SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eugenics, Black Canadians, Age 13

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1A06
• Professor: Chase Collver

Document Summary

Jeff black recap: paternalism, government legislation, child welfare and 60s scoops, millennium scoop, disproportionality. What is a social problem: a sufficiently powerful population become aware of conditions it considers to be threatening to its well being, sets out to alter those conditions to reduce perceived threat. > social problems require: collective set of values. > social problems are complex social constructs: subjective, objective, and ideological, multiple definitions, interpretations, and solutions. Common elements: societal condition, significant, considered undesirable, rectifiable. Complexity vs complicated: social problems are complex; What is a social problem: experienced widely, not rooted in individuals, blaming people, choices. Ignore context, ignore the root and miss the solution. People can only choose based on the opportunities they are given: penalized for your choices. Examples of social problems: homelessness, health care, crime, unemployment. When we get it wrong: child welfare as social welfare and the overrepresentation of indigenous, african.