PSYC 3430- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 66 pages long!)
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7: social and human services in the community. Social problems often don"t have a single cause and don"t develop in isolation. Many existing programs targeted for prevention and not once a problem has developed. Poverty is a social problem that is seen as the rot. Historical notes about social welfare in western society. Poverty: lack enough money to acquire essential things to survive. And sense of hopelessness/injustice (ex/ born in a slum attend sub- standard school vicious cycle of unemployment and lack of being well-informed) Poverty afects us all, but harms some more than others (blacks, Latinos and aboriginals more than asians and whites) Some way we live in academic apartheid (widening equity gap, more. Public assistance has an objective to life people from poverty and other social problems so that they can move on to a better life. 2 concerns: ideological (ex/ political, religious) and practical (ex/ unable to care for self)
