SOWK 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parental Leave, Single Parent, Fraser Institute
24 Oct 2016
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Other social structures concerned with human surviving and thriving: Institutions: families, states, markets and civil society education, health care, immigration, housing. People make their own history, but not just as they choose (people are constrained because there are circumstances that they cant change. They can only change within the context that they are in) We live in a social system, but it has distinct and interacting parts. Who gets to decide about their own lives and who gets to decide about others lives), status (who is considered to be dominate, cool and who do we refer to. Women as affected by social policy (cid:498)single(cid:499) mother: a critical understanding. Distributions: income, participation (who gets to decide and who doesn"t/ We need to always ask, (cid:498)who benefits? (cid:499) and (cid:498)who pays? (cid:499) (these questions. Immigration we saw all kinds of people come from war torn countries. Diversity there were lots of new language and new cultural backgrounds.
