SOWK 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stock Market Crash, Classical Liberalism, Neoliberalism
23 Nov 2017
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Ideologies such as capitalism (globalization later on), result of capitalism. Poverty, lack of resources and how this happens. The nature of the social work profession. Saw that the users of social services were those fallen into hardships, or those who do not look like they fit the social norms - immigrants, poor, people w/disability of visible or invisible nature. Close attention to the social" arounf us show that there is a pattern to those who are receiving end. E. g. poor getting poorer, poor women suffering from domestic violence more than women with means. Children of poor/broken families prone to abuse/crime. Black people/coloured people overrespresented in poverty statistics, prison systems, Maintaining status quo (tight space between dominant discourse & what is expected) Classical liberalism: 19th century political economic thought that promoted individual liberty and equality in the spheres of life. The market was considered the site which - through its mechanisms of exchange - will ensure the equality between people.
