SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jack Layton, Small Government, Means Test
3 Sep 2018
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Free markets but with regulation, institutional view of social welfare. Social democrat: bernie sanders, jack layton, tommy douglas, universal programs ate commonly advocated . Social and economic policy are on equal footing: social provision should be based on need, cooperation and collectivism or the redistribution of wealth through taxes. 3 views on the role of the state for intervening on well being of its citizen residual: favours charity, the state is last resort, small government . Means testing and temporary: stigma and individualized, constructs recipients as undeserving. Institutional . the state has a role: less stigma, social problems rooted in social structure, loans towards prevention, services help maintain a standard. Social development: universal access- education, health care, citizens have a right to participate in the affairs of the sate, social and economic policy are equally weighted, reorganization of structures and institutions. Beyond notions of equitable distribution of goods and opportunity the elimination of institutionalized domination and oppression bonny-castle (2011)-the relational.
