SOWK 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Economic Rationalism, Public Administration, Classical Liberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 3060
• Professor: Carmen Perillo

Document Summary

* social workers as the front line rationers . * need to be involved in income security - run by middle class people. * relationship building is important to social work: compromised in the past. * dominant discouses in social work: neoliberalism, public management etc. * neoliberalism/npm - competence is a part of this, different topics are interrelated with this. Swinging back to classical liberalism (free market to equality, liberalism to liberty, free governing people) * market with its natural rules of exchange will take care of the people. * liberal social policies are all run by elite white men. * the idea that people were self-governing objects was challenged. * have come to the point that welfare state is something that we are holding onto. * 1930s-70s-80s, there was a swing back in the free market. * front line resistance, people fighting back and challenging the system.