SWRK 1001H Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Gospel, Managerialism, White Privilege
25 Nov 2017
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Social work lecture 1: social work known as a helping profession, historically concerned with poverty and social conditions. Sought to do good": helping people solve personal and social problems and is concerned with social change. Move from the country to the city led to urban crowing, disease, and poverty. Labour struggles (exploitation of workers, including children) Rise of the victorian rationalist charity approach. Poverty rooted in bad character, sin, etc. Friendly visitors" (often upper class white women) assessed poor in their houses. 1: charity movement, social gospel movement, social reformers: Protestants seeking to improve social conditions as religious practice. Social justice and action seen as christian ethic. Located poverty and personal problems in social ills. Viewed social conditions as harmful, poverty caused by social structures. Sought reform through activism around issues such as women"s rights, child labour, etc. Focussed on poverty and lack of resources. Professionalization leads to managerialism: settlement house, rise of professionalization, 60"s scoop:
