SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Services, Window Media

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 302
• Professor: Janet Balfour

Document Summary

Course description: this course examines major concepts, roots, and social, cultural, political and economic trends shaping social policy and social welfare in canada. It explores the increased needs for social protection and the desires for recognition by diverse groups: focuses on the impacts of the re-structuring of social systems and globalization on exclusion and structural inequalities. The discussions address social welfare programs, practices and current challenges for service users, social work and social change. What is social policy: a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address a given problem or interrelated set of problems, social policy is concerned with the formation, development and management of specific social services. It can be formulated by government, voluntary organizations, business, labour, etc. Defining social policy: so(cid:272)iety(cid:859)s struggles to pro(cid:373)ote (cid:449)ell(cid:271)ei(cid:374)g, process of claiming / defining individual & collective needs, course of action and / or inaction, social policy as a set of, values, practices.