SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unemployment Benefits, Profit Margin
28 Jun 2018
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Swrk1001H: Introduction to Social Welfare
Tuesday, January 10 th
, 2017: Lecture One
Questions I hope you will think about in this course…
What is Social Welfare?
What is the role of social workers in the administration of social welfare?
Who and what factors decide how social welfare is administered?
What changes has the Canadian social welfare system undergone, and why?
Who gets left out?
Micro – direct practice with individuals
Mezzo – working with groups and communities
Macro – working with organizations or communities to improve or change laws or policies
The first “rule” of critical, anti-oppressive practice is that we cannot simply blame marginalized individuals for
their experiences of hardship and suffering.
Key Concepts and Ideas
Globalization: free trade, internet, international education, colonialism, loss of culture, corporations, elimination
of borders, free flow, outsourcing (production of products in another country at half the price)
Social welfare Client as “Customer/Consumer”: profit margin
Oppression: marginalized people are oppressed, implies that you can be oppressed as an individual and
systemically, need to look at how it affects the individual as well as how it affects people systemically
Voluntary Sector: volunteer what
Social Policy: how legislation something idk
Economic Recession: how and why we go through periods of unemployment
Basic Needs: having basic needs met, and at what point that is achieved
Low Income Cut-Off (LICO):
Unemployment Insurance – Employment Insurance: emphasis on needing to be employed to receive benefits
“Workfare”:
“Special Interest Groups”: the people who are marginalized and oppressed
Residual versus Institutional:
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Document Summary
Tuesday, january 10 th , 2017: lecture one. Questions i hope you will think about in this course . Macro working with organizations or communities to improve or change laws or policies. The first rule of critical, anti-oppressive practice is that we cannot simply blame marginalized individuals for their experiences of hardship and suffering. Globalization: free trade, internet, international education, colonialism, loss of culture, corporations, elimination of borders, free flow, outsourcing (production of products in another country at half the price) Oppression: marginalized people are oppressed, implies that you can be oppressed as an individual and systemically, need to look at how it affects the individual as well as how it affects people systemically. Economic recession: how and why we go through periods of unemployment. Basic needs: having basic needs met, and at what point that is achieved. Unemployment insurance employment insurance: emphasis on needing to be employed to receive benefits.
