicity and Pluralism -- Gender -- Gay Men and Lesbians -- The Place of Social Welfare in a Changing Context -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections -- ch. 15 Toward the General Welfare and Social Justice -- Overview -- Children and Poverty -- Adverse Effects of Poverty -- Universal Services are Needed -- Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan -- Health outcomes -- Social outcomes -- Resources -- Education -- Employment and Training -- Criticisms -- What Should Be Done? -- What Will it Cost? -- Social Workers, Services, and Policy Choices -- Elder Abuse -- What are the Major Types of Elder Abuse? -- What Is Known About Interventions?
- Note continued: Social Policy -- Implications for Social Work -- Globalization, Privatization, Socially Just Services, and the Future of Social Welfare -- The State of the Welfare State -- Privatization: The Strategy of Choice -- Managed Care -- Drug Abuse Services -- The Roles of Social Work -- Issues for Social Workers -- The Choices Before US: Social Justice and the Baby-Boomer Generation -- Retirement -- Health Care -- Technology and Social Action -- Where We Are -- Coda: Two Views of the Future -- Summary -- Questions For Consideration -- Mysearchlab Connections