SOWK 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Iceberg, The Handmaiden, Human Capital

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 3100
• Professor: Melissa Redmond

Document Summary

It is a way to help the less fortunate and most needy (through the fault of their own: social policy is a self-help. A community coming together to address common needs and concerns: critically, social policy is viewed as a means of rewarding victims of economic growth and mitigating the excesses of unrestrained capitalism. Combines the liberal commitment to individual freedom and the neo-classic economic commitment to free markets (opposition to minimum wage, trade unions, and restrictions to pollution). Industries and people can be held responsible for their actions: the public burden model, rooted in the assumptions of capitalism and the american ideology of individualism, stresses the primacy of economic growth in public life. Anything that restrict the growth (welfare spending) must be restrained: social policy is seen as a brake in the slow engine of economic growth, economic growth is positive. The bigger the growth, the more there is to share with everyone.