FRHD 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Fact, Barometer, Food Bank

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2300
• Professor: Kristen Cairney

Document Summary

Communicate the importance of thinking through the social problems. Describe the relationship between the problem to be addressed, client need and the program that will be designed to address that need. Begin to understand the facts and statistics of the phenomenon. Premature definitions can lead to premature conclusions of the problem. The social problem needs to be understood as relative: an individual brings a frame of reference, shaped by a value system, to a condition and labels a condition as a problem. A condition that can be defined as a social fact. Income/pay: looked at stats, saw the condition, and considered the social problem equity? at play. Most social programs are justified on the basis of one intention: to address identified social problems, which become translated into the needs of a target or client population. It is important that programs develop a clear focus on client need (hone in on a specific need)