Coming into this class I honestly did not know what to expect. I thought that it would be like any other class that I’ve taken, but I was so wrong. I had no idea how much a class could challenge me and make me think about things that I had never thought about. Whenever I thought about social work I only thought about one thing and that was child welfare and child abuse and I knew that with there are many different careers with social, but I always thought of child abuse. Taking this class as really change my perspective of social work and has shown me the different careers to social work. This course has taught me many things such as, what social work really is, child welfare, poverty, and mental health. During the first few weeks of class we talked a lot about what
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For instance, in Scalzi (2005) talks about what it feels like being poor and states, “Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal” (Scalzi, 2005). Reading this quote really showed me how privileged and poor people think differently. It showed me how privileged people can be so greed, thinking that $8 is nothing. I know this because this was how I felt when I read that quote. I was amazed how some people would think that being paid $8 an hour is great. When it came to thinking about food stamps I had good thoughts about them and thought that they were very helpful for people who are struggling. I never thought about people thinking bad about food stamps and how it encourages people to be lazy, until we discussed it in class. According to Jason Deparle and Robert M. Gebeloff (2010) they state, “About six million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no other income, according to an analysis of state data collected by The New York Times” (Deparle & Gebeloff, 2010). Looking at this I was a little shocked by how many people need food stamps and are
For instance, in Scalzi (2005) talks about what it feels like being poor and states, “Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal” (Scalzi, 2005). Reading this quote really showed me how privileged and poor people think differently. It showed me how privileged people can be so greed, thinking that $8 is nothing. I know this because this was how I felt when I read that quote. I was amazed how some people would think that being paid $8 an hour is great. When it came to thinking about food stamps I had good thoughts about them and thought that they were very helpful for people who are struggling. I never thought about people thinking bad about food stamps and how it encourages people to be lazy, until we discussed it in class. According to Jason Deparle and Robert M. Gebeloff (2010) they state, “About six million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no other income, according to an analysis of state data collected by The New York Times” (Deparle & Gebeloff, 2010). Looking at this I was a little shocked by how many people need food stamps and are