SWP 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anti-Globalization Movement, Social Stigma, Social Capital

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 402
• Professor: Dawn Onishenko

Document Summary

Usual suspects/actors stakeholders! (who are stakeholders??) Growing bureaucraizaion: complex decisions (ex. idenifying your audience, who to include, venue) Decision makers not necessarily open to involving public or to taking up their ideas. Neoliberal shit away from civic engagement & paricipaion privaize social welfare. Are busy people juggling muliple demands (ex. lone mother on welfare; substance user) Usually aren"t invited to paricipate or not paricipate in decision making elements. Meeings are boring; inconvenient imes & locaions; $ not compensated. 2 forms of democracy (paricipaion: representaive democracy. Sw values & encourages discourses of empowerment, partnership, user involvement! Everyone afected by a decision (dahl, 1970) - but can include a wide range. Need to criique current methods of inclusive policy. 3 assumpions about ciizen paricipaion: have right & want to paricipate, leads to beter decision making. Street youth, persons with disabiliies, lone parents, unemployed, minority groups, refugees, etc.