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Human Services |
Helping people meet their needs by overcoming obstacles to achieve their highest function in society. |
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Blood ties are to what |
Feudalism |
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Religious ties are to what |
Charitable organizations (the Red Cross) |
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Nation state is to what |
Social welfare laws such as SSA |
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During the feudal period of english history, who cared for the poor and sick? |
the landowners or lords took care of their serfs that worked their land. |
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The elizabeth poor laws of 1601 stated what three laws? |
-Primary responsibility for provision lay with ones family. -Poor people should be handled at the local level. -People are not allowed to settle in a different community if they cannot support themselves. |
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The values of rough, rugged, and hard working came from what religious denomination? |
The protestants. |
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What philisophical concept applied the theory of natural selection to human social order and heavily influences how we percieve the poor to this day? |
Social Darwinism |
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what does Jane Addams establish that is the first community based social servies agency inthe U.S? |
Settlement house movement |
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What is the name of the most influential peice of social welfare legislation to ever pass in the U.S under the leadership of FDR in 1935? |
Social Security Act |
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What is ethnicity? |
Refers to the complete cultural aspects of a group of people. |
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First type of Civil Rights policy enacted at the federal level came in the form of anti-discrimination policies in the military by president Truman......T or F |
True |
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What is Prejudice? |
Holding an opinion without just ground.-Legal |
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What is Discrimination |
Denial of a equal treatment of a person just because they are apart of a certain system |
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individual discrimination |
(Not intentional)Harmful behavior of one person toward members of a particular race or ethnic group. |
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Institutional discrimination |
(intentional)Harmful behavior toward a particular race that originates from specific policies and leaderships of an organization. |
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What is privalege, and what are examples of white privalege? |
Privalege- Unnearned access to resources White privaleges- being hired more easily to a job, having only white skin color for barbies. |
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what is the principal of fundemental error? |
Saying, " My low income is due to misforutne, while yours is due to laziness" |
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T or F. Homeless people tend to be depressed, have feelings of hopelessness, and powerless. |
true |
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what is the fastest growing population of homeless people? what are characteristics of this population? |
Single mothers and their children. -Reported having childern early, dosrupting education/career goals. -Reported histories of sexual/physical abuse as a child |
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A major peice of legislation reauthorized in 2009 that sets most current US policies and supportive programs for the homeless, including educationg homeless children.? |
The vento homeless assistance act |
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Absolute poverty? |
Federally based, there is a certain amount of income, if you are below it, then you are poor. |
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Relative poverty? |
if you earn less than the 1/2 of the nations median income. |
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why does poverty tend to pass from one generation to another |
-Lowering wages, while cost of everything else rises -Education cost too much. -people can only afford to send there children to terrible schools, in bad locations. |
