Were colonial structures set up to protect the children? No, they were property. Local governing did not want to be responsible, to protect the community & the patriarchy
Are today's prisons similar to indoor relief - workhouses
FEAR that there is a lack of resources to go around -fear of change, not understanding that we're all connected, L. scare tactics-maybe corp want ppl to only have health care from them bc they can control workers, ppl who have it good now don't want to change
Good Book -
Faces At the Bottom Of the Well: The Permanence Of Racism:
Does focus on gender seperate those oppressed? They don't work together bc fear that it will hurt their own group if they help another group.
How to affect change? Dr. B- gently move people, something in print, apps, media, pamphlets, games, history text books, Michael Moore films
Womens reproductive rights/issues: E - why can we talk about women breastfeeding at work? Women are divided about work at home vs work in workplace. Women talk about other women- having children young or old. Taking time off of work for children.
TANNF - if you r unwed mother and you don't name father on birth certificate- no benefits. if unwed teen must move back home w/ parents in order to get benefits - Bruce Jansen- we are reluctant welfare state as result of depression. Me-if everyone tithed would we notice a diff?
Unintended consequence w/ TANNF-send child back into abuse situation.
The Institution of Social Welfare
I. social Institution - set of interrelated and interlocking concepts, structures, and activities enduring over time that carry out the necessary functions of a society, such as socialization, childrearing, education, etc
II. Five major institutions of society
A. Economy
B. Polity -exercise of power
C. Family
D. Religion - ppl relate to diety and own existence - moral values about life and work
E. Social Welfare (which includes education)
III.?
IV. In reality social welfare encompasses almost every kind of service provided to members of society and provides a function to society (functionalism or here).
A. Function is social treatment or
B. Function is social control
-depending on side of fence, language, symbols, etc. should use appropriate style for each perspective/lens (Act 101 - teach mid class norms, CNTRL-
V. Perspectives on Social Welfare - perspective is a viewpoint based on values from which to look at a phenonmenon
A. Functionalism of providing treatment or control
B. Manifest functions (intended) and latent functions (unintended)- fallout i.e. requiring single mothers to name father on birth certificate - Manifest-father is also responsible for support, Latent - for some women it is recipe for disaster (Act 101 -perhaps latent is professors think students shouldn't be here)
VI. Residual Perspective of Social Welfare( Day)-traditional perspective social welfare (as a collective unit we believe u r responsible for your own well being, therefore u should provide for your family always except in case of emergency
A. Emergency
B. Short-term
C. Stopgap
D. Means testing (closely related to 'less eligibility' from Elizabethean Poor Laws of 1601-you'll get less than the poorest wage earner of society -intention to make work more attractive) i.e FAIL
E. Stigmatizing
F. Grudging and minimal
Basis for the medical model of social work: 'treat & cure' people who deviate from 'healthy society'.
Leads to blaming the victim as responsible for their problems and does not consider structural problems - Do the right things and your life will get better...(if we admit there are poor-means AM not as good as we say it is)
There is a means of control involved, measurable, mangeable
-doesn't consider structural problems
VII. Institutional Perspective of social welfare - at opposite end of continuum from residual perspective. The major criterion is membership in the society. i.e. universal health care in many nations
A. Available to all members of society
B. No time limit for services
C. No means testing for determining eligibility
D. No stigma for applying or receiving
E. No societal pressure to leave the program
The institutional perspective leads to the structural or social model of social work: social problems lie in root problems such as classism, racism and sexism and their elimination
VIII. Conflict Perspective in Social Welfare - newe perspective based on sociological, economic, and feminist teories applied to social welfare based on conflict theory.
A. When disadvantaged rebel against exploitation, welfare programs and benefits expand until rebellion ceases (social control)
B. Expansion of programs and benefits are not altruisitic but rather political and economic, on individ levle ppl do it bc it makes em feel good
C. Redefine social conflicts(control) to social problems placing the burden for change on the 'deviants'
IX. Conflict Theory says that social problems
A. Lie in the structure of society rather than the fault of the disadvantaged
B. Are the result of attempts of an elite group to maintain the privileges they have accumulated through exploitation of other case
C.Will endure until the structures themselves are changed
X. Major issue from the feminist perspective is the povertization of women. FEMINIST Perspective:
A. Incorporates conflict theory and socialist and radical feminsit perspectives
B. Include perspectives of the poor, women, races & religions other than the dominant white male system
C. Sees social problems as the results class & race privilege, & patriarchal power
D. Traces most social problems to structured inequalities
E. Indicts social welfare as causative bc of structured inequalities
our theory comes from model of able bodied men of long ago - & way we socialize women is not to grow up and be hard workers, women are taught to be homemaker- not as simple as saying get a job, go to work that ignores the structures that put women into poverty
That's just how it's always going to be....
What is the basis for decisions? When we implement a policy, r we getting to the root of problem or just creating stopgap
OK, defined a prob, who willl do it, state fed
M. stranger/other is ppl w/o voice. Why r u involved w/ what u do?-pay it forward....relationships -developing those instead of material
Munson-social movements ppl join bc of relationships, someone they admire is doing it,
R. ppl for most part r good, see the best in ppl,
We r - they shouldn't buy good stuff just bc they r on food stamps...-So You Think I Drive a Caddillac by Seccombe-awareness of being poor-try not to look poor in public, Poverty the 51st State-think for the moment, don't plan long term - teach Act 101 students to understand long term thinking, give them autonomy to plan schedule - if u grow up not knowing where next check is coming from
Jamie-food guy
Cultural infusion of Irish & German-drinking on sabbath...Policy is reactive- what policies make us edgy bout immigrants? Anchor baby...Trattner-what is middle class? WASP employed male and virtuous woman
L. No desire to solve problems, just way to get their votes
poverty-language used to target minorities
Spencer-social darwinist
public vs private behaviors determine how we feel about people -ok to drink and abuse at home, not in public
metanarrative women bought into the patriarchial story
mona lisa smile use for Act 101 Ida B. Wells
