SOCIOL 1A06 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Human Rights, Work It Missy Elliott Song, Welfare
SOCIOL 1A06
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Monday 14th September 2015
Lecture 1
A brief Introduction
• Figure out tutorial schedule, you will be attending once every three weeks.
• Go onto the school website and fid the syllabus.
• This course is about understanding social work from a Canadian perspective.
• Read and understand the syllabus in order to find the readings.
• There will be two take home assignments, they are worth 30 percent.
• There are two self directed assignment assignments.
• There are two exams and the final percentage of our mark is for participation.
• Social work is about dealing with individuals and helping solve issues that not only have
to do with the singular person but also the surrounding issues attributing to their
problems.
Monday 21st September 2015
Lecture 2
The Canadian Context of Social Work
What is social welfare?
• Social services- provision of personal and community services to help people improve
their well-eig (i.e. hildare. Child protetio series, oe’s shelters ousellig
• Incoming security- employments insurance, social assistance, old age security, workers,
compensation (benefits to supplements income or maintain income levels)
• In Canada- we have a welfare state, meaning we have a system where the state protects
the health and well-being of its citizens, particularly those in social or financial need.
• We have social policies and social programs to administer these things, these are the
rules and regulations that form the network of social welfare.
Social Policies and Social Programs
• Social policies- overall rules and regulations, laws and other administrative directives
that form the framework for the social welfare activity.
• Social programs- specific initiatives that implement social welfare polices.
• Social welfare safety net allows these systems to be administered to other people.
Provision of social welfare
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• Public welfare- Canada is a federal state and public welfare occurs at three levels:
federal (national) government, provincial and territorial governments, ad regional or
municipal governments.
• Private welfare- 2 types, no profit and profit organizations.
• These three types of service providers fro the backbone of the social welfare system in
Canada, and this 3-way alliance and they do not always agree.
Key approaches to social welfare
• Residual view- limited, temporary response to human need and government should play
a limited role in the distribution of social welfare.
• Institutional view- social welfare is a necessary public response that helps people attain
a reasonable standard of life and health (it
Monday 28th September 2015
Lecture 3
What is a theory?
• A theory Is an organized way of think about or approach something.
The History of Social work
• It is a helping profession, grew out of a desire to help people who could not help
themselves.
• In the last hundred years, it has become more political.
• Before they were looking to diagnose a personal problem, we have a evolved to modern
social work.
Case study
• A single parent, with 3 children, was fired, he is now applying for unemployment
insurance.
• His 3 children are always late for school and they come without a lunch.
• The teacher noticed the father smells like alcohol hen he picks up his kids.
Social Narratives
Assumptions
• What did he do to loose his job?
• He has a drinking problem.
• He is getting drunk.
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Document Summary
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