SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Food Bank, Smart Common Input Method

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1AA3
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Morality: attitudes and beliefs about what us right, or wrong, good and bad. It is not a fixed concept but one that is socially constructed, and is influenced by social context. Moral model- practices of helping based on personal characteristics in the eta of moral reform. Influence in how we think about and deliver help through a discourse of The poor law of 1601- developed in britain where local parishes were required to provide relief to the poor if the family or community could not. 1. sick and elderly 2. abled bodied people to work. ) The charity model emerges from ideas surrounding morality. Poverty as a flaw in a persons character (you"re fault) Begin to see how helpers and the helped are being socially constructed. Start of moral reform era (19th and early 20th century) Provinces and territories had informally been following the elizabethan poor laws. By 1860 most provinces adopted the poor law or english civil law.