Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Charity Organization Society, Charlotte Whitton, Settlement Movement

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Carrie Smith

Document Summary

Era of moral reform: formation of canada until 1890. Era of social reform: 1891 to 1940. Era of applied social science: 1940 to the present. Believed that it was their own fault that they were poor (something was wrong with them): distinguished between the deserving and undeserving poor, decisions made on whether or not they deserved relief. Deserving =virtuous wife made widow: mate(cid:396)ial (cid:396)elief a(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:396)al ethi(cid:272)s. those (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:272)hu(cid:396)(cid:272)hed(cid:863). Idea was to have educated middle-class youth live and work in poor communities. (bridge the gap between rich and poor). First canadian settlement house was evanglia in toronto (1902), first in north america was. Settlement house workers were the precursor to community organizing in canada: houses were a major factor in social work movement to being a profession, have forms of settlement houses today. (moving from city to urban areas, caused settlement.