SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Settlement Movement, Food Bank
3 Sep 2018
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Critiqued "conventional charity, social structure was not problematic, individual deficits. Downstream help-taking people out of a dam who are coming through the river. Upstream help-cutting off the dam to stop the flow of people. Paternalism-actions or policies enacted by those in positions of authority over a person or group typically based on a belief system. End of an era: the radical ideas of the settlement house movement faded after ww1 ending the moral reform era, notion of help shifts, stato & social welfare model starts. 2017 influence of moral reform era dominant discourse structured and practices. Socially constructed our understanding of the work is made in the interaction between each other primarily through language. Discourse systems of attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs that systematically construct the world around you primarily through language. Giving help- noble, mostly superior, and good character needing help-morally inferior, flaws and its their fault" Poor law- less eligibility lico= low income cut off.
