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Sociology
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The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organizations, institutions, and development of human society. |
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Psychology |
The study of mental process and behavior. |
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Psychiatry |
The study of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. |
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Political science |
The study of the processes, principles, and structure of governmental and of political institutions. |
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Economics |
The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities.ultuC |
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Cultural Anthropology |
The study of human culture based on archeological, enthnographic,linguistic, social, and psychological data and methods of analysis. |
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Social Work |
It is the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities, to enhance or restore capacity for social functioning and to create societal conditions favorable to their goals |
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Social Worker |
Graduates of schools of social work ( with either a bachelor's or master's degree), who use their knowledge and skills to provide social services for clients, as defined by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). |
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Human Services |
Includes services library services, law enforcement, housing-code enforcement, consumer protection, and fire prevention that are usually not considered social welfare services. |
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Social Welfare Institution |
A nation's system of program's benefits, and services that helps people meet those social, economic, educational, and health needs that are fundamental to the maintenance of society. |
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Institutional view |
Funds and services are accepted as a proper, legitimate function of modern society; No stigma attached; recipients are entitled to help. Individual's difficulties are due to causes largely beyond his/her control. |
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Elizabethan Poor Law ( 3 Categories of relief) |
1. Able-bodied poor.
2. Impotent Poor.
3. Dependent children. |
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Able - bodied poor |
Given low-grade employment, and citizens were prohibited from offering them financial help. Anyone who refused to work was placed in stocks or in jail. |
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Impotent poor |
people unable to work (elderly, blind, deaf, mothers with young child, physical or mental disability). Usually placed together in an almshouse(institution). |
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Dependent children |
If parents/grandparents unable to support them, they were apprenticed out to other citizens usually until 24 years of age. |
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residual view |
"Charity of the Unfortunates"; funds and services are not a right; Stigma attached to services and individual is to blame for his/her condition/ circumstances. (Blame the victim) |
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Lester Ward |
Dynamic Sociology (1883): asserted that society should provide social welfare programs to help the needy and humans have the capacity for regulation through social and economic controls that would benefit everyone. |
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Protestant (work) ethic: |
emphasized individualism ; one is a master of one's own fate. Hard work and self ambition highly valued. Overriding goal: acquire material goods. |
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Laissez-faire economic view/theory: |
The economy and society prospers best if business and industry are permitted to do whatever they desire to make a profit. Any government regulation of business was discouraged. |
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The Great Depression |
October 1929, The New York Stock Exchange crashed. Many lost their businesses, homes, and their life savings. |
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Social Darwinism |
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution |
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Industrial Revolution |
17th, 18th, 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution flourished in Europe and America due to technological advances |
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Middle Ages |
Famines, wars, crop failures, pestilence and the breakdown in the feudal system all contributed to substantial increases in the number of people in need. Church and families could no longer meet the needs sufficiently. Increase in begging. |
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Social Security Act of 1935 |
An act that was passed that created the basis of most of our current public social welfare programs, and federal legislation for the following: Social insurance, public assistance, public health and welfare services. |
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Social Insurance |
Created two programs
1) unemployment compensation 2) Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance or (Social Security) |
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Public Assistance |
Individuals had to go under a "Means Test" in which ones assets and expenses were reviewed to determine if there is a financial need.
Four Programs:
1) Aid the blind 2) Aid the disabled 3) Old age assistance 4) Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) |
